I answered a question about the moronic heaven/hell bullshit.

"Why don't animals have the capacity to go to heaven or hell, but humans are animals and they have the capacity to go to heaven or hell?"

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According to the know-nothing anti-science Christian morons, we are completely separate from the rest of nature, and that's bullshit.

Dead human apes are equal to dead cockroaches. We don't go anywhere after we drop dead, and dead cockroaches don't go anywhere.

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This blog has 19 posts about cockroaches at cockroaches.

Atheists, how would you convince a Christian to throw out the ridiculous heaven fantasy and accept reality?

Atheists, how would you convince a Christian to throw out the ridiculous heaven fantasy and accept reality?

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I wrote the question. This would be my answer.

Christian, did you ever step on a cockroach? When the cockroach died do you think it went to cockroach heaven? Your answer is probably No. Why do you think a dead human ape is better than a dead cockroach? They're both worm food. There is no reason to pretend the dead human ape magically flies to a magical paradise if a dead cockroach can't do the same thing.

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The rest of this is other answers to my question.

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Easy..... invite them to eat a bullet. End their pathetic, suffering on this mortal plane of existence so they can eagerly walk through those pearly gates to meet their maker.

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Nobody would call me persuasive or a salesman in the first place.

On sites like this it is a waste of time, because the vast majority of "Christians" on here are dogmatists who aren't interested in discussing the flaws in their beliefs and their book of myths (quotes based upon the fact that my late mother, a committed, if very compassionate Christian herself, would regard a good number of them as not true Christians, based upon their stated opinions!)

In Europe though we get a lot of "Christmas and Easter Christians" - people who are traditionally Christians but only turn up to church twice a year. They are more open to discussion.

There is also a disconnect in some European countries where, according to opinion surveys, more than half the population is allegedly "Christian", but considerably less than half believe that Heaven and Hell exist.

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I can't and don't really want to as long as they keep to themselves.

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Most Christians follow a version of the King James Bible which was completed in 1611 by 8 members of the Church of England.

There were no original texts (and still aren't) to translate. The oldest manuscripts were written down hundreds of years after the events they purport to document, there are over 8,000 of these and no two are alike.

The King James translators however used none of these, instead they edited translations from a century before to create a version the King and Parliament would approve.

So modern day Christians believe the 'word of god' is a book edited in the 17th century from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th century scrolls that claim to be copies of lost letters written in the 1st century.

All that is historically accurate and provable - I'll take that as reality.

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I'm not here to proselytize. They can do what they want.

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Many people need to believe. Tradition and ritual are socially bonding.

As an atheist from age 10, I learned to keep my mouth shut rather than offend a believer. They have an alternate "reality".

I'm going on 80 years old and still need to hide my atheism in the closet...

I do not wear my "I'm an atheist" tee shirt or baseball cap in public.

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Leave them alone and let them find out themselves.

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You can't because you can't fix stupidity - it's an incurable illness. There is plenty of evidence that supports no God exists and NOTHING to support he does but they refuse to see that. I'm still waiting for a Harry Potter religion to start since they believe everything they read in books.

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You can't. Once someone has chosen to have "faith" instead of reason and accountability, convincing them they are wrong is a futile task. How can you convince someone with evidence if they do not value evidence? I am of the impression atheism is come only by education and study. No one "decides" to be an atheist. It rather is a natural occurrence if one decides to think rather than blindly follow traditions. God was created to placate those afraid of mortality. Unless the God believers want to value evidence, nothing will change their feeble minds.

I have been living in this northwestern Illinois house for almost 2 years. Never once have I seen a cockroach.

"laid to rest" How does a decomposing corpse rest?

How much did that coffin cost? What a waste of money. Just throw the corpse into a fire and be done with it. Dead human apes are equal to dead cockroaches. It's ridiculous to waste money on these things. And why is a pastor required? These morons for Jeebus should get a real job.

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Floyd, who was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis, will be laid to rest in Houston after a private funeral at Fountain of Praise church, whose co-pastor said the event will be “a call to justice, a call for social reform.”

Cowardly Christians are gullible and just plain fucking stupid. They think they will have a magical 2nd life in a magical paradise for retards.

"Why is it hard for you to believe that humans SOMEHOW survive death in a non-physical form and step into another dimension with God or without God?"

