If There Is a God, Explain This

I have started to wonder if maybe I believe in something bigger than me. Not in the churchy, hymn and halo way, but in the quiet, exhausted way you reach for a blanket when the world feels too sharp. Sometimes the idea of a god is comforting. Not because I am convinced, but because the alternative is feeling like I am free falling through a universe that does not care if I land...

Mark Twain - War Prayer

 

Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (ca.1904-5)

The American writer Mark Twain wrote the following satire in the glow of America’s imperial interventions.

It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism … on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun … nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. …

From Quora: What Sort Of Atheist Am I?

From Quora:

The question:

What is the difference between an agnostic atheist, an apathetic atheist and a gnostic atheist? Do these terms have any meaning?

If you believe the book of Revelation...

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If you actually READ the damn thing...

 

And the same goes for Evangelicals

 

Before the Next Body Count: Why Trump Must Be Impeached, Convicted, and Removed Immediately

 

Donald Trump belongs in prison. Plain and simple.  He looks good in spray tan orange, so an orange jumpsuit should really suit him.

Donald Trump is not just a constitutional breach, he’s a walking escalation trigger. The man has already ordered extrajudicial killings on the high seas near Venezuela, targeting alleged drug traffickers without trial, without due process, and without congressional authorization. Now, draft legislation is circulating to give him retroactive cover for those murders. That’s not law, it’s legalized vengeance.

And it doesn’t stop there. Trump has praised Rodrigo Duterte, whose ICC charge sheet includes state-sanctioned murder of alleged drug users. Trump’s admiration isn’t rhetorical, it’s aspirational. He wants that power. He’s already testing it.

Additionally, he is threatening the UN because a fucking escalator and teleprompter broke down.

Meanwhile, constitutional lawyers have compiled 17 articles of impeachment detailing Trump’s abuses: illegal detentions, unlawful deportations, defiance of court orders, dismantling oversight, and corrupt campaign practices. This isn’t politics. It’s a blueprint for authoritarian rule.

The threat isn’t theoretical. Trump has already floated plans for forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza. He’s weaponizing executive power to provoke international conflict. The fuse is lit. Congress is holding the match.

IMPEACHMENT IS NOT OPTIONAL. IT’S THE FUCKING FIREWALL.  

The Constitution doesn’t cap the number of impeachments. Trump has been impeached twice. He can, and must, be impeached again. But this time, conviction and removal are non-negotiable. The Senate must stop playing defense for a man who treats war like a campaign stunt.

If Congress fails to act, they’re not just complicit, they’re collaborators. The world doesn’t need another strongman with nukes and no impulse control. It needs accountability. It needs restraint. It needs Trump out of office before his next tantrum becomes a global catastrophe.

IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE. DO IT NOW.  

Before the next executive order comes with a body count.

The joyful sounds of singing for Jesus

 Merna is SO happy to be there for her savior! I think if she could kill her mother, she would. Her side eye game is totally on point!

Rappin' for Jesus

 

Absolutely fantastic Jesus song. Scuse me whilst I barf.

 🤮 A catchy number from Sonseed. So inspirational. 🤮

Gotcha!

 

Jesus has spoken. Put down the phone.

 

Genesis Math, Flood Logic, and the Divine Silence on Sibling Sex

 

Gawd made Adam and Eve. They had three sons, and the Bible rarely mentions daughters. Now, either Cain, Abel, and Seth were fucking Mommy, or they were fucking their sisters as the family obeyed Gawd and was fruitful and multiplied.

But okay, let's suppose the Bible does not mention that Gawd actually created more people in the beginning than Adam and Eve. So, no incest, right?

May I direct you to the Flood?

EIGHT people on the entire planet survived. Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their sons' wives. How did the earth get repopulated?

Incest. Plain and simple. Go figure.

If it's good enough for Gawd, it's good enough for YOU! It's BIBLICAL!

Also, some of the best porn ever written is Song of Solomon.

"LIke an apple tree among the trees of the orchard, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste."

Honey, that ain't a banana and two kiwi fruits.

Saints, Liberal Woke Jesus, etc.

 

Atheist that I am, I refuse to let go of my favorite Catholic saints. I know, I know. It's all imaginary. But on occasion, I light a votive candle to the appropriate saint as needed, because it helps me focus myself on caring about the people I know who are facing difficulties, or to focus in on my own problems.

So yeah, I talk to saints, but not to God. The following are the Saints I like to hang with. And after this list are some of my thoughts about Jesus.

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Francis of Assisi (patron of animals and peace)

Anthony of Padua (finder of lost things, etc etc)

Paulina of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (that's one hell of a handle, but she is patroness of diabetics.)

