Two Blog Posts In One

I couldn't atheist blog yesterday, I had to work a stupid St. Patty's Fest thingy. You know what...drunk people are super annoying. Oh well you do what you halfta do to eat-n-shit (one day I will not be poor).

A while back I said I wuz a-gonna go over all the logical fallacies (but I really only posted, like, once on that), so here's another one. Today at the mighty Atheist Revolution @vjack talked about the fallacious and delicious...red herring.

I dunno if this is even a red herring. Whatevah.

First of all a logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. There are a million ways to do this, hence a million  different fallacies that Team Atheist must learn. Why. Because weeeeeee are on the side of reason/reasoning. I personally do not want to be a Team member that says stupid shit while other Team Atheist members roll their eyes. We are better than that, or at least...we should be.

Red Herring...Lil did this atheist know but the term red herring comes from super gross fox hunting. A stinky and red fish (the red herring) was used to obstruct the fox's sent from those blood thirsty hounds chasing said fox (who does this...I dunno). So the red herring argument is something stupid that takes the attention away from the real topic. It is a distraction of sorts. It is irrelevant. It is, in Kriss-speak...stupidhead.

Bad human, BAD.

Let's see if I can give a good example of this. In mystery novels you are trying to, guess, solve the mystery. But an innocent character is introduced, but you don't know that character is innocent and in fact, you think that character is the loser that committed the crime and unbeknownst to you-you are wrong. You were distracted and you were thrown off the sent by this red herring, when obviously...the butler did it.

Let's try another one. We are arguing about the existence of Gawd. It's going well until they say "Well since we don't agree I guess you don't care about humanity." (Is that a good one? I'll admit it if it's not.).

OK, I think I got a good one. Rick "Butt Juice" Santorum when he first first was starting to get attention had a talk at a college when a super awesome co-ed called him out on his stupid stance on gay marriage (he's anti-gay anything). She said something cool like, "Hey Butt Juice LGBT marriage is an independent event from hetero marriage and in no way do loving LGBT peeps getting married have any affect on hetero marriage." Here's his response.

(Not exactly, but he really did say this) " Well, if gay marriage is allowed then why not with two people, or three people. If gay marriage is allowed, then why not with animals. Where does it stop."

OK, I think that was a good one. His answer has nothing to do with the question or the conclusion (gay marriage). It was the definition of distraction.

What my atheist blogosphere mentor @vjack (even tho we have never met) was talking about today was...are we, Team Atheist and those who battle for secular society and equal rights for all (even them), distracted. Are we not focusing our collective energy on the correct thingy. Are we being red herring'd. Go are the article and decide fer yo'sef. In other news...

My depression can make LOL Cats sad. Fuck depression.

My personal battle for sanity and happiness is, well..it could be going better. I do, in my heart believe that the score I keep talking about is still in my favor, but...

I'm not so outta it that I can't notice my low energy or lack of feelings. The thousand yard stare is back and so is the monotone voice. It is sunny right now in Sac Town, but the previous couple of days have been the definition of gloomy. Sucks so bad because I WAS feeling so good. I'm obsessing on random things that should not mean anything to me, and for those who care (you know who you are), that is the beginning of frustration, which leads to the anger. I just got an adjustment on my meds, but perhaps it is too soon to make a diff.

I'm sharing this because so many of you reached out to me this last year with your own stories (thank you) and struggles. All my honesty here on the Six Pack blog is nothing compared to what you have shared with me. I'm a fighter and I'm gonna fight this. I do want so badly to get better. I want so badly to ditch unfeeling and trade it with happiness. What I do not want is to go thru what I went thru last year at this time until...well, it never ended (1). What I do not want is to be a physical fighter. I do not want to hurt anyone and I do not want to hurt myself. That is the score. I wish it were different, but that is what honesty is.

Wish me luck.

* Red herring is also something that the Vikings used to eat, and perhaps do now.

* The Sad Season...from last years archives.

* The Fallacy Files...Red Herring.

(1) Nevermind, I'll keep this one to myself.

Gawd's Party Haz No Kegs

Remember the show Family Ties...I do.

Really, I long for the days when republicans were just normal people that I disagreed with because they only wanted small government and less taxes, and that was that. I dunno when it happened (I think it started in the 70's with Peanut, but it exploded in the 80's with The Gipper) but the republican right has become the party of sayin' "no", anti-awesome clean preppy and good looking homos, war on women folk, pro American colonialism, pro American elitism, and of course pro-surveillance camera in the sky (Gawd). We are far far away from the Young Republicans of the 80's (my best friend at the time was one of those, and so was Michael J. Fox's character on Family Ties). So WTF.

Oh, Mal...