Step on a cockroach. Make sure it's dead. Does it go anywhere? Of course not. Does it have a magical soul that magically flies to a magical paradise for insects? Of course not.

We are apes. We share an ancestor with cockroaches. And just like the cockroaches, we have only one life.

The magical heaven fantasy is impossible. Only cowardly morons believe it's real.

Cockroaches are a good thing.

Everything Has a Good Side: The Benefits of Cockroaches

BY THE RAINFOREST SITE

A cockroach walking across the floor is enough to send shivers up many people’s spines. Fortunately, of the 4,500 different species of cockroaches, 99.7 percent live in environments away from humans. Before you step on a cockroach, you might consider the benefits they provide to natural ecosystems as well as humans.



In nature, cockroaches provide food for other animals, many of which we treasure. Some species of birds and small mammals could not survive without this food source, but their benefits reach beyond just serving as a link in the animal food chain.

Cockroaches also play a vital role in the life cycle of plants. As they crawl through flowers seeking food, they also transport pollen and thus help with plant reproduction. Cockroaches eat what other organisms leave laying, breaking it down and increasing the amount of nitrogen in the soil. Without their nitrogen-rich excrement, the forests would suffer.

Cockroaches live and thrive in areas where the filth would cause illness in other organisms. Their evolution for survival in such conditions includes the production of natural antibiotics. Research scientists are looking for possible human applications of cockroach antibiotics. These natural germ killers can help the body fight staph infections, including MRSA, which is resistant to traditional antibiotics.

The cockroach leg is highly efficient, and scientists study its form and function as they develop prosthetic and robot applications. This research benefits those who have lost limbs, including veterans returning from war.



Cockroaches provide many benefits, but these insects still spread bacteria at your house. Plus, proteins from cockroach saliva and feces could trigger symptoms for allergy sufferers. So while you might think twice before you smash every cockroach that crosses your path, you don’t want to welcome the insects in your home, either.

Cockroaches may be useful in many ways, but nature has a way to keep their numbers in check, including via predators. The jewel wasp is a natural predator for cockroaches. While the wasp is smaller than its prey, it injects venom into the cockroach’s brain, rendering it unable to control its own muscles, effectively turning it into a zombie. The wasp then leads the cockroach to its nest to feed its young. Watch a video of the process here.

The jewel wasp looks like an alien straight out of a sci-fi horror movie — at least to a cockroach that has the misfortune of crossing paths with a female about to lay its egg. Tracking the cockroach by sight and smell, the female wasp immobilizes it with a quick, sharp jab to the underbelly, paralyzing the roach’s legs with venom. While the cockroach lies defenseless, the wasp re-stings the cockroach, this time in the neck, then uses surgeon-like precision to guide its stinger to precise spots in the cockroach’s brain to inject its toxin.

National Geographic

If you see a cockroach scurry through your kitchen, your first reaction might be: “Arghh! A cockroach! Quick! Squish it with John Grisham!” But wait! You don’t need to sully your favorite legal caper. Instead, fetch a jewel wasp to do your bidding. These brutal parasites rob a cockroach of its free will before inflicting a slow and horrific death.

An interesting fact: I have been living in this Illinois house for one year and never once have I seen a cockroach. And that's a good thing.

Why are there no funerals for dead cockroaches?

When a cockroach drops dead, other cockroaches never have a funeral for the corpse. Why not? Maybe it's because that would be stupid.

Dead human apes are equal to dead cockroaches. When we step on a cockroach in our kitchen people just throw the thing into the garbage. Why not throw dead human apes in the garbage? Why waste money on a decomposing corpse?

My instructions are to give my corpse to the government and they can do what they want with it. I won't care because I will be dead.

I tried to explain this to a moron atheist who thinks funerals are necessary to show respect. The problem with that idea is dead human apes don't care about respect because they are fucking dead.

Money is a nice thing to have. It makes no sense to waste money on something that's equal to a dead cockroach.

If it was up to me the funeral directors would not have any customers and they would have to get a real job.

This is something I wrote for a cowardly fucktard.

Reality: Dead people are equal to dead cockroaches. When you drop dead that's the end of you. Reality doesn't care if you don't like it.

Reality: The magic god fairy fantasy is impossible. There is no magic in the universe.

Reality or bullshit, take your pick.

