Butt Hurt In Colorado

Oops, we did it again. That is we went all atheist and human and expressed our belief/views and guess what...they got mad. This simple billboard has caused an uproar in Colorado.

I'm getting really tired of this crap-ola. We did not insult anyone, they chose to allow themselves to be all butt hurt. The Colorado Coalition Of Reason wants to let other atheists in Colorado know that they are not alone and also to open channels for dialogue. It seems simple enuff, but we are dealing with irrational religion, folks.

I've said it a million times and I will keep sayin' it until the cows come home or whatevah that sayin' is. The time for religious privilege is over, over I tell you. We are called militant atheists but we carry no weapons (I guess you can throw a book at someone), meanwhile God's American Christian army has killed many and is killing many right now. Wars are fought in the name of Gawd, but never not once in the name of atheism.

Believers are insulted that we call their God imaginary, but there has never been proof that a God, any of the many Gods, exist. Belief is based on faith and any thinking person should be insulted that they are expected to believe in an invisible God when it goes against...reason.

The peeps in Colorado do not want to take away anyone's faith...they just want believers to stop shoving it down their throats.

Good luck mountain, homies.

* Article and video

* Colorado Coalition Of Reason

Much Ado About Bloomberg

Wow. WTF! The secularist get an inch, we get thrown one bone and then there is outcry from them. Say it isn't so. The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, has correctly decided that there will be no clergy  in official capacity at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at ground zero and they are pissed. Again, WTF.

All the cool kids know that religion is the reason why 9/11 happened in the first place. The cool kids know that the government cannot promote one religion over another. That is why when the peeps like American Atheist and FFRF sue cities and counties that have prayers before official functions...they win. Often times, and it is the case with 9/11 anniversary, religious folk seem to think that more religion is the answer to the problem. They believe "why not invite a diverse array of religions (and that only means Christianity and maybe, maybe another one) because that will make it equal." Ugh...fuckin' stupid much.

Mayor Bloomberg is right on the money in his decision to not have clergy of any participating in any official capacity for the ceremonies (he never said they couldn't go). He is correct in that this tremendous and solemn event should and must focused on the families of 9/11.

As one Christian pastor said of the complainers, this is the reason why you were not invited in the first place. And as Nu Kriss 2011 Summer/Fall edition says, "Religion caused 9/11 so...Shut the fuck up, losers. "

Have a nice day everyone (and my twitter is working again, c'ya in the twitterverse).

* CNN Belief Blog

That's Not Cool, More Atheist Haters

OooooKkkkaaaayyyyyy. Team Atheist, as you already know, we are hated-what else is new...well, I'll tell ya...we have also been framed. If you thought xenophobia was only for minorities and Islamophobs-n-shit, well think again.

Pastor Frank Moore, of Mcelroy Road Church of Christ, commissioned a Christian billboard with the very Christian-y message "There is no god. don't believe everything you hear." Uhh (yeah!)..thanks pastor...for doing some good atheist work. If you think it sounds like a billboard from Freedom From Religion Foundation or American Atheist that is because it does. Pastor Moore intentionally designed his believer-y billboard to mimic the awesome atheist billboards.

The thingy about it is that Christian peeps are getting mad (and can ya blame them). Moore intended the message to be something like "those stupid atheist billboards say things like this, don't believe them. Jesus is Lord (my words, not his). Well, apparently Moore's message is not understood (because it sounds like one of our billboards) and believers are hella mad.

In other news, but related to the hate of atheist here in American...Pastor Mike Stahl, head of Church of the Living water wants to make a national registry for, da da daaaa, atheist. Why you ask...

"Brothers and Sisters , I have been seriously considering forming a ( Christian ) grassroots type of organization to be named “The Christian National Registry of Atheists” or something similar . I mean, think about it. There are already National Registrys for convicted sex offenders, ex-convicts, terrorist cells, hate groups like the KKK, skinheads, radical Islamists, etc.."

