Hriscanski pokret CG

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Veoma interesantno, poucno i prosvjetljujuce razmisljanje.
Ostaje nada da kad vec nismo uspjeli da pronadjemo spasenje i prosvjetljenje uz pomoc naratora i tumaca koji nam dolaze iz krugova organizovanih religija, (ovih ili onih) napokon nadjemo toliko potrebno spasenje u ucenjima samoproklamovanih, mozemo reci proroka, koji imaju odgovor na sve one stvari koje nas muce, kako na individualnom, tako i na mnogo sirem, globalnom nivou; jer svoje ucenje ne baziraju na crkvenim dogmama, vec na iskonskim, istinitim i pravim ucenjima Isusa Hrista.

Naime, iz Hriscanskog pokreta Crne Gore kazu: "Problem ateizma je svakako dalekosežan na individualnom nivou i ima posljedice po čitavo društvo. Nažalost, zbog istorijskih okolnosti crnogorsko društvo danas nije mnogo prosvećeno i izrazito je sekularno..."

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Top 10 znakova koji ukazuju da si fundamentalni Hriscanin

1. Negiras postojanje hiljada bogova koje druge religije/ljudi slave, ali se nadjes uvrijedjen kad neko kaze da tvoj bog ne postoji.

2. Osjecas se uvrijedjeno kada naucnici kazu da je covjek evolvirao od drugih zivotinjskih vrsta, ali nemas problema sa Biblijskom pricom koja kaze da smo nastali od blata.

3. Smijes se politeistima, ali nemas problema sa svetim trojstvom.

4. Poludis kad neko sa ljubavlju prica o Alahu i Islamu kao religiji mira, ali i ne trepnes kad cujes pricu u kojoj je Bog/Isus poklao svu dijecu (Exodus) i naredio da se cijela jedna etnicka grupa izbrise sa lica zemlje (Jevandjelju po Jovanu) naravno ukljucujici zene, dijecu i drvece.

5. Smijes se Hindusima koji se potcinjavaju zivotinjama i Grcima koji su tvrdili da bogovi spavaju sa zenama, ali nemas problem vjerujuci da je Sveti Duh oplodio Mariju, koja je onda rodila covijeka boga koji je ubijen, pa je uskrsnuo i odletio nazad na nebo.

6. Spreman si, da provedes cijeli zivot trazeci rupe u naucnim dokazima, npr. u tacanu starost zemlje koja za sada varira za nekoliko milijardi godina, ali ne vidis nista pogresno u zapisima iz bronzanog doba koja su nastala zahvaljujuci plemenima koja su sjedala u satorima i mislila da je zemlja svega par stotina godina stara.

7. Vjerujes da ce cijela svijetska populacija, (naravno iskljucujuci one koji vjeruju u istog boga kao ti) provesti vijecnost goreci i muceci se u paklu i jos uvijek smatras da je tvoja vjera, vjera mira.

8. Posto moderna nauka, istorija, biologija i fizika nisu uspijeli da te ubijede da grijesis, neka budala koja se valja po podu i mumla budalastine je sve sto je potrebno da ti dokaze postojanje boga.

9. 0.001% uslisenih molitvi smatras kao veoma veliki uspijeh, to je smatras dovoljno da zakljucimo da molitve "rade". Ostalih 99.999% ne uslisenih molitvi su jednostavno zelja bozija

10. Ustvari, ti znas mnogo manje o Hriscanstvu, religiji i crkvi nego bilo koji Ateista, Agnostik ili Skeptik, ali ipak sebe nazivas Hriscaninom.

Vjestice i Hriscanstvo

Vijekovima postojase vjestice.
Sveto pismo tako kaze.
Sveto pismo zapovjeda da se njima ne dozvoli da zive. Zbog toga je Crkva, nakon sto je 800 godina lijeno i nemarno obavljala ovu duznost, sakupila konopce, klinove i baklje i uistinu prionula na sveti zadatak. Radila je naporno, nocu i danju, i tokom 9 vijekova zatocila, mucila i spalila citave armije vjestica i njihovom necistom krvlju umila hriscanski svijet. A onda je otkriveno da tako nesto, vjestice, ne postoji i da nikada nije ni postojalo.
Covek ne zna da li da se smije ili da place.

