Jebus in the sky.

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Apocalyptic or dogmatic, canonical or apocryphal, the god message is all the same, pilgrim.

Believe as we say & do as we say. It's Allah's word, trust us, we speak for that spirit in the sky, all 1, 2, 3 or more of them. And you will be saved, you will have eternal life with Jebus & Daddy.

After all, He loves you.

You will once again be with your father & mother, spouse & child in paradise, perfect with no pancreatic cancer, no coronary heart disease, no high blood pressure or high cholesterol; no Parkinson's, no dementia, no Alzheimer's; no missing legs, eyes, fingers, or toes; no overdue bills, no home foreclosures, no unemployment; no alcoholic fathers, no dying mothers, no depression, no suicide; no brain-damaged children, no drug-addiction, no abuse or neglect; no wants, no worries, no sorrows, no pain; only eternal, everlasting, heavenly bliss.

After all, He loves you.

But only if you believe what we tell you to believe, do what we tell you to do, and, oh yea, put your savings & credit cards in the basket & envelope & direct deposit, attention to Jebus.

After all, He loves you.

And if you don't believe as we say, do as we say, &, in catholic cults, confess your transgressions, real or imagined, to us, well, it's to hell with you & yours, for all time, no ifs, ands, or buts. Burn, baby, burn!!!

After all, He loves you.

Remember, if you'll pardon the pedophilia, we are Jebus' holy ordained ministers & spokesmen on planet earth, we are the keepers of the truths revealed by Jebus & his Daddy & invisible messengers & dreams to our bronze age forefathers & blessed by the superpowers of Roman Emperors, holy or otherwise.

Nice, pleasant thoughts; all subservient, childish nonsense.

About time for rational men to grow up & grow a pair, pilgrim, esp. in a nuclear age.

In the 21st Century, a society or flock, who continue to place homage & deference to imaginary beings & perfunctory priesthoods ahead of science & technology & progress, will continue to suffer from ignorance & poverty, disease & malnutrition, bigotry & racism, wars & ethnic cleansing.

It's up to a more highly-evolved homo sapiens to apply science & reason to resolve the inequities & crises in the world, not some Jebus in the sky.
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AM I WHO AM?

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"In giving rise to man, the evolutionary process has, apparently for the first and only time in the history of the Cosmos, become conscious of itself." ~Theodosius Dobzhansky
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On human shoulders.

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"This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet." ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Humanist
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Waste not, want not.

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"[Man's] face is set in the same direction as the main tide of evolving life, and his highest destiny, the end towards which he has so long perceived that he must strive, is to extend to new possibilites the process with which, for all these millions of years, nature has already been busy, to introduce less and less wasteful methods, to accelerate by means of his consciousness what in the past has been the work of blind unconscious forces." ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist
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Prevalence of the Populist Opposition.

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"The most evolution could produce would be the idea that 'might makes right.' When Hitler exterminated approximately 10 million innocent men, women, and children, he acted in complete agreement with the theory of evolution and in complete disagreement with everything humans know to be right and wrong ... If you teach children that they are evolved from monkeys, then they will act like monkeys."
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Heap of Sand

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"When its whole significance dawns on you, your heart sinks into a heap of sand within you. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration." ~Bernard Shaw, Preface to Back to Methuselah
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A Tarnished Golden Rule?

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"With what other than condemnation is a person with any moral sense supposed to respond to a system in which the ultimate purpose in life is to be better than your neighbor at getting genes into future generations, in which those successful genes provide the message that instructs the development of the next generation, in which that message is always 'exploit your environment, including your friends and relatives, so as to maximize our genes' success', in which the closest thing to a golde rule is 'don't cheat, unless it is likely to provide a net benefit'"? ~George C. Williams
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