If you thought that God was apolitical, then you probably also thought that God didn't watch football (he hearts the Denver Broncos), and you are wrong on both counts. If you thought that here in the awesome United States of American, that one need not be religious to run for freekin' president, then you are wrong again (just look at the overly religious GOP'rs right now).

The battle to be the one to lose to the super awesome Black Prez in the up coming election is ALLLLLLL about controlling religion (as opposed to the non-controlling, liberal, not literal religion that's OK by me). My loving LGBT friends cannot get married because they, somehow, destroy hetero marriage (but hetero divorce is never talked about) and what is it with old, white, religious dudes that wanna decided what and how women do with their bodies (abortion, health care, contraception). It's really weird.

My best friend in HS was a young republican, but he didnt look like Mallory. He's a dude.

The GOP'rs in the last year or so really really like singing pledges. Remember the Promise Keepers (I call them the Promise rapers) from last decade that promised to submit their women because God said so, and also control their families with an iron hand and called it taking back the family...they signed pledges. Currently there are republican pledges, that one MUST sign to show team loyalty, that not only *promise* no tax increases, but also promise/threaten no porn, no sex outside of marriage, no abortion and no contraception. So much for diversity within the republican right, right. If you don't sign the ridiculous, inhibiting and controlling pledge, then no soup and no party support for you-loser.

Choosing God's side has created the ultimate in polarization, so much so that political compromise is something that happened in the past (and that is a shame) and it doesn't look like it will happen in the near or any future (shame again). Choosing God's party has somehow turned off peoples brains and their ability to think critically. Many on the republican right believe that the super awesome Black Prez is a Mooslem and that because he doesn't subscribe to the elitist ideal of American Exceptionalism...he's not patriotic (c'mon now. If dude doesn't love American, then why does/did he make all the sacrifices to become the President. Really now). It's not lack of thinking..it's no thinking (aka stupidhead).

OM(nonexistent)G, she has the mischievous "I just did something wrong" look...forgive me, I'm cute.

 I'm no history buff, but was not this great country (and I do believe that this is STILL a great country) established from the ashes of a religious revolution. Did not the founders fight and successfully escape from religious tyranny of the Mother Land for the sake of freedom, including religious freedom (yes). What is the difference between our so called enemy of Islam, with their super controlling oppression, and their American counterparts that attempt to do the same thing through legislation, ingloriously called the...American Taliban. Nothing.

How is it that very smart and very good critics here in American can point the finger at other cultures and beliefs, but they refuse to do so upon themselves. Say it isn't so. The Pamela Geller's of the world cry out for justice and freedom from (specific) religious oppression, but their fingers are made of black kettles, rubber-glue and hypocrisy.

I wonder what she looks like right now. I wonder if she's...OK. I'm worried.

Lastly, what is at stake is not just the up coming election or how the republican right (and by default all of America) is perceived throughout the world. It is the world, or if you are an LOL Cat, da erffs. There are many parts to Gawd's party: American Exceptionalism, dominionism, the battle for secular society, err I mean religious liberty, the war to control women's bodies, my awesome LGBT friends and equality and don't ferget...the world economy. But because splinter cells of the Jesus cult, cells that are rampant, infiltrating and operating in all levels of government and private sectors, believe in the End of Times (1), then the entire world as we know it is in jeopardy.

Gawd's party haz no kegs and no life. Say it isn't so.

(1) American Exceptionalism, dominionism and the spreading of a literal interpretation of the bible by uber evangelicals includes the scenario of the End of Times. America supports Israel because in order for Jesus to come back (that is the only way), the chosen people MUST establish their homeland. When that happens, according to prophecy, Jesus will come back to da erffs, take back aprox. 80,000 of the lucky ones that DID choose the correct splinter cell of Christianity (outta so many), they will literally rise into the air (ascension) and go to a place called heaven thus leaving everyone else on da erffs to suffer an incredible suffering for all of eternity-that means forever.

(1) I'll just say it here right now...all the dudes wanted his TV show sister...Mallory. Hellloooo.

As a teenager, I also thought the mom was hot. The blond fat chick, nooooooo. I'm a jerk, so what.

Religion Unfair, Again. Say It Isn't So (So)

It's about time, yo.

Guess what Team Atheist...Bill Donohue is mad, again. "You can trash some religions like Roman Catholicism, with impunity, but you cannot trash Islam, " The Hater known as Bill. Not only is Bill angry, again, but so is the infamous Mooslem hater, Pamela Geller. WTF.

Well, I missed this one the other day, but I'd like to thank the New York Times for being awesome. NYT ran an ad from the super awesome FFRF that suggested Catholic peeps consider leaving their corrupt, dysfunctional, did I say corrupt, boy fuckin' church. So Pam got her hate on because she created a totally similar ad that suggests those Mooslems leave Islam. The NYT turned it down which allows American religionists to cry out their latest tactic "Stop infringing on my religious liberty, bro."

