Saturday, October 24, 2015

Rights

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. 
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. 
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. 
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. 
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Is it any wonder why Yahweh will never be a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Friday, October 23, 2015

Lesson

On my wishlist: Every time someone ecstatically exclaims "God is good!" she instantly finds herself transformed into a Yazidi girl being gang raped by her ISIS captors; or finds himself in Israel being incessantly stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist; or transported to a plane crash with both legs torn off, her children mangled and burned beyond recognition; or turned into a child, in rags, begging in the rain, with a belly that's not had a morsel for a day and a night; or a Syrian refugee, with his wife, children, and fellow citizens, being refused asylum in all European countries; or ....

With all the evil in the world and the suffering millions, how egregiously obscene and perverse it is to even suggest calling an omnipotent being good.

Egoist

You know someone's a self-centered prick when s/he publicly prays: "Thank you Lord for not letting the storm raze my home" instead of "Lord, why did you let the storm leave a third our of town homeless?"

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Fooled

Belief in snake oil and prayer are so alike. You take grandma's remedy and the headache goes away; ergo, the nostrum works. You message the sky god and the winds die down; ergo, talking to yourself (or to the wind) works. Non causa pro causa. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Geez, can't we have it the other way around? Can't we have a majority familiar with logical fallacies and the tools of scientific skepticism and have just a handful of benighted fools?

Powerless

Don't know whether to love or hate the fact that humans are so predictable when it comes to perceived powerlessness over certain situations. The simple fact is that the probability of people resorting to superstitious behavior shoots up, say, during hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural phenomena over which they have absolutely no control over. I don't think we need to conduct a scientific study to say that the number of petitions to mythological characters skyrockets in times of natural disasters.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Constitution

The 13th Amendment is an affront to Constitution of God.

Wrong


How dare you declare God wrong and guilty!
Seize this witch and break her on the wheel. No one talks ill of our fictional father.