
That show-off!
Hi, I’m Zachary.
I can walk on water, part an entire sea, turn water into booze, raise someone from the dead, and locate your missing car keys for you. No shit. Really, I can. I have all these supernatural powers. See, I thought about it a bit. Instead, I used my supernatural powers to end all world hunger, find a cure for every disease known to mankind, solve all the worlds financial problems, and made sure George Bush never existed for the betterment of mankind.
What would Jesus do? What exactly DID he do?
See here, this is the kind of bullshit I can’t tolerate. Whenever I see someone going zealot-mode about his belief in God, I can’t help but look down upon such a person. But it just ticks me off how sure one can be about the most absurd of claims such as a miracle birth, a resurrection, or even the existence itself of a genocidal, sadomasochistic, egomaniac deity for whom many people say "God is love!" The nerve of calling a god who drowns his own creations in a flood and burns them in an eternal lake of fiery torment as the ultimate form of unconditional love!
I dunno about you. But it sounds like bullshit to me.
I’ll make a bet with you, here and now. Most people do NOT believe in a god, per se. Most people do, however, believe it’s a good thing to believe in a god. Some even find comfort in believing in one. That’s all well and good if you ask me. But if it gets to the point that I have to believe the earth is 6000 years old, count me out. If you tell me I should have my eyes gouged out for looking upon a women in awe of her physical, tangible beauty - count me out. If you tell me or even think I can’t be a good person without God, well fuck you. I don’t need to think about the consequences of the non-existent fiery dimension of Hell so that I may do what reason deems as good.
It’s just good ol’ common sense, actually.
You can’t be good at bowling if you rely too much on divine intervention. Let’s break this down so we can actually grasp the concept easier. First, one must acknowledge the improbability of any of the laws of physics being momentarily compromised by some supernatural being for the sake of making that bowling ball hit the pins. Prayer simply, does not work. Okay maybe it does work. But the same amount of prayer directed to Zeus, Thor or even the Virgin Mary will always have an equivalent rate of success to ones directed to Yahweh or Allah or whatever. That is to say, it just doesn’t work. Next, you practice. Play by the laws of physics. Play by the laws of reality. Get those laws to work for you. Not the other way around. The universe doesn’t give a fucking rat’s damn about your bowling. You just get better at it with practice.
We have there a reasonably benign example now, do we? But where does all this come from? How did all this mumbo-jumbo about the Abrahamic religions start?
The Middle East

This pretty much explains everything about this part of the world.
You have to be in awe and reverence at these people! The Jews, the Arabs! Their contributions to civilization have been invaluable. Without the Jews, we wouldn’t have the genius of Einstein, Solomon, Freud, to name a few. Without the Arabs, we wouldn’t have much of Algebra, Astronomy, as we know of it today. But no one I guess is exempted from not having a whole assortment of bull. Few are the places on earth which have not been touched by the three great Abrahamic, monotheistic religions. And when I say touched, they consistently fail to stop just there. People also consistently believe what these people have to say! The Jews with their Holy Land justification-for-war rant going on and on and on… The Muslims with all these "things" they would most certainly do all for the name of Allah and his prophet Mohammed. The Christians with all their politically revelation-inspired foolhardy attempts at global, invasions in the lands of black gold! Yes folks, everything happens in the Middle East. No wonder Magellan had to find another route to the East even a long, long time ago! These people would drive any soul nuts!
Closing off, here’s what I want to say in the hopes of people getting the message.
READ AN EFFING BOOK OR TWO!!!
More importantly…
USE YOUR EFFING BRAINS!!!
Most importantly…
GET IN TOUCH WITH REALITY, PEOPLE!!!
Still believe in an all-good, all-present, all-powerful, all-knowing God? Look around you.