Kreacionizam ili ti Inteligentni dizajn

Brace yourself!

Zakon O Bludnosti

Ponovljeni zakon 22:13-21

Ako neko uzme zenu i s njom zivi, ali mu onda omrzne, i optuzi je zbog ruznih stvari i prospe los glas o njoj, kad govori: Kad uzeh tu zenu i njoj se priblizih, ne nadjoh u nje djevojastva,

Tada otac i mati mlade zene neka uzmu znake djevojastva mlade zene i donesu ih pred starjesine grada na vrata!
Otac mlade zene neka rekne starjesinama: Svoju kcer dadoh ovomu covjeku za zenu, jer on zamrzi nju,
Sad je optuzuje zbog ruznih stvari, kad tvrdi: Ne nadjoh u tvoje kceri djevojastva. Ali evo znaka djevojastva kceri moje! Onda neka razastru plahtu pred starjesinama gradskim!
Tada starjesine toga grada neka uzmu muza i kazne ga!
Osim toga neka ga oglobe globom od sto srebrnih sekela i neka ih dadnu ocu mlade zene, jer je iznio los glas na djevojku Izraelku.
Mora je zadrzati kao ženu i ne smije pustiti je dok je živ.
Ali ako bude istinita optuzba: Nije se nasao znak djevojastva kod mlade zene,
Tada neka se izvede mlada zena pred vrata kuce njezina oca i ljudi njezina grada zavičajnoga neka je na smrt KAMENUJU, jer je pocinila sramotu...

Popovi su olicenje ne-morala

Opste je poznato da se popovi, ili ti religijske vodje, najvise razumiju u stvari o kojima ne bi trebali da znaju nista. Propagiranje, podrska, blagosiljanje rata i ratnih zlocina/zlocinaca je stvar u kome su svi podjednako vjesti. Naravno, takve stvar ne treba da nas cude, crkva je svoje temelje podigla na kostima ne-duznih ljudi, crkva je svoju moc stekla uz pomoc rata i krvi.

Podrska Tradicionalnom Braku

Kada je brak u pitanju, Crna Gora je veoma, veoma tradicionalno i konzervativno nastrojena, ali nazalost malo je onih koji stvarno razumiju i postoju one prave iskonske vrijednosti. Tradicija kad je brak u pitanju je ozbiljno ugrozena! Stvari su se otele kontroli! Ne dozvolimo da tradicionalni nacin biranja zivotnog partnera bude unisten i zaboravljen!

Picture is worth a thousand words

Engineering view of Santa Claus

In the world there are approximately 2 billion children (persons under 18). However, since Santa Claus does not visit Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist, the amount of work for  the new year is reduced to 15 %, or a total of 378 million children (according to the Population Reference Bureau). According to an average of 3.5 children per house, Santa Claus has to visit 108 million homes, if we assume that in any given house there is at least one good child .

Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). So Santa Claus has to visit 967.7 houses per second. Thus, for each household with a good child, Santa has around 1/ 1000 second to park the sleigh, hop out, take gifts, jump into the chimney, fill the stockings, find a tree, leave the rest of the presents under the tree, climbed back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (for the purposes of our calculations), we are talking about 1.24 miles per house to another , behind what appears total time of 120.8 million miles, not counting Santa Claus visits to toilet or meal breaks, drinks etc. The above shows that the speed of Santa's sleigh moves at 1080 miles per second (3200 times the speed of sound). For comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, going "only" 45 kilometers per second (162,000 km / h), and normal deer up to 24 km per hour or 0.0066 kilometers per second.

