Tax Atheists for not Going to Church? Ugh…

I wish this was a parody.  I really do.  I wish I could tell you that I am just pulling this out of my ass and I hope you all have a good laugh with me.  Sadly, that isn’t the case.  I am being dead serious.  Bryan Fischer, a radio host who is a prominent member of The American Family Association, said on his radio show on Thursday some interesting tidbits about atheism.  Look, here’s a link, I want to get to attack this.  I’ve already gone after this dumbass once.  I am proud to do so again.

Now here is a great comment from a listener, and you can access this during the program – focalpoint@afr.net.  focalpoint@afr.net.

Yes, because so many people want to read this guy’s comments while he’s getting them.

There’s also a way to contribute.

Oh, now it makes more sense.  He’s whoring himself out for money.  Okay.  Continue.

Or participate in the discussion.  And this writer didn’t include their name, but this was a great point!

Oh boy, I can’t wait!  What great point did this commenter make?

This is a great point.

Thanks for repeating that.  I had forgotten from two second ago.  Though, given the intelligence level of your audience, I’m not surprised.

You know, we talk frequently on this program about people who have an active, vibrant spiritual life are healthier.

Yeah…

They live longer.  They’re healthier and they are happier.

Of course they are…

Their physical health is better.

Keep saying it more.  Maybe it’ll come true.

We have read numerous stories

Which he doesn’t cite.

or even medical professionals attest to the power of prayer in quickening healing for people.

Which he gives no specific examples of.

So this listener says, “hey!  What we ought-ta do is have an individual mandate, from the government, that everybody has to go to church.”  Because after all, Obamacare is about trying to improve the health of the American people.

Um, no, no it’s not.  Granted, I have a lot of problems with Health Care Reform, since there is no public option, which makes the insurance mandate totally useless, but it is about trying to get people health insurance and medical care.

We know that going to church is good for you.  It’s good for your health, so we’re gonna mandate that you go to church for your own health.

I would LOVE to know just how they are going to enforce that.  Plan to have cops watching all the churches and scouting for people not going?  Wow, I thought being against Nazism and totalitarian dictatorships was a big schtick for you guys.

And, we’re gonna tax the atheists who don’t go to church!

Okay, first, I just adore how the hypocrisy of that statement doesn’t just kill you.  Religion in this country gets a 100% free pass on taxes.  You pay nothing.  You literally have no obligation.  The reason behind this was that it would keep religion from having a stake in politics.  But anybody even slightly informed knows that that is a joke.  Religion has a stranglehold on this country’s politics.  If you aren’t Christian, you can’t get elected. So, you want to tax the atheists for not going to church, while you yourselves have no tax obligations.  Damn, that’s good stupid.  You don’t see stupid like that much.

Now we can’t make you go to church.

Which contradicts your earlier point which I asked how you would enforce a mandate to get people there.

But we are gonna penalize you if you don’t!

Again, how are you going to enforce this?  Are you going to have all people sign in when they get to church?  You want to have the government have an active registry of who is and isn’t in church?  I thought you all wanted government to stay out of your private lives.  This seems to totally contradict that.  And what about people who aren’t Christian?  Does this mandate for church include Muslim mosques?  What about Hindu temples?  Or Buddhist temples?  Are you going to allow them an exempt from this tax too?  Given what a hateful and spiteful people you are, Fischer, I don’t think you could handle that.

We’re gonna assess a tax on every atheist who doesn’t go to church, because those atheists are endangering their physical health.  That is actually a brilliant, brilliant suggestion.

No, that’s a fucking retarded suggestion, and I feel ashamed that people in this country are actually stupid enough to take it seriously.

Christians – this is why we mock you.  If more of you would come out and say that you are against morons like this, we would shut up.  The atheist community isn’t against your religion.  We are against the imbeciles in your religion who are using their faith as a weapon against the rest of us.

Until next time, a quote,

“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.”  -Sammy Davis, Jr.

Peace out,

Maverick

Don’t Like Bigots? Then You Must be with Hitler!