"This shows the hypocrisy of the NYT...and it's willingness to kowtow to violent Islamic supremacist intimidation," The Hater known as Pam.

Pam's turned down ad spews stuffs like "Why put up with an institution that dehumanizes women and non-Muslims...that threatens liberty for women and menaces freedom by slaughtering, oppressing...Join those of us who put humanity above the vengeful, hateful and violent teachings of Islam's prophet," Heart Pam.

Kriss (that's me), " Pot, kettle, black...I know what you are, what am I..rubber glue...and hoppo-crit."

Let's not forget that the so called Prince of Peace (Jesus) in Matt 10:34 arrogantly says "I do not come to bring peace, but a sword." If you don't join the correct Team Jesus (outta so many) and in the allotted amount of time...Jesus/God will kill you. As far as American Christianity treating women and LGBT'ers with equality...fergetaboutit. If I were a Mooslem and an American Christian pointed their hypocritical finger at me, I would cut that shit off. Sheez.

Of course the claim of NYT "kowtow-ing" to Islam is a straw-person. In light of recent stupid headedness by God's American Christian army, you know the killing of 16 innocent peeps by a drunk American Army man and the *accidental* Qu'ran burnings, the NYT decided to postpone Pam's ad not reject it. In light of recent events, I believe that was a reasonable act. Sozzz, what about our ad.

Hello, I'm a photo of Jesus from a TV on a broken phone in Florida.

The whoopla over Freedom From Religion Foundation's leave Catholicism ad is an example of that bad ol' Christian privilege that the atheist blogosphere keeps talking about. For a million gazillion years they have posted numerous ads urging peeps to join their churches, we have one. They have continuously injected their philosophy into the public square for ever and ever and ever without any repercussions. Hell, last year they advertised that the freekin' world was gonna end and spent millions of dollars (with many people using their life savings to get the stupidhead message out) on billboards, buses, cars, print and radio. Isn't that yelling fire in a crowed theatre (yes).

I (sort of) agree with Pam. We definitely need to stop supporting institutions that "dehumanize" women and preach divisiveness. It's just that from the Team Atheist perspective...that includes all religion.

* Article

Second Sighting

I thought you were supposed to pray in private, not on peeps broken phones.

OK, let's see if I can get this one right. Jesus, yes that Jesus, was spotted yesterday when this lady took a picture of her TV, on her phone camera, but after the phone broke and rested overnite, then the miraculous image of, obviously, Jesus praying was right there for all to see on the now working phone.

Truly miraculous-y.

* Pareidolia

*http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/244611/19/Woman-says-she-captured-Jesus-image-in-her-TV

My Lil' Thoughts On Kony 2012

First of all, I only watched, like, 5 minutes of the vid the day it came out (but I have read a million gazillion articles-on both sides-since). There are two reactions 1) damm this is bullshit and 2) dammm this is bullshit, but for a different reason. It is here that I must quote my very good friend (and tour manager for the group Death Grips) @keyshawnjohnson.

Sac Town is awesome, yo.

"Liberal white bitches just do it (activism) to make themselves feel good." Thanks "J".

This dude Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. There is much to be said about his posse and their origins (Lord's Resistance Army, c'mon now) but that is a different post. He's a bad dude, let's just leave it at that for now.

It is here that I must say about Invisible Children (the makers of the infamous vid) that I'm sure that they have nothing but great and good intentions; but it is intentions that I wanna talk about. As an atheist that comes from a religious family, I'm sure that they have good intentions when they wanna save my soul, but c'mon...your good intentions are selfish. Like I said a month or so ago, if I pass away soon and my family has a religious ceremony for me it would be totally selfish. It would be what they want and not I. That is what Kony 2012 is.

Sure guns kill people, but I would love to have an AK in my collection.

I'll cut to the chase. Yes Uganda needs help. Yes Kony is a bad dude. The thingy about it is that the Kony posse hasn't been around for 6 years. Yes, dude brainwashed many children and made them into child killing machines (bad). They raped and they pillaged....mostly 6 years ago (bad). The reality of right now is that their numbers are really low (200-300) and while still very dangerous, they are not the threat that they were years ago.

Since then Uganda has progressed and, I'll dare say, healed (I'm not sayn' everything is perfect). The thingy about it is that there are more immediate concerns for the Ugandans: food, water, education, infrastructure, basic needs, anything, anything would improve these people.

So what is wrong with Kony 2012. I can't comment on everything that I (and many) perceive to be wrong with this, I'll just mention one. American colonialism. Yes.

