I know what you’re thinking: how exciting is it that former SNL Alumni Victoria Jackson finally has the opportunity to spew her hateful bullshit with 3 equally ignorant people? I’m all tingly just thinking about the possibilities. Here, these hateful wenches discuss things they clearly know nothing about: Gay Marriage, Muslims, and Gay Muslims.

I know this all seems like some kind of insane joke, but no, this is actually real. Jackson is really that ignorant: when accused of being a homophobe when she criticized 2 men kissing on Glee as “disgusting”, she responded that this was just a liberal buzzword.

I actually wonder if most of you will manage to make it all the way through this torture session. Good luck!

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I hate the way non-scientists keep arguing that “science doesn’t know everything”, or that “new research supports my [insert bullshit idea here]. The latest confused buffoon is Andrew Sullivan, who has a new section where you can ask him questions. It seems that he’s been reading the same book I have (Pinker’s “Angels of our Better Natures; Why violence has declined), but he’s come to vastly different conclusions. He seems to think that human kind become more peaceful is somehow proof that Jesus loves you.

I’m convinced that he hasn’t actually read the whole thing, especially when he states (incorrectly) that pre-state societies were less violent. Pinker showed exactly the opposite; that the creation of states actually lowered violent crimes. What we traded for was less freedom and a slightly crappier diet in exchange for fewer violent crimes. It’s obvious Andrew read the book through his “God goggles” and wants to believe that his stupid book of fairy tales has something useful to say about reality (this collective memory idea is quite embarrassing). I especially dislike his diseased notion that there is an “Arc of History [that] seems to echo the notion of a providence directed by God in some way”. I bet it seems that way when you’ve already decided that your imaginary friend is real.

Stick to what you know, Andrew. Your whole “Adam and Eve isn’t real but it is real” is probably the stupidest thing you’ve ever said, dude.

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You’ve probably noticed the new tactic from bigoted religionists claiming that their rights (specifically the right to discriminate against people for their sexual orientation) are being infringed. Well, this strategy has now morphed into a baseless accusation of fascism by a right wing nutjob named Alan Craig. He’s determined that the threat of wider acceptance of same-sex marriage as a sign of Fascism. The authors clever word for this sheer nonsense is “Gaystopo”.

the hidden hegemonic ambitions of the Gaystapo have been exposed recently by their plans to annex and redefine ‘marriage’. They already have achieved equal rights through civil partnerships, so to covet the word and undermine a foundation-stone of our civilisation – and nurturing place for our children – betrays other more ominous intentions. They want to change our language, manipulate our culture and thereby impose their world-view on us all. Cultural domination is their aim and fascist-type intolerance of politically-incorrect dissent is their weapon. The eradication of marriage as “the life-long union between a man and a woman” is a huge next step along their way.

It’s funny how, when this “cultural hegemony” isn’t specifically Christian, the right suddenly decides that any changes to our attitudes as a culture must inherently be tyrannical in nature. He doesn’t even comprehend the fact that his religion’s main goal is to force THEIR beliefs on others. This is why unconstitutional and grossly homophobic laws like Prop 8 and DOMA make his argument so ironic. Here is an obvious example of a right leaning ideology (the same spectrum that fascism finds itself under) that imposes its set of values on others who don’t share their limited world view. He even has the audacity to call the gay rights movement, and liberalism in general, as “liberal fascism”. The combination of these two words make about as much sense as “Christian thinker”.

When readers started complaining about the author’s use of Nazi imagery, he first tried to claim that he didn’t really believe that the two were comparable, and that he really has a “live and let live attitude”. This brings up the pertinent question: “Why the fuck did you write your article, jackass?”.

I cannot be clearer that I am not, repeat not, saying all gay people are Nazis any more than I’d say all Muslims are Islamists or all Germans were fascists. It would be self-evident nonsense….Obviously they aren’t military or violent, but they are militant, intolerant, hypocritical and vindictive…It’s their way or no way – the totalitarian mind-set.

Yeah, he’s not saying ALL of them are: just enough that their “pink jackboots” footprints can be seen on the necks of poor, hardworking Christians who just want to disapprove of their lifestyle in peace. The problem is that this complete distortion of reality ignores the constant attempts by Christians to impose THEIR values and morals on others. Christians have never really feared totalitarianism; the Catholic Church singed the Reichskonkordat with the Nazis specifically to ensure that their interests would coincide with those of Hitler’s Germany. I find it quite illuminating that when they attempt to use the state to PREVENT gays from marrying, they casually ignore the fact that they themselves have used their power to put their “Jesus jackboots” on the throats of people who simply want to devote their lives to one another, and have the same legal rights as others.

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The New Tithe from Justin Wilson on Vimeo.

Man, there are days when I feel like I’m in the wrong profession. My religious counterparts swim in money while I continue to struggle for my existence. Are religious people more generous? Do they think their causes are more important than ours? When will we start seriously supporting secular organizations the way religious people support theirs? Not being a religion, I have to file my taxes and pay the government what little I have while these rich pastors enjoy tax free monies.