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I recommend this post I wrote one year ago:

The common ancestor of human apes and cockroaches. Also, how to properly cook cockroaches to eat.

I answered a dumb question about one of the moronic religious fantasies.

"Do animals go to heaven?"

Every religious fantasy was invented by morons who made stuff up. So if you want to have cockroaches in your magical paradise for cowards, just make stuff up and then call it a fact.

One more thing: People are animals. We are one of the Great Ape species. The dead Magic Jeebus Man was an ape.

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This blog has 10 posts about cockroaches at cockroaches. Some of these cockroach posts are interesting.

I answered a dumb question about dead human apes.

"I think I can say I've never been to the funeral of an atheist. What are they like? What types of things are said?"

A real atheist would tell his family to give his corpse to the government and not waste a penny on it. Dead people are equal to dead cockroaches. They're just garbage. It's ridiculous to waste money on garbage. Funerals are for morons.

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A few years ago I tried to explain this to a wimpy atheist. The wimp was for wasting money on a decomposing corpse to show respect. I told the wimp dead people don't care about being respected because they are fucking dead.

The stupid, it burns.

Are human apes more developed than a cockroach? Of course not. These 3 quotes explain why.

There is no species that is “more developed” than another. In the end, the soupy mess of organisms that are alive today are all on the same level, having evolved to fit the specific ecological niches that they inhabit.
-- https://futurism.com/three-main-pieces-of-evidence-supporting-evolution/

You know, there's this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong. It goes: we humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary tree, and as you get up that tree, brain size must get bigger. But a fly is just as evolved as a human. It's just evolved to a different niche.
-- Jeremy Niven

Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale...there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything.
-- PZ Myer

Want to know the best way to kill a cockroach? Well, first inject some powerful neurotoxins directly into its brain. This will make the bug compliant; it won't try to fly away and will bend to your will. Second, slice off one of its antennae and drink the goo that comes out. For snack purposes, you understand. And then lead it off to your lair by the stump, like a dog on a leash. You're going to bury this zombie in a hole in the ground. But just before you close up the tomb, lay an egg on the bug. Your progeny can have the joy of eating it alive.

Bejewelled pest control: Who wouldn't approve of the work of Ampulex compressa?

Wasps, bees, sawflies and ants all belong to a grouping of insects known as Hymenoptera - and Gavin Broad is an enormous fan

BBC Science & Environment

Click this if you want to watch a video about wasps: Wasps: If you can't love them, at least admire them

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent

15 September 2019

Want to know the best way to kill a cockroach?

Well, first inject some powerful neurotoxins directly into its brain. This will make the bug compliant; it won't try to fly away and will bend to your will.

Second, slice off one of its antennae and drink the goo that comes out. For snack purposes, you understand.

And then lead it off to your lair by the stump, like a dog on a leash. You're going to bury this zombie in a hole in the ground.

But just before you close up the tomb, lay an egg on the bug. Your progeny can have the joy of eating it alive.

Dr Gavin Broad relishes these stories about how wasps will parasitise other critters. He's the principal curator in charge of insect collections at London's Natural History Museum, which means he's got plenty of material to work with.

He has drawer after drawer of wasps, gathered from all corners of the globe. Ok, I can already hear you saying, "I hate wasps even if they kill roaches". But spend just a few minutes with Gavin and I promise you your views will evolve.

You'll marvel at their skill and in quite a few cases you'll be stunned (not stung) by their beauty.

That destroyer of cockroaches, for example - Ampulex compressa - has an extraordinary iridescent exoskeleton. You can see why they sometimes call it the jewel wasp.

"But every wasp is glorious," says Gavin, as he urges you to move beyond the PR spin that's got us to prefer beetles and bees instead ("Bees are just furry wasps that turned vegetarian").

Wasps have their role in Nature and it's not to pester humans in the autumn. Ignore those "yellow jackets" getting drunk on cider in September orchards; they'll soon be gone.

No, wasps have very useful functions, one of which is to keep other insects in check. Every insect you can think of probably has some wasp that will attack it. If that wasn't the case, we'd almost certainly be using more pesticides than we already do on our farms.

It's the parasitoid wasps that do this work for us and their methods - like those of Ampulex compressa - are often ingenious.

