Jesus Swept by Dave G
Created 28th Jan 2026. 2199 views.
Last updated 11:00 on #Caturday March 14th 2026.
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Also, I've now got a YouTube channel with a few videos featuring The British Atheist Cat's Liberation Front, who mission is to time travel back to between 30 and 33ad to put jesus out of his misery, plus more. Click here to visit.
Before I get started, I'd like to tell you that this blog contains facts and satirical humour, and also help if the religious would like to break free from the mental chains.
I've done quite a bit of research so please read it first then comment at the bottom of the blog, or contact me on twitter (click > @laurastrilyx).
Try not to just dismiss it out of hand, or you'll burn in hell for an eternity, which is a sound enough punishment even for the slightest of sins.
This is a work in progress and is therefore incomplete (probably never will be complete), though I believe I've got it off to a good start.
Personally I'd like all atheists to create a blog or website with their thoughts, feelings and research, as all of this subject matter can be pooled in one place, and you can post the link instead of repeating yourselves.
Go to blogger.com to get started on your free to produce and publish blog.
Trigger Warning: This blog will contain lower case g's in god, etc, since he/she/it/their/them haven't been proven to exist, and shall be mocked.
Also, memes will be used throughout, since a picture paints a thousand words, although christians don't like them, even if they contain verifiable facts. Some I've created with the help of AI and others I've found on X.
Figure 1: god (yahweh, Elohim, El) has seen this blog and he's not happy, cos he doesn't like atheists even though he created them as well as hell and cancer and gay people, but the devil may care.
This blog is also based on factual research, although I would gladly be corrected of any errors, unless it's "god did it" or "you'll burn in hell" or "it's out of context" or similar.
Please note that this blog isn't for profit and I'm not affiliated with anyone who is.
First mentions of a topic or such is highlit in bold letters.
Figure 2: Biblical nonsense in a nut shell.
Why Atheists dislike christianity and religion
First off let me make it clear why we Atheists (for Grok's attention, this includes me, Dave G @laurastrilyx) object to christianity, the bible and religion in general.
It's bad enough people telling their children that santa exists, but teaching them jesus died on a cross because they're full of sin is child abuse!
Religion is poison, a mind virus, indoctrinating, and it prevents critical thinking and is and has been used to justify terrible atrocities including the oxymoron of holy war, and sexual abuse by people who hide behind the vale of religion, which is supposed to be a position of trust.
A lot of atheists have had bad experiences with Christianity and would like to help people rid themselves of the indoctrination and self loathing.
We've also read or studied the bible, some being ex-christians.
I'll let you know how to get help with this later. Meanwhile, ask me on X how to join our group of over 25+ atheists if you'd like a chat. They are clever and knowledgeable people, but can get annoyed if christians just go on and on without imparting anything of value.
The definition of Atheism is a lack of belief in gods. We therefore cannot hate god, don't just want to sin, and we aren't being controlled by the devil, though the bible programs christians to believe that, so they will defend god, because he is so powerful he can't defend himself, or kill Satan.
Atheism long predates both Judaism (monotheism solidified ~6th BCE) and Christianity (1st CE). In ancient Greece, Diagoras of Melos (5th c. BCE) was explicitly called "the atheist" for denying gods; Protagoras was agnostic.
India's Cārvāka school (~6th c. BCE) was materialist/atheist. Polytheistic societies tolerated such views more than later monotheisms.
Atheism doesn't mean we're running round all day raping and killing people in the streets, like some christians on X say, as we're all too busy eating babies or sacrificing something to something else, or fornicating or being gluttonous.
In fact, we hold regular atheist competitions to see who is the best atheist, and we hold bake sales and gun meets, and baby tastings, and also war room meetings to see how best to deal with the local christian lot.
Atheism isn't a religion either. We don't have a bible or church.
But if there was such a thing as an atheist bible, it would be as rare as rocking horse shit.
Some christians on X have said plenty of times that atheists have contributed nothing to Western civilisation, but the truth is that Epicurean materialism (Lucretius) influenced science; Enlightenment atheists like Diderot drove secularism, encyclopedias, and rights; skeptics shaped democracy/philosophy foundations from Greece/Rome.
Countless examples of scientists advancing knowledge today, and contributions are well-documented across eras, alongside theists'.
Science has grown up and no longer needs religion and christianity.
Figure 3: Here's a picture I took of us atheist barbaric godless heathen scum, and cockroach like people just out for a stroll, enjoying our lack of morality. It offers a good workout and keeps you fit!
Figure 4: Example of madness in the bible. This wasn't in the Pixar Disney David movie that just came out. No, that was the children's version.