Yeah, just think about it. So dude compares us to terrorist, the KKK and hate groups, why, because we do not believe in dudes specific Gawd. Sheez. If anything, we need to stop Baptist Predators. The hate of atheist is so stupid pants, and you can quote me on that one. There is not "good" or reason to inform the public that individuals do not have the same belief as others. WTF. Distrusting atheist is comparable to distrusting Japanese peeps in WWII or not trusting Islamic peeps right now. I'll say it again...WTF.


Well, I heart ya guys. Team Atheist forever.

What Is The Backlash About Anyways

My chubby east Coast  sister that blogs for USA Today (and I'm so proud of her).

Many say that because of 9/11 The New Atheists had emerged and since has become a verbal force to be reckoned with. Personally I think it was the Bush era that. That doesn't matter. What matters is that because of the New Atheists religion is no longer exempt from criticism. The free ride is over and if religion is a gonna (try) influence the history and science classrooms, politics in general, as well as women's bodies and the rights of GLBT, then in all fairness you will be scrutinized and criticized. After all that is fair, is it not. Well, not if you are a religious blogger or commentor.  Recently the New York Times Op-Ed article correctly ask's that political candidates be "grilled" on their beliefs. The backlash among the religious is tremendous...and stupid.

Religion is the most important umbrella topic that concerns the world today. There are religious wars where innocent civilian lives are being lost, people are being displaced and every important topic you can think of (stem cell research, environment, Israel etc...) has a religious element somewhere inside of it. Just look at one paper, USA Today, and see how many times the topic of religion comes up on any single day, everyday.

Muslim Americans in American after 9/11. Islamophobia is on the verge of going all Japanese xenophobia alla' WWII. All Muslims are not terrorists (as some on the right want you to believe), in fact, most are moderate.

Convicted young girl fucker Warren Jeffs is in a coma (and no one cares).

Then, aides for Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann said that Crazy Eyes was making a joke when she recently said that the East Coast hurricane was a result of, guess...Gawd. Yes, it is pretty funny that Gawd killed many people and destroyed hella stuff. I'll vote for ya, not.

Guns, Gawd and babes. Two outta three is not bad, err, or good.

The backlash against the NYT Op-Ed article is dookie pants. You betcha politicians need to be "grilled" on there beliefs. The new buzz word is 'dominionism' (evangelical Christians and their duty to rule the world), if that is not important, then I do not know what is. Isn't it important for voters to know if a candidate holds the bible in higher regard than, let's say, that constitution thingy that people keep talking about. I think it is.

The "backlashers" against the mere idea of questioning presidential candidates on their beliefs tells me that some are still stuck in pre 9/11 thinking. The New Atheist (that's us folks) demand a place at the political table and dagnabit, you betcha we can question religion.

Keep your awesome atheist noses to the secular grindstone peeps. There is lot's o' work to be done.

* New Yorker Op-Ed article

* The always great Religion Dispatches. The Pundits and Dominionists.

Voting, Dominionism and the Northern California Chocolate Snake

I dunno why peeps keep sayin' she's hot. I'm hotter than she is.

I heart my chubby, protestant, East Coast sister and her blog for USA Today. She blogs about politics but she just reports the facts (like a real journalist, not a blogger). In her article today she talks about how Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann recently said something like...the hurricanes and earthquakes on the East Coast is Gawd punishing us. So come on people, let Gawd back into politics and the public square (my words not hers, but that is the 'jist' everyone always talks about). Needless to say, that is very dangerous.

Was it on Saturday, @vjack over at Atheist Revolution made his Idiot of the Week none other than Pat Roberston, again (BTW, check in every week for his I.o.t.W). The Pat-Man recently said...

"Ladies and gentlemen I don’t want to get weird on this so please take it for what it’s worth. But it seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power, it has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and say this is one nation under God. Now there’s a crack in it, there’s a crack in it and it’s closed up. Is that a sign from the Lord? Is that something that has significance or is it just result of an earthquake? You judge, but I just want to bring that to your attention. It seems to me symbolic. When Jesus was crucified and when he died the curtain in the Temple was rent from top to bottom and there was a tear and it was extremely symbolic, is this symbolic? You judge."

Dude are ya praying or trying to pinch a loaf, or as we say in Nor Cal...searching for the Northern California chocolate Snake.