I believe it was a month or so ago that the usually super awesome Black Prez sent American troops to hunt for Kony (on a small scale, but sent nevertheless). I'll give credit to the super awesome Black Prez for his very good record of ridding the world of bad dudes and terrorists. That is fact. The thingy about this particular situation is that they are fighting a treat that WAS there. In the meantime there are more immediate concerns for the awesome Ugandan peeps (hello, we are hungry). That is not it.

When American "boots" hit the ground...they never leave. The pretense may be hunting for a terrorist, the spreading democracy, freeing the people from terror and oppression, but what happens after that. They stay. Look at Japan, Europe, Philippines and Korea (not to mention the whole middle East right now). We landed and  fought the good fight, but "we" never left. A legitimate fear of any country that is not America is American colonialism.

We are like the herpes of visitors. Once we get into your country, you cannot get rid of us. Not only that, we spread like a virus brining our very own American savior-Jesus.  Needless to say, Uganda has oil. With or without Invisible Children, eventually, we would be all up in Central Africa. That is what we do. If there are resources to be had (oil, minerals-n-such) God's American Christian army finds a way into that situation.

I Googled "liberal white people with good intentions." for this one.

It's not only the faux reason of freeing oppressed peeps (oppression is real, the reason is not) and/or securing resources, it's about the money that comes from bad ol' American militarization/colony creating. Bullets cost money. Hunting for terrorist costs money. Look at what happened after 9-11, we didn't even go to the right country to hunt for dude (even if it was the right or wrong dude. It was just an excuse to get in there and make money by selling arms) and look at the billions spent and earned the last ten years. All the money used for war stuffs could and should be used for feeding the people, housing them, educating them (deff not putting them in the line of fire to hunt for a dude that hasn't been around for many years).

I'm sure the white Americans that made Kony 2012 have nothing but good and great intentions (we need more people like that), but good and great intentions do not make necessarily correct intentions. In fact, just like if my family had a religious burial for this particular Team Atheist member, that would be....selfish.

* The mighty, credible and reliable Al Jazeera.

Update: I forgot that I wrote about this on Valentines Day. That's called callin' the shot, bro.

The Smell Of God

I'd roll in this. Is that a dunk tank in the back-makes it even better.

OK, I halfta turn off my ancient computer when I'm eating breakfast cause I'll never finish eating at this rate. Guess who has a new fragrance...I'll just tell you...the freekin' Pope; yes that Pope.

Not only is B16 down with wearing the super ugly hats or cruising the blvd in that sick arse Pope Mobile, he's down for smelling good. Lemmie tell y'all, I was raised Catholic and when the priest and his entourage walk to the alter with that "incense" that smells like death...a little fragrance is OK by me.

Hello losers, check out my super ugly hats. B16 beeotches.

OK, so let the jokes begin. "Kriss, what does it smell like. Does it smell like boys being raped, the blood of Christ, boy butt, Ben Gay, stale crackers and boys butt." Sorry to disappoint but, as the French say, "non." Italian boutique perfume maker, Silvana Casoli, made this exclusive fragrance outta lime tree, verbana and grass. The entire list of ingredients is just as secret as the church itself. But the parfume maker did say that her delicate creation is "based on his love on nature." I'll say it so you don't halfta...that's where the smell of young boy comes in, right.

This Casoli is quite the popular elitist boutique proprietor. Customers include Madonna (the one that posed naked, not the holy one), Sting and a King or two. Previous holy scents include Water of Faith and Water of Hope. This is so cool. While many churches are closing down because of the economy, while the services for the poor (their only redeeming endeavor) are being cut to nill, a pedophile protector  can smell of "hope" and "faith" while simultaneously taking away the hope and faith of a young boy. How convenient  and by convenient I mean disgusting.

Italy is kinda cool.

Here's the other side of that fragrant coin. She also makes one called Italy which I imagine smells like the sex parties of their disgraced President Bunga Bunga. There is one called Cannabis which is supposed to be hypnotic (1) and a forbidden one called Nude. Oh joy where do I begin with that one...

"...inspired by the smell of a woman's skin when in the state of ecstasy." Ooorrrr, my interpretation, the smell of sweat, jizz, stale alcohol and cannabis, but not the perfume, the real stuff, gasoline, err I mean cocaine and cigarettes. Because I was raised Catholic, it also smells like guilt and sin, like I have done something wrong. In fact it smells like Hell because that is where I would go if it existed, there I said it. It smells like a musty old blues song and me loading my gun as I leave thru the back window. OK, I'm finished.

There is enuff hair on this cooch equivalent to 80 twenty-something females of 2012.

