Godless Rachel

I am not a Hate-Theist, I am an Atheist. Everywhere I plug away it seems there are sides. His side, her side, my side and your side. All of us want to be right, and most of us are sure we are. But it has come down to atheists being less trusted than rapists. When I heard that, I didn't know what to think. After all you know what is worse than being an atheist? Being a rapist. By a long shot. Just look at what a rapist does, they literally rape you. Sometimes they beat people, or kill them. Seriously, you think not believing in god is worse than that? Now I know there are combative atheists. I am often one of them. Mostly because I am angry about being lied to. I spend years of my life living in fear. I know there is someone out there right now telling their kid that Jesus is watching them. Is that fair? After all, I want to know why Jesus is watching all the time. He seems more like a stalker, than a deity. Who needs to know all of that stuff? Why would I go to hell for thin

Guest post by: Elliot Darwin Simpson The Poetry of Reality ;  An essay on the supernatural, and God. "If an idea cannot be disproved or proved, it is redundant in the field of science. If an idea cannot be pursued by reason, because it breaches logic, it i s likely that such a notion is false". -Thomas D. Reece This is my point on the "God Hypothesis" entirely. An idea, that stretches the bounds of logic, and reality, so far, that it cannot be disproved or proved because of that. Such a notion, that fits the criteria of that, surely suggest how it was DESIGNED to be so. Throughout all of history, so many Gods, Goddesses and mythologies, jumping from the next one to the next, all came from, well what? Faith? Why should we even ponder on the probability of your God existing? It is something WE IMAGINED, it is fantasy, it's place in reality is non-existent, or at least should be, by reason. It is just like all of the childlike dreams we have

Why are we so obsessed with genital mutilation? Since the time of the old testament mankind has been taking knives to genitalia. At some point men had the, not so bright, idea of doing this to little girls. To this very day it is done by the thousands, and it begs the question, are we nuts? The main pros of male circumcision are that it can help to avoid becoming infected with HIV. It is not a guarantee. It simply lowers the chances because the foreskin can hold in moisture, and that can allow the virus to linger. I would say if your having that kind of risky sex, it probably has not crossed your mind. Another plus to circumcision is the decrease seen in infections, and guys are never happy about anything infected. Some women do find it aesthetically pleasing though. Mostly it is preformed for religious reasons. Apparently god is concerned if you have foreskin or not, but couldn't be bothered to make you without it. Another flaw in the divine creation. So what is the down si

The Religious Oppression of  Women through history to modern day.  Have you had your daily does of misogyny? If not then get ready for some old fashioned Southern Fried teachings. O woman thou art guilty of original sin. Woe unto you, for rising above your position. Or some crap like that. Well ladies, get a bucket. You might need to vomit a few times getting through this one. 10. A husband has sex with his wife, as a plow goes into a field. The Quran in Sura (Chapter) 2:223 says: Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like . . . . (MAS Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an , Oxford UP, 2004) 9. Husbands are a degree above their wives. The Quran in Sura 2:228 says: Wives have the same rights as the husbands have on them in accordance with the generally known principles. Of course, men are a degree above them in status . . . (Sayyid Abul A’La Maududi, The Meaning of the Qur’an , vol. 1, p. 165) 8. A male gets a double share of the inheritance over t

Charles Darwin and Great Leaps in Science. Darwin was responsible for one of the greatest discoveries in scientific history. He and others like him, that were true explorers moved the future ahead by leaps and bounds in with their discoveries. I wanted to take this opportunity and go over some of those, so the next time you are up against a creationist you can refute their lack of logic quickly, and if you love Science, you're about to rediscover why. In 1838 Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle. He did not just go to the Galapagos islands. What he did do is journey around the globe. He spent a lot of time in South America moving through tropical areas and studying the species. The Beagle stopped at many places to explore and discover, on a five year adventure. He was brought on the Beagle as the geologist, but after four months the naturalist left the ship so Darwin took his place. This worked out well for the natural explorer and curious mind of Darwin. He spent many hours just exa

Letter to a Muslim Nation Just in case you felt left out by Sam Harris in his book, I thought it was time someone gave you a well deserved lecture. The world around you is tired of you trying desperately to convert us all. Your not some fantastic religion we just can't live without. Your bullying and threatening tactics are getting old and so there are a few things I want to say. If there was an almighty god, why would he need his messenger to be an illiterate who went into a cave? If he is so all powerful why could he not talk to someone who could at least write, and didn't have to kill hundreds of people to get money, so he could promote the future religion Islam? Also why did that guy seem to change his story left and right? Do you guys really just ignore these facts, or are you like Christians and skip to the parts that make you feel good? How is it that if one prayer in one thousand is answered you consider it a miracle, even if that was a guy who got a job. Do yo

Evolution, why is it so hard to understand? You would think talking to a religious person that you just found a foreign language that stumps them. It seems like a flawed and impossible thing to have happened. Just talk to a creationist. Their questions will always go to the same standby. "How did life start?" "How can something come from nothing?" If you have ever been in a biology class you can pick out the creationists, they are the ones in a hurry to get through the course, and not really learn anything from it. In fact if you ask them about biology shortly after, they will not have much to say. That is because they went home and wiped their slate clean, and filled in every blank with god did it. It is a chore to combat this kind of ignorance. The problem with most religious people is that we are right. They say around one hundred years ago the Republicans were for science. Probably hoping we would find god with science. Yet science does not care one way o