A word to the wise.

racocn8 comments on Sep 22, 2024:

That is not what is meant by 'representative government'.

Hell: The imaginary home of ...

racocn8 comments on Sep 25, 2024:

And the imaginary destination your all too real enemies deserve, but won't go to because the friend is as imaginary as his justice and his so-called 'Plan'.

So all Catholic nuns are married to Jesus Christ... Is that bigamy?

racocn8 comments on Sep 29, 2024:

Oh, but, they're not real women unless they have children...

New Rule: American Elegy | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2024:

Maher misses the mark in equating the left and the right. That's like equating German Nazis with Norwegians. Maher's greed propels him through red states and he's just not willing to risk his life calling out the rancid bigotry. So he falls back on making fun of the left's weak points. Whatever sells.

Not every public mention of religion is "creeping Christian nationalism" -- Friendly Atheist

racocn8 comments on Sep 30, 2024:

One can call it 'harmless' religiosity. Um, no. It's never harmless to delude oneself or to seek to delude others. It is ALWAYS a segue to seeking validation or opening a proselytizing rant. No amount of bigotry is OK.

Kinda seems to me if you complain about being fact checked, you were planning on lying from the get ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 2, 2024:

Yes, the problem with the housing market is that too many homes are owned by illegal aliens. Vance, you mutherfucking liar, name just one.

While Trump Lies.

racocn8 comments on Oct 3, 2024:

Oh! I want a paper towel roll tossed by Trump!!!

A cautionary tale. Y'all paying attention?

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2024:

(Not to mention an extra several hundred thousand dead people from trying to grift a pandemic)

People Walk Out of Trump Rallies [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2024:

Some of them were paid to show up. Others get bored. The rest need lobotomies to finish the job...

Trump Soils Himself in Public Again [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 11, 2024:

I was having a hard time eating lunch while listening to this. Pretty gross. Is there a dimension where Trump is not utterly disgusting?

The whole internet cooperated and couldn't find what this is.

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2024:

Fertility goddess icons for Hobbits.

Makes perfect sense to me

racocn8 comments on Oct 16, 2024:

If there were a hell, that would be the Christian's heaven.

Am I wrong to say this is my dream?

racocn8 comments on Oct 23, 2024:

And we know who the other Wicked Witch of the East is...

This guy does what a lot of us dream of doing [x.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 24, 2024:

Apparently, Dr. Robert Redfield was the motherfucking piece of shit that got Trump to take the monoclonal antivirals, thus saving his life. This, when he utterly deserved to die from the disease he sought to monetize and grift off of, thus killing several hundred thousand Americans.

Ah yes, even though we've had electric lighting for a century, gaslighting seems to still be a thing...

racocn8 comments on Oct 29, 2024:

But not just any fascist. A Nazi fascist. A white supremacist Christian who is clueless about the Bible. Supported by 60 million assholes just like him. Perhaps he'll commission Musk to build his gas chambers. Jared, Stephen Miller and Mark Zuckerberg will work on the concentration camps (cheaper and more practical than deportation).

What I did not realise before is how much many members of Agnostic hate religion.

racocn8 comments on Nov 2, 2024:

How do you disregard the centuries of genocides and mass murders committed in the name of religion? How do you ignore the bigotry, sexism, cruelty, and hatred promoted by religions? Etc. I can't believe you don't know the drill.

Tuesday, it's time to send the garbage to the dump.

racocn8 comments on Nov 2, 2024:

It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. Trump has denounced all his opponents in equally or worse terms. But let Hillary or Biden say it one time and they have a meltdown. The hypocrisy is thicker than an anvil. The problem is the shoe fits and the duck quacks. One can see on this website the utterly petty, infantile behavior of this very same garbage (deleting and otherwise controlling what gets posted). Fucking-a, grow up already...