I'm fascinated by a splendid European wasp - Rhyssa persuasoria (sabre wasp). In part, I think, because I can't ever recall actually seeing one in the wild. They frequent British forests.

It has a remarkable ovipositor. That's the multi-function "hypodermic needle" at the end of the abdomen, and, in this instance, it doubles the length of the wasp to about 8cm.

The Rhyssa hunts the larvae of sawflies hiding under the bark of trees. When it senses one, it uses the ovipositor to drill through the wood fibres, to sting the grub and then lay an egg on it. Again, the wasp doesn't immediately kill its target; it uses venom merely to immobilise its prey.

"The key to success for parasitoid wasps is keeping your meat fresh," says Gavin.

He calls me into the next room, a cavernous opening full of those floor-to-ceiling museum cabinets that move on wheels. Gavin knows exactly which drawer he's after.

We don't really do "big" in the UK, so as you might expect there are even more impressive versions of Rhyssa from elsewhere in the world. Meet the aptly named Megarhyssa.

Species in this group have ovipositors that can reach 15cm in length. They store them in a bag. Megarhyssa will spend a couple of hours drilling through wood to get to its victim.

That's a lot of energy to expend, especially if you miss your target, or, as occasionally happens, another wasp comes along with a slightly narrower ovipositor and uses the exact same drill hole to replace the egg you've just laid. Hello to the group of wasps called Pseudoryhssa.

Nature works like that sometimes. Species will use every trick in the book to survive and thrive. Constant warfare.

Gavin closes the drawer. There's even a wasp that will lay its egg inside the larva of another wasp that's already inside a caterpillar, he tells me. That sounds a bit like an entomologist's Christmas dinner: a duck inside a turkey, inside a goose.

So, what's the biggest wasp? Probably one of the tarantula hawks like Pepsis. When Gavin gives talks to schoolchildren, this is always their favourite.

You know the routine by now: the wasp lands on the spider, stings it to a standstill, and then positions an egg where the hatched grub can burrow its way inside. What's so impressive is that the larva will make sure it doesn't consume too early those organs that keep the tarantula alive.

And the smallest wasp? Well, that would be the fairyfly wasps. Creatures like Kikiki and Tinkerbella. Gavin is holding a card with some imperceptible dots on it. These wasps are about 0.2mm in length. Absolutely tiny - you need a microscope to see them.

They're so small in fact, they're probably at the very limits of what's possible in terms of miniaturised flight. And yet fly they do, to find and parasitise the eggs of other species and single-celled organisms.

My hour with Gavin is almost up but he won't let me go until he's shown me some of the most impressive nests in the NHM's collection.

"Wasps probably gave us the idea for paper," he says. They chew up wood and build the most exquisite papier-mâché structures.

Even your classic autumn annoyance, Vespula vulgaris, is an accomplished architect. The paper envelope that surrounds its comb nest will have intricate swirls and waves. The more diverse the wood sources, the more unusual the patterns.

The NHM collection even has a 1940s wasp nest made partially from wool. The wasps had recycled a nearby scarf.

Gavin's passion for his subjects is obvious and immense. So what does he say when people tell him they hate wasps. "I just cry." He laughs. "Why don't people already love wasps? They're the lions of the insect world."

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What I wrote about cowardly Christian morons.

"Why is god only interested in humans. Do any of the other primates get into human heaven?"

According to the moronic myth, humans are completely separate from the rest of nature. Therefore only humans are able to have a magical 2nd life in a magical paradise for cowards.

The truth is we are part of nature. We share an ancestor with all other species, including chimpanzees, cockroaches, and trees. This is the strongest fact of science.

Thanks to the religious implications of evolution, know-nothing Christian morons deny the whole thing.

One more thing. Only feeble-minded cowards wish for a magical 2nd life. Reality makes them cry.

Dead human apes don't go anywhere after they drop dead because they're fucking dead.

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darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com - BBC Earth - Humans are nowhere near as special as we like to think.

The common ancestor of human apes and cockroaches. Also, how to properly cook cockroaches to eat.

According to TIME TREE, the common ancestor of human apes and cockroaches lived 797,000,000 years ago.

According to Google: You can eat cockroaches! Just not the ones you find around your house. Contrary to popular belief, cockroaches can actually be very clean and tasty insects, especially if they are fed on fresh fruits and vegetables. They can be eaten toasted, fried, sauteed, or boiled.