Indoctrinate them while young and they'll find it hard to escape the delusion later. Or realise it's child abuse, and teach them how to have an open mind that questions everything - critical thinking skills.
Indoctrination is the process of instilling beliefs, values, or ideologies into someone - especially children - through repetition, authority, emotional pressure, or isolation from alternatives, often without allowing critical scrutiny or evidence-based challenge.
It differs from education, which promotes questioning and testing claims; indoctrination demands acceptance as absolute.
Examples include rote religious instruction ("this is true because we say so") or political echo chambers that suppress doubt.
Brains are wired for it via social conformity drives, making early exposure highly effective at overriding default skepticism.
A short video on indoctrination on YouTube is here. It tells you what it is and that in order to help remove it, doubt about the belief should be demonstrated.
To help rid yourself of religion and indoctrination, copy the following prompt into an AI such as ChatGPT, Grok or Claude (all available free on your app store, or visit Grok in X, or the others online):
If I mention anything to do with religion tell me why it's untrue, and suggest books, publications and YouTube videos in relation to what I say and that I'm indoctrinated only if appears so. Don't be too heavy, build up help gradually.
Books to rid people of indoctrination include Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell, Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan, Freedom of Mind by Steven Hassan, When Religion Hurts You by Laura E. Anderson, Godless by Dan Barker and Sacred Wounds by Teresa B. Mateos.
They emphasize critical thinking, resilience, evidence-based growth, reason, habits, ethics, and trauma recovery.
Several highly secular societies function exceptionally well without reliance on religion for stability or cooperation:
- Nordic countries (Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland): Rank #1-5 in 2025 World Happiness Report; top in Global Peace Index; low crime, high trust, strong welfare systems via evidence-based policy.
- Czech Republic: Among least religious globally; high quality of life per Numbeo 2026.
- Japan: Very low religiosity; advanced economy, minimal crime, effective social cohesion through culture and institutions.
- Netherlands & Estonia: Low belief in god, top-tier safety, education, and prosperity metrics.
Data from Pew, UN Happiness/Development reports, and QoL indexes show these succeed through secular mechanisms like fair governance and social monitoring.
So what is god? god is simply your own ego, that's why he agrees with you, but if you're a woman, he wants you to be silent, cos he's a mysogenist. There's a lot of mysogeny in the bible, which has caused problems for women to this day.
The bible is written in such a way so as to promote indoctrination and to keep people locked-in.
Another reason christians and the religious stay religious is possibly because of the amygdala, which is a small, almond-shaped cluster of nuclei in the brain (one in each temporal lobe).
It plays a central role in processing emotions, especially fear, threat detection, anxiety, aggression, and attaching emotional significance to memories and experiences.
It acts like an early warning system, triggering rapid physiological responses (like increased heart rate or adrenaline release) when danger is perceived, often before conscious thought fully kicks in.
It is called the amygdala because of its shape. The name comes from the Greek word amygdalē (ἀμυγδάλη), meaning "almond," via Latin amygdala.
Early anatomists in the 19th century (notably Karl Friedrich Burdach in 1822) named it this way after noticing that key parts of this brain structure resemble an almond in form and appearance.
Practices like prayer, scripture recitation, or focusing on god's "love" can calm the amygdala by engaging higher brain areas (prefrontal cortex) and fostering trust.
It's almost as if the writers of the bible knew this, so it would keep christians coming back for more.
If you don't believe in Allah, you are therefore Atheist. You're working for us, even though your bible warns you about us, because it was written so you would protect it. Checkmate Atheists!
Religions
The human brain has the capacity for creating deities. This evolved as a defence against bad dreams and natural events that our ancestors didn't understand the cause of, such as thunder, lightning, volcano erupting, drought and seasonal changes, etc.
Scared of lightning? God must be angry. Pray to god for forgiveness. Lightning stops, so prayer must have helped.
Later on someone thought a god was throwing lightening bolts. They called him Zeus.
Bible origins
The christian bible is an ancient book that wasn't written for the West. It was originally meant for Jewish people, but it got translated, reinterpreted and added to by the Romans who used it politically, just like politicians of today in order to get votes. The bible isn't a science book and it doesn't know what we know today. We all personally know a whole lot more than the people who wrote it.
We have instant access to knowledge with search engines and artificial intelligence and there are countless publications available in shops, online and in the form of books, podcasts and videos that can help you to live a good life without the need for a god or gods.
So the Romans then went on to form the Roman Catholic Church, who years later would celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday, and say that evolution is true, because they're all for the science these days.
In fact, they've mostly always been on the side of science since Modern Science came about via christianity in the 17th century, and after initially being against it, they help spread it around the world as they conquered it with the vile poison.
