Ariela Haro von Mogel August 3rd, 2009
Christians (and the religious in general) do not tend to entertain any serious inquiries that might deem their Holy Book immoral. They seem to have exonerated themselves against the notion that their book is wicked. The entirety of the Christian Bible is over saturated with tales condoning and even promoting genocide (against the Canaanites), rampant misogyny, xenophobia (aka racism), incest, slavery, and all sorts of petty and terrible attributes that an individual, in this case Yahweh, could have.
Yet, this is a HOLY book? Continue Reading »
Ariela Haro von Mogel June 22nd, 2009
The Freedom from Religion Foundation has this awesome bus campaign wherein they advertise atheist and secular messages on the sides of buses. I see them all the time here in Madison, WI, home of the FFRF headquarters.
Some great slogans read:
Sleep in on Sundays
Imagine no Religion
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction – Richard Dawkins
Reason’s Greetings
Go to the FFRF website at www.ffrf.org and vote for some more cool bus slogans. You can even suggest one. I sent in one that reads:
Read the Bible. We need more Atheists.
Ariela Haro von Mogel April 7th, 2009
As much as I don’t want to admit this, I am technically an atheist. A Jesus-lovin’ atheist. So yeah, I’m a little weird in connection with other atheists. But I suppose the saying about atheists is right, that getting atheists to organize is like herding butterflies. We are different.
Anyways, the past two nights (in consecutive dream-order, not calendar date order) that I have had dreams, I had very vocal and opinionated atheist dreams. Who knew?! I always considered my husband, the opinionated atheist in the relationship, as The Atheist, and myself as an indeterminate quantity of atheist. So this comes as a shock to me. Continue Reading »
Ariela Haro von Mogel June 25th, 2008
If there’s one phrase I can’t stand and find completely odious is “everything happens for a reason.” What exactly does this mean? I have thought about this long and hard, and have completely offended close friends and family members with my less than objective perspective on it.
Some pretty horrible things happened to me as a teenager and, in turn, I did some horrible things to myself. Whenever I would turn to my mother and ask her for help in understanding the world, she would say “everything happens for a reason.” Now, my mom is a devout Catholic who has attended church every single Sunday of her life, but she is still pretty liberal and open to reason and debate. When I asked her what that phrase means, she made a very nebulous comment that god doesn’t give us “tests” that we can’t handle and horrible things happen to make us better people. This made no sense to me at the time and makes no sense to me now. Why do some people get b.s. heaped on them like no other, and many other people go though life relatively unscathed? And the people who have had the most heaped onto them generally do not become fantastic people, but withdrawn, depressed and defeated individuals. There are a few great exceptions to this. Ayaan Hirsi Ali became a terrific social advocate because of nasty experiences with her religion and society. But Hirsi Ali is a truly exceptional case and most people are not like her.
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