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A Small (Big) Confession

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

It’s not an easy thing to admit to, and in fact it is an even harder thing to comprehend…for most people. I’m talking about subtle barbarianism. “Subtle” barbarianism, you ask. Of course; we hear about actions that can obviously be constituted as torture from all over the world. We read about such audacious – and horrendous – events like; beheadings, ethnic cleansing, forced starvation; so on…but there’s one procedure that has become so commonplace that it has now reached the domain of obviousness…however; it is no less barbaric.
It is now so widely overlooked that the only time it is perceived as inhuman is when it’s happening to a female (more on this in a minute). I am talking of course about circumcision. And I shall expound upon this primitive ritual. Cutting (no pun intended) to the chase and getting right to the point (no joke intended, either): the most important aspect of this practice, is that in a civilized world the most rudimentary concept of freedom would immediately prohibit any removal of the human anatomy from a non-consenting person.
If discerned for ever so briefly, this becomes a comic-style slap on the forehead, followed by a hysterical “of course.” For those not understanding the simple “two plus two equals four” logic: we do not legally allow butchery! It doesn’t get any simpler than that!
Nowhere in the law books does it say that when a child is born you are allowed to cut his arm off, right? So the question must be asked as why we allow butchery in other circumstances. Especially ones concerning the genitals!
This question is asked, and two answers are almost always given in an instantaneous response, both of which are equally inadequate in justifying such tyranny.
The first reason given is a religious one. Essentially; an Abrahamic provision – sanctioned by “god” – asserted that circumcision was a method in which Yaweh was able to “mark” his people…just as we do with cattle today. This is most likely the prevailing reason in explaining why cutting the end of an infant’s penis is still accepted in today’s society. Either Yaweh continues to hold a monopolizing grasp on his “vessel”, or perhaps parents have just succumbed to such drastic cultural conditioning that they don’t understand the freedom being robbed from their child.
If it’s the former, the question I propose is this: how do we know for certain that a human being, of just a few minutes after birth, is even capable of being a definite religion? What are his characteristics that determine this? There is a one pretext given: “his parents are.” However, in a contrasting example, if his parents were, of say – a Moloch denomination, and believed in sacrificing live babies to some superficial “Higher Power”, would it be condoned in today’s society? The answer answers itself, because we are of a supposedly “civilized” society. The reason I state that so boldly is because of the fact that if a State whose constitution does not base itself in a separation of the Church, the repressive consequences would become innumerable.
However “extreme” the religious examples might be postulated, every one of them must be scrutinized if we are to garner any sort of liberty. It is not right to condone barbaric behavior only when the auspices are of Abrahamic persuasion, while the other “extreme” illustration of spiraling live babies into a huge inferno is condemned. Both are wicked! And both should be outlawed!
The other argument articulated in favor of genital mutilation is that of hygiene. It is presupposed that by cutting off the foreskin, the risk of contacting a STD is greatly reduced. This rationalizing is given far and wide by pediatricians. My answer is a paradoxical one: if it could in fact be proven that a doctor’s hands indeed cause mental trauma and physical suffering to a child every time the procedure is performed, I would recommend, by using the same logic given by them; that the hands be cut off before they were able to commit any more torture.
Savvy to that concept? Before an action occurs, we take measures to ensure it not come to fruition. (In Orwellian this means a thought crime) The only problem is that a great amount of individual liberty is lost in trying to curb an event that hasn’t happened yet. If it is true that circumcision reduces the risk of STD or bacterial infection (and I’m in no way implying that it doesn’t) – let the person decide when they are capable of doing so. Besides, not tending to your ears can also lead to infection, should we cut those off also?
This entire practice has proven to be frivolous by even those who praise it. While parents continue to chop off the heads of their son’s penis, they continue to look antagonistically towards other countries and their usage of female circumcision. It’s hard to even write, but basically female circumcision is when any part of the vagina is surgically altered. Cutting off the clitoris, sowing the vagina shut…just to name a few examples (FGM is various, as opposed to male mutilation). The inconsistent moral is blatant: its okay if it’s a male, but not it’s a female. I think Penn & Teller had it right – “Circumcision is bullshit!”
It’s somewhat fortunate that the practice is becoming rarer and rarer. In fact, roughly 90 percent of the World outside the United States is uncircumcised; proving once again that America is, and Americans are, an insane, overly-cultured (or conditioned), sheepish, and hypocritical bunch. Hopefully the male species will wake up – and realize that my contention is legitimized. After all, according to the British Journal of urology, circumcision desensitizes the penis by 75 percent. This is because there are over 10,000 nerve endings in the foreskin, and, once removed, your libido is working with a mere 3,000. The truth is that no major medical facility in the world recommends this practice. By cutting your son’s penis, you are only ruining his freedom, ruining his future sex life, and continuing an ancient and ridiculous ritual.
Here then, is confession time: I was a victim of such mutilation. More than that, the doctor did a fucked up job. He botched it; leaving a huge gaping hole on the right side of my penis.
Now, call it cultural mutilation; religious mutilation – whatever you like; dismembering another human being is as inhuman as it gets. It is simply grotesque, and repulsive, that we accept these things in our society. How long is it going to take before legislation is put into place that forbids parents from committing such butchery? I suggest that it be signed into the law books very soon. With perhaps accompanying legislation that will start handing out felony assault charges to doctors still performing this wicked and deplorable act.

