Godless Rachel

At the start of this election cycle I was going to take it easy, I already had my candidate picked, but was willing to listen to what others had to say. Then it happened, Bernie Sanders called Planned Parenthood, "The establishment." That was all he wrote, for me. I was done, and who was this socialist that was now adding the title "Democrat?' What I found out was not anything to be proud of, or happy about. That's okay, because I am a socialist, but I vote Democrat, and I still refuse to vote for Bernie. This man, who, for all intents and purposes, seems to have come from the sky on a cloud, and be the second messiah, has been through nothing. 30 years in the senate, and where was his history? I couldnt't find it. Till I went looking. What I found made me angry, mostly with people who say they are democrats, but with their double standards as well. Bernie Sanders evaded the draft. Not that anyone should be drafted, but we have said forever, if it is goo

Wouldn't it be both amazing and sad to look on the human race as an alien species? Think about all the crazy things you would see, and hear. One species completely isolated from one another, by regions, by water, and by ideologies. America has lost the war on rational thinking, and paranoia is king. Worse than that is the facts surrounding the terrorism, and what in the world is going on. We can't be sure of our neighbors, and we sure can't be sure of ourselves. I remember back in my budding youth when the Internet and I were young, how I loved to talk to people from other countries. I was a Christian back then, and I was curious. I wanted to know why religions couldn't get along. All Abrahamic religions share the same God, so why not just be peaceful about it. So I spent many nights in chat rooms with people from around the world. I soon learned why they couldn't get along. Because everyone had this idea of religion that they created. In atheism we often us

I am respectfully writing a rebuttal to a fellow atheist who says that religion is not a mental illness. This is not an attempt to belittle the work of my fellow atheist, but instead challenge what they think. I have this perspective on religion, that comes from the one church I went to when I was young, but since then have seen many examples of deviant and disturbing behavior on the part of religious people, and religions. That's why I think religion creates, employs, and uses mental illness to its self sustainability. Reason one for my thinking. The external locus of control. You must submit. "We are Borg, you will be assimilated." Religion teaches you to be codependent, you must rely on God, a thing, a higher power, nature, or just the wind for your better self to exist. You're not in control, other forces are driving you and you must either let them, or give into them. I'm not a therapist, but, that's dangerous thinking. Yes, it's sick, and yes it

I have seen a lot of Bat-shittery in my day, I have, but this new thing where men act like helpless babies who are at the mercy of women, and they act like we are what is wrong with the world? Let me inform you. Women aren't the problem. Men and their constant need to control and dominate women in a regard that is shameless, and forthright are what is wrong with the world. Women are just trying to actually be equals with men, much to the chagrin of our male counterparts who happen to be blazing sexists. If it were up to men like Paul Elam, women would be in the kitchen with their mouths closed making him a damn sandwich. He's the boss and he's absolutely certain of it, except he's not. He is another example of why the women in this would still have to cry feminism. He says that women mess up the workplace for men, that they can't be a boys club if women and their nasty vagina's are unleashed on the work place, to cry sexual harassment, and feminine up the pla

It is one of the fundamental values we take for granted every day. From our favorite football team, to that ice cream we don't like, to speaking out about corruption government and corporations. Free speech is everywhere, but so is the silence that is falling around it. While it may not be good to go around offending people, that can't always be said, and even if you don't like it, free speech isn't free if we don't all have the same access to it. Let me start out by explaining. Free speech is not consequence free speech. It is far from that. The language you choose to use, and the things you say can prevent you from ever getting a job in your specific field. It can make you have to go to court. It can cost you time, it can get you fame. It can bring you up, and it can throw you down. Some examples of this are the GOP, who have systematically attacked women and their right to their own sexual organs. Rush Limbaugh who has called women "Sluts" and accu

Roe v Wade took so long that the fetus they were going to court over was actually born. When women celebrate the date of the victory, the boy who was born celebrates the fact that decision took so long. When we hear things like that it stirs our emotional connection to our fellow humans. We are biologically programmed to do so, social bonding is part of our biological rhythm. This has more to do with why some people are pro life, than any religious decision. Basically, we are programmed to desire altruistically to aid our own species. That is why abortion has been misunderstood by those who claim to be pro life. It is also why abortion is a difficult decision, compounded by social guilt, and societal pressure to bare offspring that a person may not be financially, or emotionally, or even psychologically ready for. What women who need an abortion are facing is one of the most insidious attacks on their choice, just short of taking their choices completely away from them. Roe V Wade

      During a time when exposure to viruses like the measles and mumps, America took a stand and called on everyone to vaccinate their children. In fact, being in public school, meant, you had to show proof of vaccination. It was so successful that two things happened. The first is that we stopped worrying about people getting them so much, and we got healthy enough that some people challenged vaccines for various reasons. The reason for the anti-vacc hysteria was all due to one scientist who abandoned his moral ethics for a lump of cash, and claimed that vaccines caused autism. After hearing this, many concerned parents stopped vaccinating their kids, and the fire spread. Suddenly people were looking to blame vaccines for almost everything.  The effects of vaccinating the whole of a population was that diseases that had killed 4-500 people per year, like measles, and hospitalized 38,000, was not only a reduction in the number of cases of deaths, but infections. It was just shy