So lately I've seen a lot of my more deluded acquaintances from my highschool days liking various religious pics on the ol' facebook. One of them was just a poster that said in big psychedelic LSD trip letters "GOD IS GOOD!". This was followed by a tremendous circle-jerk of comments all saying things like AMEN and YES HE IS! , etc. I was almost afraid to interject that a jealous and vengeful god could hardly be quantified as good, since I think the torrent of supreme hate that would ensue would have broken the internet.
The thing that struck me about this was the fact that people I used to know, people I used to consider relatively intelligent and rational, have since ( in the 14 years since high school, I know, I'm old) turned into mindless automatons, parroting an obviously fallacious mantra. God is anything BUT good. You don't create a supposedly perfect universe with an unbelievably evil dimension of pain and suffering that simultaneously exists within this universe, unless you're inherently a sadist.
This facebook sharing of what amounts to indoctrination reinforcement is getting out of control. People I once knew as somewhat reasonable are now spam posting psalms from that fiction of fictions, the Bible, sending me invite after invite to some fucking church event where they bathe the homeless or feed the lepers or some other disgusting activity I really don't want to get involved with, and basically just basking in their own righteousness for the whole internet to see. It's really becoming quite disturbing.
Just now someone I know re-posted this sick picture of a random baby with some skin disfiguration or some such, with the tagline "SHARE AND FACEBOOK WILL DONATE $3 TO HELP THIS BABY!". Really? I'm pretty sure Zuckerberg could give even one tenth of a fuck about your crusade to feel good about yourself by posting gross pictures on everyone's news feed to make them feel bad for not caring. Even if that were true, Facebook would quickly run out of money if they tried to do this kind of shit. This ties in to my "Americans are fucking retarded" hypothesis. It just amazes me that people are this retarded in public.
This is why I try to post at least one irritating and controversial (to theists) picture/quote a day, to try to keep the idiocy from spreading too far, too fast. I know I'm only one man, but hell, if I can get more people to hop on the science train to progressville, maybe we'll stop believing fairy tales are true. Would you believe that god was good when presented like... this?:
Seriously. To think that the above means that god is inherently good and that your version of existence is automatically correct because of your childish belief, then I've got news for you: you're pretty fucking dumb. It's like Santa Claus for adults, except if you're bad, you don't just get coal, you get a trillion tons of coal, on fire, poured over you, for the rest of eternity, and you can never redeem yourself. Yeah, that sounds like god knew what he was doing when he was creating morality. Idiots.
So in conclusion: facebook is a vast desert of idiots, with small oases of reason (like this) that are slowly getting larger as time goes on. Just don't go poking the camels... you might get spit on.
Death is only the beginning...
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