No to the Religious World Order!: A Letter to Mark Dice

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

To Mark Dice, Founder of the Christian Resistance

Greetings. Hello. Howdy. Mr. Mark Dice, sir…I am drunk…which is okay, because from my intoxicated perspective I am still able to realize that it is within my legal boundaries to do so. I am within my rights so, I’ll take advantage. I certainly hope that every Freedom Fighter can appreciate this small feat which requires little accept paying the outrageous taxes put upon us by a corrupt government which has created it’s own problems, and having to wake up in the morning with a tinge of regret and a slight headache.
I am a bit concerned though, and I shall express my concern just as soon as I say thank you for your brave efforts to stop the impending New World Order. I have yet to read your two books The Resistance Manifesto and Illuminati: Fact and Fiction. So I am a bit handicapped in this letter in that I am soon to exhibit a large amount of criticism to you and your followers, without fully understanding your objective. Sorry friend.
From what I have heard, I understand that you are a dedicated Christian. And immediately I relate that nasty little word to a faulty ideology….one that transcends political discourse and paves the campaign trail for all parties and candidates. We notice immediately that all candidates are of “Christian” and devoting themselves solely to the love of Christ, etc, etc. Notice how when our current president was caught up in a scandal with his attendance of the church of Reverend Wright, and media was unable (or perhaps unwilling) to forget the issue, Mr. Obama had to finally disown the Church and join…well, it might as well be “some other church”, because the conviction not withstanding, it was what the American Presidential Template requires: A “Christian” motif. Even further with this observation, if you read Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope, you’ll notice that Obama was much more inclined to follow his mothers’ sense of spirituality without the use of organized sects. We shat get into the issue of his Muslim heritage.
As far as our past president – the incompetent, evil little toad known as George W. Bush – is concerned, he was a self-proclaimed follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, and constantly referred to his divine prowess for “opening his heart.” Whatever intervention Jesus might have made in Bush’s life, we know it to be bullshit. It reeks like it, and as they say, if it has all the qualities…there is little denial. There are several good reasons for me stating this. The first reason being the secret societies that he has attended in his life. Starting with the Skull & Bones at Yale University in which he was obligated to take an Oath not akin to anything the average man has taken in his life. Bush still declines to comment on this society. And recently with his attendance at the Bohemian Grove – that annual meeting up in the forest where the Elites gather to either dance naked around the redwoods, or, more practically, do mock ceremonies with the blood God Molech – Bush has proven himself to be a fully-fledged hypocrite. Thank you again for pointing this out to the Elite.
Again, no need to go further; we know these simple facts to be true based on the validity given to them by political spectators like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity…every time the question is discarded as the typical nutcase story – right after they tell you of their invite – the story grows a little bit stronger.
So now that I have gotten all of the basics out of the way, let me tell you the second reason on why we know the religious dogma’s are full of cow increment. I shall put it kindly, sir, I really shall try…and as I wish not taking all the blame for this vital blow to one’s conscience, so shall I refer you to a YOUTUBE video. All one has to do is type “no one follows the Bible” into the search thingie, and up will come a video from the talk show The Young Turks hosted by the refreshingly bright Cenc Uygur.
If you actually listen to what he is saying and try to understand it, you can actually feel your brain neurons readjusting themselves to the cold-hard reality: no one really follows the barbaric practices of the Bible. As Penn and Teller rightly pointed out, the Bible can be used to debunk the Bible. After all, there are numerous passages all throughout the Old Testament. Stoning your disobedient child, selling your daughter into slavery…even killing hundreds of thousands of women and children (after the ten commandments were bestowed the race who were chosen to be better than the rest of us)…all in a day’s reading which will never be read in any Sunday school classroom – for good reason.
And even more, we castigate and shun those who do attempt any literal translation of the text. All these fundamentalist sects up in the hills, like the Church of Latter Day Saints, or all the others we read and hear about that rape thirteen year old girls, etc….when we hear them on the news, we as “civilized” people, condemn their practices as evil and cultish. And justifiably so, but then what other translation is there but the one you read from the book in your own hand? If it says to stone your grandmother for, say, cleaning dishes on the Sabbath, who then is going to gather the stones? The answer is nobody except those we deem to be nutcases and, more importantly, immoral. But it’s right there in your book also!
Bottom line is this: if you believe your God to be infallible and the Creator of all Time and Matter, what then is stopping you from fulfilling his will? When your neurons are finally able to realign and postulate that, you will come to the primary reason I have written this letter…we don’t want a New World Order based upon concentrated central government anymore than we want any Order based upon a religious one. Of any kind. There will be no stoned grandmother’s; there will be no specified prayer or teaching of any singular religion with the intent to indoctrinate our children; and there will be no Religious World Order. As David Icke aptly put it, “I don’t know which I dislike more, the World controlled by the Brotherhood, or the one you want to replace it with.” Good call, David. Good call.
I really do congratulate you sir, I know that you are more fully prepared than I, and that your message has reached the ears of many more. Perhaps I don’t know your true intents, or if you have in mind the erosion of the New World Order only to be replaced with the very bile that I (and many, many others) find to be despicably deplorable.
If the people shat say it, then I shall: we demand an absolute separation of Church and State. Concrete. With iron bars running through it. No neo-con or smooth-talking Bible thumper is going to let us implement that sort of Law into our already filled-up law books. I wish to go even further and say that we hope that you were right, particularly on the issue of Hell, just so that we could hope that Jerry Falwell is burning right as I type this letter….but perhaps that’s just the alcohol talking. I enjoy my Freedom, thank you sir. (I don’t really wish Hell upon anyone…excuse my sardonic humor.)