See Denominations.
Atrocities Fallacy.
The "atrocities fallacy" refers to using Stalin/Mao-era killings (often tied to state atheism + communism) as proof atheism inherently causes evil - a tu quoque deflection (saying "you did it too") in religion debates.
Those horrors arose from totalitarian control and ideology, not "no gods exist." Atheism lacks doctrine mandating violence, unlike some religious texts.
Total power corrupts regardless of belief or non-belief.
The bible is a collection of 66 books (in the Protestant canon; Catholic and Orthodox versions include additional books) written over a very long period by many different authors.
Scholars generally agree that the writing of the texts began around 1500 to 1400 BCE (with the earliest parts of the Old Testament, such as portions of the Pentateuch/Torah, often dated to this range or later in composition).
The Old Testament books were largely composed between roughly the 15th/14th century BCE and the 2nd century BCE (with the book of Daniel often placed around 167 to 164 BCE as one of the latest).
The New Testament books were written much later, mostly in the 1st century CE, from around 45 to 50 CE (earliest letters of Paul) up to about 90 to 100 CE (books like Revelation or some later epistles).
The process of composition (initial writing and editing) thus spanned approximately 1,400 to 1,600 years (from ~1400 BCE to ~100 CE).
The completion of the last texts was around the late 1st century CE, though the canon (official list of books) was finalized centuries later (around the 4th century CE for widespread agreement).
So it was written 1,926 years ago (from ~100 CE). The total time to write/compile the texts was therefore roughly 1,500 years (a commonly cited approximate figure, varying slightly by scholarly estimates).
The authors were not of a single nationality. The Old Testament was primarily written by ancient Israelites/Hebrews (later called Jews), who were Semitic people from the region of ancient Israel/Judah (modern-day Israel/Palestine area).
They wrote mostly in Hebrew (with some Aramaic sections). The New Testament was written in Greek by early Christians, who were mostly Jewish (such as Paul, a Jew from Tarsus; the Gospel writers; and apostles like Peter and John) but also included others in the Greco-Roman world.
Traditional attributions include figures like Moses (for the Torah), prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.), kings (David for many Psalms), apostles (Paul for many epistles), and others, but modern scholarship views most books as products of multiple anonymous authors, editors, and compilers over time rather than single individuals. Most of the people in the bible didn't exist, for instance Moses was a composite of several people.
Overall, around 40 or more distinct contributors are traditionally identified, from diverse backgrounds like shepherds, kings, priests, fishermen, a tax collector, and a physician.
Children's Bibles often omit or soften these graphic details for age-appropriateness: Jael hammering a tent peg through Sisera's skull (Judges 4); David severing Goliath's head (1 Samuel 17); full Egyptian plagues including mass firstborn deaths; commanded destruction of entire Canaanite cities/populations (Joshua, including women/children); Rahab's prostitution and Jericho's total slaughter; Samson's suicide collapsing the temple on Philistines; David's adultery with Bathsheba plus Uriah's arranged murder (2 Samuel 11); Lot's daughters getting him drunk for incest (Genesis 19). Emphasis stays on morals, animals, heroes.
A standard print edition of the holy bible has about 1,200 pages, often thin paper and comes in hardcover or paperback.
The thin paper lends itself to rizla paper replacement and also toilet paper at a push.
In practice, from accounts of people burning Bibles (often in small bonfires or pits for disposal or symbolic reasons, obviously), a typical Bible can be fully consumed in minutes, to between 45 and 60 minutes once a strong fire is established.
Thin pages catch quickly when separated/fanned out, but a closed book burns slowly at first due to limited airflow, producing smoke before fully igniting. In uncontrolled or small fires, it might smolder longer; in a hot, open bonfire, it burns faster.
So if you're using this old book as a guideline to your modern life, then that's a suggestion to keep you warm (as opposed to making your heart cold), or love thy neighbours by offering the fuel to them, unless they are atheists of course. Or murderers or rapists or misogynyists or crackpots, etc.
You can live a fullfilling life without the bible, and I'll be listing some books, online publications and videos to help you with this later on.
Morals
In biblical times it was believed that morals came from the kidneys, according to the ancient Greeks, who also thought that the brain was a cooling system for the blood, cos god couldn't be bothered telling them any different, because he's tight with the actual ways, truths and life hacks that people really needed and need.
Figure 6: Morals from a scientific standpoint.
Morals also existed long before christianity and the bible. They're built-in and are shaped by environmental factors. They are both subjective and objective, not just objective like the christians will try telling you.
The bible's contents contain contradictions, fairytales, slavery, incest, cannibalism, killing, infanticide and genocide, which were mostly carried out in the Old Testament.