The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a Lego set of medium size (about 860 grams). Then the total weight of cargo on Santa Clauses sleigh will be over 500 tons. On the ground, a normal reindeer can pull no more than about 138 kg. If we assume that Santa's flying reindeer can pull 10 times, Santa Claus would need around 360 thousand flying deer to pull sleds. Weight of so many deer increases the overall weight of the sled around 54 thousand tons, or about 7 times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

About 600 thousand tons traveling at a speed of 1080 km/second creates enormous air resistance, such resistance would heat up the reindeer in the same way as a heats up space craft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second. Short, they would, burst into the living not a pretty sight torch, exposing deer behind them, and leading to a chain reaction in which all the 360 odd thousand deer vaporized within 4.26 thousands second, or right about the time to Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.

Santa Claus, as a result of acceleration from 0 km/h to 1080 km/h, would be exposed to acceleration power of 17.5 thousand times greater than that of a small g, ie. 175000 m/s². Santa Claus mass of 115 kg (which is very small for Santa Claus ) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 1,984,906.9 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a pulpy purple, reddish liquid.

Therefore, if Santa ever existed, he is now surely dead.

Mercedes Benz Cross

Grow Up Or Die

The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists, by those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it. Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas. And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you, you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong. This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price. If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers. If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was that we learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or die.

 

 

SAMO JE OVCAMA POTREBAN PASTIR

Komunizam, fasizam i nacizam su priblizno isti, kada je rijec o ubistvima, zlocinima i licemjerstvu tj. komunizam je i dalje broj 1 kada su u pitanju ubistva. Ljudi cesto poistovjecuju komunizam sa ateizmom, sto je potpuno pogresno. Komunizam, fasizam, nacizam i svi drugi totalitarni rezimi mozda ne praktikuju religiju itd. Medjutim, tu postoji jedan drugi fenomen, a to je da u takvim rezimima covjek postaje tkz. bog i onda je on nesto sveto, posebno i samo ispravno. Fenomen koji je poznat kao: kult vodje!

Kada je rijec o Hitleru, postoje razlicita misljenja da li je bio vjernik ili ne. Medjutim, cinjenica je da je on bio vjernik, on je vjerovao da je on taj koji je izabran od boga, on je vjerovao da je sve sto on radi ustvari zelja bozija i da ga je bog licno poslao da pobije sto je vise moguce ljudi.

Ateizam, rijec koju ljudi potpuno pogresno tumace, mnogi ljudi se sada izjasnjavaju kao "secular humanist" jer velika vecina identifikuje ateizam sa komunizmom, fasizmom itd. sto naravno nema nikakvog smisla. Kao sto je Sam Harris rekao u svojoj knjizi "Pismo upuceno hriscanima" "Ateizam nije filozofija, to nije cak ni pogled na svijet, jednostavno, to je prihvatanje cinjenicnog stanja. U stvari Ateista kao termin nije nikad trebao ni da postoji".

Cesto me pitaju: "Zasto mene krivis za stvari koje drugi vjernici rade, nisam uradio nista lose"?!

Da, krivim tebe i sve ostale vjernike zato sto slijepo vjerujete u stvari koje su napisane u neku zastarelu knjigu i u stvari koje vam popovi pricaju, pri tom ne shvatate koliko je sve to besmisleno i glupo! Niko od nas nije rodjen kao vjernik, religija nam je nametnuta od strane roditelja! Njihovi roditelji su je nametnuli njima i tako sve par stotina, hiljada godina unazad...

Jednostavno mi je ne-shvatljivo da ljudi uprkos svim informacija koje su im dostupne danas i dalje odbijaju da sagledaju cinjenice, i dalje odbijaju da vide istinu, i dalje odbijaju da vide koliko stete i razora religija izaziva sirom svijeta.

Tradicija, rijec koju obicno koriste ljudi koji o religiji znaju, NISTA.

