Dec

26

Old News Is Good News

December 26, 2009 by Brandon | 3 Comments

December was a very busy month for me. As some of you know, I moved, and setting up a new apartment is time consuming to say the least.

So when I first heard this story, I didn’t have a chance to write about it. And what better time to write about a ”Christmas miracle” than the day after Christmas?

If you ask one year old Nicholas Coke’s mother, she’ll tell you her son is a miracle. He doesn’t do much that other one year olds do, but that’s to be expected when you’re born without a brain.

Yeah, that’s right. This child has no brain, just a brain stem which somehow allows his internal organs to at least function.

So tell me, how exactly is this a miracle? It’s a gift from God that he gave you a brainless child who will undoubtedly die within the next year, and has only survived this long as some sort of fluke? Your miracle is a child who will never even be able to precieve or appreciate the love you’ve given it?

It’s possible that they could just be speaking figuratively when they call him a miracle, but I somehow doubt it. I’m just facinated with these sort of things; when people take a horrible situation, and then claim it’s a miracle… like it somehow makes it all better. Like when there is a bad car accident and seven people are killed but it’s a miracle that the baby in the car, who now has no mommy, came out physically unscathed.

Miracles do not work that way. Not that they work at all, but if they did, that’s not how they would work. A glimmer of hope through a terrible tragedy is not a miracle. The idea that you’ve somehow become a stronger person after having been made to suffer is not a miracle. And a baby born without a brain, no matter how long it lives without it, is not a miracle, although it takes a person without a brain to think it is.



Oct

8

Not two hours from where I live, a Pennsylvania couple is being charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing their two year old son to expire from bacterial pneumonia in their Philadelphia home. The parents believe that God can heal the sick through prayer, but as the body of their dead son would suggest, it didn’t quite work out as planned.

“All it would have taken is a simple visit to a doctor for antibiotics or Tylenol, maybe, to keep this child alive,” Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said during the couple’s preliminary hearing.

And that’s what makes this so sad, that a very treatable illness took the life of this child because his parents are nutjobs.

Herbert and Catherine Schaible, who are out on bail, are the worst of the worst, in my opinion, when it comes to religious fanatics. Believe what you want. Do to yourself whatever you want to do in accordance to those beliefs. But your religious rights end there. You unfortunately have the right to brainwash your kid with whatever nonsense you want to shove in his or her brain, but when it comes to physical neglect and abuse, all bets are off.

Hopefully something good will come out of this; hopefully it will create some sort of precedent in this state that holds idiots like these two accountable for their crimes, instead of allowing them to hid behind their religion.



Aug

6

God Likes Me Better

August 6, 2009 by Brandon | 1 Comment

Chuck Arnone is thanking God for still being alive after being struck by lightning. Aside from being knocked unconscious from the bolt for several minutes, he was completely unharmed. Some, like Chuck, would call this a miracle.

Chuck has only one conclusion, “It’s a miracle of God that’s the only explanation I’ve had. I’ve had people say you’re a lucky guy or how fortunate you were. I say I am blessed.”

His buddy standing a few feet away from him would beg to differ. That is, if he could. He’s currently in critical condition at the Orlando Regional Medical Center, having been struck by the same exact bolt of lightning.

This is the mentality of the religious. They think they are special and privileged over others, that their god chooses who gets zapped by lightning and who doesn’t. They fail to realize the connotations of such statements.

And they do it all the time. It’s just that this scenario makes it blatantly obvious. The logic this man uses in his conclusion that it was a miracle that he was spared by the will of God but the other man was not absolutely means that he believes the other man deserved it. It’s a nice way of saying this without having to say such a nasty, hateful thing.

But really. God saw fit to strike this other man down, but not Chuck. God obviously had the ability to spare the other man, but did not. Why? Why Chuck? Tell us what you really are thinking.

Face the facts. If you want it to be a miracle that God saved your life but not the other guy’s, there is a reason. What is the reason, Chuck?



Apr

19

Why There Is No God #4

April 19, 2009 by Brandon | Leave a Comment

Reason number 4 for why there is no god:

A man in a wheelchair who was hit by a bus on Friday has died.

The reason he was in a wheelchair is because he had been hit by a bus last September near the same location, costing him his leg.

Yeah… I think that about sums that case up.



Apr

11

Not Such A Good Friday

April 11, 2009 by Brandon | 1 Comment

Here’s reason number 4 for why there is no God.

Pretty close to home, too.

Several people were injured, and an elderly woman was killed after her leg was severed when an ex-priest ran them down after church services.

What a nice god. You go to worship him and one of his faithful runs you down, chopping your leg off, leaving you to die from your wounds. Praise Jebus.

…or maybe they’re all wasting their time and there wasn’t a magic cloud man in the sky there looking after them to begin with.



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The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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