So B16 wears enuff bling to make hip hop artists envy. His ride is the ultimate and it comes with dudes running along side of it. And now he has his own fragrance. To bad we can't buy it. It is exclusively for the Pope. It couldn't be anyother way, peeps. If it was for everyone, then they wouldn't be that exclusive and elitist club that Team Atheist calls the...church.

(1) I have a version of the perfume called Cannabis...it's called smoking weed.

I like blond hair lately.

Giving Credit And Hints

(This is not a hint.)

I give credit where credit is due, that is just how I roll. I also do the opposite (which is pretty much, talking shit. annyhoo...). There is a place I go for religious commentary and, well, it pretty much sucks everytime. I won't say where/who it is, but I will say that today we are on the same page (credit).

We can agree that, esp. in this election cycle, the current propaganda from the religious is all, and I do mean ALL, hype. The ruckus that they want you/us to believe is that their religious liberty is being infringed upon by the super awesome Black Prez's contraception mandate. It's not true.

What is it about freedom here in American. First of all, we are not free to do anything we want. If our freedom hurts others, then we are not free to do that endeavor. I imagine that back in the day all the slave owners were saying the same exact things that religious folk are sayin' today like, "it's tradition to own slaves, my ancestors and their ancestors have done it," or the super stupid and yucky, "it's in the bible, God said it's cool, so there."

Those "arguments" didn't makes sense back then concerning slavery and they certainly don't make sense today concerning the whole contraception v. religious liberty whoopla. Is their point of view really about controlling women and their bodies because the bible said so, or is it about  so called "religious liberty."

 I just wanted to bust out with the very rare breakfast blog post and give some love to (blank blank).
Sorry I think your work is usually dookie...it's good today, tho.

* That wuz quick. Here's an Update from that place I go everyday and like it sooooo much. RNS.

I'll Punch God's Face

I got this at biblical wallpaper dot com, or something.

The Myth We All Grew Up Hearing

Kid with small kid brain, "Mommy, why does it rain."

Adult that should know better, "Because God is crying (for all those poor homo's and their homo souls)."

Kid with small kid brain, "God must be really sad."

Adult that should know better, "Don't question God, honey...ever."

How Kriss See's It now.

I hate the fucking rain,

God doesn't exist and,

if God did exist and,

one day I would meet

Him-her-it,

then I would punch that

fucker, in the face

 (if it had one).

In conclusion...this is Nor Cal so WTF, and the rain sucks.

Dirty stinky hippies in the sun.

Cute fashionable girls...in the sun.

When it rains in Sacramento, it feels like the end of the world.

* It's really only gonna rain, like, a millimeter or something...I haven't seen the sun since yesterday so what can I say, I'm Californian.

To Cross Or Not Cross. It's Not A Question.

Back to jolly ol' England today on the six pack blog. First of all I would totally put England on my top ten or top five places to visit (really), but this Nor Call hippie needs Horus-the Sun God daily. It's currently overcast and misty outside here in Sac Town and I can't help but wonder..."Is this the end of the world (Californians do not heart the NOT sun). Still, like I said the other day, us Yankees look up to England (UK) for their secularism, whether or not it is as glorious as it seems from the very Christian, evangelical, United States (the grass is always greener, I guess).

"Ugh, I wasn't looking at your breasts. Really...but now that you mention them..

So this particular row is about two lovely ladies that insist on wearing that cross that all those Christian hotties wear around their necks, I guess, to show how devout they are (and simultaneously taking attention away from those tempting apples that horny atheist guys like me like so much. I'm single, what can I say). So here we go, again, with that new tactic that they are employing...religious liberty.

The battle for secular society, in recent months, has gotten juicier and better. Secular atheist like myself have always vowed to fight for EVERYONE'S right for freedom of speech-even them. I dunno when it happened, but recently the War on Religion and religious liberty is their calling card. They claim innocence, "What did I do. I was just professing my faith (err, in public) and I have not harmed anyone. This is a war on religion I tell you." The simple reply to that is...NO; or as the French say "non."

Hot Cross Buns of Pagan origin. Mmmmm.

This particular super hot, sexy, smart and totally charming (and humble) atheist cannot help but think that these peeps do not know what secularism is. Fo sho they know what Christian privilege is, because they employ it all the time, but secularism...non. Secularism is for everybody. It is a public square where everyone can chill and no one group or philosophy dominates. You can go home and practice anything you want. Hell, you can frackin' pray in public if you want, but just do it in the silence of your head and don't bother anyone.

What the Christian powers that be want us to believe is that WE (secularist) are on the war path to destroy their religion and religious liberty. That is not true. You see in this particular case, they are fuming about oppression, when the issue is really about team spirit. The company in question is not squashing and oppressing their specific Jesus cult symbols , they are maintaining the uniform policies of the company, which states "no jewelry over the uniform." They are pulling the old switcheroo, a diversion tactic...the good ol' bait and switch (aka Red Herring).

