Why I am an Atheist
The better known religions are of course Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, and Hinduism. However there are many more, for example, The Amish, The Brethren, Children of God, Christadelphians, Christian Science, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), Community of Christ, Eastern Orthodox churches, The Family, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Polygynists, Jehovah's Witnesses, LDS Restorationists. Messianic Judaism, The Process, Progressive Christianity, Quakers, Community of Christ, Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Unification Church, Unitarian-Universalism, United Pentecostal Church International, Unity School of Christianity, Urantia Book, Worldwide Church of God, The Way International, to name just a few!
Which one do YOU follow?... The one that you were born into and brainwashed with of course! I am now, as of this writing, seventy five years old. I was brought up as a Jew and was forced by my mother to go to the synagogue every Saturday. I was also sent to a Jewish school. As a child I tended to have a very logical mind and found it very difficult to accept something that could not be convincingly demonstrated to me. I was badgered with “God punishes the bad and rewards the good,” yet in real life this just didn’t seem to happen. The straw that broke the camel’s back occurred when I was about thirteen years old. A young cousin of mine was knocked off his bicycle and killed. The whole family gathered for his funeral as the local rabbi began his spiel. “And if we ask God and we have no right to ask God,” he began. “Why he took this little boy. Perhaps he needed an innocent lamb by his side in heaven?”
“What a load of cobbler’s,” I remembered thinking. “There are zillions of innocent lambs available!” I walked away from the funeral and from religion.
SO WHICH SYSTEM IS THE CORRECT ONE?
Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God.
Jews and Muslims don't believe that at all
Catholics worship the Virgin Mary...Jews don't
Christians can eat pork
Jews cannot eat pork, crab, shrimp, oysters, snails, rabbits etc
Muslims believe that Muhammad was God's messenger
Catholics cannot eat meat on Friday
Hindus consider the cow holy and cannot kill or eat one
Jews have to install a special little Hebrew scroll on every doorpost in their home and the men have to pray with one in a little box strapped onto their heads
Christians believe that Jesus is going to return to earth
Muslims cannot eat pork
Christians have to kneel to pray
Jews have to keep all plates and cutlery used to serve meat separate for any others
Muslims have to bow down and face Mecca
Muslims and Jews have to have their animals killed a special way before eating them
Jews have to cover their heads
Catholics can confess their sins to their priest and have them forgiven
If a dog licks a Muslim, he has to wash seven times
Jewish and Muslim men have to be circumcised
Each religion of course believes that theirs is the correct one and non believers will not go to heaven. Throughout history they have always slaughtered anyone who disagrees with them.
RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY
Seen those pretty sketches of Adam and Eve in biblical books? If they had existed at all, they would have looked very much like apes. However, consider this: here we have Adam and Eve who had two sons. Where did the next generation come from? Did Eve have sex with one of the sons? Did Adam and Eve have a daughter who then had sex with Adam or one of the sons? However you look at it, it was incest. What a great way to start the human race. No wonder there are so many idiots in the world!
Christianity and Islam teach "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Do you see any examples of them following this credo?
Christianity, Islam and Judaism teach "Thou shall not kill." What a joke!" They seem to do very little else!
All the major religions teach "Love thy neighbour." You could have fooled me!
As there is no evidence of the existence of any gods, the faithful will grab at any straw so that they can claim to have seen a sign or a miracle...The face of Jesus on a piece of toast or a rusty refrigerator: the image of the Virgin Mary on a griddle: a light which is reflected from a church chandelier and moves across the wall etc etc. They are so gullible that they will follow anyone proclaiming that they are in touch with some divine entity, however outrageous the claim or how crooked the claimant is.
EVANGELISTS. The only bigger idiots than evangelists are those who send money to them! Here are a few examples of where your money goes.
A probe into the finances of six televangelists who preach a "prosperity gospel reported lavish lifestyles by televangelists including: fleets of Rolls Royces, huge palatial mansions, private jets and other excesses. These luxuries were purportedly paid for by television viewers who donate due to the ministry's requests for tithes. The six under investigation were Kenneth Copeland and Gloria Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries of Newark, Texas; Creflo Dollar and Taffi Dollar of World Changers Church International and Creflo Dollar Ministries of College Park, Ga; Benny Hinn of World Healing Center Church Inc. and Benny Hinn Ministries of Grapevine, Texas; Eddie L. Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and Bishop Eddie Long Ministries of Lithonia, Ga; Joyce Meyer and David Meyer of Joyce Meyer Ministries of Fenton, Mo; Randy White and Paula White of the multiracial Without Walls International Church and Paula White Ministries of Tampa.
