No Not Pac Man, Noooooooo

Pac Man is one of my bro crushes so I often times over look his super devoutness to that Catholic religion that most Filipino's halfta endure. He does a lot of charity work, lives in the Muslim part of the islands, is a civil servant and most importantly...he can kick my arse (hence the lack of shit talking). As of lately he's going overboard with his religious statements all of the time. Wait, it's the phone. Yes, this is Kriss. Ahha, yes...OK then, thank you. That was Tim Tebow, he said to tell Pac Man to tone it down.

A national pastime, like baseball here. I'm ashamed of my country.

Has the national fist done anything wrong. No. I'm just gonna atheist rant right now. I forgot where I read it yesterday, but Pac Man said that after the next fight, which may or may not be the last fight, and after he is done being a politician, he's gonna go the uber religious route. Why, he has accepted an invitation to be a "church spokesman (whatevah that is)." I'm irked right now and I dunno why.

Seriously, a freekin' octogan for chickens. Really.

 What else did he do. "I'm no longer in the vice business." At one time very recently, Pac Man was the proud owner of $700,000 worth of chickens. Well, not chickens, but the very proud and infamous fighting cocks of the Philippines. In the islands chicken fighting, err cock fighting is a beloved and respected national pastime (yuck, super gross and wrong peeps). While other countries destroy and murder way cooler animals like bull fighting in Spain, myyyyyyy people...chicken fight. So he quit that shit and that is a good thing, right. Still irked.

This guy can do no wrong I tell ya, you kind gentle and very goodlooking readers. He also sold a casino and a niteclub in his attempt to go viceless. In the article I read yesterday, the article I cannot find today, he also said no more alcohol and no more "womanizing." Wow, this is the coolest guy in the world. His legend just keeps growing and growing (1). Hello...irked.

Paris(?)

"I have found my real peace and happiness now. I draw strength and inspiration from reading and hearing the word of God," Kriss' bro crush, The National Fist, Manny "Freekin" Pacquiao. Aaaaaaaa, why does that bother me. This is the little old lady that goes to church on Sunday (in her sic arse 65' Mustang, original), donates her time and money and does no wrong, only the correct. OK...I'll tell what's wrong.

It false. In this case there is no problem with the destination, it's a problem with the road. I'm glad that Pac Man is doing the good, it's just that when a celebrity that is so epic and has such a great influence on the peeps that the backlash from statements and actions might take years to recover from.  Man, I tell ya, my beautiful Philippines needs help, so much help, but religion divides and religion is elitist, esp his/mine Catholic Christianity. Religion is the problem.

This year we had Timmy *expressing* his faith on a weekly basis to an audience of tens of millions and maybe even more. Currently the Lin-sation is "quietly" proselytizing his splinter cell of Christianity ever time he does a double crossover, then drives the paint for a layup or jab steps-n-pulls back for a jumper-so much so that his longtime pastor has been doing national interviews this past week. Great 'pub' man.

I guess it comes down to the good ol' 1) is religion a force of good, or 2) a force/source of evil. I think it's great that Pac Man is done with the disgusting "womanizing". He is a role model and fo sho the Filipino youth look up to him and emulate him. But to imply that the road of faith is the only road and the correct road...well, that is dookie.

(I think I gave this analogy before...) If you had a good friend or family that was kickin' the shit outta his g-friend/wife, then wouldn't you say something. I would. The family of Christian faith has many abusers in their house. The time to only acknowledge the good that the church does is over (thanks Four Horsemen). In yesterdays Left Hemispheres there was a great Hitch clip where he hands some clergy some ass on a platter and his point was that sure religion does good, but it also does hella bad and in fact, perhaps more bad then good.

Irked. Why? We are outnumbered and out (metaphorically) gunned. We do not have atheist superstars that can spread messages of critical thinking skills and reason to millions upon millions, easily, week in and week out for years and years. It's cool that Pac Man does good and I'm glad for him and his family and friends. But it sure seems unequal that Tebow got to spread his faith to an entire nation of football fans, that is pretty much the entire nation, and currently Jeremy Lin's faith is the topic of national headlines (and I'm sure his bracelet that says something like 'playin' for the Lord' or something, that everyone can see plain as day on national TV is selling like those hotcakes those cool kids keep talking about).

Now, my bro crush is professing his faith to a WORLD WIDE audience, giving the same ol' glory to God, the glory that we grew up with, when attention should be on correcting the wrongs that the church has done. Currently the Catholic bishops are telling women and employers and even the president what women should and should not do to their bodies. My awesome LGBT friends still cannot get legally married (everywhere), but a common gigolo  like The Newt is running for president. Butt Juice (Rick) is also Catholic and he's the point man for his personal war on women.