This sounds like a pegging gone wrong to me, Carlson claims it was a demon, I think it was his wife ...

racocn8 comments on Nov 2, 2024:

1. Alien abduction. 2. Being humped by his dog. 3. Sex with his dog. 4. Merchandising (like Trump's assassinations)

bye y'all. whoever is running this site is a tool.

racocn8 comments on Nov 6, 2024:

If I can't post anything, it isn't a site anymore. It's too bad. It's been fun, sort of. And good bye to the US. Not that it has really existed since 1947 when the CIA took over. My deepest sympathies to the Ukrainians. This is going to be a strange Civil War. Christians are an existential threat to the species and it is playing out in front of our eyes.

Judge Luttig: Secretaries Of States Will Decline To Place Trump On The Ballot, Argue He Is ...

racocn8 comments on Aug 23, 2023:

That is what should happen. Don't hold your breath...

Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan.

racocn8 comments on Sep 5, 2023:

I have posted several times how reporting after Jan 6 included the Congresswoman's account of militia members held at gunpoint next to long guns (Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas). With only one exception, the media (and the CIA) have conspired to keep the confiscation of these long rifles a secret from the public by giving it zero coverage. That militia were heavily armed means that Jan 6 events missed a mass casualty event by mere seconds. Now comes one serious repercussion. These militia members have been given much lighter sentences that the prosecution requested in part because of the claim that they were unarmed (based on the prosecutors ignorance of the gun confiscation event). This lie of omission also allows the GOP to maintain the insurrectionists were unarmed (Although the Jan 6 committee obtained a little bit of testimony that suggested weapons were present). In spite of the account by the Congresswoman, the deception that heavy firearms were recovered, kept secret, and no accounts have surfaced discussing what happened to the long guns nor which insurrectionists were intercepted with them. I have asked Katie Porter (in person) and Karen Bass about this and received no response. In one way Trump was right: We don't have a country anymore. From the article: "Escobar: I made my way from one side of the gallery to the other amid the “Get down! Take cover!” screams, and when we got there, we were again instructed to get down. I was watching the police officers with their guns pointed at the terrorists. I could see their faces through the broken glass on the door, and I remember feeling very afraid for the police because I thought they were going to get shot in the head. " "Escobar: I was in the last group to leave the gallery, along with Mikie Sherrill, because Pramila Jayapal was using a cane and we stayed behind to make sure she got out safe. I don’t remember there being a police officer there to escort us out. As we descended the stairs, going from the third floor to the second, I turned and saw men with long guns facedown on the floor and officers surrounding them with drawn guns. The men on the ground were looking right at us. It was just awful..." https://19thnews.org/2021/02/women-in-congress-capitol-riot/?=19th-social=facebook=social=IwAR1FBW_nVv9n3NgcYbn4s1wDjWvE8pp76Q3fZA-HY0yFdvnPFl3E-DuVUnY

A dinosaur denier interviewed a dinosaur liar. Now my head hurts.

racocn8 comments on Sep 7, 2023:

Lying for Jesus. It's a Liar's Club with a competition to see who can come up with the most ridiculous asinine whopper. And then they all bob their heads in agreement. You see the same thing in other religions and even cults like UFO BS, although they get help from the Air Force/CIA disinformation campaign.

So, is this site an echo chamber for left-wing atheists?

racocn8 comments on Sep 20, 2023:

I am here to respond to thought-provoking posts. Most of the posts with conservative values aren't thought-provoking, but seek to promote lies and to 'own' the libs. I see no loss in blocking such people and gain my own time back, which is now a major benefit to me.

Question to fellow atheists.When someone says "God bless you' to you what is a good reply?

racocn8 comments on Sep 23, 2023:

"She does"

Arizona school board member sues district prohibiting her from reading Bible scripture during ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2023:

Rooks is perfectly free to recite all the bible verses she wants on the street, but inside a government proceeding, she is seeking to violate the 1st Amendment. That 1st Amendment protects everyone else from not being forcibly indoctrinated by kooks like her. These fanatics CHOOSE not to honor the spirit of the Constitution nor the country in honoring diversity of thought. She is violating her oath of office and thus unfit for her position.