Da, lijepo je da postujemo nase roditelje i porodicu, ali ako ikada shvatis da nesto nije u redu i da nema smisla, ne bi trebalo da nastavis da slijepo radis to sto ti tradicija kaze (namece). Pocnite da razmisljate svojom glavom, pitajte kada vam nesto nije jasno, ako ikada dodjete do tacke kada mislite da sve znate, to znaci da ste u stvari mrtvi, mrtvi u intelektualnom smislu, sto se u sustini ne razlikuje mnogo od smrti kao smrti… Ljudi bez maste, ljudi koji nemaju vise nijedno pitanje da postave su ustvari NISTA (nemam pravu rijec za njih, ali su uglavnom, NISTA)

Kao sto je dobro poznato, hriscanstvo ima dosta primjesa drugih religija, vjerovanja koja datiraju stotinama, hiljadama godina prije hriscanstva, ustvari cinjenica je da hriscanstvo nije nista vise od remiksovanog paganizama. Da li neko stvarno misli da prica o postojanju ima ikakvog smisla? Da li neko misli da je biblija koja sadrzi na hiljade kontradiknosti, biblija koja je puna nasilja, ubistava, silovanja, pjancenja stvarno rijec bozija?

 Ako to mislite, onda mi vas je zaista zao. AMEN ;)

Only Sheep Need Shepherd

Communism, fascism and nazism are roughly the same, when it comes to murders, crimes and hypocrisy ie. communism is still no.1 on leader board when it comes to murder. People often equated communism with atheism, which is completely wrong. communism, fascism, nazism and all other totalitarian regimes may not practice religion, etc.. but there is another phenomenon happens and that is: they put human being in place of so called god and then he is something sacred, special and only right. that phenomenom is commonly known as: cult of the leader!

When it comes to Hitler, there are different opinion whether he was а believer or not. However the fact is, he was a believer, he believed that he was the one who was chosen by god, he believed everything that he does in fact is desire of god.

Atheism, as the word was completely misinterpreted, many people are now declared themselves as "secular humanist" because for the vast majority of people identify atheism with, communism, fascism, etc. which is completly wrong, and as Sam Harris said in his book "Letter To a Christian Nation" "Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheist' is a term that should not ever exist".

Way to often I'm asked: "Why do you blame me, for the things I didn't done"
Yes, I blame you and all other believers for blindly believing what some out-dated book and religious leaders told them! None of us is born as believer, religion was forced upon us by our parents! Their parents forced it upon them, and all the way back like that a couple of thousand years ...

It is simply not conceivable that people, despite all the information available to them today still refuse to look at the facts, still refusing to see the truth, still refusing to see how much harm realigion causing around the world.

Tradition, word commonly used by the people which know nothing about religion.
Yes, it is nice to respect our parents and family, but if you ever realize that something is not right and that does not make sense, you should not continue to follow it blindly! Start asking question, question everything, because once you stop asking question, once you reach a point where you think that you know everything, that means that you are dead, you are just walking death. Human beings without imagination, without any question left to be asked is nothing but, dead weight.

As is well know, christianity has a lot of impurities of other religions, and beliefs, dating back hundreds and thousands of years ago, before christianity. The matter of fact is that, christianity is nothing more that remixed paganism. Does anyone think that the whole story about the existence have any sense? Does anyone think that bible with its thousands of contradiction, violence, murders, rapes is the word of god?

If you do, then I'm sorry indeed.

Hide & Seek

Jesus, what the fuck dude?!

It started like this.