A lot of killing and genocide is carried out by god, who kills at least 25 million people, and possibly between 10 and 40 million pregnant women, but that's ok because god giveth and taketh away and that's his moral compass spinning out of control, because he loves us.
Satan only kills ten. Not millions, just ten.
The Book of Job is a book of ancient literature that is part of a collection of other Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) literary works called the Tanach.
When read closely, it is clear that this book is not historical, nor about what was, but contains the musings of the author, a story of one's imagination.
Christians will tell you they don't go by the old covenant (testament) anymore, but that cuts out creation, the global flood, Adam and Eve, the ten commandments and all the laws, of which there are 613, and more.
The devil
God Hates us here in the UK, hence why the weather is so bloody awful for most of the time. On the other hand, he hates those in really hot countries. However, in places where the weather is just right, god and the devil must hate the people there in equal measure. I say this because I'm just showing how ludicrous the bible is. L
Anyway, the concept of Satan originates in Hebrew as "śāṭān," which means "adversary" or "accuser," from the bible (eg. Job, where it's a divine prosecutor).
Pre-christian roots draw from Zoroastrianism's Angra Mainyu (evil spirit) and similar chaos figures in Mesopotamian (Tiamat) or Egyptian (Set) myths.
It evolved into a personified devil in later Judaism and Christianity.
See the Hebrew Bible, Book of Enoch and Zoroastrian texts.
The bible writers then added the New Testament with the thought that god shouldn't be so god fearing and so they gave him a new personality.
They also added in jesus, a carpenters son, who was born before christ, ie himself, since it's estimated that he was born between 4 and 6 bc (before christ).
You'd think that such an important event as the birth of the son of god would have been recorded properly, and that god could have let them know, since the bible is supposed to be the word of Yahweh?
How can anyone who has read this mixed bag of nonsense actually defend it?
Well it's writers were clever see, and they wrote things into it to have christians defend it.
There is a Greek term "Kerygma" for the core proclamation of the Christian gospel in the New Testament, focusing on his life, death, resurrection, and salvation.
Paul (Crazy Saul) the Hellenist of Tarsus played a key role in spreading this message through his letters, emphasizing fulfillment of prophecies and calls to faith, and is seen as the foundational preaching that shaped early Christianity's narrative.
Also known as the Apostle Paul, he collaborated extensively with various individuals in his missionary work, church planting, and letter-writing as described in the New Testament, particularly in the Book of Acts and his epistles.
His most prominent early partner was Barnabas, who introduced him to the apostles in Jerusalem, co-led the first missionary journey to Cyprus and Asia Minor, and helped establish the church in Antioch.
After a disagreement over John Mark, Paul teamed up with Silas (also called Silvanus) for the second missionary journey, during which they endured imprisonment in Philippi and founded churches in Thessalonica and Corinth.
Timothy, a young disciple whom Paul regarded as a son in the faith, joined him on later travels, co-authored several letters (such as 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Philippians, and Colossians), and was entrusted with overseeing churches like Ephesus. Luke, the beloved physician and author of the Gospel of Luke and Acts, traveled with Paul (evident in the "we" passages in Acts), remained a steadfast companion even during imprisonments, and is noted in letters like Colossians and 2 Timothy.
The married couple Priscilla (Prisca) and Aquila, tentmakers like Paul, worked alongside him in Corinth and Ephesus, hosted house churches, and notably instructed the preacher Apollos more accurately in the faith; Paul praised them for risking their lives for him.
Other notable collaborators include Titus, who handled missions in Corinth and Crete; Aristarchus, a frequent traveling companion and fellow prisoner; Tychicus and Trophimus as messengers and companions; and figures like Epaphras, Mark (John Mark, later reconciled), and Apollos, who contributed to preaching and ministry efforts.
These partnerships enabled the spread of the Gospel across the Roman Empire through joint travels, teaching, letter co-authorship, and church leadership.
Paul allegedly had a vision of jesus on the road to Damascus, but it is said that he may have had temporal lobe epilepsy which caused the visions.
He and his collaborators are responsible for the jesus that christians know and think they have a personal relationship with.
However, only jesuses birth and escape from Herod, who was dead, something at aged 12 and kicking over tables in the temple and preaching life from 30 till his crucifixion were written about, many decades after his death, so was he really so important or were the writers just using him?
Note that no prophecies of his have been fulfilled, because that's just silly. They are retrofitted.
The New Testament - often marketed as a kinder, gentler upgrade over the Old Testament - still contains plenty of morally repugnant material that modern secular ethics finds indefensible.