Here are some other bible thumpers, charged with sexual, violent and financial crimes:
Tony Alamo, Matthew F. Hale, Warren Jeffs, Luc Jouret, Jung Myung Seok, WilliamKamm, Ervil LeBaron, Alice Lenshina, Jeffrey Lundgren, Charles Manson, Shukri Mustafa, Fred Phelps, Douglas Porte, Swami Premananda, Jacques Robidoux, Paul Schäfe, Roch Thériault, Yahweh Ben Yahweh, Dwight York, Jim Bakker, Hogen Fukunaga, Mary Sue Hubbard, Henry Lyons, Sun Myung Moon, Edward Morrissey, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh – later called Osho, L. Ron Hubbard.
So don’t forget to keep up your donations!
MIRACLES. There are no miracles from God! Let’s take Lourdes as an example. Out of the thousands of miracles claimed, the church has decided that around 67 were in fact miracles, basically because they cannot come up with any other explanation. Some of the purported cures were later reversed. An interesting fact here is that the fourteen year old girl who started the Lourdes nonsense suffered from asthma which stayed with her until her death!
I personally performed hypnosis for many years and I am very aware of the power of the mind over the body. When I was a young boy, my sister developed a tumor on the brain. One of the top surgeons in the UK was ready to operate of her and stated that he would have to remove the optic nerve in the process, making her blind. Father refused surgery. A few months later, the tumor dissipated and sister regained her health. That was sixty years ago and she is still going strong. If we had been in Lourdes, it would have been called a miracle! What about the millions of sick people who travel there every single year looking for a cure from their “loving and benevolent god,.” only to return home in the same sick condition? Do you hear of anyone going to Lourdes with one arm and returning home with two? Now THAT would be a real miracle!
“JESUS LOVES CHILDREN.”…Yeah Right! Here are a few examples of divine love for children within just a few months:
STATISTICS SHOW THAT WORDWIDE 1.8 MILLION PEOPLE DIE FROM DIARRHEA RELATED DISEASES WITH CHILDREN CONSTITUTING 90 PERCENT. THIS MEANS THAT EVERY 20 SECONDS A CHILD DIES FROM THIS!
AS OF 2004, 108 ISRAELI AND 821 PALESTINIAN CHILDREN HAD BEEN KILLED IN THE MIDDLE EAST SO-CALLED” HOLY LAND” CONFLICT.
Mar.16th 08 In Hong Kong a 7 year old boy and a 3 year old girl died form bird flu. In this month there have been 18 confirmed outbreaks, 106 suspected ones and 837 people affected. Mar.14th 08 500,000 young students were ordered to stay home from school in Hong Kong after 2 students died from flu.
Mar13.08 In Pakistan Two women and two children were killed by United Stated artillery shells.
Mar.15th. 08 A bomb in Yala, Thailand seriously injured five children, the oldest aged 7 years.
Mar.17th.08. An 11 year old boy died from bird flu in Vietnam, the 52nd victim of the disease.
Mar. 22.nd 08 Benny Susetyo, a Catholic priest writing in the Jakarta post claims that if Catholics pray more, then God will reduce the number of disasters. Didn’t do much for the Muslims of Indonesia who pray five times a day!
EVERY YEAR ABOUT 10 MILLION CHILDREN DIE FROM DISEASES AND STARVATION
Mar.1st 08 . In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot dead a stone throwing 14 year old Palestinian boy. NICE WORK FOR GOD’S “CHOSEN PEOPLE”
IN YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA IT IS ESTIMATED THAT OVER 1000 CHILDREN, 175 OF THEM UNDER FIVE YEARS OF AGE, ARE LIVING ON THE STREETS.
