You know those anti-abortion arguments that christians love to use? Those "what if" statements that try and guilt you out of feeling like you do? Like what if that baby was going to be the person that cured cancer, or diabetes, or brought about world peace, etc?

Well I have a "what if" for them.

What if you found yourself, old and alone, never started a family because you never found the right person. All your life, you've searched and searched. Church gatherings, personal ads, blind dates... but nobody ever quite fit for you. Sure, there have been close ones, but never anybody that you could actually commit with. But all this time, the perfect person was there near you. They lived next door to you, and you knew them, but never gave even a second thought to it. The truth is, your goals and wishes fit together perfectly, and your personalities go together amazingly. This neighbour really is your soulmate, but you've overlooked them so long.

How could you have never seen it? All this time, and you never knew? But why?...


Because you both share the same public bathrooms, share the same locker rooms.. and share the same bigoted opinion against homosexuality.


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*Sigh*, how easily their tactics can be used against them. It's really amazing how trapped a closed mind really is...

I went to New York state with my parents this weekend, since nobody had work (and I love long car rides.) We stayed at this great Best Western hotel (it was absolutely wonderful, and had everything: even free DVD rentals and computer, -yes, with internet- access!) Of course, we all know about the Gideons (You know, those magical fairies that plant bibles in every freakin' hotel room? Yeah. Them.) I opened up the nighttable and what did I find? Ah yes, a lovely little bible. Then I saw on top of the table, like some sort of sign... a pencil... I knew then that there was something I had to do.

So, like a young child with a new pack of crayons and a blank pad of paper, I went to work. I mostly doodled random stuff, but I also crossed out the title page where it says "Holy Bible", and wrote "Book of Magic." Anybody want to see my Jesus??



=) He's so cute, ain't he? Looks like a happy bum.

Time for another religious rant! Ah, can't you just feel gawd's love?

This time let's focus on all those who cry about following "gawd's plan." Fundies yell about people not "following gawd's plan" due to committing one action or another. Oh, he's gay- he's not following gawd's plan. Oh, she got an abortion- she's not following gawd's plan. I mean, first of all there's the normal argument: What if them doing these things was in gawd's plan all along?
"Oh no" they argue, "They are committing atrocious sins against gawd. They will be punished for not obeying gawd's mighty law."

But let's step away for a minute and look at the idea of time. "Time" (if thought of as physical, and not merely as the figment of our imaginations that it is) is constant, in a line. Something that happens in the past can never be changed. It will always be there, and the effects of what happens from it will also forever continue. Like a wave that never quite hits shore.
So thus one action that occurred in the past, for instance, someone not following gawd's plan, will always have happened, and the "waves" of its wake will continue to live on in the actions of others... Meaning, if that horrid mortal sin had never happened, what's happening today would never have happened either. If your grandfather never met your grandmother, you would never have been born. It's such an obvious and simple concept. Any (non-fundie) fool should understand.
That one flaw in gawd's plan happened. And thus, every action afterward (as the entire future was affected, essentially) was also against gawd's plan... since it wouldn't have occurred if the first person didn't go against it! If that's so, then NONE of us could be going against "gawd's plan", since our very existance would be against it in the first place.

Oh, but maybe gawd changed everything and fixed it to make it all better?
Well then what's the fucking point in following his damn plan in the FIRST place?? Sky daddy'll just make it all better, so we're free to fuck up what he wants as much as we desire to.

There's no way to win with that pathetic excuse. Anyway, who says that having an atheist change to a believer isn't really against gawd's plan anyway? After all, it's so mysterious and above our intellect....

Hmm.. I've just been reading more stuff at Fundies Say and realised yet another contradiction to the bibble.. It's not really worth its own post, but I just want to write it somewhere before I forget it (which happens only too often.)

Let's go back to the Garden of Eden, shall we? Yeah, so Eve ate the fruit and damned the human race and blah blah blah. Some say this made gawd angry, and now women have to experience such serious pain during childbirth. But wait. Hold on a moment. Childbirth? If gawd intended that Adam and Eve live forever in that garden, there'd be no need to reproduce. Yeah, I know, that's been thought of before. Now they go out and die, so they have to create children blah blah blah. But I'm saying back up a minute. If they were to be eternal at first, why would they even HAVE the ability to reproduce? That's certainly not going to help matters- letting every creature reproduce and never die off (and thus never creating more space for others.) How was that garden supposed to cope? Or maybe, gawd created the ability for humans (and other animals?) to reproduce AFTER we all were damned. But if that was the case, how could you say that gawd then made childbirth painful? There was no childbirth to begin with. You can't add onto something that isn't there. Either Earth was doomed from the get-go, via overcrowding in a tiny garden, because gawd gave these guys the ability to reproduce (and later made it painful); or childbirth was ALWAYS painful, and so you can't place a fault on gawd for making it moreso. It was just like that from the start, and no matter what Eve did, she couldn't have avoided that pain.

Eh. That's my (anti)religious thought of the day... err.. week?.. longer? Ah well, it's my thought for this time. Good enough.