Flying Spaghetti Monsterism: The True Religion Takes Off!

Flying Spaghetti Monsterism at Wikipedia.

Prayer study demolished

Questioning Healing Prayer Time Online, Leon Jaroff, Thursday, Jul. 01, 2004

Praying as an engineering methodology

CNN reported Monday, August 22, 2005 that Commander Eileen Collins of the Discovery space shuttle is relying on prayer to hold her ship together. She said:

"She [the widow of the Columbia shuttle commander] was praying for us -- everybody was praying for us. That's another reason I knew we were safe."

But why didn't this 'praying' (i.e. quiet wishful thinking to oneself with no external motion or action taken) work on the Challenger shuttle, which exploded 73 seconds after liftoff and the Columbia shuttle which was torn up in the atmosphere during reentry? If there is a god, did god ignore those prayers? Worse, did god cause these disasters? Certainly if he is omniscient he had to know they were going to happen. Why didn't he prevent them? What lesson was he teaching by killing those brave, intelligent, highly skilled people? Is praying causing the accidents because god gets angry at people who try to tell him what to do? More realistically, has time wasted praying taken away from the serious engineering and hard thinking that is needed to prevent disasters? Why is praise being wasted on a non-existent god when it should be heaped in great mounds on the excellent engineering work, the dedicated management, the steady piloting and the clear foresight of NASA? Evidently (that is, based on the available evidence) there is no god and relying on petitions to a god is a terrible and incredibly risky way to run an engineering operation. reference: Wiki: space shuttle

Hand of God Revealed

Soccer: Maradona Admits to 'Hand of God' Goal against England So this person used the concept of god to lie about his cheating in a game.

Feynman on Uncertainty

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I do not know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask 'why we are here?' and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit if I can figure it out then I go into something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't have ... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which it the way it really is as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me." The fear many people have seems to be at the root of their religion. Eliminate the fear and one of the roots is gone.

Searching for News of God

I went to Google news and searched for 'God'. Here is the result:

The Bucket of Doom: Why Skepticism Rocks

The Bucket of Doom: Why Skepticism Rocks The designer infinite regress leads to ... evolution! Nice logic.

thou shalt kill

Pat Robertson claims that the USA should assassinate President Hugo Chavez of Venezula. Hmm. What ever happened to the first dictum of god that thou shalt not kill? Suddenly the raw bones of religion are sticking through the thin grey sticky skin. references: Robertson: U.S. should 'take out' Venezuela's Chavez Christian broadcaster says 'cheaper than starting a war' CNN, 2005 Aug 22. Robertson: Assassinate Venezuelan Pres Call for anti-terror law ban on US evangelist Hamish MacDonell, news.scotsman.com

PROMOTING "INTELLIGENT DESIGN": PRESIDENT RELEASES IRONCLAD SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF GOD'S GENIUS BLUEPRINT FOR HUMANITY

EVIDENCE OF THE LORD'S BRILLIANT BIOENGINEERING

more of the same

The Wait in a Catholic Hospital After Rape

creeping theocracy

CNN the last sentence is a chilling lie: "Our laws are based on the Ten Commandments." said Mike Miller. (The USA religious wars are starting - they are fighting amongst themselves already.)