Oh, the morality…

Yeah, Elio. Try reading the bloody history of your ‘moral’ religion sometime. Include your oh-so- ‘holy’ bible in your studies.

Edit: Oh, and lest we forget.

Hey, Elio, how about you preach your morality to those abused by your holy men, and the thousands infected with aids due to your moral teachings about condom use.  You don’t even need to crack open a history book for that stuff.

Ethical stem cells still horrify Vatican

But the head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, Bishop Elio Sgreccia, told Reuters in an interview that the new method by Advanced Cell Technology Inc failed to overcome the church’s many moral concerns.

The End of Faith…

I almost missed this…

YouTube - Sam Harris at Idea CIty ‘05

Evolution is Too Fucking Slow!

Sadly eloquent…

One Thousand Reasons

Their willful refusal to employ the power the United States clearly has to enforce an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon provides yet another overt example of Neocon moral bankruptcy. The United States has deliberately stymied UN intervention efforts to give Israel time to finish destroying Lebanon with funding and equipment we furnished. Israel has displaced a million people, killed over 600 innocent civilians, and destroyed over $2 billion worth of infrastructure through its invasion of a sovereign nation. This in retaliation for the capture of two of its soldiers by Hezbollah, a powerful group of militants over which Lebanon has virtually no control. In contrast, Israel has suffered the loss of 26 of its civilians. While tragic, these losses pale in comparison to the devastating horror the Israeli war machine has inflicted upon Lebanon

Religious Belief and Violence in the Middle East

Superstition is killing us.

Belief in a ‘Supreme Being’ is not the problem — it’s the brainwashing which results from the process of organized religion.

If so-called religious leaders really believed in what they spout, they would be the ones blowing themselves up, ‘for the cause’

Religious indoctrination is dangerously insidious because it engenders a schizoid manner of thought.

Religious Belief and Violence in the Middle East

The practice of people believing (or not believing) whatever they want constitutes an inalienable freedom. However, respecting one’s personal expression of belief doesn’t necessarily mean that we should respect the beliefs themselves or the violent actions that result from them. Who says we shouldn’t confront and question beliefs that trigger or cause violence action? It describes one thing to say that people have a right to exist, but since when do beliefs in-themselves have that right? Instead of respecting the beliefs over the lives of people, how about respecting people over beliefs? Respect people, not their beliefs. Many freethinkers have submitted the idea that if we inoculate against dangerous beliefs, then the violence resulting from those beliefs will diminish.

psychotic reaction

Truthdig - Israel’s Barrier to Peace

We react to the manifestation of rage rather than the cause of rage. We are as morally compromised as those we condemn, as incomprehensible to them as they are to us.