By Discordia ~ I found a free Android app that lets me create memes for posting on various social sites. One of the myriad templates is the philosoraptor with the following text offered as a sample: If Satan punishes the evildoers, wouldn’t that make him a good guy? That question made me sit back and think. (I love when that happens, by the way!) The only logical answer would have to be "Yes". I have always heard that Satan is the enemy of God and stands against everything God is for. Since God orders the eternal punishment of people who don’t believe in Him, then why would Satan follow that order if he was The Bad Guy? According to Christian doctrine, Satan and Hell are a special creation of God to punish people who don’t believe in God. Christians believe that people who don’t believe in God are enemies of God, just like Satan. So….what possible reason could there be for Satan to torture those billions who should be his steadfast allies in his fight agai...

By Discordia ~ Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. All resemblance of persons or places, living or dead or undead, is completely coincidental. Coincidences are just number theory in action, sort of like how a broken clock is right twice a day. Because this is a work of fiction, by definition it means it is total bullshit. While the people I mention and the works are quite real, all the rest of this is a concoction of my imagination. It’s not real. I made it all up. Well, except for the Bible. I didn’t make that up. Someone else did. I can write much better than that. However, if you believe any of this crap I wrote is real, you really need to have your head examined. Seriously. Go find a good shrink before you hurt someone, including yourself. T he world is ending on December 12, 2012. Jesus will return then and if the Bible is true then all the dead will rise. People who are dead and buried and then later rise from their graves are zombies. Period. Unlike Arago...

By Discordia ~ E very now and then it pops up in postings here about how stupid and religious everyone in the South is. While everyone is entitled to their opinions, that entitlement doesn’t mean I have to like what they say, nor does it mean I have to remain silent. Quite frankly, such sweeping assumptions irritate me (especially on those occasions I find myself making them). There are more than just a few of us regulars who are from the South. While that may come as a shock to some people who like thinking that the South is nothing but border to border churches, they should be realizing that deconversions are happening everywhere, and if churches are losing members on a regular basis, exactly WHERE do you think the majority of losses would be? Perhaps in areas where there are more religious people? I cannot speak for others here, but I can promise you that I no more like hearing that EVERYONE in the South is a religious moron no more than anyone here likes hearing how they w...

By Discordia -- Image by marfis75 via Flickr O ver the past several years many questions have crossed my mind as I have read explanations for Christian dogma. I was once very much into Jesus until the light of reason broke forth in my mind. I hated losing faith and did my best to hang onto it but the more of the Bible I read in my search for God, the bigger the chinks became in my ‘spiritual armor’ until the whole suit just disappeared. These are some of the sticky questions that made me leave religion. Which Bible, Church and Doctrine Should I Choose? There are several versions of the Bible in circulation (Jerusalem, Orthodox, KJV, NIV, NRV, Living, among others). There are twenty five general categories of churches just in my local, small town yellow pages (each with lists of individual churches: Baptist, Southern Baptist, Methodist, AME, Lutheran and Holiness churches etc available in the area) plus at least twelve independent churches. Theological differences include ...

By Discordia -- "But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?" 2 Kings 18:27 “And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.” Eze 4:12 T hat sounds totally disgusting. Who in their right mind eats dung? The very idea is nauseating to us here. A popular insult is telling someone to “Eat s**t and die.” Yet here are verses in the bible where people are eating dung and drinking urine and it’s a good thing. What is up with that? None of those verses made sense to me until I started gardening. A quick survey of organic products for plants in most dedicated gardening stores is gross when you really think about it. Blood meal (for nitrogen), bone meal (for calcium, something tomatoes need to avoid blossom end rot) and fish emul...