It doesn't matter what the jewelry is, it can be super phat bling in a gold chain or a crucifix, whatevah it is it is just not allowed. What the Christian powers that be want us to believe is that there is some kinda conspiracy to make them, and society, quit their philosophy. Not true at all. No one said quit, just don't flaunt. There are no rappers at the company that insist that they wear super phat gold chains over their uniforms because they practice the religion of rap. If this is not an example of Christian privilege, then I dunno what is (why do they get to break the rules, but everyone else must follow the rules).

Across the pond is a hot spot of sorts right now. Recent happenings are bringing attention to the very important topic, one of my favorites, of a fair, just and equal public square for everyone. AKA the Battle For Secular Society.

On another note...when I do visit one day, and fo sho I do want to visit...I hope the sun comes out.

* Everyone, thanks for all the kind words yesterday. I can't reply to all the emails singularly and personally, I just want YOU to know it means a lot to me and thank you. Let's keep this positive thing going y'all.

No reason, I just thought this pic was soooo precious. BFF's, right.

* Article CNN Belief

* Oops, I wuz a gonna write about how the cross is not even of Christian origins (thanks Pagans), but I got side tracked.

Me Rambeling On And On About Change

OK-ie, it's ultimate question time kiddies. No not does Gawd exist-that will never be answered. It's "Are things getting better or worse." As y'all know that last million times I wrote about this I (probably) said "yes, things are getting worse (thanks depression)." Well months later it's yes, things are getting better."

The battle for secular society is like any long running combat situation in that there are ups and downs. I've been interpreting it as "it's been looking good" as of lates (thanks Prozac). In jolly old England there is a big row (whatevah that is) because the gov just said the correct in that no more soup-no-it's no more prayers at official gov businesses-n-stuff. Just like here in the states the response is the super lame "but it's tradition (1)". That is not a good excuse, much less reason, for violating this fundamental law.

I believe that their courts ruled to take prayer out, then of course, there was an uproar. Whatever their president is called said something and even that Queen we have heard so much about the past million decades  said something.

I'll say that because there is such an uproar...that's a win for Team Atheist. Good job, peeps.

Tom Krattenmaker did the awesome and wrote this really good article and I dunno if it was syndicated, but I read it at USA Today (2). "Millennials aren't amoral and adrift" was da entertaining for me. It's been a while since I was touched/inspired/moved/had any kinda feeling at all (as opposed to opinion, I always have that) in music, songs, any art or any of the million gazillion articles that I read everyday. Not today.

Are things getting better or worse. Well, obviously it depends on which side of that line drawn in the sand that you stand on and if you think that metaphorical glass is half empty or half full. Millennials are way less likely to go to church than people my age and older. the numbers have been going down for quite some time and perhaps it is at a tipping point because "they" are talking about it so much. I think The New Atheist have something to do with this. Good job, peeps.

Whenevah I ponder the question I can't help but think that things are relative and everything just stays the same. Remember that old sayin' I overused years ago "the shores of the river bank constantly change, and yet it is always remains the shore of the riverbank, which is the same." So  maybe all older generations say of the younger generation stuffs like "yes, they are not as pious as we were," or the classic "kids nowadays are stupid".

"Kriss", you yell at me, "Butt-eye know some cool kids..in fact, I'm one of them."

Yea, whatevah...Anyhoo...One of the cool things about these people, not kids, that were born on or after 2000, is that they are down with the altruism. It's not just about them, their families and their country. They have concern about the environment, the economy, education, others, and dig this older people, they care about equality. They care about the world. Opposing LGBT marriage is so grandpa. Boys are better than girls, shut the fuck up man, this is not the 1950's (3).

Last week I talked about the hipster churches that are attempting to evolve from the ancient crusty "fire and brimstone" religious experience of us, our parents and their parents and how I believe that this is a move in a better direction. I still don't believe that Jesus is a 1/3'er (3)or end of times: but I will give them credit in the areas of fighting sexism (female clergy, contraception) and for LGBT rights/equality.

Googled "they eye of God." Seeeee, he has blue eyes.

Pastor Rob Bell introduced a kinder Christian experience with his book published last year that ponders a Christianity with no (concept of) hell. Bishop John Shelby Spong is a very vocal about revolutionizing the church he loves so much. Here, last week, I talked about the hipster churches fronted by hottie tatooed pastors (hello), church rock concerts and such. change is in the air and in the pews.

You know another reason why I think this thing is working. Just watch what the opposition is doing. Catholic bishops widened their war on women to include contraception, i think, because they feel threatened.  Don't believe the bull that they are fighting for religious liberty. They are fighting for the kinda tradition that I mentioned at the top o' da page, the wrong kinda tradition. Why is the Queen punching back over this particular row, cause she's scared. They are fighting to control women, entirely, because they have relinquished some of that in recent decades and it appears in the upcoming decades.

