Yeah, no.

For the second month in a row now, I’ve gotten an invite from a very very casual acquaintance to attend a “Queer Folks Bible Study.” When I saw the invite last month, I deleted the invite and simply RSVP’d “no” This time around, I became annoyed.

A quick glance at my feed showing many posts on a group called “Atheist Movie Night” and my consistent WEEKLY attendance of an event called “Atheist Movie Night”, and you think I’m interested in joining your stupid bible study?

It’s more than just revealing you’re just inviting every gay person with whom you’re friends. The idea of Gay people being christian or trying to reconcile faith is repugnant to me. This is a faith which clearly states and actively preaches its doctrine that homosexuality is evil, disgusting and should be punished both here and beyond death. There’s no making excuses. It’s fucking there in the book which christians say is the infallible word of their god. You can’t have it both ways, you can’t say “well that was then, this is now” or “not all things in the bible are applicable to today’s society” BLAH BLAH BLAH. Those are the words of a christian apologist and I’m not interested in them.

Christians are realizing they’ve lost many many people with their hypocritical message of “love everyone, except them” and now some straight people want to take gays back into church. Well sorry, you fucked up by being hateful pricks the first time, I don’t think you should get another chance.

For the record, I’m not an atheist because I couldn’t reconcile faith and sexuality. I’m an atheist because I started thinking about just what was being purported as true in the christian faith and kept finding it didn’t add up. Like, not by a long shot. Like, book keeping at Enron “not adding up”

I’m so glad I figured out the ruse and have been able to live my life above some primitive ancient framework, and I resent the christians who are trying to reclaim gays- the group most predisposed to realizing what christianity- and any other religion- really is: a complete fucking lie. Santa Claus times a trillion.

I’m considering going to the bible study so I can say all of this. I’ll go and convert people away from the stupid, hypocritical, emotionally and intellectually damaging act that is the christian practice. If any of my fellow triangle gaytheists would like to crash this queer bible study with me, holla

Lindsey Graham was on the news tonight saying that President Obama is just “telling people what they want to hear” when it comes to having a health care plan which won’t add to the deficit. He goes on to say his claims “just don’t add up”

I wish they wouldn’t broadcast this propaganda. He’s just saying things to scare people away from a policy which he opposes only because all republicans are supposed to oppose anything President Obama advocates. Never mind that it is a crucial change needed in this country.

It’s too bad you don’t hold religion to the same standard, Mr. Graham. You know, going on TV denouncing preachers for telling people things they want to hear, even though the story doesn’t add up?? Yeah, shut the fuck up.

UGH

I wish facebook had an DO NOT LIKE button you can press over and over again next to stuff that comes up in your feed. Namely, because every idiot I went to highschool with is posting shit about the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks and parroting the Bush administration propaganda line “NEVER FORGET”

In my opinion that is not what we need to “never forget”. We, as Americans, should never forget that our government used those innocent peoples’ deaths as a political weapon for YEARS in order to destroy this country in a way no terrorist ever could. We should NEVER FORGET that republicans acted as far worse terrorists by scaring the public into accepting the P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act, racist profiling of innocent muslims, 2 illegal wars, wire tapping, and torture. If anything, we should never forget that as evil as some people are abroad, we have MUCH more evil people trying to get their agenda done in Washington.

We should NEVER FORGET that if you have a catchy enough political slogan to chant, people won’t think about what they’re approving of or dissenting against.

We should never forget that the christian right’s leader was an utter and abject failure who we actually re-elected because of party obedience and “never forgetting”.

The term 9/11 is emotionally empty to me, and I resent anyone who uses it in a serious way. It is a tragedy that those people were murdered, but their bodies have been raped mercilessly and endlessly since, by politicians who paraded the tragedy around any piece of unconstitutional legislation in order to get a majority of Americans to accept or even defend it.

Don’t worry, the world will never forget what we did to ourselves, and how we betrayed everything we believed in. How we let the terrorists win by taking measures “not to let the terrorists win”. I’m so mad at the legislators who did this to our country, and the legislators who didn’t call them out about it. That’s the only emotion I feel about this day.

Happy fucking 9/11.

The Problem with Republicans: They don’t know what is right

I was reading a story about how conservative justice Scalia ignored the possibility that an innocent person could be convicted and sentenced to death- as so many have been- and it reminded me of the old argument against abolishing the death penalty: “The death penalty is a deterrent- if you kill somebody, we’re gonna kill you”

I was snickering at how ludicrous this sounds when you actually think about the statement, as well as the mountains of evidence showing that when the death penalty is removed from a society, the murder rate actually decreases- and it hit me: this kind of argument has been used before!

When republicans are foaming at the mouths over abortion, they say “If you legalize abortion, all these women are going to get them!”

As if women are just dying to get pregnant so they can queef out a fetus. But again, conservatives are arguing “how will we know what is right unless the government deters us!?”

When thinking of it this way, I realize MOST of their arguments against freedom and human dignity are rooted in this one idea. “If we let gays marry, how will I know whether I should marry a man or a woman?” They seem very confused about what to do unless the government has explicitly dictated it to be legal or illegal.

The most generalized and laughable use of this argument appears when attacking atheism, asking “If there is no god, who will tell us what is right and wrong?!”

Even crazier, it’s Democrats who argue that people know what is right based on their individual philosophy. Democrats have unwittingly stumbled across the atheist’s argument separating religion and morality, government and choice: it is our own human empathy, not a powerful fist shaking overseer, which allows us to know the right thing to do. We need neither religion nor the government to tell us what we already know based on human solidarity as a species. Jesus’ parable about the good samaritan- someone who helped and cared for an injured stranger without a mandate from his god or his government exemplifies this concept.

So if you are this confused about how to operate in society, if you really need all of your decisions pre-chewed by our government in order to know what is the right choice, I don’t think you should be allowed to influence public policy, much less, own a fire-arm.

This inability to think for oneself belies that republicans don’t know what a politically right stance is. The right wing of politics is about individualism and self reliance. The fact that republicans don’t know the right thing to do, shows they don’t know the right’s philosophy on how to do things.

In every sense of the meaning, republicans are not right.

OK Christians

I was thinking about it. The fact that you come out of your church and into schools attended by both people from your church, and those who don’t. You come in to those schools and DEMAND that your narrow ancient myths be taught along side SCIENCE as a possible alternative.

“Both are equally valid theories!!” You scream.

“I want my children to know both sides and choose for themselves!”

If you’re going to do that, then I’m going to start demanding Churches must also preach about evolution in any lessons about creation. I feel if we have to know both sides, then SO DO YOU. And we get to send in the people to argue the other side. The side that takes evidence and logic and explains things that you dismiss as magic and godly powers.

Do you still want to pick fights with Science? Scientists never attacked religion, they only started to explain things in a better way than your stories and legends did. Your leaders and politicians decried it as an attack, and you got fooled into believing it- wow like that is anything new to you, churchgoer.

Basically shut the fuck up. Stop trying to un-educate an entire generation of Americans because you’re too thick-headed to understand that evolution isn’t trying to destroy your god, it’s trying to help us understand ourselves better.