There is a growing paradigm in this country that is actually a little bit disturbing for me to see.  I have been viewing it for some time in the public forums and it is honestly a little bit off-putting and off-pissing.  It is becoming so commonplace in modern society that people are not even noticing and getting as offended as they should be.  Really, it is becoming so widely used that history is becoming nothing but a joke.  This is dangerous because people need to understand about real history.  They don’t need Christian bigots and right-wing morons giving them deliberately bad information in order to get people’s fear going.  The new target paradigm for people those groups don’t like – Hitler and the Nazis.

Now, here is a bit of real history – Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German who became the leader of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, which is known in modern vernacular as the Nazi Party.  It is the horror of what the Nazi Party did during their reign that has been one of the big talking points of people who are against socialism, which is a huge logical fallacy, but we’ll get into that later.  Hitler was a devout Roman Catholic.  He believed what he did was for God.

Now, a lot of people believed that Hitler had a very cozy relationship with the Pope, Pius XII, but there is also some data that shows Pius didn’t see eye-to-eye with him.  I will choose not to voice and opinion because there is too much data that contradicts itself.  Besides, some Catholics get their panties in a bunch when you do that.  Of course, we’ll get into it later about how the Catholics have no reason to get on anybody’s case, ever, about the views of Adolf Hitler.

But back to history, Hitler began his Party as a grassroots movement.  All fascism starts as a grassroots movement (don’t tell that to the Tea Party, eh?).  They quickly came into power after the Great Depression.  In 1934, he came into total power as the Fuhrer.  Using his power he did atrocities all over the world.  Some estimates put him at killing 17 million civilians, over 6 million Jews, and half a million Romani people.  That is who the man really was.  He was a monster who killed, destroyed, and had no regard for human life in any significant way.  His way of thinking didn’t die with him, and this is a tragedy that should be mourned by everybody.

But now the new paradigm that people think is perfectly acceptable is to have groups that they don’t agree with compared to the Nazis and Hitler.  Every example that has come up is tragic and the people who makes these examples are nothing but scum.  Not one of them is a worthwhile person in any way.  The first example that I am going to bring up is when Pope Benedict (or as TJ calls him, Been-a-dick) decided to link Atheism to Nazis.

Even in our own lifetimes we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live.  As we reflect on the sobering lessons of atheist extremism of the 20th century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and
thus a reductive vision of a person and his destiny.”

Yup, apparently, all the muder that Hitler did was because he was an atheist.  This is an issue that makes me question Pius XII and his unsettlingly cozy relationship with the Nazis.  When somebody goes out of their way to make the point that a group they don’t like is like a group who has some evidence of being too cozy with them, that doesn’t bode well to me for the point that they weren’t friends.

Now, I know that all Catholics don’t think like this guy.  I know plenty of Catholics who didn’t like that statement and severely disagreeded with his sentiments.  But this is offensive becuase, as Richard Dawkins also commented on, it diverts attention away from the fact that Hitler did what he did in the name of the Catholic church.  He killed so many people because he wanted to, and his faith did guide him.  So that is probably the most extreme, but certainly no the last example.

It is easy to forget now that he is gone and nobody gives a shit about him all the comparisons that Lonesome Rhodes Beck made between the liberals and Nazis.  It is kind of amusing how Lewis Black said that he has “Nazi Tourrettes.”  Beck would go on and on and on about how everything Obama did was like Hitler, how the liberals were all like Nazis, and the Tea Party movement that gathered around him was quick to pick up the slack and go on and on and have sign after sign about how Obama is Hitler.  Yes, the President, the democratically elected president of this country is a Nazi.  And why is he a Nazi?  Because he wants free healthcare.  Yeah, that so seems like something that Nazis were all about.

And the bigotry keeps going.  Bryan Fischer, a very good friend of a group that is funding Rick Perry’s little shindig that is going to be happening on August 6th, had a thought about who the Nazis are.  His belief is that the Nazis were gay.  Yes, if you are gay, you are just like the Nazis.  He believes that the Nazi Party began in a gay bar.  Yeah, because the Nazis were very cool with gay people too, right?  Wrong, you bigoted dumbass!  The LGBT community were also victims of the Holocaust.  It is unclear how many were killed in the concentration camps, but they were also struck down by the Nazi regime.  But of course, no point telling Bryan Fischer that.  He doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together, so it is pointless to try.  Here is Bryan Fischer’s quote about being gay and being a Nazi -

The Nazi Party was formed, ladies and gentleman, in a gay bar, and historians agree.  Hitler’s earlies enforcers, the stormtroopers, the brown shirts, were almost, without exception, homosexuals.”