Therese of Liseux (The little flower, patroness of headache sufferers and a bunch of other stuff)

Jeanne D'Arc (patroness of rape victims among a whole slough of other things)

Saint Dymphna (patroness of mental health)

St Maximillian Colbe (patron of drug addicts and journalists)

St Nicholas - (yes. Santa Claus. patron of sex workers)

The Virgin Mary (patroness of all humanity, mothers, etc)

St Peregrine (patron of cancer patients)

St Jude (patron of illness in general)

St Margaret of Castello (patroness of physical disabilities)

And finally, St Jude the Apostle (patron of desperate cases and lost causes)

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Is it weird if I say that I believe in Yeshua, a Jewish rabbi who walked the earth a couple thousand years ago, spreading a message of peace and love for all. A rabbi who was in no way a God or a son of a God, just a really wise man with some ideas of a better way for humanity to be? And in the 2000 years since his death, human beings with an agenda of their own have taken his message and twisted it into something that it never was.

Yeshua is a man I would have enjoyed a cup of coffee with.

Jesus the Christ as interpreted today, is a man I would never allow in my home or heart.

But Yeshua sounds cool.

Biblical Bullshit: The Full Catalog of Biblical Incest

The Bible is hailed as the ultimate moral guide, a divine instruction manual for righteous living. But if you actually read the damn thing, what you get is a parade of incestuous unions, patriarchal loopholes, and divine silence that would make any modern ethics board spontaneously combust.

If you still think the Bible is a moral guide, buckle up. This isn’t a gentle unpacking, it’s a full forensic catalog of incest, hypocrisy, and divine silence. From father-daughter drunken sex to cousin marriages passed off as holy lineage, scripture reads like a family reunion hosted in a crime scene. Every name, every blood tie, every moral contradiction laid bare. No cherry-picking. No apologetics. Just the sacred mess, documented and salted for clarity.

Below is the full catalog of incest in the Bible, narrative, inferred, and genealogical. Every name, every blood tie, every moral contradiction that I could track down. Salted. Biblically documented. Undeniable.

DIRECT NARRATIVE CASES (Explicit or Strongly Implied)

1. Lot + His Daughters  

   - Relationship: Father/daughters  

   - Reference: Genesis 19:30–38  

   - Consanguinity: 1st degree  

   - Notes: Daughters get Lot drunk and sleep with him. Twice. Sons born: Moab and Ben-Ammi. No divine punishment. Just legacy.

2. Abraham + Sarah  

   - Relationship: Half-siblings  

   - Reference: Genesis 20:12  

   - Consanguinity: 2nd degree  

   - Notes: Married. Praised. Would be banned under Leviticus. God’s chosen incest.

3. Reuben + Bilhah  

   - Relationship: Son/father’s concubine  

   - Reference: Genesis 35:22  

   - Consanguinity: Stepmother  

   - Notes: Reuben sleeps with Jacob’s concubine. Condemned in Genesis 49:4.

4. Amnon + Tamar  

   - Relationship: Half-brother/half-sister  

   - Reference: 2 Samuel 13  

   - Consanguinity: 2nd degree  

   - Notes: Rape. David does nothing. God says nothing. Absalom kills Amnon.

5. Judah + Tamar  

   - Relationship: Father-in-law/daughter-in-law  

   - Reference: Genesis 38  

   - Consanguinity: Affinal  

   - Notes: Tamar disguises herself. Judah sleeps with her. She gets pregnant. No rebuke.

6. Corinthian Man + Stepmother  

   - Relationship: Stepson/father’s wife  

   - Reference: 1 Corinthians 5:1  

   - Consanguinity: Affinal  

   - Notes: Paul condemns it. One of the few times incest gets called out.

INFERRED OR GENEALOGICAL CASES (Early Humanity, Patriarchal Lineage)

7. Cain + His Wife  

   - Relationship: Sibling or niece  

   - Reference: Genesis 4:17  

   - Consanguinity: 1st or 2nd degree  

   - Notes: No other humans mentioned. Population logic demands incest.

8. Seth + His Wife  

   - Relationship: Sibling or niece  

   - Reference: Genesis 4:25–26  

   - Consanguinity: 1st or 2nd degree  

   - Notes: Same population constraint. No condemnation.

9. Noah’s Sons + Their Wives  

   - Relationship: Nephews/aunts or cousins  

   - Reference: Genesis 6:18  

   - Consanguinity: Unknown but intra-family  

   - Notes: Humanity rebooted via incest. Divine plan.

10. Isaac + Rebekah  

    - Relationship: First cousins once removed  

    - Reference: Genesis 24:15  

    - Consanguinity: 3rd degree  

    - Notes: Rebekah is granddaughter of Abraham’s brother.

11. Jacob + Leah/Rachel  

    - Relationship: First cousins  

    - Reference: Genesis 29  

    - Consanguinity: 3rd degree  

    - Notes: Sisters. Daughters of Laban, Rebekah’s brother.

