Conversion is silly

If the number of Bibles in the world made it right, then the fact that only 33% of the world was Christian means it isn't that good of a book. I am sure it gave some comfort, but another reading will be wasted on most.

Read Matthew 11:20 and question why you should trust the word of someone that would destroy whole towns and then threaten worse hundreds of years later. There is no trust to be had when a god would repeatedly destroy, threaten, and punish its own creation multiple times to prove a point rather than admitting to mistakenly planting the wrong tree in the wrong garden, creating a conniving snake, a woman that is easily fooled and a man who loved her. God created man in his own image, flawed and at times very evil. The Devil is especially silly. If Satin tempts us, why isn't he locked up? If the evil is man's nature, why not change nature? This is not religion, truth or faith, just plain weird.

Be good, be kind and a productive member of society. Do it because it is good for us all and future generations, not because of a book.

You may have taken great offense to anything that questions your belief. It is true to you. The point is not to argue, but that the argument has no meaning to me or you. Creating converts is the worst part of humanity. I have spoken many times to friends who's family were killed over a difference in religion. They died because it is assumed to be the quickest method of religious conversion. An argument is just slower and crueler.


The only man who is converted is one who has nothing left to lose (or a skilled serpent is involved).

Let us not talk religion.

Trickster Gods - Creatives

I always thought of creatives (the folks that work on web and application design) as trickster gods put on Earth to torment programmers. Here, let me make that pretty. Oh, you say the interface is confusing and hard to use? But it's pretty, aren't you glad I made it pretty?

If there is a more benevolent god, the programmers prayers will be answered as the benevolent god transforms the creative into a plaid paisley bowling shirt and casts him into a hell full of deaf programmers.

Faith is like gravity. You dont need to understnd it or belive in it. You are not going to float away. Competing faiths, like antigravity, will always be proven to be godless. Faith in antigravity will always punish the heritics when they try to prove gravity does not exist. Anyone testing gravity from a three story building would become a martyr. However, there are some faiths, like rocketry that can beat your faith in a schoolyard faith. That is because the evil always wins.

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For the Jewish people, the world only go nuts on Passover. The first sign is an empty place at the dinner table, normally reserved for Elijah the prophet, will be filled as Elijah finally arrives for dinner. This heralds the coming of the Jewish savior. Given that Elijah is a few thousand years late, he will be firmly scolded for all those times he was invited to come to Passover dinner and did not even bother to call to say he wasn’t coming. Never give a Jewish hostess a reason to get mad at you!

Gods and Cooperation

Religion seems to be a leading cause for the end of the world. Of course this isn’t because of their beliefs as it is the gods they believe in. The basic problem is that gods hate other gods. Worse, they really hate the followers of their competitors. All of this leads to a god destroying the world or an apocalyptic battle between rival religions

Gods are jealous. You hear it in all the hoopla about worshiping false or “other” gods. Why can’t they just be friends?

It’s always our god against your god. Even a religion with dozens of gods has infighting in the ranks. They are always messing with the other god’s pet humans too.

If you are a god, wouldn’t you belong to a club? You’d think they would talk about each other over drinks and a good cigar. Imagine the gods laughing about the silly things their followers would do.
But it does not seem that gods really like each other. In fact, even in cultures with many gods there are tales of disagreements. Look at the Greek and Roman gods with all their problems. It is the sort of messed up stuff you would see on Donahue.

The really big issues happen with gods with different followers. Look at the Jewish God, for instance. He hated everybody. You name it, he hated it. But what about the Christians and Muslims? There are so many different versions of each of these religions! Basically the same followers of the same gods and teachings, but they find reasons to hate each other.

Is there a turf issue? Do the gods need to share Heaven or even Hell? Is there competition in the real estate of the gods? You would think they had plenty of space in the universe.

But say it isn’t about estate value. Maybe it’s about souls? Could it be that when you die, you add to the credit rating of the god you believe in? Sometimes the truth is stranger than you could ever imagine.
There are other things that seem to get gods angry. Each culture’s god seems to take credit for the same sort of stuff. Everybody is creating the world and mankind. They all want dibs on creation. It is like they are stealing each other’s toys in a last ditch effort to have the last word.

Missing Gods
Some gods have disappeared. They are mentioned in history, but nobody seriously worships them anymore. No miracles are attributed and none is ghostwriting new bibles or giving the faithful regular supernatural visits.

Have these gods retired?
Is there a retirement plan for gods? Have the Aztec gods gone missing when the Spaniards showed up and they decided to take an early retirement? Are they living the life of leisure at a galactic fishing hole, drinking mojitos? Can you imagine them getting up the energy to come out of retirement and destroy the Earth in 2012?

We heard it once said that a god ceases to exist if it doesn’t have enough followers. That may make sense. One reason to kill off the competition or convert them.

Imagine the Christian god cooking up the whole idea of Columbus finding the New World just to kill or convert the people of the Americas. No Indians, no Indian gods. Game over.

God Therapy
We need a solution to all this god on god hate. We need to do something fast before a deity decides its time to start over.

Lesser God Employment
Maybe the problem is that gods don’t feel wanted. We think that a sort of employment program for out of work gods would help them feel less hatred for the better off gods.

It seems sort of obvious. Look at the Judeo-Christian God. He probably killed millions in the Old Testament. But why? Think about it, the primary gods at the time were Roman gods and others. Big G God was just a young god with only a small band of followers. He was just working his way up the social ladder to become popular and have the most followers.

Why not get these gods into a work program that will get a few humans to worship them a bit? A little love will go a long way.

What if the Aztecs loaned out a spare god or two to the Jews? Aztecs have gods that specialize in crops, prosperity, and war. The Jews could have used the expert help from time to time. Better yet, Aztec gods are unemployed and could use the work.

Would the popular gods get mad? Sure, but pray to them to suck it up and get over it.You would be helping them out. Everyone knows that popular gods can’t answer every prayer, they should be happy for the help.

The result would be happier gods and humans would get some godly help.

Words are Dangerous, so are Fees

Ah, I love a debate where the one being attacked refuses to play because in reality there may not be a defense. You find this with churches that have an entrance fee.

But I will help. Really! The fact is that there is truth in Dianetics. A simple fact is that words are powerful. At times, we hear things and our brain rewires. Dianetics is a great book to learn this, but so are a thousand other books and a local psychologist.

Here is the funny thing, this principal, that we can be influenced by others, has been known a long time. Hubbard just put a pretty wrapper on it at the height of the self-help revolution. Everything else is perhaps greed and power mongering.

Words and events do change us. But so do the words of any organization that promises to fix that and change you for the better. People are addicted to psychologists, lovers, friends, and even charitable organizations too. Some via the words that change their minds to think they need them, or just as simply, self talk.

To be a skeptic is to question all we hear. Words change us, so it is best to not just believe what we hear, especially when there is a fee/donation/offering or other sacrifices are required. I learned that from Dianetics. 

Was Your God Spotted by Hubble?

The Flying Spaghetti Monster has been sighted! How many people can you honestly say have their god sighted by the Hubble Space Telescope? Will teapots be next?

Here is the photo from Wired.com (note that only one meatball is showing):