Funny Jesus

Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been dominating the media over this weekend. If you’re not aware, he is the pastor of Barak Obama that has said some very controversial stuff. I’m happy to report people find it isn’t being accepted well by the general population. It seems people are starting to reject the intolerant religious tirade.

First off, this guy isn’t of sound mind. He seems to speak out without putting taking a few seconds to at least apply some logical thought to it. It’s just more religious psychobabble talk.

Secondly, it is extremely racist. Basically all his speeches have the ideals “the white man” sticking it to the black man. These may have been true along time ago, but we’ve come a long way. I think people like him are so desperate for attention that they can’t give up the idea of race. The only real way to beat racism, is to give up the idea of differences because of race. This is not a man that wants to discard the idea of race and view all men as the same, that just have different skin pigmentation. He wants to continue on with the blacks are different than whites and everyone is out to get them.

Not to mention the extreme conspiracy theories of the government making aids to kill off black people in Africa. This stuff is utterly crazy and look who it is, a preacher at a church. I also think it speaks of Obama’s character since he went to this church for 20 years. It’s not like this guy just started to get “Crazy” now, he’s been doing this for sometime.

I’m just happy to see the general public is rejecting this type of behavior and beliefs and moving to a more rational thought process.

If you look at the world from a rational point of view, all life dies. Death is part of existence. All death results in the elements of life being broken and reused by other organisms. That is death plan and simple. The place that theists and atheists disagree is if the human life has a soul or spirit that survives and carries on up to another plain of existence or is reincarnated.

To cross this path across plains is quite different for each religion out there. Catholics, Hindus and Muslims have very different views on what happens after you die and how to get to where you want to go. Even Tibetan Buddhists have a book on death that guides you through the process of reincarnation.

The atheist view is the concept that a soul or spirit is a primitive idea with absolutely no basis of fact. The view that religious organizations are using fear on gullible people to get them to believe in these ideals for their own person gain.

If you take a look at Charles Darwin’s work Origin of Species religious groups were very upset with it because it basically spelled out that human beings were not important or more special than any other organism out there. They would agree that every other organism out there that isn’t a homo sapiens doesn’t have a soul, but were not willing to conclude that they themselves didn’t have souls.

I think atheists view death a simply the end of our legacy. Our death brings consumption and rebirth of other organisms to exist in this world. That is all it is.

A lot of people don’t like atheism and I think it doesn’t really have to do with any sort of attacks, it’s just atheists believe something is almost a slap in the face to people. I think a lot of people out there just need to be less sensitive to what other people believe.

Essentially, all people atheists are just trashing the idea of God and it’s offensive to them. But atheism isn’t that. A lot of people would think that’s all it is, but a greater look on life for each person. Usually the disbelief in God isn’t the philosophy, but the conclusion to a philosophy. What I mean by that is most people thing atheist just believe God doesn’t exist. Just that simple. The fact is that atheists usually have a philosophy on life. They look at life a certain way and conclude from that view that there is no God.

I have more respect for a person that has a philosophy on life and concludes there is a God, than a person who believes there is a God and looks for a religion.

The one thing that religion doesn’t grant people is the freedom to think for themselves. If you want to be a “good” Christian, than you need to believe everything about Jesus Christ and all the rules that come along with it. You’re not allowed to think about the world and conclude your own answers. If you try to think for yourself, you are left ostracized and left with a sense of guilt. It doesn’t work that way with atheism, simply because you don’t answer to anyone, but yourself. You believe in your philosophy, not for God, not for society, but for yourself.

Atheism has another great aspect and it is the desire to learn. Religion works on the idea that you need to accept the teachings, atheism is evolved thought process of taking the time to learn. Taking the time to think about it, to question it, to live it and to accept it. I think that, in itself, is a good thing.

For some reason most people think atheists have no view on life, that we just wonder through it with absolutely no purpose. The view is that we believe in evolution, that life is chance, our existence is chance and there is no point.

Well, the truth is that we’re pretty lucky to exist considering all the other things that could of happened. Is there a meaning of life or an underlying purpose for all of us, probably not, but do I have a purpose for myself? Yes! It is to live the best life I can and experience all that I can.