Stickin’ To What We Know

Monday, July 20th, 2009

“When you guys figure it out, come back and tell me. Until that time I’m sticking with my Judeo-Christian Philosophy.”
-Bill O’ Reilly in an interview with Richard Dawkins

In another quick segment on YOTUBE you can see the tag team efforts of Bill O’ Reilly and Glenn Beck attempting to dismiss New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for a supposed piece he did commenting on the latter hypocrites’ stories about the FEMA camps. The clip itself was hilariously devastating. In it, the two make comments about Krugman “not caring if you said it or not.” And then in a perfect example of YOUTUBE journalism, clips of Glenn Beck’s almost hysteric voice tells his Fox viewers that he cannot debunk the FEMA camps. Repeatedly.
One then begins to wonder if Glenn Beck is a real journalist, or maybe a poltroon who was threatened by the New World Order. The clip does a deliver a rather damaging blow to Beck’s profession. If you haven’t seen it I highly suggest you do. Recently I’ve begun a phrase that I repeat from time to time. “The more you dismiss it without argument, the more credibility is granted to it.”
In regard to the FEMA camps – pretty cut and dry. A mainstream commentator for the FOX news network, Glenn Beck, at first and then repeatedly, tells stories of the reality of the clandestine camps propping up over the country. Then, all of a sudden, he and his propaganda cohort, Bill O’ Reilly, slam a columnist who reiterates the original piece. Well shoot…you said it Glenn!

My thinking tells me this… Bill O Reilly, along with so many other persons’ of Faith are willing to dismiss all the evidences of evolution, astronomy, and the such, and give all rights and privileges of Creation to an unverified claim (a ridiculous one) that “God” spoke to illiterate peasants in a remote desert – somewhere around 4000 years ago. A man walked on water, was born of a virgin, died and was resurrected…all things completely and literally believable. Except that the Truthers are ridiculed and insulted for bringing serious and legitimate questions to the doorsteps of our elected officials. Unbelievable. But once again…our faith deceives us. It tells us that we’re right when we probably know that there is a good amount of doubt.
Because science is not (yet) able to answer every single question regarding the origins of life on earth, Bill O’ Reilly says that he will stay with his belief system. Can that that same logic be reversed? Can it be said that “I’m sticking with the Truth Movement until the Government of the United States answers the unanswered questions of 9/11?” Is that credible? Can I ask about the FEMA camps that are reported to hold 50 million Americans? And why they’re all empty.