Dress up for the occasion?

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2023:

My Dad was old school and figured he needed to marry women to have sex with them. A story went that one lady was alcoholic. He came home to find her passed out on the bed, naked. That one got annulled.

Four years later, Russian influence and cash have turned out to be a real thing as some people have ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2023:

I believe Mueller's report solidly documented that. The traitors will deny it. The real question is why the Intelligence Agencies are allowing all this propaganda.

For those who believe "Here is is Cumming".

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2023:

Returning from whence he came...

Mental illness is an issue not to be taken lightly.

racocn8 comments on Nov 3, 2023:

Fox provides an endless stream of xenophobia, fear-mongering and frustration. The content brainwashes its audience into self-absorbed complaining 'victims' who have had their white fragility so badly broken as to become raging sociopaths. Unable to sustain friendships or even cordial relationships, these people endless stew over the Great Replacement Theory or how liberals are the communists under their bed. Ultimately, yes, they become fully deranged and delusional, unfit to live outside a lunatic asylum. Fentanyl is the only relief...

Ex-Senior Trump Official: He’s A ‘Traitor’ And ‘A Clear And Present Danger’ “He lacks...

racocn8 comments on Nov 14, 2023:

The problem is that the MAGA's know all that and more... and don't care. They are hypnotized by their own avarice and hatred of liberals.

Unintentional MAGATS.

racocn8 comments on Nov 15, 2023:

That might be true if they weren't all getting their money from Putin...

In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an...

racocn8 comments on Nov 21, 2023:

There's a West Wing episode that does that content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CPjWd4MUXs

How do you view Jesus?

racocn8 comments on Dec 5, 2023:

It is obvious that Adam never existed. No evidence of Moses doing the Exodus has been found. Most of the stories of Jesus were copied from previous deities. After subtracting those stories, not enough is left to be considered wisdom nor wise teachings. Supposedly a fair number of nutjobs claimed to be the messiah in those days. On the other hand, Frodo lives...

Your religion is superstitious, dehumanizing, garbage

racocn8 comments on Dec 11, 2023:

Anyone who bases their personal morality on one of the 'Holy Books' should, indeed, be regarded as a moral cockroach. But it's worse than that, as modern ethics far outstrips the morality set out in said books, so anyone following religious morality is rightfully suspected to be a dangerous psychopath. (Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott spring to mind...)

Wedding at their favorite place - Walmart !

racocn8 comments on Dec 12, 2023:

Tat-two.... Happy and sad at the same time...

Texas woman who challenged abortion ban leaves state for the procedure | AP News

racocn8 comments on Dec 12, 2023:

I'm glad she chose not to be a martyr although the cause is worthy.

Check this one out! It reminds of a Christian in a chat room long ago who said he "wished" he could...

racocn8 comments on Dec 13, 2023:

That's the back-handed way of disavowing all the millions Christianity has killed in the past. Actually, it's a tacit reminder that they can and probably will kill again...

Don't wonder about those who are good without god ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 19, 2023:

Except that they aren't good. How good can one be to lie to others and yourself? How good is it to betray your country and seek to establish fascism?

I love Colorado!!! The Supreme Court in Colorado just ruled that trump is not fit to be on the ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 19, 2023:

Not acknowledging the attempted coup and insurrection committed in broad daylight would completely destroy the tiny vestiges of credibility Scotus still has. The decision would lay the foundation for expanding the court or removing the corrupt GOP judges.

The biggest question I have; what is the republican/conservative agenda?

racocn8 comments on Dec 21, 2023:

Fascism: yes. Most importantly, though, is Theocracy. You can see that in Texas and the other states criminalizing abortion, gay rights, book burning, historical revisionism, concentration camps, and Armageddon.