I Googled something like "stupid kids", or "how stupid are kids." This is for you, you know who you are.

Here in the states we may not be as secular as the UK, but since the arrival of The New Atheists, we have done good work and made great progress. Again, why is it important for me to see the drifting of youth to a more liberal religion than there parents and grandparents. With the move comes the liberal interpretation of that bible they keep talking about. Ever wonder why evangelicals hate on the super awesome Black Prez, the bible. They interpret it as literal and he goes Jefferson on it.

In the battle for secular society it is the extremist that is our opposition. It might be strange bedfellows to team up with liberal religion, but we have the same goals: LGBT, feminism, civil rights, equality, environment, change, evolution. Can we reason with extreme Islamists, or is there a line drawn in the sand. Will the abortion, and now contraception, debate ever be conclusively solved, or are their two polarized sides. I read last week the GOP voters are tired of social issue debates because the lines have been drawn and seemingly are so entrenched that compromise (not that I want that) is a fantasy.

This is why at this moment I feel things are getting better. It is also very sunny outside right now, and you guys know how I heart that.

* Does this post even make sense, I'll edit later. Going fer a walk to get some sun. Out.

(1) Wow, that is so lame. It WAS traditional to own slaves. It WAS traditional to beat your wife and/or children. If one does that now, they go to jail. Just because something is tradition does not automatically mean that that endeavor is correct or right or good. Lame.

(2) Tom wrote Onward Christian Athletes. It is a must read. It's about the infiltration of evangelicals in all of pro athletes. There are pastors-n-stuff inside clubhouses. If you don't believe in dominionism before reading this, well....

(3). The trinity, yo.

* Update: Atheist will outnumber Christians (I think in England) in 20 years. See, I told you.

This Is What Happens When I Take A Blog Break

I missed y'all this weekend (I took a break, again). Did I miss anything? Did we finally win, conclusively, the battle for secular society. No. Dammmmm. Well, here we go again, my pretties.

In Montgomery County, Maryland (wherevah that is. I'm Cali-centric) it seems that no one got the memos 1) keep your divisive religion to yo'sef and 2) it's OK to be teh gay. 8,000 innocent kids were sent home with an idiotic flyer that offers information (propaganda) sayin' "peeps are not BORN teh gay" and there is therapy for those with, get this, "unwanted same sex attraction." Holy fuckity fuck fuck. Where to start.

Kind gentle and (regular) goodlooking readers of the Six Pack Blog do not halfta guess what group (outta so many) insists on violating that separation of church and state the secularist keep talking about, that also claims to be able to "pray away the gay (1)." The Family Research Council (yes, THAT FRC). The title of their flyer says it all "Parents and friends of ex-gays and ex-gays." And when I say "says it all", I mean says the CRAZY.

They believe that teh gay behavior should be "criminalized," and that the LGBT lifestyle destroys hetero marriage (some how) and ultimately...society. Forget that half of hetero marriages end in divorce and that infidelity is rampant...those well dressed and cute looking boys are fuckin' it up for the world...and causing natural disasters.

Was there (some) outrage, yes. Will it stop? No. Why? It's the law.

*WTF am I talking about.

* If ya wanna start off yer' morning with WTF, then click PFOX

*I wanna tackle a different topic, soz I'm a gonna pull the switch.

* Why is it that I read about American schools in the Brit daily. Bad America, bad.

(1) They can "pray away" looking cute, adroable and muscular in small tight shirts. No.

For Christianity Too Be True...

This was on one of my Tweeps Twit Pics earlier and it nails the head with that metaphorical hammer all the cool kids keep talking about. J.L. at Debunking Christianity had a "For Christianity to be true..." series a little while ago and it was natural and spectacular (perhaps I will copy that-it's a good idea).

So Jesus created something from nothing, really. There was nothing, then there was something. Jesus, who is also God can totally defy the second law of thermodynamics, which is not just miraculous...it IS a miracle (if it really did happen like that-not). Forget the order of creation doesn't makes sense (plants before sun) cause Jesus-God doesn't make sense either.

"It's her fault Lord God, err, I mean Jesus"

First a bro-dude was created, mmm, I think one of the versions says, from dust. Then Jesus-God created the super hotties from said dudes rib. From that very small gene pool (allegedly) came all human genetic diversity, with all the mutations throughout time, instead of evolution thru natural selection (which is more likely and makes more sense).