We aren’t special. We are no more important in a sense of life than a dog or cat, but I do believe there is only one chance to live this life. There’s no second chances. There’s no place in the sky or Hell below us. I get one chance to live it up or waste it. I’ll take my chances on living.

Make the most of your life. Live the best life you can. Don’t spend time doing things you hate or try to “kill time”. Do things that fulfill you. Do things that make you happy. Live the best possible life you can, not for God or for other people, but for yourself.

What’s the point of doing it if there isn’t a purpose? I’m sure a lot of people are thinking that. To put it simply, we are in the here and now. We have the ability to enjoy ourselves. We have the power to be happy, to love, to laugh, to be excited. Why not enjoy that?

There is no purpose to life. There is no divine purpose or a purpose from the universe. All we are is here and now and we might as well enjoy it.

Religions like Christianity and Islam are religions that claim to be revealed to people by God. Other types of religions God was something people seeked and ended up finding. Basically when it comes to Christianity, God came to man and showed himself to them. He told them what way they were supposed to live. He apparently dictated this book to a person who wrote it.

God apparently gave everyone the ten commandments.

• Do not steal
• Do not murder
• Honor your father and mother
• Etc.

The idea was that if morality wasn’t a dictated law from God that society would fall into a horrible immoral place. But did God come up with morality, or did religion come up with it? Could morality be a function of the human mind. Something completely independent of a God? I think so.

If you asked an atheist if they thought stealing was wrong, would we get a wide range of answers? Or would be have a consensus that it is wrong? It is pretty obvious that there would be a consensus because people think it’s wrong. People were born with the power of empathy. This allows people to put themselves in other people’s shoes. We can extrapolate how it would feel. None of us like to have something stolen from us, therefore we know it’s wrong.

You can also take a look at other issues such as premarital sex. People can extrapolate whether they think this is wrong. Outside of religion, most people think it’s fine. Where as in religion it’s a sin. I’m not here to say what is write and wrong, but the fact is that morality is a process of the mind, not something dictated from above.

I believe with all the science we have today, it has been concluded that Jesus was real guy. He existed, but the story of him definitely became clouded after he was crucified. There is no evidence of Jesus’ resurrection, so why do so many people believe it.

Jesus was a commendable guy. He was caring and compassionate. He traveled from village to village spreading his message and people loved him for that. He was such a principled guy, or at least blinded by some sort of mental disease, he acted as a martyr and nailed to the cross by the Romans. I think it’s all fair to say that happened, but what happened after is when all the made up stories.

Jesus was like the Elvis of 2000 years ago. That’s as simply as I can put it. With the death of Elvis all these odd stories came out. Elvis was abducted by aliens. Elvis still lives among us. Elvis will return to us one day. Jesus on the other hand was resurrected. He still walks among us. He will return to us one day.

The way Jesus became such a prophet wasn’t that he was resurrected or the son of God, it was the legend that surrounded him. It grew, as did Elvis’, and people just couldn’t accept that he was gone, so they held onto the idea he was part of a higher purpose.

There is no evidence of Jesus’ resurrection and I think holding onto these ideas is really a poor choice. You can put faith in the idea, but I also put faith in that you’re wrong. Faith isn’t enough. Why not celebrate the greatness of what Jesus did when he’s alive? Why not follow the real human Jesus Christ instead of the mystic and mysterious Jesus that speaks through proxy of Priests?

Jesus was a great person that did great things. He wanted a society that loved, but his legend grew beyond himself into a mystic son of God. Follow the example of how Jesus Christ lived, not how people indoctrinated him, just like Elvis.

I wanted to share with you about the famous atheists out there that never get recognized for what they believe in. They probably don’t feel like expressing it because there maybe a backlash.

Penn Jillette: Penn is an entertainer and magician that is most famous for his place in “Penn & Teller”. He is an outspoken libertarian and an even more outspoken atheist. He also has a Showtime television show that constantly debunks religious ideals for rational thought. This would include debunking creationism to occultish medicine.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Nietzsche was a philosopher and great writer. Many of his writings like Thus Spake Zarathustra associate the ideal that God is dead or doesn’t exist.

Richard Dawkins: Dawkins is probably the most outspoken atheist that takes full assault on religion. He believes that for the longest time religion has been sheltered from criticism and that we need to stop sheltering it. He says that religion is dangerous and that religion is precisely why 9/11 happened.