Here at my mom's doctor's appointment in the waiting room and some moron is playing something about ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 27, 2023:

Hallalujah the shit storm has finally passed... (Good fucking riddance)

Just my take, but isn't presenting the bible as the literal word of god "worshiping a graven image" ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 31, 2023:

Yes, of course it is. But lying for Jesus or lying for God, truthfulness and honesty are the first moral precepts jettisoned by believers.

Couldn't have put it better & Happy New Year to all on Agnostic.com

racocn8 comments on Dec 31, 2023:

Get yourself a fembot...

Donald Trump's Political Ally in Iowa Believes She Is Fighting Evil Sorcerers of Baal and Promises ...

racocn8 comments on Jan 2, 2024:

I appreciate the notion of free speech, but this is hate-speech and should be suppressed somehow.

My kids served in Iraq ...

racocn8 comments on Jan 6, 2024:

The Christian Fascist's lust for power shows their Christian morality is pure sham. The difference is they indulge their depravity and hatred, that hatred being directed at everyone who dares to have honor and real morality.

Republican politics explained...

racocn8 comments on Jan 11, 2024:

Heavy irony that the Evangelicals should engage in the definition of a faustian bargain where they inflict their sexual repression on everyone else in exchange for embracing the devil.

I agree with the electricians.

racocn8 comments on Jan 16, 2024:

They both convey electro-magnetic pulses positive and negative, except for the ground, and that does what?... The saddest part of this issue that doesn't get discussed is how anyone can use their imagination to feel they are male, or female, or alien or anything else. And that's a good thing. The flesh involved is incidental. None of it is anyone else's business.

racocn8 comments on Jan 16, 2024:

1. Bad engineering. 2. An opportunity to return the favor. 3. Thou shalt make no graven images... 4. It's called weather. 5. Kinky... 6. Is that the same Jesus that was hanging around that Magdalene skank? 7. Or the Jesus that only had male 'Apostles". 8. What needs explaining?

Yup! No other reason.

racocn8 comments on Jan 19, 2024:

In Hawaii while visiting with a friend, I noticed what I thought was a spider on a carton on the fridge. Looking closer, I saw that it was only an empty exoskeleton. I had a thought to collect the thing as a specimen. I reached up to grab the carton only to find that the actual spider was still resting on the other side. We both jumped and my cortisol levels went through the roof.

This is what you get when you stiff your makeup artist.

racocn8 comments on Jan 26, 2024:

I'd like to see a composite AI version of Trump/Giuliani where Trump's orange diarrhea is pouring down the side of his jowls... There's a lot of shit the U.S. has to live down, but this is so ugly. How can any American travel abroad and not expect to be laughed at everywhere?

Local News Denver officials forced to set wanted man free after Arkansas sheriff refused to pick him...

racocn8 comments on Jan 26, 2024:

It's pathetic how the GOP is blocking the Border Protection bill that would improve Fentanyl interdiction. They complain about that more than how Trump failed to act against Covid, killing many in the Red states. It's sort of ironic how the CIA arranged to sell crack in the inner cities to fund the sandinistas. Now its the turn of the Red states to see their friends and neighbors die off. Would that it could affect the election...

Okay, what’s going on here……

racocn8 comments on Jan 29, 2024:

Ain't love grand?...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether or not Donald J.

racocn8 comments on Jan 30, 2024:

The corrupt justices will contrive language to allow Trump's run in direct contravention of Amendment 14. This ruling will be seen as absurdly partisan but will give cover to the reorganization of SCOTUS including prosecution of the illegitimate justices. (in my dreams)... The government and the country need a thorough "airing out" of both Russian subversion and Christian fascists (significantly overlapping sets).

I love this description...

racocn8 comments on Feb 3, 2024:

You may not envy him. You have your set of values. Many people DO envy Trump, and they have (presumably) a very different set of values from yours, which is what enables their envy. The differences in the two sets of values distinguish two types of people, one where corruption is envied and even hailed and the other that regards corruption and those that aspire to it as deplorable.