12. Esau + Mahalath  

    - Relationship: First cousins  

    - Reference: Genesis 28:9  

    - Consanguinity: 3rd degree  

    - Notes: Mahalath is daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son.

13. David + Michal  

    - Relationship: First cousins  

    - Reference: 1 Samuel 18:27  

    - Consanguinity: 3rd degree  

    - Notes: Michal is daughter of Saul, David’s uncle.

14. David + Abigail  

    - Relationship: Possibly cousin  

    - Reference: 1 Samuel 25  

    - Consanguinity: Unknown  

    - Notes: Lineage debated. Likely kin.

15. Solomon + Royal Wives  

    - Relationship: Foreign and possibly kin  

    - Reference: 1 Kings 11  

    - Consanguinity: Political incest  

    - Notes: Hundreds of wives. Royal alliances often involved family ties.

LEGAL PROHIBITIONS (Leviticus 18 & 20)

Leviticus bans sex with:

- Parent or child

- Sibling (full or half)

- Grandparent or grandchild

- Aunt/uncle and niece/nephew

- In-laws (father’s wife, brother’s wife)

- Step-relations (stepmother, stepsister)

- Mother and daughter simultaneously

These laws were written long after the patriarchs had already built Israel’s bloodline on incest, because Gawd hadn't sorted his shit out yet. Or something. Retroactive morality isn’t morality, it’s damage control.

THEOLOGICAL WHIPLASH

What’s condemned in Leviticus is celebrated in Genesis. What’s punished in Corinth is ignored in Jerusalem. The Bible doesn’t offer a timeless moral code, it offers a tribal mess of shifting standards, divine favoritism, and incestuous legacy-building.

If incest is wrong, then the Bible is guilty. If incest is wrong in Leviticus, it sure as shit is wrong in Genesis, and an omniscient God would have made that clear THEN instead as an OH! By the WAY! generations later. If morality is absolute, then scripture is a contradiction. And if this book is supposed to guide our ethics, we’d better be ready to explain why God’s favorites kept marrying their fucking cousins, raping their sisters, and sleeping with their stepmothers without so much as a divine slap on the wrist.

So, yeah, it turns out the Bible is just chock full of incest. It goes beyond the obvious "oops, got my dad drunk" moments and is a recurring theme in the patriarchs' lives, especially with cousins. It was the preferred way to do things before the laws in Leviticus came along and said, "Okay, we have enough people now, maybe don't bang your relatives."

The Bible may be sacred. But it’s not clean. And it sure as FUCK isn’t consistent.

This is the first in a series of Biblical Bullshit articles in the works.

Hypocrites, Liars, Charlatans, and Sheep

I’ll never forget the January when the headlines were all full of Oral Roberts telling his followers that Gawd A’Mighty had TOLD him that if he didn’t raise $8 million dollars by March, then God would strike Brutha Oral down and kill him.

Because GAWD really needed Oral to have another fucking Rolls Royce, right?

And his idiot sheep followers bought it. Jim Bakker’s followers STILL buy it when that absolute criminal says Gawd told him such and so. Jimmy Swaggart. Pat Robertson, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, they all have a red phone on their desk and Gawd calls them on the regular, or so they say. And the people who follow them just eat that shit up.

Terry Pratchett said, in his book Small Gods, “The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”

I’d far rather be the goat that I am, instead of a sheep being driven into stupidity and hypocrisy.

In the Holly Bibbly, Jeebus explains the grave consequences of being a false prophet: “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’” (Matthew 7:19–23).

I mean, the Holly Bibbly is a complete work of fiction, but all of the people following these false prophets despite what their Lard and LifeSaver said about it, OBVIOUSLY don’t know their Bibbly very well. They are Cafeteria Christians, picking and choosing what parts of the Bible to agree with.

Here’s some more Bibbly poop that these self-avowed Christians don’t bother to pay attention to. It’s from the book of Matthew, chapter 25, verses 31-46. My paste is from the NIV.

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 

32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 

33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Heaven FORBID those self-righteous piss gargling fuckwads ever actually HELP other human beings.

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 3

9 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.

If, as they believe, there is a hell, I will be the one dancing on red hot coals when they arrive, and laughing in their faces. Me and Ozzy Osbourne and Sid Vicious.

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Christian Stupidity

 

Some psycho nutter on WP thinks a prayer is going to protect somebody from a fucking bullet.

They truly are stupid. And fairly illiterate, as well.

When I originally posted this one on WordPress, this nutto Jesus freak stalker read it and decided I was threatening to shoot her. WTF?

And people wonder why I'm an atheist. To quote Gandhi:

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

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Image is a screenshot of a blog comment. It reads as follows, any typos and grammatical errors are the commenter's, not mine:
"Dont worry if he wants to shoot your son tell him to put that gun down in jesus name and god will take it from there and remind the devel in case he forgot god has already defeated him."