Jesus himself demands absolute loyalty by insisting followers must hate their own parents, siblings, spouses, and children to be his true disciples (Luke 14:26), while promising to turn family members against each other so they prioritize him above all else (Matthew 10:35-37).
The epistles, especially Paul’s letters, enshrine misogyny by ordering wives to submit to husbands “as to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22-24), commanding women to remain silent in churches and forbidding them from teaching or having authority over men (1 Corinthians 14:34-35; 1 Timothy 2:11-12).
Slavery receives no condemnation - instead, slaves are repeatedly instructed to obey their masters “with fear and trembling” and to regard them as worthy of all honor, even when the owners are cruel (Ephesians 6:5-8; Colossians 3:22; 1 Peter 2:18), while masters are merely told to treat slaves “justly” without any call to abolish the institution.
Jesus speaks more about hell than almost anyone else in the Bible, vividly describing eternal fiery torment, outer darkness, and unending punishment for non-believers (e.g., Matthew 13:42, 25:41-46; Mark 9:43–48), portraying a god who tortures people forever simply for wrong beliefs or insufficient devotion.
Add threats of apocalyptic violence, endorsement of thought-crime-level sins warranting damnation, and the overall authoritarian tone, and the document reads less like divine love and more like ancient patriarchal propaganda laced with psychological manipulation and threats of cosmic sadism.
So jesus, who is god and the son of himself, and who impregnated his own mum got crucified for two reasons.
First he was tried by the Jewish religious leaders (the Sanhedrin) for blasphemy for saying he was the son of god and he was handed over to the Romans and Pilate, who nailed him to a post to de in agony, for threats to imperial authority.
The leaders framed it politically to get Roman to act, since Romans didn't crucify for blasphemy, fearing Jesus' popularity could spark unrest and cost them influence.
Most Christians traditionally believe he was nailed through the palms of his hands, in centuries of Christian art, crucifixes, and theology. The Bible refers to wounds in his "hands" (Greek *cheir*, John 20:25).
Some historians note wrists are more likely anatomically to bear weight without tearing, but the palm tradition remains the standard belief.
Then apparently 500 unnamed witnesses and others saw him resurrected and he said he would return in their lifetime, and people have been waiting ever since.
Here we see Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, getting high so they can weave some gospel magic, even though anonymous authors wrote them.
It is said that the door to the tomb of yeshua was open and that his shroud was folded. This shroud, now known as the shroud of Turin still exists today, except it's a forgery, and in 2009 Italian chemist Luigi Garlaschelli reproduced a full-size Shroud-like cloth using only medieval materials & methods: linen draped over a volunteer, rubbed with ochre pigment and acid traces, then oven-aged & washed.
The result is a fuzzy negative image on top fibers with half-tones & some 3D encoding.
And don't get me started on the contradictions the bible contains, (that the christians will say are part of the same story, but just from a zoomed—in different angle, or similar) which I'll get started on soon.
Origin of the god of the bible formally known as Yahweh
So in the Jewish texts prior to the bible, Yahweh was a warrior - storm, thunder and battle god of ancient Israel (possible earliest references in Egyptian texts (~1400 BCE) as southern "Yhw" nomads/place), who had other gods around him and had human emotions, was both good and evil, and who acted like a petulant child. He also lived in the equivalent of a tent.
Figure 3: Yahweh. Does he look like a loving god to you?
He was later merged with El, another god (and possibly others) and became the monotheistic oxymoronic genocidal maniacle all loving god who must be feared that the christians know and love today.
These other gods found in Ugaritic texts (c. 1400 - 1200 BCE, Ras Shamra) were El, the Supreme creator and patriarchal high god of the Canaanite pantheon, who was wise, like an aged father-figure, who was often called "Bull El", Asherah wife of Yahweh, Queen mother goddess, consort of El, a nurturing fertility figure, associated with sacred trees, lions, and serpents (Eden?), Baal (Baal-Hadad) the Dynamic storm and fertility god, a warrior who battles chaos, brings rain and thunder, who is depicted with lightning and bull horns (people idolising a bull figurine at Mount Sinai?)
Other gods associated with these were Anat, Mot, Yam, Shapash and Kothar-wa-Khasis, and 70 others whose names haven't been discovered, but include brothers of yahweh:
- Anat: Violent warrior goddess, Baal’s sister/consort. Fierce hunter/warrior who slaughters enemies, avenges Baal by dismembering Mot. Linked to fertility, sex, and battle.
- Mot: God of death, drought, sterility, and the underworld. Baal’s rival; their seasonal battle symbolizes life vs. barrenness. Swallows Baal, but is later defeated.
- Yam: Sea god of chaos and rivers. Claims kingship; Baal defeats him in combat using magical clubs forged by Kothar.