WAS JESUS A REAL PERSON?

racocn8 comments on Feb 7, 2024:

The main point is that the dogma itself has been falsified.

God's world is horny

racocn8 comments on Feb 8, 2024:

Yeah, life is filled to overflowing with the instances where God protected people from anything, much less their sexual proclivities.

Bed bugs. Have you ever slept in a bed full of them?

racocn8 comments on Feb 11, 2024:

Last year I stayed at a motel that was infested. Overnight I developed 30 very itchy bites. My vacation was ruined and I demanded my money back. I also wrote letters to the County health department and a notice on Yelp.

Jesus - Made to Fit the way of life in the American South

racocn8 comments on Feb 15, 2024:

It is all about power and gold.

If anyone would know, he would

racocn8 comments on Feb 18, 2024:

He was always a pre-purchased asset of Putin's.

My name is Chuck.

racocn8 comments on Feb 25, 2024:

Why limit yourself to a "white"??

😂😂😂😂😂

racocn8 comments on Feb 25, 2024:

My understanding is that they won't be delivered for some months.

Let's think of some shoe names, shall we? Just spitballin' here, all input welcome.

racocn8 comments on Mar 2, 2024:

Soulless...

Me with my bullshit to brighten your day! 😂😂😂😂

racocn8 comments on Mar 4, 2024:

Is that the Pepe version of Garfield?

Says a man, who if he has kept his vows, never had sexual relations with a woman ...

racocn8 comments on Mar 11, 2024:

Pedophiles deserving castration for starters...

It began 4 years ago today

racocn8 comments on Mar 13, 2024:

Trump has invented a new kind of criminal: the political psychopath.

History will not be kind to the Trump years.

racocn8 comments on Nov 30, 2024:

Re: #2: Not 'probably.'

New Poll is out, the results are unsurprising.

racocn8 comments on Nov 28, 2024:

The problem has always been money and greed. The power centers found a way to get around democracy by controlling who got elected. They preserved the illusion by occasionally allowing someone who wasn't a complete asshole, but even these were controlled with blackmail and intimidation. What if the CIA were swept away and replaced with a benevolently intentioned secret service. A small army dedicated to carrying out a lottery of extra-judicial murder of the all-too-numerous malignant narcissists who deserve both death and ignominy... rational society might almost have a chance. We need to become Darwin's friend and escort the depraved from our midst. We need to see corruption as an unacceptable scourge with lethal zero tolerance. What we actually have is a populace that admires corruption, finds it entertaining, and wants some for themselves.

Here comes the bullshit show! [share.newsbreak.com]

racocn8 comments on Nov 27, 2024:

As a pathological liar, what are rational people supposed to believe? I suppose the answer is nothing until one actually sees actual action. Another 4 years of being the asshole of the planet, or that long to start. May every single Trump voter contract an incurable cancer or equivalent disease. That is the curse of an atheist, not having any agency to fulfill one's epithets... (Piggybacking due to posting embargo) Businesses are supposed to report "Beneficial Owner Information" before the end of the year. This involves filling out a 50-part questionnaire and uploading a identity document scan. It only took me four tries!!! At least I finally got it accepted. What a hassle. Trump could start with cutting that...

I like to tie up some loose ends at the end of the year.

racocn8 comments on Nov 27, 2024:

I don't mind apologizing. I am saturated with shame for those who won't feel it.

Trump has taken a keen interest in uncovering all the trans people in his circle.

racocn8 comments on Nov 25, 2024:

It is still a step up from Muslim countries that want to cut off every women's clitoris just to make sure they don't enjoy sex. But it is the same, otherwise.

Flag discussion.

racocn8 comments on Dec 6, 2024:

Jill Stein should find a position, given her fealty to Putin. I just love it when all the Putin stooges hug and embrace the flag. One can't be a true amerikon unless they're a sexist treasonous degenerate. What a wonderful country... Can we bring Covid back?

