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December 21st, 2012
NRA, GTFO A demonstrator held up a banner as Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, delivered a statement in Washington on Friday. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images via The New York Times)
I’m sincerely asking my followers to reblog the shit out of this photo.
NRA view of the future: Nowhere is safe, be ready to get in a firefight in any second, at an instant. The solution to gun violence is more guns. Outshoot. Outkill. Outmaim. Every person a George Zimmerman. Walking the streets with AR-15s strapped behind everybody’s back.
Every second of the day devoted to the gun. Every minute, every thought, every breath in expectation of shooting, in expectation of death.
Bow before the great gun god. Serve and praise his holy ammo. Hallowed be thy explosive sounds.
-FA
for the comments ^
December 17th, 2012
Creepy Jesus wants back in to America’s schools (For a related video, click here http://christiannightmares.tumblr.com/post/37983375063/mike-huckabee-on-the-connecticut-shooting-schools)
Well you are allowed in churches and look what good it did to all those raped and molested kids….
-FA
Yes, religion is this freaking stupid. It was a comment in regards to this post.
-FA
September 21st, 2012
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism.
Albert Einstein (New York Times, April 19, 1955)
(Source: vertabrae, via alifeofreason)
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August 1st, 2012
I’m a big Gore Vidal fan, and his passing has removed another great voice from the discussion in support of atheism.
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Yes.
July 30th, 2012
Let’s put aside the scientific evidence that we can’t really choose between good and evil; what we do is totally determined by physical events in our brain and environment. Since most of us seem to be determinists of that stripe (or accept a soupçon of quantum indeterminacy), we reject that notion outright as incompatible with the scientific facts. But even if one could choose freely—and some theologians counter that God could have given us a kind of free will that doesn’t permit our choices to produce evil—this doesn’t explain any of the evils that don’t result from human choice. Those include every disease that is painful, debilitating, or fatal (e.g., childhood leukemia), and all the natural evils that kill millions (tsunamis, earthquakes, etc.). Theologian Alvin Plantinga argues that the latter are part of the natural order of the earth, but an omnipotent God could let the tectonic plates slide smoothly, eliminating earthquakes and tsunamis, and obviate all the needless suffering of animals. As John Loftus notes, a good God would have made all animals vegetarians.
A believer explains where God was during the Aurora shootings « Why Evolution Is True
Great read. Check it out.
-FA
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July 22nd, 2012
Sadly there is more outrage for the latter than the former.
Religion warps priorities, what is really important.
-FA
(Source: atheistcunt)
July 21st, 2012
I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. I saw the terror on bystanders’ faces. I saw the victims of a senseless crime. I saw lives change. I was reminded that we don’t know when or where our time on Earth will end. When or where we will breathe our last breath. For one man, it was in the middle of a busy food court on a Saturday evening.
I say all the time that every moment we have to live our life is a blessing. So often I have found myself taking it for granted. Every hug from a family member. Every laugh we share with friends. Even the times of solitude are all blessings. Every second of every day is a gift. After Saturday evening, I know I truly understand how blessed I am for each second I am given.
I feel like I am overreacting about what I experienced. But I can’t help but be thankful for whatever caused me to make the choices that I made that day. My mind keeps replaying what I saw over in my head. I hope the victims make a full recovery. I wish I could shake this odd feeling from my chest. The feeling that’s reminding me how blessed I am. The same feeling that made me leave the Eaton Center. The feeling that may have potentially saved my life.
Jessica Redfield (real last name: Ghawi) was shot and killed last night at a midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ along with 11 others when a gunman opened fire in a theater. The above is from her blog, written in June, after she narrowly escaped another senseless shooting at a mall in Toronto. (via newsweek)
The universe behave as we would expect it too if a god did not exist. Such senseless death and suffering…there is nobody out there to take care of us…it is up to ourselves to take care of each other.
-FA
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