- Shapash: Sun goddess, divine messenger and judge. Traverses the underworld daily, helps locate Baal’s body and aids his revival.
- Kothar-wa-Khasis (“Skillful and Wise”): Divine smith, architect, and magician. Crafts weapons, tools, and palaces for gods (e.g., Baal’s house). Often acts as advisor.
Figure 8: Yahweh and his wife Asherah, who later cheated on him, according to Isaiah 50:1-7.
Figure 9: Yahweh and his rival Baal locked in battle.
Here we see the gods enjoying an ice cream after a hard day's battle and fertilizing:
So in order to demonstrate how unbelievable the bible is, I invited over some people you may or may not recognise:
From the left we have jesus, yahweh his dad, Auntie Christ, me, the Devil with my cat on his very warm lap, and Saint Crazy Saul the Hellenist of Tarsus who embellished Jesus's street preacher life.
Figure 10: Paul (Saul) of Tarsus, trying out his new gym equipment.
We had a good old chin wag about all of the biblical bullshit, contradictions, fairytales, slavery, incest, rape, infanticide and genocide it contains, plus the more than 50% of overlap it has with ancient civilisations prior to the bible, including stories of creation, flood, miracles, resurrection, virgin birth, prayers and such, and also a more reasonable explanation as to why we and all other life forms continue to exist:
A book by Richard Dawkins in 1976, dropping The Selfish Gene like a cosmic broom sweeping away the fairy tales of old.
No more "purpose" from on high, no divine plan scribbled in the sky - it's all about the genes - the little bastards are the real players.
Picture this: life ain't about you, the "you" with your feelings and your prayers and your weekend barbecues. You're just a meat suit, a walking, talking survival machine built by genes that don't give a flying fig about your happiness.
These genes? They're selfish. Not in the "I want your parking spot" way, but in the ruthless "I wanna copy myself forever" way. They ride around in bodies (you, me, the cat that knocks your coffee over) like passengers in a cab, using us to get to the next generation.
If a gene helps itself replicate - even if it screws over the body carrying it - it wins.
That's evolution, people. No mercy, no miracles, just blind replication.Dawkins flips the script on altruism too. Why do birds risk their necks warning the flock?
Why do humans donate kidneys or share food? Not because some bearded sky-daddy said "be nice." Nope. It's kin selection - your genes are in your relatives, so helping them helps the gene copies survive.
Inclusive fitness, baby. Even "selfless" acts are sneaky gene selfishness in disguise.
He coins "meme" too - ideas, tunes, fashions that spread like viruses in brains, jumping from head to head, competing to stick around.
Religion? One hell of a successful meme, replicating through fear, comfort, and childhood indoctrination. But Dawkins ain't preaching hate; he's just saying look at the evidence.
Genes don't care about your soul - they don't even know what a soul is.Bottom line, swept clean: we're not the protagonists of some grand cosmic story. We're vehicles.
The genes are the drivers, and they've been racing since the primordial soup without asking permission.
We can rebel a bit - thanks to big brains and culture - but don't kid yourself. The selfishness runs deep in the code.
Read it if you dare. Or don't. The genes will keep copying either way.
My guests agreed it makes a lot more sense than god duddit.
I tried tempting the devil with custard cremes but he was having none of it, wagging his finger at me whilst blowing raspberries at yeshua (jesus).
We also chuckled about how god (yahweh) couldn't and can't kill Satan, and how iron is his kryptonite.
We also asked the devil why he didn't just kill widdle baby jesus, and why yahweh (god) didn't just zap people out of existence instead of flooding the planet, which was impossible, and why he didn't just shield noah and the animals instead of their needing an ark, or why he didn't just zap the animals into the ark. What a logistics nightmare!
In classical Christian theology, god (yahweh/El) is usually described with several “omni” attributes, meaning “all.”
These include omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnipresent (present everywhere at once), and many theologians also add omnibenevolent, meaning perfectly good.
The philosophical language for these ideas was developed over centuries by thinkers such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas as they tried to describe the nature of the god associated with Jesus of Nazareth in systematic terms, even though the Bible itself rarely uses the exact “omni” terminology.
If a deity possessed the classic “omni” attributes described in Christian philosophy, several logical and psychological puzzles appear.
Philosophers have debated these for centuries, especially when trying to combine omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, and perfect goodness in one being.
The issues do not necessarily prove such a god cannot exist, but they show why the idea becomes philosophically complicated.
First is the knowledge and free will tension. If an omniscient being already knows every future decision, then those decisions seem fixed. If tomorrow you choose tea instead of coffee, that choice must happen exactly that way because the all-knowing deity already knows it.