Disturbing revelations about our Free Country.

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The “God” Deception

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Ask yourself one question: if you were born in a different part of the world, with different surroundings, might you have a different religious belief? Would it be wrong to have that belief?

“God.” A three letter, one syllable word that mankind has used for thousands of years to describe the Highest, most powerful Entity in or outside of our Universe. When we look into a telescope, or witness the miracle of birth, can we possible sum of these wonders by a word?
Thus, can we possible know the entire secrets of the Universe in one book? Religion becomes a mere symbolic interpretation for the Unknown. It consists of metaphors, cultural history, and a lot of myths.
Immediately we give the Creator a sexual preference. By using “he” we are indicating that “god” has a penis. Now, the paradox of this assessment is that Yaweh had commanded the Jews to cut off the foreskin of their children. Does this mean that “god” was circumcised? Was the Creator mutilated?
Next, “god” is shown to leisurely walk through the Garden of Eden with his first creation, Adam. If we deduce this myth, we will find that “Adam” is an anagram meaning “many.” And if we are to believe that “god” was just casually walking through a garden, then it would be equally possible for Zeus to have been throwing lightening bolts off of Mount Olympus.
Further, are we supposed to believe that the kind, loving Creator – that is taught in all our churches – is the same Being depicted in the Old Testament as a bloodthirsty monster, who, out of all the inhabitants of earth, chose the Jewish tribe as “his” vessel, and, in turn, ordered the death of hundreds of thousands? Or condoned Moses’ order for rape and murder? Right after the Ten Commandments were given to them!
Or what about all the other hundred of legends of a catastrophic flood found in every corner of the earth? Is it impossible to believe that any other population of the World has the concept to build a boat? And, if Noah and his family were the only humans that survived, how is it that they evolved into the different races of man within a relatively short period of 6-8 thousand years?
And yet, time after time the religious zealots are constantly trying their hardest to defend these blatant inconsistencies. Very rarely do they ever even entertain the possibility of another philosophy because of their herd-mentality – or complete close-mindedness.
This writer truly believes that the reason for this stubbornness is because the average person is scared. They demand something to look forward to after death. In doing so they convince themselves that this book has all the answers and that it’s only in black & white – Right & Wrong. Knowing in the back of they’re mind that the Bible and other religious beliefs have failed to answer the hard questions.
The answers to dinosaurs, and extraterrestrials, and past civilizations, and even the cure for Cancer are not to be found anywhere in the “perfect” book. Constantly I hear “but it doesn’t say it does” or “it doesn’t say it doesn’t.” All I can say to that is: omission is the worst form of mistruth, and the book leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
On top of all this, the majority of these same people are deliberate hypocrites. They must have their belief as to flaunt their moral superiority. But how many time does someone preach about Jesus Christ’s love and then turn around and perform the most wicked of crimes? Completely disregarding the Golden Rule. “Forgive me for my sins” becomes a very often repeated phrase in their months and has absolutely no validity. The mentality is “I can do anything I want as long as Jesus is there.” Without ever truly trying to better thereselves.
These ignorant masses do not even realize that the “Savior” myth has been used many times before Jesus in the personas of Horus and Krishna. So why is it so hard to believe that certain governmental powers orchestrated the creation of the whole Jesus legend by combining Judaic belief with Pagan belief, ala the Sabbath becoming a Sunday and the traditional holidays of Christmas and Easter, then adding Christ’s influential attributes to fabricate the most ingenious form of political and profitable organization in the history of mankind? Why is it that Christ couldn’t have healed the sick and taught wonderful things while still having erections and begging for bread? If the Lord was supposed to have experienced everything that man had; how is it possible without and antagonizing wife and children to feed?
Is it not remotely feasible that within 2000 years the Gospels were rewritten and retranslated so many times that today they are no longer the original text? In reality I could take this very rant, go out to the desert, dig a big hole, and 1000 years from now the discoverers of this work would claim it as absolute truth. Further, they might again add or take away with it as they please.
Now, I admit – we don’t even have the slightest idea of God, but I’ve often heard a quote from one time or another.

“We are, in truth, all that existed, and ever will exist, I am you, you are me, I am everything, and everything is me. We are not only part of that infinite energy, we are that energy.”