And a couple of months back everyone's favorite news person, Bill "The tides go in, the tides go out" O' Riley said he doesn't know why or how the tides work, so it must be Gawd, right (actually it is the gravitational pull of the moon).

So here we are with a very important election cycle coming up and within a matter of months three separate and super stupid remarks from the Christian and Conservative Right. Traveling the Mighty Atheist Blogosphere and reading hella newspapers and magazines a day, it seems as if the prog-libs have already declared victory in the next election. The reasoning is how can the public vote for such weirdo's (Perry, Bachmann and Palin), this will be an easy victory. I have one word for people that believe that...remember the Al Gore election. We were supposed to win that one right. Remember.

Really peeps, the candidates are saying that plate tectonics and weather patterns are unknowns and that magically it is their particular Gawd that is creating havok, because why...because we have rejected him and need to bring him back to the public square. My last post was about dominionism and American exceptionalism and that is what Perry and Bachmann are showing. They are ignoring the science and they are substituting superstition in it's place. We know better and we should know better, but that is not the case all the way across the board.

Lately I have been asking, are there more of them, or are there more of us. Are there more science minded skeptic, nonblievers out there that will vote liberal, or are there more believers-believers that will vote for Gawds party no matter what policies are debated. I live in Nor Cal and it is the mecca of atheism and liberalism (even tho the Tea Party launched their "tour" in beautiful Napa last weekend), so I do not know what it is like in the rest of the nation. That is why I have fear.

I fear that the prog-libs will lose this next election and we will go back to Bush era democracy (please not another Texas president). Will we go Al Gore in this election and stay home and not vote because we know in our hearts that we will win.

We can't let that happen. It too important.

Sitting On The Fence

Well my project called Nu Kriss Summer/Fall2011 is going crap-ola. The same goes for my project Nu Kriss: The Phoenix Arises From The Ashes...But I'm Still In The Ashes Part. This reinventing myself (to kill time as I wait for the meds to kick in) is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Let's what I have done so far.

I no longer follow sports. It has been months since I've watched any sports  or even read the sports section. The real test will be the upcoming football season. Forty Niner's, we had some good times baby...but the shit is over.

I'm not going to any more three day hippie camp out festivals. I can't explain how bad the last experience was and as of now (while waiting for the meds to kick in) I'm just not up to it. I could have worked at one this last weekend (lineup looked lame anyways) and one two weekends before (with a really great lineup), but I opted to be a homebody. There are two coming up that I can go to, but it doesn't look good. Super weirdo thing, I'm not even listening to music for pleasure right now and I'm certainly not playing any (thinking about giving my guitars and amps away). Music we have had a great history, but the shit is over baby.

With that is also the drugs. Oh my precious drugs. I'm really gonna miss that. Beautiful pills that let you feel relaxed and pain free (it sure is hard being a 42 y/o athlete) and perhaps I'm making this up but...I sure can drink more when I'm high on pills. Any who, that is Old Kriss. In fact it looks like me and Mary Jane are also a thing of the past. Peeps keep giving me weed, but it's too strong and it doesn't make me feel good. In fact it makes me feel bad. So c'ya later Mary, "E", mushrooms, mali, coke and anything else. Nu Kriss is sticking to the Prozac and delicious beer...and that is it.

1,000's of naked hotties and drugs...c'ya later.

OK, I'm babbling. There really is some atheism that I want to get down to concerning Nu Kriss. Change, letting go, redefining yourself whatever you want to call it, it doesn't come easy. Stuff like cutting my hair is still on the chopping block (and other stuffs) but the one I've been thinking about a lot is whether I should be a full fledged angry atheist or should I just stick to my Obama-esque, middle of the way, acomodationalist atheist stance.

Religion is a force of good and bad. I really do believe that if we had a truly secular society, then there would be world peace. And if religion is put on the shelf right next to folklore and mythology (which I do not think will happen in my lifetime), then the world will be better off. What is stopping me from becoming the Filipino Christopher Hitchens is the little old lady that goes to church on Sunday and is a good person. What has she ever done to me. There are many good religious people. So what the fuck. I'll tell y'all what the fuck.