Ayn Rand: Rand is an atheist like I discussed earlier in this post. She believes that minds we all have are our highest power. We should never look above ourselves for answers when we have a mind to answer it for us.

John Stossel: Stossel is one of the reporters of 20/20 and has brought a lot of great specials to light. One of his greatest reports related to religion was The Power of Belief. The report ended with the following quote from Stossel, “Yes, it will. And the real world’s all we’ve got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better?”

These are some famous atheists that have come out and let everyone know what they think about religion. I think it is courageous of them to speak their mind even though there is still a stigma with atheism.

In Washington this week Rep Davis said that Atheism is dangerous. I’m not really sure what is dangerous about it. Maybe people actually start to think, what a tragedy. If I recall correctly it was religious nuts job that crashed planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. That fits in a little better with my definition of dangerous.

What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous. … It’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists! This is the Land of Lincoln where people believe in God. Get out of that seat. … You have no right to be here!

I find it funny sometimes, but Lincoln didn’t always say nice things about religion; I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. It would appear Lincoln was rational enough to see through the fog of religion.

Rep. Davis has issued an apology, but I don’t care. At least have enough guts to own what you believe in, no matter how bigoted it is. You’re crazy. You really are crazy and there’s nothing you can do to erase it because you truly believe it.

When it comes to reasons why there needs to be atheists, there doesn’t seem to be many people that take the time to really present a sound view on this. I hope by reading this I can give you enough good reasons why.

Religion has claim that you should do trial and error to find out the greatness of God. It’s one of those things that you could practice for 60 years without receiving anything. You just need to do it and trust in “God”. Rarely does religion ever just present evidence to gain members. They always appeal to the emotional side. They present an idea that it’s something within your reach, but something you’ll never reach. Members are taught to just do as they’re told even though there is no measurable results. Believers are not encouraged to question or even try new things because that is a “sin”. This doesn’t encourage any form of rational thought.

Religion has always had the desire to maintain the status quo. There has been no desire to think or to grow or to evolve. Those things were considered a sin. The Earth is flat. The sun revolves around the Earth. Than the scientists came along. People that didn’t have a problem with religion or God, just people that wanted to learn and understand. Learning and understanding are definitely virtues that need to be celebrated not attacked.

Often religion works hard to stop any form of criticism from the outside. Scientologists get their lawyers out to immediately sue anyone that says anything about their religion that doesn’t reflect it in a good manner. The ideas of free speech seem to be irrelevant ideals that need to be suppressed to protect the all powerful “God”. If free and open discussion isn’t allowed, how are we supposed to learn more.

To conclude, atheist thought brings the ideals of learning more to the table. It isn’t about attacking religion or turning everyone into sinners, it is about learning more about this world and our place in it.

I really like Ayn Rand’s philosophy called Objectivism. When it comes to people perceiving this philosophy they either love it or hate it; there is no in-between. The view point is also very atheist. The reason I used the term moral objectivism is because followers of it view it as a moral way to live.

As a philosophy, Objectivism is quite atheist in nature. Ayn Rand viewed the idea of God or a “Higher Power” as a slap in the face to mankind. The view is that looking above yourself for power is basically selling yourself short.

Objectivism isn’t like atheism. Atheists reject the idea of God. Objectivists view that the mind is your higher power and that you shouldn’t be looking above yourself in anyway. They also view that the mind needs to be expressed in this life, right now and not spend your time following some religious rules to hopefully get benefits in the next life.

Objectivists feel that each and every human needs to use the full potential of their mind. They need to live the best life they can and to do as much as they can to live a fulfilling life. The idea of wasting your life, sitting around, following God, is disrespectful to them.

Now to the reason people end up hating her view is because it’s promotes the ideas of individuality. Most people feel they believe in individuality, but they don’t. People naturally clamor to follow what everyone else in society. For example, in her book “Atlas Shrugged” she viewed the heroes as business owners that effectively go on strike against excessive government regulations. People don’t like that views because essentially they don’t believe in individuality as she does.

This is effectively what moral Objectivism represents. It is about the human mind being the highest power and the individuals in society being the heroes.