Even our thoughts and our emotions could be considered such. The existence of all this energy and matter certainly gives the impression of a Creator – the Watchmaker if you will. But this Creator could not possibly be secular – it is impossible to say that God can only be found in this religion or that culture or this kind of prayer. And everything else is condemned to damnation for eternity. It makes no sense that the god of the Abrahamic religions spoke only to half-stupefied peasants in the desolate Middle East.
Would the Creator who gave me this free will damn me for using it and questioning that that does not make sense? Especially when it’s concerning the corruption of man? Or the fate of our souls (or “energy” inside of us)? If my conclusion is different will I suffer forever in a fiery realm? Even if I was a good-natured, loving, giving person…raised with a different set of beliefs?
The “freewill” that was gifted to us is limited. As humans we use much less than one percent of our functioning brains. If we could use more freewill might we have a more complete understanding? With, by Hebrew definition is the true meaning of “faith.” This is of course impossible with our limited knowledge – which was “blessed” to us by our all powerful Creator.
I am not suggesting that the Torah and the prophesies in it - or a man named Jesus – are in no way legitimate. But the fact that anything is possible in this Universe, along with the truths about our subjects at hand, leads me to doubt and to strive for a more accurate account. Because, for me, it is intellectually dishonest to say that I’m sure of all the teachings found in our major religions.
In this modern day, technology has the capability to determine the age of certain text and writing through chemical analysis and carbon dating. With this, we can at least come pretty close to the age and the location to a given artifact. But there is no test we can use to prove that it was written by “god.” Again, we come back to faith, but using the same logic; how can one so full of doubt have a complete understanding? Can we not say that this is God’s Will? Perhaps the Creator wanted those to doubt as to show alternatives to the conventional belief system.
We can also use this same logic to a slightly more extreme. If one were to feel compelled to commit an act. Violent or peaceful, and had felt so strongly about their own justification for this undertaking that they were convicted to perform it, can we not also say that it is God’s Will? Is this the same way the Israelites were told to slaughter all those tribes? And there is to be no argument from the simplistic answer of “no – that is not God’s will.” Because we already know from the Bible that God has dealing with the Satan. Book of Job anyone? Also, as the Zealots proclaim, God knows everything. Well then, monsters like Hitler and Stalin were not only created by God, but also allowed to commit their evil crimes. It’s the same as letting your dog go and play in a park full of little kids – but knowing that it’s a vicious animal with rabies who likes to attack children. You have all the power to stop the beast, and you know that the dog can’t tell the difference between kibbles and little kids…so you have to ask yourself: what is the right, moral thing to do?
One more particular concern in regard to religion and the belief in the biblical god is that it promotes a certain distain for everyone who does not believe in their religion. Extreme examples of this come from personalities like Patterson and Falwell and the martyrs of September 11th. People who themselves denounce the so-called evils of harmless freewill and demand radical changes in our society and right to individual freedom. They would happily implement curfews and censorship and mandatory prayers into the schools. Or suppress the study of evolution and the cosmos because it doesn’t fit in with their values. Or even worse – cowardly blow up innocent families for the expansion of totalitarian religious regimes.
But none can said to be true followers of any religious book. The Bible says “eye for an eye” and “turn thy cheek.” And it has all sorts of passages about killing your own children and selling your daughter into slavery. Who then can follow such absurd laws? And if we don’t follow them, can we be said to be follower? Would the pastors who preach Christ sell their Ferrari’s and help the poor? Very doubtful, indeed. So who is a real believer?
The closest could probably be credited with the Islamist Nations…and I personally don’t want that sort of government anywhere close to the Western hemisphere. There’s no need to be driving down the street and seeing a woman getting beheaded because she forgot to cover her face; or homosexuals being stoned to death because of the way they were born; the list is endless of deplorable atrocities. But the good part is that over here we have a separation of Church and State, and thus won’t have any sick shit like that anytime soon. Hopefully.
Religion can be said to produce more wars, more false hopes, and more hypocrites than any other element on earth. There is nothing wrong with the individual belief, but the conditioning and forcing of another without proper investigation – both into the religion itself and the consequence of the one succumbing to it – is an extremely harmful effect. If for nothing else than the constricting of critical thinking.
Everyday a new child is subjected to the religious mutilation of circumcision. And already mentioned are the barbaric practices in the Middle East. These evil methods are part of “god’s” plan? If so, then that is not my God, and not my Creator.
Who could ever possibly determine who is right and who is wrong? Or perhaps it might be better to let the next child find their own way and go about their own values? Before this merciless forcing of one’s will becomes the end of us all.