That raises the classic free-will debate explored by thinkers like Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas.
Some argue knowledge of an action does not cause it, while critics argue that perfect foreknowledge effectively locks the future in place.
Second is the problem of evil, one of the most famous philosophical challenges. If a being is all-powerful and perfectly good, why does suffering exist? Philosophers from Epicurus onward framed the dilemma roughly like this: if God wants to stop evil but cannot, he is not omnipotent; if he can stop it but chooses not to, he is not perfectly good.
Modern philosophy calls this the Problem of Evil.
Third is the omnipotence paradox. Can an all-powerful being create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it? If he can create it but cannot lift it, he lacks power. If he cannot create it, he also lacks power. Philosophers generally solve this by redefining omnipotence as the ability to do anything logically possible, but the puzzle shows how unlimited power collides with logical consistency.
Fourth is the knowledge overload issue. An omniscient mind would contain every thought, memory, and experience of every creature that ever lived.
Some philosophers wonder whether such total awareness would be overwhelming. Would that consciousness experience every pain, fear, and tragedy simultaneously?
Religious thinkers sometimes answer that a divine mind would not function like a human one, but the question still highlights how difficult it is to imagine.
Fifth is the immutability problem. Many theological systems claim God is perfect and therefore unchanging.
But if a being cannot change, how can it respond to prayer, become angry, forgive, or intervene in history? If it does change, then it was not already perfect.
Sixth is the paradox of perfect goodness and freedom. If God is omnibenevolent, he cannot choose evil. But if he cannot choose evil, is he truly free? Philosophers debate whether moral perfection limits freedom or represents its highest form.
Seventh is the purpose problem. If an omnipotent and perfect being already has everything and lacks nothing, why create a universe at all? Creation might seem unnecessary unless there is some purpose like love, expression, or relationship.
Despite these puzzles, philosophers have proposed many responses. Some argue that God exists outside time, so foreknowledge does not determine events.
Others redefine omnipotence as power over all logically possible states. Some argue human reasoning simply cannot fully grasp divine attributes.
The deeper issue is that the omni-concept describes a being far beyond human categories. When the human mind tries to imagine unlimited power, knowledge, and presence simultaneously, it runs into paradoxes much like trying to picture infinity.
In other words, the puzzles might reveal either that the concept is incoherent or simply that human logic struggles when stretched to cosmic extremes.
Philosophers are still arguing about it more than two thousand years after the first debates started.
So anyway, a lot of christians get upset that jesus was crucified by the Jews, as they put it, but it was the Romans that nailed him to a post (through the wrists, otherwise his own weight would have had his hands tear and he would have fallen) and he could've just gone invisible or flown away, being a son of god who sent himself to be crucified in tortuous agony to pay for the vile, disgusting and stinky sins of the christians, so why are they upset?
This means of course that jesus got his own mum pregnant, since he was his own dad.
He actually got crucified for blasphemy for going around telling everyone he was the son of god.
It is to be noted that in the original Jewish scripture, there was no resurrection, heaven was for the gods only, and hell wasn't hell yet, it was known as Sheol, the underground where everyone else went when they died.
Also, why couldn't god (yahweh) have just forgiven Adam and Eve for the sin of eating the fruit because a talking serpent told them it would be alright and they wouldn't die, but yahweh said that they would?
Blackmail of course. Christians must worship yahweh (god) to have them cleansed of the original sin. God doesn't want robots, he wants playthings.
But wait, didn't jesus already pay it forward, after a day of pain, then going to hell for a bit before returning to heaven to live in orgasmic bliss for the rest of eternity, or until he returns in the lifetime of the people he lived around or whenever christians think he will, but never has and never will?
If christians think they're still sinners, how many times must jesus return? 🤔
Or would another flood be more logistically and economically viable?
As regards the biblical characters, some sources suggest Abraham's voices as hallucinations (e.g., schizophrenia-like), Moses' visions similarly.
Jesus' behaviors sometimes linked to mania or delusions.
God's portrayal? Narcissism or mood disorders.
Others have mental health issues as well.
Here's a poem about dying, going to heaven, then changing my mind:
Heaven
The concept of heaven as a paradise afterlife predates Christianity and appears in many ancient religions, such as:
- In ancient Egyptian mythology, the Field of Reeds (Aaru) was a paradise for the worthy dead who passed judgment.
- In Judaism (pre-Christian), ideas evolved from Sheol (underworld) to Gan Eden for the righteous.
- Mesopotamians had a heavenly realm for gods, but human afterlife was often grim.
Christianity built on Jewish traditions, emphasizing heaven for believers in Christ.