There are a few TGA fans that occasionally give more than the minimum. It’s because of these people that TGA still exists (the amount I charge for shows will not become profitable until the podcast grows to roughly 3 times its current size). So, thanks all of you that have helped keep this operation afloat. If this video makes you feel generous, you are aware that there is a donate button, right?

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“Pain is merely weakness leaving your body”
“You won’t last long if you start feeling sorry for yourself”
“Pay attention; you are a loser”

If you ant to have a scary cultist environment, you need the following (all of which seem present in this ‘retreat”).

- Use food deprivation to make people more tired, and susceptible to suggestion
- Use hard physical labor to break down subjects to make them more submissive
- Use intimidation, yelling, peer pressure, the fear of failure or unacceptable to soften their psyche.
- Identify your subject’s fears and expose them to it (like the girl with the bug) while uttering pointless platitudes.
- Use a constant overload of stimulus to make it hard or impossible for the subject to concentrate for any long period of time.

This place makes Jesus Camp look like Disneyland.
(via Unreasonable Faith)

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Religions are finally starting to understand that the scientific revolution, and the information Age is eroding the power of their institution. It turns out that material explanations for natural processes is much more satisfying than a bunch of outdated superstitious ideas and vague promises of life eternal. A formerly religious fan wrote to me recently put it better than I ever could:

I’ve always rebelled against those ideas [religion] but have never considered atheism nor have I ever done any kind of research on the origins of life, our planet, and the universe. Since becoming an atheist I’ve learned so much about these things. It’s really amazing how rejecting fairy tales really opens your mind to some really fucking amazing things.

Confused and afraid, the Church has only one “solution” for the problem: bringing it back to the love of Jesus, and making people understand that only their institution can properly hand out tickets to magical playland in the sky.They worry about an increasingly secularized world, combined with a weak-sauce form of spirituality that lacks the important tithing they cherish so much. As membership continues to slid, no doubt they see the writing on the wall.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York seems to understand that there’s a serious problem:

They [churchgoers] drift from her, get mad at the Church, grow lax, join another, or just give it all up,” he said, according to a text of his remarks posted on the Conference’s website (www.usccb.org).If this does not cause us pastors to shudder, I do not know what will. The reasons are multiple and well-rehearsed — and we need to take them seriously. The Church we passionately love is hardly some cumbersome, outmoded club of sticklers, with a medieval bureaucracy, silly human rules on fancy letterhead, one more movement rife with squabbles, opinions, and disagreement.

I totally agree. The Church is so much more than cumbersome, outmoded, silly and filled with squabbles and disagreement. It’s also a criminal organization that’s sheltered pedophiles and child rapists since its inception, been responsible for some of the most brutal genocides and massacres in our species history (Just ask the Cathari how they feel about the Church. Oh wait, you can’t, since they slaughtered them all), and still to this day continues to spread death and misery over their stupid objection to contraception.

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If you don’t remember the Dover Trials, then this documentary should refresh your memory. I’m not sure how long this video will be up (since i assume it’s probably breaking some annoying copyright law), so you better watch it before it’s gone. Recommend that you play it in the background. This puppy clocks in at almost two hours. Enjoy!

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Once in a while some confused religious person will venture on the site and express their dismay at the “hate” and intolerance on display. One such visitor felt that the real problem in the world is that folks just don’t do enough to try and respect one another:

a lot of hateful comments from the atheist camp here, why cant people just tolerate each other why are people always finding reasons to hate each other. i know atheists consider themselves better and more intelligent human beings than religious ones, well then if your so much better then why cant you be the ones to lead by example and show some respect and tolerance to others?

I don’t even know what the fuck he’s talking about this “atheists think they are better” nonsense. We just don’t cling to Bronze Age myths and pretend that the “revealed” words of lunatics is anything more than sheer fantasy. In a perfect world where superstitious bullshit didn’t cause wars, genocide, broken families, discourage the use of condoms to fight AIDS or undermine science education, maybe we would be more tolerant. But that’s not the world we lie in, and while it’s easy to pretend that you want everyone to get along, it’s only because you haven’t considered the consequences your own beliefs have on society.What we think about the nature of reality has a direct influence in the real world, and until you stop poisoning our minds with complete garbage, we’ll continue to mock your sincerely held beliefs and not apologize for it.

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While I hate their fucking commercials, I am rather pleased at the news that the Axe Deodorant spray (which smells a lot like hair spray from the 90′s) is causing something of a stir with Christians in South Africa. Apparently they don’t find the thought of an angel renouncing immortality in order to have a gang-bang amusing. Who would have thought?

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Not only does his name sound like a bad-ass metal band, but he is also the “Co-prophet of the End Times”. That’s nutjob for “I think Jesus chose me to deliver you the good news about his planned mass slaughter”. He’s so crazy that one scary sounding name fantasizing about the death of countless human beings was not enough.

Priceless moments include:
- Referring to “withdrawal” as a planned parenthood form of birth control.
- Objection to having the Pope tell us what to do is the devil talking.
- God invented the “Game of Sex”
- God punishes you with STD’s in this life and eternal torture in the next.
- Dude admits to own lack of popularity due to harshness of message

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