As times passes, Jesus-God knocks up his own mom (yuck), straight up cock blocking his own (earthly) dad so he could be born of human flesh (and I dunno if he was cool with his earthly dad, but really, Joseph manned up and did the correct thingy by raising his God-Son that imprego'd hiiiissssss wife. If that is not nice then I dunno what is).

After a relatively short time here on da erffs, I believe 32 years, right, through his powers that be and with the help of mere humans ranging from politicians, police and his students, he kills himself as a sacrifice to, err, his self, because he wants that to be an example for mere humans (died for our sins).

It's not over yet, you awesome atheists you...Then he gets outta bed, err, raises from the dead after three days (because three is a great number in numerology), hits up the hottie Mary, talks to some peeps (depending on which story you subscribe to), then literally rises into the air (ascension) to go meet his dad, who is really himself. Guess what, it's still not over.

Before he leaves he promises to come back in the lifetime of his students (disciples), but in the meantime they halfta promote his brand-Christianity. I dunno if Jesus-God, even tho dude is ALL powerful-n-stuff, got human and dog years all mixed up, but 2,000 years has passed.

In the meantime many different splinter cells of the Jesus cult have sprung up, died, resurrected or started anew. Forget that there are no original documents of his teaching and the documents that are available are considered corrupt and the authors are anonymous (that's you bible), the preacher man can still decifer the true meaning and intent of his teaching. Which include my two favorites 1) women folk are second class, one step above cattle but certainly below the average bro-dude (in fact a young teen boy, today, in many churches have more authority than their mommies) and 2) my super awesome LGBT friends that love eachother and are good people...cannot get married (there's more but I won't go into that).

Here's the goodie part...when dude comes back (within someone's lifetime) he is gonna take a select few (I've heard that the number is 80,000, really) of the erff peeps to his dads house, which is really his house, called the Kingdom of Heaven. At the pad the select few will enjoy an eternity of...mmm, the pleasure of his company, which is, mmm, heaven (?) for ever and ever and ever. The peeps remaining, which is 99.99999999999999% of the population, will suffer a horrible and painful existence for the same amount of time (eternity) that the elitists enjoy.

I used to love these guys. Soooo good.

But even before that happens, The Chosen People must steal the land from the people that have already been living there for hecka long, thus establishing their homeland (Israel) and when this happens that will be one of the signs that "He" is coming back-which simultaneously means the literal destruction of the entire erffs, including the Chosen People (in this religious version they were not *chosen* to go to heaven, they were chosen to be killed).

Why?

Because "He", Jesus-God, when "he" created this whole system and made us mere humans to be born with (original) sin (1).

That is what one must believe to believe that Christianity is the one    true    religion.

(1) Original sin doesn't really sound original, it sounds like Buddhism (karma). From the skeptic point of view...it don't make no sense.

* Thanks Becs. Follower her @sapient_ape

Sleepin' With The "Enemy"

Is this what I've been talking about, ya know, concerning that religion evolve-n-stuffs. Really, religion will not survive into the very near future unless some great changes occur, mainly in the sex department. As I mentioned earlier, there are hipster churches, good or bad and they are modernizing the word of the lord. Rebooting, repackaging, whatever you want to call it, as the sayin' goes..."It is what it is."

It's not only mean-y me sayin' this, it's the religious peeps themselves that can see the writing on the wall.

“Ands” want religion revolutionized by spirituality; they want spirituality grounded upon (but not guarded by) ancient wisdom, theologies, and practices. They demand more authenticity, meaning, justice, and community from religious institutions, not less. In these longings, the “ands” voice an older way of understanding religion, where faith should and must be an experience of God that transforms one’s life for the sake of the world. If the “ands” are the vanguard of change, then the great religious recession is about to give way to a great spiritual awakening. Is this the end of religion or only the beginning of a new, and better, form of faith (Wa Po)."

Again I will say this...I'm not one of those atheist that wants to destroy all religion. If it makes people happy and they are doing no harm, then what's the harm. It's that doing no harm part that is complicated because no one is innocent. If a part of your family is fucking shit up, it's your responsibility to take care of that. Liberal religion can claim innocence by disassociation, but extremist religion is still your cousin and that is your metaphorical house.

The 'ands' are the growing number of peeps that do not want organized religion, but still want something spiritual, that they call, God. They are the ladies that are turned off by the sexism inherent in organized religion and they are my LGBT friends that love eachother and wanna get married (but extremist church won't let them), and ya know what, what they call God means something precious to them. Looks to me that we have a lot in common (feminism, LGBT rights etc...). Liberal religion and the New Atheist are more friend than foe (but we can't fight all your battles for you. Secular, hello).

If you are an atheist that wants to wipe away irrational religious belief, then you want the shift from extremist to liberal religion. That is a step in that particular direction. The secular direction.

Strange bedfellows indeed.