Since September, 20 Chicago Public Schools students have been killed, 18 by gunfire. Last school year, 24 of the more than 30 students killed were shot to death, compared with between 10 and 15 fatal shootings in the years before
Mar.13th.08 In West Sumatra, Indonesia 29 year old Yarnawati and her three children aged 5, 3 and 1 were killed in a landslide….the fifth in the region since 2006.
Apr 16th 08 In Western India at least 40 school children were killed when their bus plunged off a bridge into a canal.
Apr 16th 08 In Uganda an overnight fire in a school dormitory killed 19 students between the ages of 7 and 10.
Apr 17th 08 Two boys on a bicycle were killed by a shell fired by the Israeli army in Gaza
DURING THE VIETNAM WAR, THAT WONDERFUL CHRISTIAN COUNTRY KNOWN AS THE USA, DROPPED ABOUT 260 MILLION CLUSTER BOMBS ON LAOS. MILLIONS OF UNEXPLODED BOMBS LITTER THE COUNTRY STILL AND REGULARLY KILL LITTLE CHILDREN WHO FIND THEM.
Apr 19th 08 In Quito Ecuador 15 young people died and 35 were badly injured when a fire swept through a night club
IN THE MAY 2008 7.9 EATHQUAKE IN CHINA WHICH KILLED MORE THAN 40,000, CHILDREN WERE HEARD CRYING FOR HELP UNDER A FLATTENED SCHOOL IN YINGXIU, AS PEOPLE TRIED TO DIG WITH THEIR BARE HANDS.
Apr 20th 08 Two Palestinian teenagers Ahmed Najar, 17 and Bilal Deheini, 16 died of wounds caused by Israeli military action.
IN THE MAY 2008 EARHQUAKE IN CHINA, THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN DIED WHEN THEIR SCHOOLS COLLAPSED
Apr 21st 08 In Putrajaya Malaysia, a 17 year old girl died when she fell while attempting to climb out of her apartment window to visit a friend below.
In France serial killer Michael Fourinet managed to kill 9 young women and girls before he was caught.
Malaria kills about 1.3 million every year, most of them children under 5 years of age.
In Tangerang regency Indonesia there are about 2,895 annual cases of infant malnutrition and an annual estimate of 2,900 infant deaths before their first birthday.
529,000 WOMEN DIE ANUALLY FROM PREGNANCY RELATED COMPLICATIONS.
Mar.14th 08 Artillery shells fired by US forces in Afghanistan hit a house in Pakistan killing two women and two children. Also Responsible is “BORN AGAIN” Christian George Bush who “reads the bible every day for inspiration”…What utter hypocrisy!
Apr 14th 08 In Bima Indonesia, Lola, 3, Nur Saidah, 11 and Maesa, 9, died in a diarrhea epidemic.
Apr 08 In the Indonesian province that includes Koa village on Rote Island, seven children under the age of five died from starvation while fifty other very young children died from malnutrition.
Apr 1st 08 In Indonesia in the last week a 15 year old boy and a 12 year old girl died from bird flu bringing the country total of deaths to 107.
April 2008. Texas authorities said on Thursday they identified 25 more mothers below age 18 among those removed from a polygamist compound, raising to about 460 the number of minors at the heart of a huge abuse probe. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints regards plural marriage as ordained by God and the sect’s followers have tended to keep to themselves in isolated corners of Arizona, Utah and elsewhere. The compound is linked to a breakaway Mormon sect and is run by followers of jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. Texas welfare and law enforcement officials say they have uncovered evidence of widespread child abuse on the grounds, with adolescent girls being forced into unions with much older men
Apr 23rd 08 In Rajasthan India 24 people including 9 women and 5 children in a wedding party were killed when their van collided with a truck.
THE UN ESTIMATES THAT 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE ARE VICTIMS OF FORCED LABOUR AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND THAT 1.2 MILLION OF THEM ARE CHILDREN.
Apr 28th 08 In Israel, the military killed fours children aged one to five and their mother by firing a tank shell into their home.
Apr 29th 08 A 73 year old Austrian man, Josef Fritzi imprisoned his daughter in the cellar of his home for 24 years and had 7 children with her while he carried on a normal married life upstairs
Apr 30th 08 In Central Jave Indonesia, a 3 year old boy died from bird flu bringing the county’s toll to 108.