There was a bunch of drunken guys who were drinking like hell on daily basis, and one night they were so fucked up that they didn't know what to do anymore, so they decided to play one of the easiest game in the entire universe, game called hide and seek.
Guy called Jesus was the first one who needed to seek for the rest of the other drunken assholes, well known today as "apostoles" + there was his dad called God (back in old days that use to be ordinary name such as now those days are Idiot, Retard, Psychopat and so on).
So they start playing, Jesus was facing the floor (he was so fucking drunk that he wasn't able to stand) and he started counting and counting untill he fallen asleep. The rest of his retarded, (back in old days retarded use to be word which describe a people who has a mental problems) drunken friends hide themseleves, and all of them fell asleep. Unfortunetly Jesus father God was the eldest and the most drunk, while he was trying to find a place to hide he didn't saw that he reached an end of the road and he fell over the cliff in some fucking hole which was around 378m deep! Guess what happened to him?! He was dead even before he reached the end!
Fuck, I feel sorry for him, but what to do it's his own mistake, you shouldn't drink and play hide and seek (that used to be policy back in the old days, same as today, don't drink and drive).
So, the day after the party when everyone finally woke up and when they started asking themselves, WHAT THE FUCK happened last night, they found out that God was missing, FUCK!
Jesus started to shout, God, God, God where the fuck are you, God, God...
They search everywhere, but nothing, they can't find God...
Jesus was so fucked up that he grabbed a bottle of wine and he started dinking again, his retarded friends followed him as well. When the night fall, and when they were drunk as fuck, once again, some of his friend had a brilliant idea!
He said: "Jesus I know that you feel guilty because your father had most probably died, (sure he died, you try to jump in 378m hole...) but I have a brilliant idea! We should write a book in which he, your father (God) will be the hero, he will be the one who  created everything and the whole God damn world will praise him"
Jesus half asleep, half awake said: "Lets do it" then he raised a bottle, and said: "Lets drink in the name of the God", ofcourse everybody cheered...
After that night they just continued to do the best thing they knew, drinking like hell, and the book that they have wrote has been published by some straight, sober and clever dude who was the first one to find out that nonsense, stupidity and lack of evidence to prove the truth has actually a power to be true by itself, if you just know how to use it! To be honest I admire that guy, he has done a great job, he succeed, but at the same time for me, that's just one more proof that evolution actually is the ultimate truth. 2000 years is a short period of time, and majority of mankind is still on MONKEY level and it will take at least 2 000 000 years more, (if we don't destroy ourselves in meantime) before all of us will finally realize how stupid we are, and how stupid things what we are fighting for, are!

It Is Time For Changes

The social values of our society, which has manifested in perpetual warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic socially indifferent profit oriented ruling class; is fundamentally the result of a collective ignorance of two of the most basic insights humans can have about reality. The emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law.

The emergent nature of reality is that all systems; whether it is knowledge, society, technology, philosophy, or any other creation; will, when uninhibited, undergo fluid perpetual change.

What we consider commonplace today such as modern communication and transportation, would have been unimaginable in ancient times. Likewise, the future will contain technologies, realizations, and social structures that we cannot even fathom in the present.

We have gone from alchemy to chemistry, from a geocentric universe to a heliocentric, from believing that demons were the cause of illness to modern medicine. This development shows no sign of ending, and it is this awareness that aligns us and leads us on a continuous path to growth and progress.

Static empirical knowledge does not exist, rather it is the insight of the emergence of all systems we must recognize. This means we must be open to new information at all times, even if it threatens our current belief system, and hence, identities. Sadly society today has failed to recognize this, and the established institutions continue to paralyze growth by preserving outdated social structures.

Simultaneously, the population suffers from a fear of change. For their conditioning assumes a static identity and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension. For being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact to be proven wrong should be celebrated. It is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness. The fact is, there is no such thing as a smart human being, for it is merely a matter of time before their ideas are updated, changed, or irradiated.

And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system, sheltering it from new possibly transforming information is nothing less than a form of intelectual materialism. The monetary system perpetuates this materialism not only by it’s self-preserving structures, but also throught the countless number of people who have been conditioned into blindly and thoughtlessly upholding these structures, therefore becoming self-appointed guardians of the status quo. Sheep which no longer need a sheep-dog to control them. For they control each other by ostracizing those who step out of the norm.

This tendency to resist change and uphold existing institutions for the sake of identity, comfort, power and profit is completely unsustainable; and will only produce further imbalance, fragmentation, distortion, and very invariably destruction.

It’s time to change.

From hunters and gatherers, to the agricultural revolution, to the industrial revolution, the pattern is clear. It is time for a new social system which reflects the understandings we have today.