Good morning!!! Hope everyone has a great Saturday!!!

racocn8 comments on Dec 7, 2024:

Is that how Rudolph's nose got red?

I've been getting so many money-grubbing ads online about how to cash in on religion it's fucking ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 18, 2024:

Religions starts with lying to oneself, then lying to others. Hypocrisy is the one true, universal religion. If the last election showed anything, it was the breadth and length of hypocrisy embraced by Christians. That and the complete and utter lack of morality. They haven't a clue what honor or integrity is.

I'll be waiting with baited breath for the announcement

racocn8 comments on Nov 23, 2024:

I give Trump 2 months before he gets his military parade, like they do in Russia and North Korea.

What say you?

racocn8 comments on Nov 23, 2024:

Unless one's loyalty to conservative lies and hate keeps the mind buried in Fox et. al. and as far away from honor, integrity, and compassion as possible.

After seeing DTs new Cabinet picks…I though of this quotation….

racocn8 comments on Nov 16, 2024:

"All the best people..." (as defined by offending liberal integrity)

We need to deploy it as soon as possible.

racocn8 comments on Dec 2, 2024:

Practicing good hygiene means some bacteria will die as a result...

I've been thinking, RFK needed a logo...

racocn8 comments on Dec 20, 2024:

On a related note... Elon Musk Says Far-Right (Nazi) German Party Is The Only One Equipped To ‘Save Germany’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/12/20/elon-musk-says-far-right-german-party-is-the-only-one-equipped-to-save-germany/

Wouldn't be the first time...

racocn8 comments on Dec 14, 2024:

Especially if the moderator is an Incel Maga...

Something you might have forgotten....

racocn8 comments on Dec 10, 2024:

There could be 20 or more posters like that on different topics. The moral and every other kind of lapse in judgment shame those of us who can feel it.

I had a beautiful day, my daughter came over and visited me for a few hours! We ate, laughed, raged ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 8, 2024:

How does someone ride a bus in from Atlanta and end up in the exact place and time as his target? What information could he access to do that? Just intuition, but more than one person is involved here, perhaps several...

I can't believe these people........

racocn8 comments on Nov 15, 2024:

I saw the post from CaptFeelGood. I swore I had blocked him. More admin mischief. This site is going down like the US, for the same reasons. Some people don't deserve to draw breath.

When did the people that ate paste in school, begin to think that they had all the answers and that ...

racocn8 comments on Nov 29, 2024:

Espousing anti-science lies is how the MAGA cultists identify each other; its their double-secret handshake. i.e. Covid came from Fauci-funded gain-of-function research. Covid escaped from the Wuhan virology institute. Covid was a Chinese bioweapon. Masks don't work. Seeking herd immunity was the right approach...

Happy Wednesday Night!!! Hope you all are doing well!

racocn8 comments on Nov 13, 2024:

FYI, another two of my posts were deleted by the administrator. They said nothing about the GOP or the election, but related to UFO news.

The best hope for this country now is to take everything he tries to do into the courts and tie ...

racocn8 comments on Nov 7, 2024:

Another 4 years of court-packing and concerted corruption? I can't imagine how the country could recover from this one. Putin got his wish, thanks to Biden, the DOJ and CIA.

When your wife or daughter dies from pregnancy complications at least gas will be cheap to go to her...

racocn8 comments on Nov 20, 2024:

Can you explain to me why the Harris campaign never mentioned the bird flu pandemic which raise both the cost of eggs AND chicken. Here's a clue folks. It isn't just GOP/Putin propaganda. The CIA had its thumb on the scale bigly. Harris never had a chance. That's why the DOJ didn't prosecute Trump or his congressional minions. All nature of issues with Trump were removed from discussion thanks to the current version of Operation Mockingbird. The closeness of the election does show the reason for their overarching control; the electorate are as dumb as pegs and cannot be trusted to have any hand in what really goes on. The CIA stepped in long ago and the politicians are mere clothes-horses that fiddle around the edges, if that. If Biden really believed Trump was the end of democracy, he'd have done something about it. That wasn't in the CIA's script so it didn't happen.