CHINA HAS 15 MILLION CHILD SMOKERS
April 2008 In Kampala Uganda, an overnight fire destroyed a primary school dormitory leaving 19 schoolgirls and two teachers dead. “Help me, oh God help me,” wailed Jaqueline Bakoba as she looked for her missing daughter Betty.
May 3rd 08 Doctors in China are trying to contain the spread of an intestinal virus which has infected 3,000 children, killing 21 of them so far.
May 5th In Narathiwat Thailand, a bomb blast seriously wounded three girls aged 11, 13 and 14 who were visiting a fair.
May 8th 08 In southern Philippines, a mother and her two children were seriously wounded when a bomb placed by Muslim separatists exploded in a passenger van.
IN THE MAY 2008 EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 7,000 CHILDREN DIED AND 16,000 WERE INJURED AS WELL AS 7,000 CLASSROOMS DESTROYED
May 8th 08 In Padang Indonesia a 2 year old boy was killed when he fell from the second floor of the city hall.
May 9th 08 To date, enterovirus 71 has infected 25,000 children in China, killing 34 of them.
IN 2008 IT WAS ANNOUNCED IN INDONESIA THAT ABOUT 13 MILLION CHILDREN THERE SUFFER FROM MALNUTRITION.
May 11th 08 In Algiers Algeria, floods swept away two brothers aged 8 and 9, as they walked home from school.
May 13th 08 In Mojoagung village Indonesia, students Rohaniyah and Taryanto, both 15, died after eating corn mixed with rice.
IN 1989 UP TO 246 PEOPLE IN LAMPUNG VILLAGE, INDONESIA WERE KILLED BY THE INDONESIAN MILITARY. THE DEAD WERE ATTEMPTING TO FORM A MORE RELIGIOUS ISLAMIC STATE.
Jun 1st 08 In France, 5 children died when the bus in which they were traveling was hit by a train.
Jun 2nd 08 In Mongolia 14 children were among the 52 killed in a severe snowstorm.
Jun 3rd 08 In south Thailand, militants killed a 15 year old boy and injured his 4 year old sister.
THE INDONESIAN ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRICIANS REPORTS THAT 36 INFANTS OUT OF EACH 1,000 BIRTHS DIE AND THAT 50 PERCENT OF CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN 1 AND 4 YEARS DIE FROM DISEASES SUCH AS DENGUE FEVER, TUBERCULOSIS, DIARRHEA AND MALNUTRITION.
Jun 5th 08 Outside of Quetta Pakistan, tribal rebels blew up a bridge which then fell on a house killing a 9 year old girl and a 5 year old boy.
Jun 9th 08 In BATU DISTRICT Indonesia a bus caught fire killing 2 kindergartner children
Jun 9th 08 In Pondok Labu Indonesia, 5 kindergarten-aged children were hospitalized after eating chocolate candy.
IN JUNE 2008 UNICEF ANNOUNCED THAT BETWEEN JANUARY AND JUNE, OVER 50 CHILDREN HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED IN HAITI, MANY OF THEM BEING TORTURED AND RAPED AND IN THE CONGO, THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN HAD BEEN ROUNDED UP AND USED AS CHILDS SOLDIERS OR SEX SLAVES.
Jun 21st 08 In Mimika Indonesia, 14 children died and 974 are infected from an outbreak of diarrhea.
Jun 21st 08 In Jayapura, Indonesia, 65 children under the age of five are infected with the AIDS virus.
ABOUT 5 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE LUPUS WHICH KILLS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. 15% OF THEM ARE CHILDREN
So there you are. I’m sorry to inform you that there is no God, no heaven, no hell. No future after death, not that it will make any difference to your life because once you are brainwashed with this rubbish it will stay with you forever.
About the Author
I am from Sheffield in the UK and have lived in several other countries including France, Canada, USA, Bahamas, Jamaica and Colombia. I am now living in Indonesia which I personally believe is the best of the bunch. I am married to a much younger girl and we are so happy together that we started a webpage to introduce Western men to Indonesian women www.indonesian-wife.com Email exbrit69@yahoo.com Yahoo Messenger ID is exbrit69
"Slowboat to Laos" Curtis.melissa's photos around Chiang Khong, Thailand (riverside village asia)
malaria in laos