Also, according to Google: Cockroach farming is booming in China as the country looks for new, cheaper medicines for its rapidly ageing population. The correct way to eat a cockroach, at least in this corner of northern China, is to fry it not once but twice in a wok of smoking hot oil.

Are human apes more developed than a cockroach? Of course not. These 3 quotes explain why.

"There is no species that is “more developed” than another. In the end, the soupy mess of organisms that are alive today are all on the same level, having evolved to fit the specific ecological niches that they inhabit."
-- https://futurism.com/three-main-pieces-of-evidence-supporting-evolution/

"You know, there's this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong. It goes: we humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary tree, and as you get up that tree, brain size must get bigger. But a fly is just as evolved as a human. It's just evolved to a different niche."
-- Jeremy Niven

"Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale...there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything."
-- PZ Myers

A beautiful blue cockroach. "A sky-blue neotropical cockroach with a yellow fringe, found in the rain forests of Guyana, South America."

Fortunately I don't have this problem but if I saw a cockroach in my kitchen I would step on it. However the world needs cockroaches and this science article explains why.

What If There Were No Cockroaches?

The sight of a cockroach makes just about every American shudder. We fear a roach infestation inside the walls. We fear that our house is dirty enough to sustain them. We fear that a cockroach might scurry across our faces at night, or, under cover of darkness, eat flecks of toothpaste off our toothbrushes.

These fears drive us to kill, kill, kill, and wish death upon the whole genus. But what if — through some means more effective than a nuclear bomb— cockroaches really were wiped out? Could we then rest easy? Or do we, in fact, somehow need these monstrous vermin?

We put the question to Srini Kambhampati, professor and chair of the biology department at the University of Texas at Tyler, and a world expert on cockroaches. Turns out, the sudden disappearance of Earth's 5,000 to 10,000 cockroach species would have ramifications far beyond your filthy apartment. [Chocolate Allergies Linked to Cockroach Parts]

Worldwide, the insects are a significant food source for many birds and small insectivorous mammals, such as mice and rats. (Even humans eat them in some parts of the world.) None of these animals rely solely on cockroaches for food, Kambhampati said, so they probably wouldn't go extinct, but their numbers would drop. Parasitic wasps, which specialize in parasitizing cockroach eggs, do rely entirely on the cockroach. "These would almost certainly become extinct," Kambhampati told Life's Little Mysteries.

If you can't get very worked up about a dent in the rat population or the extinction of something called a parasitic wasp, consider this: A dearth of mice and rats would, in turn, impact the species that prey on them, including cats (both wild and domestic), coyotes, wolves and many reptiles, as well as eagles and other birds of prey. Many of those animals, we're quite fond of.

Furthermore, the disappearance of cockroaches would mess with something truly vital for us all, called the nitrogen cycle.

"Most cockroaches feed on decaying organic matter, which traps a lot of nitrogen," Kambhampati said. "Cockroach feeding has the effect of releasing that nitrogen (in their feces) which then gets into the soil and is used by plants. In other words, extinction of cockroaches would have a big impact on forest health and therefore indirectly on all the species that live there."

In short, we really, really need cockroach poop.

A reason why people who understand how evolution works are probably going to throw out the idiotic god fantasy.

A reason why people who understand how evolution works are probably going to throw out the idiotic god fantasy.

Human apes and cockroaches developed from the same natural processes, evolution by natural selection. Both people and disgusting insects are just one small twig on the vast tree of life. We are not the big fucking deal some people think we are.

We can do things cockroaches can't do, for example play chess. But could we live in a cockroach's environment? An insect has evolved just as much as we have. We just filled different niches.

Of course it's a good thing to be a human ape because I really like to play chess and step on cockroaches.

Religions have this idea that we are separate from nature, all thanks to their loving god fairy. This is of course wishful thinking, not to mention ridiculous.

We are not separate from nature. We are part of nature.

My point is people who have figured these things out are very unlikely to be infected with the god disease. Charles Darwin killed the childish god fairy fantasy in 1859 when he published On the Origin of Species.

One more thing. The know-nothing religious assholes who think we are separate from nature, I noticed they have no problem with destroying habitat and wiping out species if it's lucrative to do that. The problem is when we destroy nature we are destroying ourselves.