Everyone benefits from a better education system, not just those that have children in it.

racocn8 comments on Nov 24, 2024:

That would be the opposite goal from that of 2025 Evangelicals. And it looks like they're increasing their numbers.

I see this happening here with the way women's rights are fading! [share.newsbreak.com]

racocn8 comments on Nov 11, 2024:

A bunch of states allow marriage at 16. https://www.findlaw.com/family/marriage/state-by-state-marriage-age-of-consent-laws.html Also, Attacks on Protections Against Sex Discrimination and Other Forms of Discrimination Attacks on Reproductive Rights and Access to Health Care Attacks on Education Attacks on Workplace Justice Doubling Down on Tax Cuts for the Rich at the Expense of Working Families Attacks on LGBTQI+ Rights Attacks on Income Security, Housing, and Nutrition Assistance Programs Attacks on Immigrant Families https://nwlc.org/resource/project-2025-what-it-means-for-women-families-and-gender-justice/

Who was Jesus ?

racocn8 comments on May 20, 2019:

As noted, there are no contemporary records of said Jesus. Most of the story is plagiarized from previous myths so that if there were a Jesus, stripping out the previous myths leaves practically nothing of significance in terms of moral or ethical teachings. Also, the New Testament also has huge gaps in moral teaching, again, nothing denouncing slavery nor equal rights, etc. The most telling issue of all religious texts is the utter absence of informed understanding of humanity or of the universe. Nothing approaching divine wisdom is presented; just dopey stories that are ambiguous and readily misinterpreted. Definitely not the quality one would expect of an omnipotent deity.

Peterson thinks we got our ethics from our Judeo-Christian heritage.

racocn8 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

Peterson is a propagandist and demagogue for the right wing. At 3:05 he excoriates Sam Harris with an absurdity wherein he falsely claims Harris advocates that people give up their connection with the *grounding in the transcendent* , a concept he dishonestly substitutes for religiosity. The claim that people, especially religious people, have a connection, much less a splinter of experience with the transcendent is asinine. Nowhere does Sam Harris advocate a disconnection from the transcendent. Quite the opposite is true; Harris often speaks of the utility of entering meditative states. At 2:53, Peterson also equates the belief in god as being equal to having moral values. Again, zero connection. Then he presumes that non-belief means one believes they can do whatever they want. Wrong. Belief in god obviously never stops people from cruel immoral acts, and the attached dogma does a lot to promote violence. At 3:52, Peterson equates psychopathic behavior with naked self-interest. He would have you believe the president is not a wacko, but only self-interested. Sorry, but real psychopathic behavior has nothing to do with self-interest, naked or otherwise. At 3: 57, Peterson asks where is the pathway from rationality to egalitarianism, suggesting that there isn't one. The path is simple: seeing that one reacts with sadness and depression after seeing deprivation promotes the impulse to relieve the suffering with charity; that is egalitarianism. At 4:27, Peterson says Harris and Dawkins deny that noble values derive from religious mythology, and that they suppose moral values are simply intrinsic. That's correct, but he infers that morality comes from religious mythology, and that non-believers must therefore be immoral in their character. As Harris and Dawkins point out, that is wrong, wrong, wrong. It's the same BS argument of religionists. Ethical and moral behavior are NOT predicated on belief in god, and to say so is an obvious lie. Peterson is a diarrhea-spewing asshole.

[newsmax.

racocn8 comments on Jul 22, 2019:

War with Iran is Trump's Plan B in case impeachment or state indictments get any of traction.

[yahoo.

racocn8 comments on Aug 29, 2019:

If only it were so. The treasonous Rethuglicans certainly deserve to be replaced. They prove democracy is a sham if it allows every idiot cultist to vote. It's one thing to have one's own opinion, but it's another thing if that opinion is based on easily disproved myths.

