Atheism's Prejudice, Bigotry & Warmongering

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 3:08 AM PDT

2009/08/31 · 03:08

I've been reading the responses to my recent posts and must say that asking atheists to present a positive argument on behalf of atheism must constitute a request for atheists to perform an impossible thing. The atheists who have responded have represented atheism in the worst possible manner.

I suppose that the atheists are attempting to upset or offend me but that is a very difficult thing to do because I spend my time thinking about more positive things:

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I couldn't live in this manner if I was at all concerned about the unhappiness and misery which humankind perpetually self-inflicts upon itself. Happiness and peace are uncommon on the Earth because humankind chooses to live in a sorrowful and violent manner.

dmathew1

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Sunday August 30, 2009 · 3:05 AM PDT

2009/08/30 · 03:05

Yesterday's beauty was extremely young ...

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I hope that everyone understands that I am directing your attention to a sequence of photographs and not a single photograph. It is very important to avoid thinking in a one-dimensional manner because Nature is much more complicated and varied than the human manner of thinking.

I've spent the last several days engaged in a conversation with the atheists and can assure the atheists than I am listening and learning from their responses. Since atheism is an intellectually vacant idea without either positive or negative attributes engaging in arguments with atheists cannot help but degenerate into nothing more than a dog chasing its own tail or waiting in the dark in the hope of finding a ghost.

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Saturday August 29, 2009 · 3:29 AM PDT

2009/08/29 · 03:29

Yesterday was an especially pretty day with Nature's fury on display ...

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The rain was falling long before humankind appeared and the rain will keep on falling long after humans are gone. From the standpoint of Nature humankind is just another species and there is nothing particularly special about this very brief era in the Earth's history.

The Universe hasn't spent the last 13.7 billion years waiting for humankind to evolve and the Universe won't spend the next 20 billion years mourning humankind's extinction. In the great scheme of things humankind doesn't amount to much ... humankind doesn't amount to anything at all.

dmathew1

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Friday August 28, 2009 · 3:48 AM PDT

2009/08/28 · 03:48

Yesterday's post and the day prior's has drawn lots of heat from the atheists, but no light. A certain amount of defensiveness and anger is expected from the atheists. Atheists are remarkably thin-skinned and there is a victimhood mentality which thoroughly pervades atheism.

Atheists are allowed to say the most terrible things about everyone else but they are exempt from criticism in their own minds.

Sam Harris has said some horrendously insulting things about a religion with 1 billion adherents worldwide. Bill Maher has a long history of promoting prejudice against Islam, too:

dmathew1

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Thursday August 27, 2009 · 1:12 PM PDT

2009/08/27 · 13:12

Today provided the most wonderful encounters with birds, ducks and especially ducklings ...

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Once I became accustomed to appreciating beautiful things each and every day I marvelled at the mystery of humankind filling their souls, minds, thoughts and words with negativity of all sorts. Life is too short to waste it away in conflict & competition with anyone else and/or everyone else.

Try peace & peacefulness as a full-time, life-consuming pursuit.

dmathew1

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Wednesday August 26, 2009 · 10:40 AM PDT

2009/08/26 · 10:40

I went searching for beauty today and found an alligator, spiders, birds and more birds ...

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These photographs constitute my argument for humankind to live at peace with Nature and each other as we all should spend our time appreciating the beauty and astonishing diversity of the living world. Life is too short of violence, warfare, competition and capitalism.

Recently someone complained that I had antagonized the atheists with a previous post of mine regarding atheism's infinite regression. I am not inclined to shed a tear for the sorrows of the atheists. I lost all sympathy for atheism during the final five years of the George W. Bush presidency as plenty of atheists aligned with Christian fundamentalists as they sought to spread prejudice, bigotry, irrational fear and violent wishes against the Muslims.

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Tuesday August 25, 2009 · 11:26 AM PDT

2009/08/25 · 11:26

Today is a beautiful day ...

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Darkness, dawn, sunrise, birds, a shark, flowers, more birds ... these are the things that I love about the Earth. I know that this might sound unbelievable to you but it is true:

Some people really do want to leave the Earth.

What a sad goal. These people would trade life on a living planet for life on a sterile ball of dust and rock, either the moon or Mars. Thankfully this is an event which will never happen.

dmathew1

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Monday August 24, 2009 · 11:02 AM PDT

2009/08/24 · 11:02

These are the beautiful living things which made me happy today ...

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Flowers, birds, and pollinators of all sorts busy perpetuating life and beauty on a planet which is alive and going to remain that way against humankind's worst desires otherwise.

Hard to believe that so many humans are unhappy on such a planet as the Earth. Humans have been given so many gifts but humans rejected them all and has chosen to live in perpetually dissatisfaction, competition, conflict and sorrows instead.

dmathew1

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Sunday August 23, 2009 · 10:59 AM PDT

2009/08/23 · 10:59

I enjoy hiking in the rain because rainfall is beautiful ...

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Today began with a rainbow and if that was the only thing I happened to see toay I would have no reason at all to complain. At a place like Weedon Island, though, Nature flourishes and it is quite possible to fully immense the mind in beauty.

Then the rain came and it was wonderful ... being outside in the rain is one of life's great pleasures. The sound, feel and sight of rainfall fills the senses and for a brief moment the soul and Universe are joined together just as a raindrop joins the water.

dmathew1

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 11:16 AM PDT

2009/08/22 · 11:16

Today is an exceptionally beautiful day ...

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Today merited four folders:

Dawn - darkness, the stars and dawn at Ft. DeSoto
Glorious Sunrise - sun rose with its glory and filled the sky with color and light
Feeding Frenzy & Triathlon - birds by the hundreds feasting on fish, triathlon
Dolphins - dolphins, birds, rainbow, magnificent frigatebird

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Friday August 21, 2009 · 11:08 AM PDT

2009/08/21 · 11:08

The living world is beautiful because of ospreys, ducks and baby peafowl ...

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Isn't this the sort of thing which humans should think about rather than all those other things? I'm always moved to pity by the realization that humans seem so very prone to think about the most terrible things ... verified easily enough simply by turning on a television and scanning the channels. Or by visiting a blog and reading the comments.

In addition to the beauties which inhabit my world, I spent some time reading National Geographic magazine and was very pleased by this ...

dmathew1

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 2:10 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 14:10

Nature was generous today ...

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Today has three folders:

Rescued Geese - the geese which were abducted from Crescent Lake were recovered and returned
Beautiful Life - diversity of life on the beach, in the water and the sky above
Hot, Hot, Hot - Afternoon hike along the beach under the hot summertime sun, rendered wonderful by the birds, bugs and plants

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