We have always given religion positive attention. I thought one of the cool things about The New Atheists was that we advanced the conversation and demanded that we now look at the whole of religion, the good and the bad, and not cherry pick little old lady beliefs of religion which ignores the horrors and the straight up crimes that religion is responsible for.

Irked

(1) Off the top of my head legendary shit that Pac Man did. His dad ate his pet dog as a kid (because they were hella poor) so he ran away to Manila to learn boxing. he was too small for his first fight so at weigh in he put lead weights in his pockets to make weight...and then he won. Then...In the southern Philippines there is a war between the North and the South, between the rebels and the government, between the Muslims and the Chistians. One day he called a truce and both sides got together and played a game of basketball. I can't makes this shit up, man.

* Article, but not the one I wanted.

* now that i think about it...we are metaphorically and literally outgunned. shit.

Christians v. Mormons And Why I'm Scared

We're not Mormons, we just dress like this.

 My imaginary friend is better than your imaginary sky daddy, well that is what the people at the Value Voters Summit want ya to think. Mitt Romney, not to be confused with his evil twin, Ritt Momney, one of the Mormons running fer Prez, spoke at the uber religious conference, ya know because anyone running must court the religious vote.

In this election cycle the topic, are Mormons Christian (and do they worship the same God), has come up many times. Fo sho the average American voter will not vote for Team Atheist and when Kennedy ran back in the day it was questioned "Will America vote for a Catholic", Jimmy "Peanut" Carter was the first born again and now...will American vote for a Mormon is the "haps". Like I have said many times...religion is the most important topic ever ever, esp. in this upcoming election cycle.

Let's get down to the nitty gritty of the Values Voters Summit. The Rom-Man spoke and said a bunch of general stuffs that religious voters like-n-stuff. The controversy is that the next speaker after the Rom-Man was the Christian hater and super elitist j-ass, Bryan Fisher. This Fisher guy is a gem. Check it out...

Of course he is all hate-y on the GLBT community, wants the women folk to be subservient to the men folk and get this, he thinks that Rom-Mans religion is a cult. He believes that Muslims and Christians do not worship the same God and that there has not been a terrorist attack in the United States because at Major League Baseball games God Bless America is sung during the 7th inning stretch. Oh yea, and he's one of the dudes that fears that Sharia law is creeping into the American justice system. Crazy much.

This is what the Rom-Man said before his Christian, super elitist, counterpart took the stage.

"Our values ennoble the citizen and strengthen the nation. We should remember that decency and civility are values, too," Romney said. "One of the speakers who will follow me today has crossed that line, I think. Poisonous language doesn't advance our cause. It's never softened a single heart nor changed a single mind (Huff Po)."

One of the million gazillion reasons Team Atheist becomes, err, Team Atheist is the hypocrisy of religion. Sheez, unfair much, cross the line much, call the kettle black much, err, religious much: "decency" and "civility", really-WTF. I have one word for the Rom-Man...What the hell about Prop 8. Yes, the hugely Mormon funded hateful proposition that totally discriminates against the GLBT community (yes, that's one word). Another reason why Team Atheist becomes Team Atheist....

At thingies like the Values Voters Summit there is always much talk about "taking back American" and who is patriotic-n-stuff. The Rom-Man committed the logical fallacy (I forget what it's actually called) of sayin' something to the extent...if you vote for me, you will have a patriotic president in the white house. Agh...OK. So I guess President Obama is not patriotic. He just needed a job and applied for that one. Just because you don't agree with him doesn't mean he's not patriotic.

Another reason why the Team, becomes the Team, is the hijacking of words and their meanings (besides the hypocrisy-n-stuff). Only Christians can be true Americans, only believers can be patriotic and only conservatives love American. Obviously that is not true and Joe and Jane average skeptic/atheist can see thru that crap. What scares me is the mindless voters that will vote on the side of their religion, the voters that do not know the issues and how government works and the voters that tow the party line. Values Voters Summit caters to such a crowd.

May the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on their nonexistent souls.

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* Mitt's Mormonism from the super awesome Slate.

* For those "keeping score", the score is not good. I'm totally losing right now.

* I'm really scattered brain-ed right now. I'm not sure that this post even makes sense (or if I make sense in general), but I'm sticking to "just publish it and do better next time." That's what atheist blogging is all about.

* Fuck you.