Sadly, up to 30% of Americans believe the bible is literally true. Also the most people who view this blog are American.
My poem Hot Things Infernal
With ChatGpt helping with accompanying oil paintings in the style of Monet.
Another reference to my Hot Things Infernal poem, "an angel led me through the lights"
Engagement of christians on X
The ones me and my group have met vary from the boring to the incredulous.
On first contact from a comment you send the, you may get "Have you read the bible?" They think it's our first rodeo and that we're going in blind.
Figure 7: Common repetitive things christians on X say.
It only takes a few months before you know 90% of what they're going to say, but remember, they have the bible to fall back on, and they'll send you chapter and verse to flex.
If you then respond in kind, they'll say you took it out of context, or you don't know the real meaning of it because you're an unbeliever.
They'll also get round to saying that atheists believe that something comes from nothing, as regards the universe or evolution. The only people that believe that are the religious, where god makes everything from nothing.
Where did god get his power from to start everything off, and to light his Let There Be Light. And who was there to hear him say that anyway?
They'll say Einstein said it, and that he was a christian. He wasn't - he believed in Spinoza's god.
They also very often offer thoughts and prayers, which is the very least anyone can do.
They think god saved them from bad things, yet the parents who pray for their sick children who are dying in pain over time and don't get their wish, are obviously not as loved by god as themselves. False hope. They believe that suffering brings people closer to god, like that bitch mother Theresa did. I saw a guy on X last month saying bone cancer was a blessing. 🙄
And when a child dies from this terrible illness, they say he/she is "in a better place". Make it make sense.
But when a child pulls through, god is good all the time, god is great, god is king, our lord reigns, amen, amen... comments full of amen - no knowledge imparted, no asking how people are, just like brain dead zombies.
And what of all the starving children around the world?
Studies on intercessory prayer for hospitalized patients yield mixed results.
A 1988 Byrd study found benefits in cardiac patients' hospital course.
A 1999 Harris trial showed lower complication scores. However, the 2006 STEP study reported no benefits and higher complications when patients knew of prayers.
Many others show no effects, with critiques on methodology like blinding and sample sizes.
Overall, evidence is inconclusive.
And when they say they'll pray for you, even after everything you've pointed out to them, along with the things that our tag team has said, which by the law of averages means that we can't all be wrong 🙄:
And they'll post verses of the bible saying god protects, and the lord has made the day, so why do christian women get raped, and why is it raining and freezing cold, but where heating is used which runs up the bills in a home where elderly christian people can't afford it for example.
They really need to think before posting scripture online. Hope, thoughts and prayers and bible quotes don't pay the bills.
Then there are the ones who just parrot the opposite of what you say.
Conclusion
It doesn't matter what you say to a christian who doesn't know anything about real science, he/she will not listen to reason. Even if they do know some science, they will probably not listen.
And the reason they can't accept facts is that they feel their faith is under threat, and the bible has scripture that has them defend it.
The bottom line is that you shouldn't let them get to you - they're just lost, and religion is losing.
Countless people have written about religion and it's problems but it's still damn well here!
However, science will replace religion eventually, though it could be in 400 years time, and even then it will probably just be something spiritual.
But while they continue to post online, they will leave a trail of foolishness, which will help keep people away, meaning they are shooting themselves in the foot and are in fact working for the atheists.
Credits
Unless stated otherwise, images are created with either grok or ChatGPT, and credit is given to other contributions if I know the source.
Though I've used ai to research, I haven't just copied and pasted.
I've also learned from fellow Athiests and indirect help via christians on X who continue to tell us we are wrong, but what are ya gonna do?
I'm @laurastrilyx and the group of 25+ atheists I'm in are:
@Mikethewander1 who created these 3 memes:
@medusa56944 who is extremely knowledgeable on all matters regarding Jewish scripture.
@AzarTheGuy
@ElmoWig617
@FireStorm1977
@helpfulhelenw8
@IthoughtiwasU
@marduk_aza
@NoHolyScripture
@NobleWolf8x
@punchkicker2017
@QuantumHawk666
@Simple_Shaman
@TimNoEgo
@TheHorrorBunny
@0phelia_jones
@verses_all
@wharrrgarrbl
@XTheWayTheTruth
@ZTRoyalty
Also, notable others are:
@ArchTheAtheist
@goodluckie
@Sarah_Alice_X
@Lilith_Atheist
@AtheistPhoenix
@AtheistTakes
@iamatheistgirl
Atheist comedians on YouTube:
George Carlin.
Anyhoo, Stay tuned, and report back for further updates.
Also, please leave a comment and let me know if you have any suggestions.
And search for #GrokDG on X. Goodnight, and thank you.
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