Satan's Apostles - YOU

For all of you religion persons out there, I've been doing a little reading and a little thinking (I know - thinking and religion don't normally go together) and I have come to the conclusion that when you become a member of a religion, you are doing the work of Satan. This is concluded from what I have been able to read from your own favorite book of non-facts, The Bible. According to the Bible, God, Heaven, and the angels all existed before God decided to make the universe. God made everything then decided to create Man. When he created Man, he decided to give him a wonderful gift. He gave Man "free will." He gave Man the ability to actually think and reason so that he could work to make a Heaven on Earth. Satan and his followers were angels and they became angry that God gave Man free will because angels did not have free will. Okay, forgetting for a moment the fact that angels without free will would not have been able to make this thought or act on it, let’s just pretend that maybe Satan and his followers were some sort of heavenly middle-management team with more rights than the bottom tier angels. Hey, it makes as much sense as anything else in the bible. Anyway, they got pissed off and started a war in Heaven in order to oust God. You remember God, don't you? This is the diety that the Bible says is all-knowing (he didn't see THIS coming) and all-powerful (didnt stop Satan from attacking him). Anyway, the Bible spins it that God won the war but that can't be true because Satan was still around, and, God gave concessions to him. This story sounds more like the battle was even and the sides compromised in order to stop the fighting. God got to keep heaven and the free-will-less angels, but, Satan got his own kingdom from where he could torment humanity. This may have stopped the war, but the underlying issue that caused it (giving Man free will) remained. Satan then tricked Man by pretending he was God and told them he was "angry" and "jealous" and demanded that man worship him or they would be sent to eternal torment in Hell. Man responded by creating religion in order to worship God. Satan laughed because religion became the vehicle for bigotry, intolerance, hate, exclusionism, war, the Dark Ages, and every other major evil in the world. A historical researcher has concluded that religion has been responsible for more than 85% of all the war-related deaths on the planet since historical records were kept. Satan could torture and hurt the people whom he hated so much by making them hurt and torture each other. But the best part (for Satan) was that religion was the vehicle for Man to VOLUNTARILY give up his wonderful gift from God, free will, and turn mankind into mindless followers of the religious elite. How Satan must laugh every Saturday and Sunday when more than 95% of the Earth's population walk voluntarily into houses of worship where they are told that everyone that is not in that particular house of worship is not a "true believer" and should be disregarded, ignored, hated, excluded, punished, or (as in the case in the religion called "Peace") just killed outright since they are an "offense" to God. What’s more …. YOU ALL BOUGHT IT! Hook, line, and sinker. Because you are all so AFRAID of the threat of Hell, so afraid of the unknown of death, and so selfish, you will do anything, including murdering others, torturing them, and making their lives living hell, in order to try to save YOUR OWN SORRY ASSES. Truly loving and peaceful people would never have invented the torture chambers of the Inquisition or burned other humans alive. God must be up in a very lonely Heaven wondering how you can all be so F*ing stupid. He gave you free will. You ought to be smart enough to figure out how to make your lives better, not worse. How to help and comfort others, not hurt and kill them. What brilliant revenge. Take a wondrous and marvelous gift, given to Man by God to create peace and harmony, and twist it to create death and hate. I can hear that evil laugh now (queue soundtracks from South Park). So all of you religious nuts can continue to go to church and hate me for not, but, in the end, you are going to have this revelation, as you stand at the turnstile waiting your turn for entry, that Hell is a really crowded place, full of people who all believed they were doing their evil "for God." Hope you don't mind the crowds. Take a fan.

Mom Update

The deterioration continues but in fits and starts. I'm pretty sure that even on her best days she no longer recognizes me as me. A couple of times she has called me dad, at least when she could still talk, which isn't much anymore, and not in sentences or thoughts. This makes me believe my cousin, she told me she had a picture of my grandfather from the military and that he looked a lot like me. Strangely enough, my aunt, her sister, died a month or so ago. Even though she had terrible emphysema, I thought she would outlive my mom. I still visit, but the visits aren't usually long or frequent. All I can do is watch her continue to fail until she dies. Terrible and depressing.

Doctor Doctor - It Hurts When I Do This ....

I'm trying to understand why medical doctors still have to take the Hyppocratic Oath. It's a joke. In today's modern medicine it is much more imperitive to get you hooked on medication for the rest of your life than to heal or cure you. Every little ailment has a powerful drug that will TREAT THE SYMPTOMS but will not eliminate it. And every drug creates more problems via side effects, but, it's ok, because, you understand, there are MORE drugs they can give you to treat THOSE symptoms. You can walk into a doctor's office with a hangnail and end up on $1000 worth of daily medications for the rest of your life ........ in order to improve your quality of life. The Hyppocratic Oath's pledge to "do no harm" is broken by every doctor every day, voluntarily. They should just change it to a pledge of allegience to the big pharmaceutical companies. A promise to make sure every patient is diagnosed with as many problems, and prescribed as much medication, as their insurance companies will pay for .... or more. At least it would be truthful and realistic.

The Path to a Good Life

To my religious friends.

Do you want to know how to live a good life? The answer is in your Bible, but it's damn tough to find in all of the wordy nonsense. I know, I know, your religion(s) have taught you that athiests and agnostics are worse than rapists and murderers, that we never look at a Bible or think about God, we don't know what religion can do to save us, and we are probably out stealing neighborhood pets and children for Satanic sacrifices. Well, just like 99.9999999% of everything else religion has told people over the millenia, that's another lie. There is some truth in the Bible, but it is perverted and buried amid mounds of stinking religious self-servance and interminably conflicting stories and parables. Not to mention tons of questionable history. In reality, the Bible does not need to be a big book with which religious people can bash others, the whole thing could be condensed to an index card.

The way to live a good life can be found in your ten commandments. Not all of them, though, You have to discount and throw away all of the religious threats and nonsense that was added by religious leaders to better enslave their flocks with fear. It is found in the other commandments. I don't even know why they had to have ten. If you look at all of the other commandments, they all distill around three simple rules. The rules for how to live a good life. Want to know what they are?

(1) Love, respect and honor your family
(2) Love, respect and honor others as though they were your family
(3) Live peacefully. Do not cause others any intentional harm whether physical or emotional.

That's it folks. Nothing difficult about that or any need to shroud it in threats of eternal damnation and other religious hullabaloo. Don't need special buildings for it full of people in strange clothes who make you feel guilty and inadequate. Don't need to bleed people of every dime they make so you can fill those buildings with gold and silver statues and huge pipe organs. Don't have to dress up for it so you can try to impress others. No special songs or ceremonies. No hats. No cups. No special wine or wafers. No reason or need to denegrate and condemn others. No reason for crusades, or to burn anyone at the stake. No need to invoke mass murder in anyone's name. Just simple and efficient rules for a good life.

Put this on a card, have it laminated, and look at it every day so you don't forget and you will live a good life.
Enjoy.