It’s been nearly 8 months now. Is this available yet over here yet? A quick google brought up nothing more informative than this page.

Surely there should be somewhere online I can purchase of download this?

You don’t need God to be a good person.
You don’t need God to understand the Universe.
You don’t need God to forgive others who trespass against you.

It is Religion that needs you.

Religion needs you to give them money.
Religion needs you to spread the word of their faith to others so others will give them money.
Religion needs you to control you through fears and lies.
Religion needs you so they can lobby governments to benefits the Religion.
Religion needs you to fight their wars.

Organized Religion is the biggest scam in human history. All Organized Religions are nothing more than a Cult of Personality (e.g. Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, North Korea, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, etc.). Jesus followers are the same as those who drink poisoned cool-aid waiting for a comet to take them home. They believe in incredible bull shit that reasonable minds would reject. Organized Religion also continues to seek out others to join them. And this is why Religion must be counteracted. Organized Religion perpetuate their lies and scams to convince the young, the dumb, the lost, to give up control of their lives and do the work of their God. And soon, they can be convinced that trees can talk, God can cure cancer, only sinners get AIDS, and killing others who don’t believe in their God is blessed. Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, they are all the same in this respect. FYI – even in the history of Buddhism, who are supposed to be pacifists, there have been wars fought between different temples – yeah, imagine monks with martial arts weapons kicking ass, like in those Kung Fu movies.

Neither my husband nor my son would ‘find God’. I’m 100% positive about that. If, however, they were slightly brain damaged and did, I would, of course, challenge them… If their brain damage was severe enough that they lost their ability to really think clearly at all, then I would only challenge them when they brought it up. Would they be ‘less than’ the individuals I love now? Yes. They would be, purely because both of them would DEFINITELY have to suffer a brain trauma for that to happen. And losing something, anything, technically means they are ‘less’ than they are now.

My son worked out “God” by himself. He was questioning his RE teacher about the realistic practicalities of building Noah’s Ark when he was 7 (I think he’s got an engineer’s or an architect’s mind). He asked his RE teacher about who Adam and Eve’s children had children with when he was 8 (“Where did their wives come from?!”). When he was 10 he asked his RE teacher if they could learn about the Flying Spaghetti Monster in class…

The kid is intelligent – not ridiculously so – and hasn’t had any religious brainwashing at ALL. We *talk* about religion, but not a whole lot – the first time was when he was 4, it was around Easter and he said he was really really sad cos his friend Charlie told him about these bad guys who’d nailed this baby called Jesus to a cross. I told him the story- as a story – to set him straight and stop him from getting nightmares about baddies nailing up babies.

When he was 6 he asked me what it’s like to die. I told him that was the one thing that no one knows. There isn’t a grown-up on the planet that knows the answer to that… Two weeks later, out of the blue he said, ‘I know why people want there to be a God, because then they could come back and tell us what it’s like to die.’

I was floored by that. He’d worked it ALL out… on his own.

If a 6 year old with no religious brainwashing can work it out for himself, then it’s not difficult, it’s not only for ‘intellectuals’ or ‘them book readers’, it’s 6 year old kid stuff.

The problem, of course, is the brainwashing.

Aside: when he was 7, he worked out that the Tooth Fairy wasn’t real!

I seem to be unique on your website in that I am willing to ”defend” theism whilst not actually belonging to any religious establishment myself. I guess this leaves me open to having defend all religions, or at least explain why I don’t believe a certain belief system should not qualify as a religious belief system It’s hardly an easy position I find myself in and so my reflection simply is, do you *honestly**genuinely* believe that ALL religions should be challenged? If not, then why challenge some and leave others alone? And if you are challenging belief systems, them why not challenge the belief systems behind atheism?

Can I ask what you would do if your husband or your son found God tomorrow? Would you challenge them? Would you continue to challenge them if they didn’t waver in their beliefs, for how long? Years? Do you think they would ‘less than’ the individuals you know and love now?

I still cannot get over the guy on the trailer who suddenly starts speaking in tongues….I am not sure who’s funnier now.

James’ Obama quote (among others) is one of the reasons I’m hoping he intends to make *real* changes: ‘[there is a] need for religious people to translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values during public debate.’ It’s only a start but Obama has the potential to actually embody an ethical, rational, free-thinking secular way of living that could make an enormous difference. We’ll see…

- Sorry…”proper welfare system” goes against our capitalistic beliefs and traditions. Damn you commie! Our nation was founded upon the idea of work hard and prosper, NOT don’t work and get stuff for free. Lazy and the weak have their place, serving happy meals at McD’s. As one European queen once said, “Let them eat Big Macs.”

Ban our firearms? Are you dense boy?
Unfortunately for you, and fortunate for MOI, “firearms” are a Constitutional Right – thanks to the Brits who we pwned and have continued to pwn ever since. If it weren’t for the guns, we would be speaking English and not American. And who’s the Super Power now, huh? Oh yeah, America rockorz, stfu nub. And yo, Queenie, what’s up your Hiny? Our guns are bigger than yours! HEEE HAAAWWW!

J: “I associate America with crime and poverty, it is after all a country built on racism, profiteering and gun slinging.”

- Yes, so what? We got rich on those things, just like the British Empire, the Spanish Empire, the French Empire, the Roman Empire, etc. (you may replace “gun” with any weapon appropriate).

So who gave the Europeans the monopoly on getting rich and having Empires? Why not us – AMERICANS? Screw you Europeans…you are just jealous of our ten gallon hats and our six-shooters. HEEEE HAAAAWWWWW!

J: “Looking at the incredulous crime statistics for America (FBI murder statistics for 2005, 50% of murder victims in America in 2005 were black), it is no surprise that so many individuals in America are driven to the point of despair.”

- So many? Driven to the point of despair? Where? I see nothing but rich people driving around in their BMW/Mercedes/Lexus/Limos with their trophy wives half their age…oh wait, it’s because of the RNC in town. But never mind that. Crime only happens in the ghettos, so that’s OKie Dokie with us, rich folk. HEEE HAAAWWWWW! So screw you, you Eurpoean Intellectual Elite on your high horse! You can take your commie metric system and shove it where the sun don’t shine.