Ralph Reed: Christians Have a “Moral Obligation” to Support Donald Trump in 2020 | Sarahbeth ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2019:

The doctrine of supporting Pro-Life politics bests all other moral issues. This is the height of irony!!! First, the Pro-Life view is completely fictitious and unsupported by the Bible. The Pro-Life view comes from the Catholics, who the Evangelicals hate almost as much as the Jews. And, the New Testament denounces political intrigue, while Trump demonstrates the lowest it can go.

Criticizing the doctrine of Islam does not mean the person doing so is a xenophobe,Islamophobe, or ...

racocn8 comments on Nov 5, 2019:

You are challenging the CLAIM that criticizing Islam is racist, or comparably immoral. I suspect that this claim is being marketed by Saudi Arabia and by similar Islamic entities. Religions do act on their own behalf. Distributing a false claim like this seeks to disarm opponents of the religion. Two examples of successful silencing of critics were the dis-inviting of Dawkins and Maher to lecture at Berkeley. Indeed, other atheist and scientific speakers have often received their sharpest criticism when they criticized Islam. The shouting down of critics of Islam has effective reduced the volume of outrage over Islam-inspired atrocities as they have occurred around the world. Indeed, certain Christian-inspired critics have used false testimony and innuendo of scandals to bring down atheists, as I believe is the case for both Lawrence Krauss and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Fortunately, Tyson has been mostly unscathed so far. Christopher Hitchens recorded a number of YouTube videos discussing the demerits of Islam. Hitchens attacks are interesting, clear and unambiguous, and he often makes the distinction defining precisely why criticizing Islam isn't racist, but rather that Islam deserves all the criticism it gets.

Judge's Ruling Shows Religious Freedom Isn’t Just For The Christian Right

racocn8 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

I have long equated the evangelicals with the Germans that supported Nazism, but also chided myself for being as biased as they are. However, with their wholehearted and unwavering support of Trump and his scarcely disguised white nationalism, I feel vindicated. I recall seeing a video of an ICE officer picking up plastic jugs of water left in the desert and dumping them out. He had a smirking smile on his face that showed pride in his actions. He could just as easily be a concentration camp guard pouring Zyklon B into a gas chamber. That is where Christian Morality is today, and has been for centuries. We need to start fighting this culture war in earnest before they kill us all. These people are toxic psychopaths who need to be stopped (1st Amendment be damned). You can be sure that they have no real respect for the Constitution and happily endorse a president that disregards it.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Most Incredible Pro-Trump Argument Republicans Have Ever Made...

racocn8 comments on May 17, 2021:

Maybe all the Adderall had something to do with it?

Lest we start feeling all forgivey

racocn8 comments on May 21, 2021:

And on Jan 8, 2020, remember that it was Iran that sent missiles to kill American servicemen housed at Ain al-Assad air base in Anbar province and in Irbil. Although the Pentagon later reported that 109 troops suffered brain injuries, some severe. President Trump tweeted: "All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq." And later saying he “heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things” Iran supports Isis, Hezbollah and Hamas... On Jan 6, 2021, many Trump traitors displayed anti-Semitic and neoNazi memes and tattoos...

We need to be prepared to end the threat to ourselves and our nation

racocn8 comments on May 23, 2021:

But they have also been perverting American politics since Kennedy. The Goldwater supporters were utter racist psychos.

Gotta love this peddled bullshit. Non-religious people need a pamphlet too.

racocn8 comments on May 27, 2021:

I made up a pamphlet once. It was titled: Is Your God For Real?

Trumpelthinskin Explained……

racocn8 comments on May 28, 2021:

I've noticed several Trumpy posters lately who share the features of being anti-progressive, bigoted and devoid of empathy. And, like other Trump-supporters, they only come to troll inane insults. I've blocked two of them in two days, simply having no interest in their sick drama. Are they fake profiles from Russia created to foment animosity? It's hard to fathom such stupidity.