And my final example was brought to my attention today from a person I had heard a little bit about, but had never looked into in a significant way until now.  There is a woman named Pamela Geller.  This woman is the worst kind of bigot.  Her bigotry knows no limits and she never has a problem making her voice heard.  There are Republicans who think she is attractive, but I am with Coughlin when I think that she looks more like the Crypt Keeper.  In any case, she believes that the reason that the Nazis exist is because of Muslims existing.

These people are all scum, each and every one of them.  Given all the crimes that the Catholic church has been involved in, like thed Spanish Inquisition, witch burnings, the Crusades, and the list goes on and on, they have no right to ever lecture anybody about how one group is better than another, morally speaking.  And for those who point to Hitler and talk about evil socialism, you think all socialism is like this?  If you do, you’re an idiot.  Guilt by association, very classy.  But the fact that people find it so easy to ignore history is even worse because people who have actually done horrible things are now being misrepresented and when people start to forget real history, they are even more doomed to repeat it.

Until next time, a quote,

“Even if Hitler had been an atheist, as Stalin most surely was, how DARE Ratzinger suggest that atheism has any connection whatsoever with their horrific deeds!”  -Richard Dawkins, a rally protesting the Pope in England

Peace out,

Maverick

Bryan Fischer: Uber Christian Bigot and Rick Perry’s Best Friend

It is a big story among the rational and sane community about the lovely affront to the First Amendment (not because he is doing it, but because it is nothing more than official state-endorsed religion) that is going to go down in Houston, Texas.  The Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is going to have a huge event go down in the Reliant Stadium.  He is trying to get people from all over the country to gather and to pray to God (the Christian God) to solve America’s problems because in his mind, they are “too big” for us dumbass Americans to fix.

So, this “Free Prayer Rally” is Perry’s shindig.  Let’s look beyond the fact that this is an American governor who is holding a prayer event as a state-endorsed event.  Never mind his previous venture which was also a spit in the face of the First Amendment – the “Pray for Rain Day.”  Let’s look beyond all of that and look at this particular issue from another perspective – who is backing it?  The group that is also behind this little soiree is The American Family Association.  One of their champion radio hosts is one of the most spectacular Christian bigots that I have ever seen.  For real, Mike Voris looks tame when compared to this guy.

It should be obvious from the world “Family” in their organization’s title that the first thing they are against is homosexuality.  And Bryan Fischer, their biggest radio host friends and also the director of the AFA’s “Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy” (I know, it sounds really important, but in all truthfulness, it is just hopeless nonsense), is one of the chief champions of homophobic bigotry.  He also hates all kinds of groups.  I am going to give a bunch of quotes and I will comment on each of them and we will get to see what kinds of people Rick Perry, a Governor in America and also a person who believes his role in government is as an army of clergy, is in bed with.  Here are some choice quotes from his radio show called “Focal Point”, and my thoughts along the way.

Do not tell me that we cannot enforce laws against profanity, laws against blasphemy, law against misusing the Lord’s name.  If we can punish somebody for using ‘F’ word, then you can punish somebody for taking the name of God in vain!”

First off, you can’t punish somebody for saying FUCK (I believe in profanity, I really do).  You can fire a person for that, but only because it is unprofessional in the workplace.  You cannot take legal action against a person for saying FUCK.  And second – First Amendment!  No state-endorsed relligion, you moron!

It’s just like Islam, it’s just like the Nazis.  With the Homosexual Lobby, there is no place for freedom of speech.  There is no place for differences of opinion.  There is no place for tolerance.  It is absolutely, utterly intolerant.”