Pinheads

"I think most of the education that I’ve seen today is essentially producing a person for a job. It’s very specialized. They’re not generalists. People don’t know a lot about a lot of different subjects. I don’t think you could get people to go to war if they knew a lot about a lot of things. I think education is mostly rote, and they’re not taught how to solve problems, not given the tools emotionally or within their own field of how to do critical thinking."

"Patriotism, weapons, armies, navies, all that is a sign that we’re not civilized yet. Kids will ask their parents… ‘Didn’t you see the necessity of machines? Dad, couldn’t you see that war was inevitable when you produce scarcity? Isn’t it obvious?’ Of course the kid will understand that you were pinheads raised merely to serve the established institutions.

We’re such an abominable, sick society that we won’t make the history books. They’ll just say that large nations took land from smaller nations, used force and violence. You’ll get history talked about as corrupt behavior all the way along until the beginning of the civilized world. That’s when all the nations work together.

World unification, working toward common good for all human beings and without anyone being subservient to anyone else. Without social stratification whether it be technical elitism or any other kind of elitism, eradicated from the face of the earth. The ‘state’ does nothing because there is no ‘state’.

The system I advocate, a resource based global economy is not perfect, it’s just a lot better than what we have. We can never achieve perfection."

It Is All One

I think I spent 30 years of my life, the first 30 trying to become something. I wanted to become good at things, I wanted to become good at tennis and school and grades. And everything I kinda viewed in that perspective I’m not okay the way I am, but if I got good at things… I realized that I had the game wrong, because the game was to find out what I already was. 

Now, in our culture we have been trained for individual differences to stand out, so you look at each person and the immediate hit is… brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer poorer… and we make all these dimensional distinctions, put them in categories and treat them that way. And get so we only see others as separate from ourselves in the ways in which they are separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways in which they are like you not different from you. And experiencing the fact that that which is essence in you; which is essence in me is indeed, one. The understanding that there is no other…it is all one. I wasn’t born Richard Albert, I was just born as a human being and then I learn this whole business of who I am, whether I’m good or bad, achieving or not… all that’s learned along the way.

The old appeals of racial, sexual and religious shovanism to rabid nationalistic fervor… are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism… and recognizes: an organism at war with itself is doomed.

Letter to a Christian Nation

"Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year."

“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics.” 

#WarOnChristmas

Interesting phenomenon that occurs around December 25th, or the winter solstice. From the summer solstice to the winter solstice, the days become shorter and colder. From the perspective of the northern hemisphere, the sun appears to move south and get smaller and more scarce. The shortening of the days and the expiration of the crops when approaching the winter solstice symbolized the process of death to the ancients. It was the death of the Sun. By December 22nd, the Sun's demise was fully realized, for the Sun, having moved south continually for 6 months, makes it to it's lowest point in the sky. Here a curious thing occurs: the Sun stops moving south, at least perceivably, for 3 days. During this 3 day pause, the Sun resides in the vicinity of the Southern Cross, or Crux, constellation. And after this time on December 25th, the Sun moves 1 degree, this time north, foreshadowing longer days, warmth, and Spring. And thus it was said: the Sun died on the cross, was dead for 3 days, only to be resurrected or born again. This is why Jesus and numerous other Sun Gods share the crucifixion, 3-day death, and resurrection concept. It is the Sun's transition period before it shifts its direction back into the Northern Hemisphere, bringing Spring, and thus salvation. 

If there is no god, why be good?

As Einstein said, "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are sorry indeed." Michael Sherman, in The Sicence of Good and Evil, calls it a debate stopper. If you agree that, in absence of god, you would commit robbery, rape and murder, you reveal yourself as an immoral person and we would be well advised to steer a wide course around you. If, on the other hand you admit that you would continue to be a good person even when not under divine surveillance, you have fatally undermined your claim that god is necessary for us to be good. I suspect that quite a lot of religious people do think religion is what motivates them to be good, especially if they belong to one of those faiths that systematically exploits personal quilt.
It seems to me to require quite a low self-regard to think that, should belief in god suddenly vanish from the world, we would all become callous and selfish hedonist with no kindness, no charity, no generosity, nothing that would deserve the name of goodness.