The irony in this statement is almost too obscene for words.  How many Christians get in the face of members of the LGBT community and quote bible verses at them while telling them they are going to burn in Hell?  How many Christians get in the face of atheists like me and tell them they are going to burn in Hell?  Tolerance is an issue to this fucktard?!  That is almost too amazing for words.

God has set boundaries for nations.  These borders are not random, they’re set by God.  In fact, we discovered that in American history.  We tried a number of times to invade Canada and we couldn’t do it!”

Okay, my American history is a tad bit rusty, but when exactly did all of these multiple invasions of Canada occur?  For one thing, there has never been a major disagreement between Canada and the US.  We have never been at war with Canada.  This is so dumb it hurts!  And as for God making that borders of nations, here’s a funny question – what about Africa?  The British just divided up that nations without thinking.  Part of the big political problem with Africa is that their borders were just drawn on a map and are not relevant to the various tribes and groups who live there.  Just more stupidity from a Christoholic.

The Bible teaches us that a change in sexual orientation is possible.  This is a biblical principle.  It is a biblical proclamation.  It is a biblical assertion.”

Yeah, that is just stupid.  I think we all know why (for you Christians without brains [I am fully aware that isn't all of you, but some], it is because you are born gay!)

 I am convinced that the number one group, the number one class of people who are committing hate-crimes today are homosexual activists.”

Yeah, those homosexuals are just out there beating people up in the street!  They are raping and murdering women because they are straight!  They are doing all kinds of sick shit to guys because they are straight too!  All straight people should be afraid of them in their stylish pumps and tasteful outfits.  Those psychotic bastards!  Moron…

 You’re going to have the homosexual lobby committing one hate-crime after another against service members, especially officers who have deeply held religious convictions about the acceptability of homosexual behavior!”

His thoughts about repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.  More ignorant stupid bullshit.  Yeah, I’m sure a serviceman or woman is pretty bitter, but guess what, people are generally decent and the LGBT community has not even anything resembling the amount of dirt the rest of the world has in regards to hate-crimes.  It doesn’t even compare.  This is just ridiculous, but it shows how he is trying to use pathetic emotional-based arguments to get people to attack another group, not caring if they are factual or not.

I’ve never called gay people terrorists, but I have said that what they have done is like domestic terrorism.”

WHAT?!  Is this crazy bastard serious?  So they are blowing up buildings like the Oklahoma City Bomber did?  They are flying planes into buildings?  They are shooting up schools?  How exactly is people wanting to be left alone and be able to love the person they love anything like domestic terrorism, you conceited bigot?!

This is a lifestyle of which participants ought to be ashamed, ought to be embarassed.”

And why does he say that?  Because his Gawd commands him to.

The Nazi Party was formed, ladies and gentleman, in a gay bar, and historians agree.  Hitler’s earlies enforcers, the stormtroopers, the brown shirts, were almost, without exception, homosexuals.”

There needs to be a movement to villify dipshits like this.  This guy’s bigotry is almsot on a shocking level.  This is absolutely incredible.  But what is more incredible than anything else is that Rick Perry is saying that he endorses this kind of bigotry.  Or if he doesn’t openly endorse it, he turns a blind eye to it.

And it is this reason more than any other which is why I say that I think Christianity is a socially corrosive belief system.  We have a guy who is trying to do what the Pope did a little while ago.  The Pope said that Hitler was an atheist, and atheists are evil because Hitler was one of them.  Yeah, and several Popes throughout history have overseen, sometimes personally, the slaughter of innocent people.  Does that mean that all Popes are evil?  And here we have Fischer saying that all Nazis were gay.

Are these the kinds of people you are associating with, Rick?  Are these people your kinds of people?  And for all of America – do you want a person who condones this kind of bigoted behavior leading this country?!  He may make a Presidential run in 2012.  Do you want him in the White House?

I really hope not.

Until next time, a quote,

“It’s not hate-speech.  It’s the truth!  It’s freedom!  Apart from when you criticize him, then it’s hate speech.  It’s a hate-crime when you criticize him.  He’s saying is the truth.  The gays, the Nazis and the Muslims.  Fuck you, Rick Perry!”  -Richard Coughlin, The Free Hate Rally 

Peace out,

Maverick