When the super awesome Greta Christina came to our humble Sac Town a couple of months ago I asked her about this. Basically she said there has been too much harm done. And it's true. Just look at how women and the GLBT communities have been treated and it is easy to see the harm done. I guess it could be seen like, err, if you had a homie that was abusive to his g-friend or a danger to himself, then wouldn't you say something (I would). The same goes for religion. If I belonged to a group that was totally hating on some of my friends (like Christianity v GLBT), then I would try and do something. If I was Israeli I would speak up for Palestine.  If I was Catholic I would speak up for gay rights. I couldn't be a part of something that does so much harm.

Nu Kriss is a gonna draw the line in the sand very soon. I'm going Humpty Dumpty but I don't know if I'm falling on the side of angry atheist or acomodationalist. The difference as I see it is an angry atheist wants to end religion. It is all bad, and yes there are good people that are believers, but the whole overall thingy of it is bad bad bad. The acomodationalist can differentiate between a terrorist that is Muslim and a Muslim-no terror. There are Christians that are socially just like me except on Sunday they go to church and I watch football (shit I don't know what I'm a gonna do now). Then again there are pedio-priests and pastors and groups that propagate hate like Westboro Baptist Church.

What to do...what to do.

* The best of Hitchslap This vid really pumps me up and edges me to angry atheist. So frackin' good.

So What Is He, Christian Or Not

Just two normal guys...that blow shit up.

OooooKaaayyyyy, now I don't know what to think. There is great debate on the airwaves and in the blogesphere as to whether the Norway Killer is a true Christian or not. In my weakened state I'm so easily influenced. If I read one article that is pro, I go for that, and visa versa. You guys tell me...

"Is Anders Breivika a Christian terrorist" is from Religion News Service which, as of late, is my go to place for religious news and commentary. Good article about cherry picking from the bible to justify your political agenda and what is a true Christian.

My other go to site for religious commentary is Religion Dispatches. Is Norway's Suspected Murderer Anders Breivka a Christian terrorist compares dude to the Oklahoma bomber Lil' Timmy McVeigh. Both dudes, I believe, did what they did because of political reasons. RD's articles are a little longer and packed with lot's of info.

And then there are these guys. Leave it up to the Atheist Blogesphere to be totally awesome with the point counter point stuffs. These guys are so smart I've changed my mind two days in a row. Steve's No True Christian is good good work and the day before The Mad Norwegian convinced me that dude is not a Christian terrorist.

So there is some of what I have read in the past couple of days. What do I think...I dunno. What I do know is that, yes, religion is a good influence on many peeps, but it is also the justification to do very very bad things. The believers with a Child Like Faith will say he was not a true Christian, and Team Atheist will say he did exactly what Christians have been doing for centuries.

Kind gentle and very goodlooking reader(s)...what do you think (and check out this awesome picture below. soooo funny). Lates.

Google Jesus and guns and be entertained.

Religion in the News Thursday July 14, 2011

Is this the most awesome dude in the world? Yes.

OooooKaaaaayyyyy. Let's just start it off with an awesome atheist bang. The dude above is the most awesome dude in the world. Niko Alm of Austria has been battling authorities for three years to be able to wear the headdress of his religion in his ID photo. After all, there is freedom of expression, religion and free speech...right. Well I'm happy to announce that the Pastafarian, Alm, won the right to wear a colander on his head because he belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. My man, congrats to that. You know you want to check it out, here.

Howz about all that good atheist pub lately (it's working folks). That new movie that everyone, err, at least the entire atheist blogosphere and some of the traditional media, is talking about is generating lot's of interest (very bad sentence on my part, funny tho). Here's some review-y stuffs on The Ledge. Unfortunately I haven't seen it in any listings here in Suckramento (which goes against you Sac Town and being that I'm on the verge of breaking up with you, that is not good), but I'm holding out....maybe it comes out this weekend. Hopefully.

In USA Today's blog called On Politics (and my awesome sister writes this blog. UR awesome Cat. I promise I will get better) Mitt "That One Mormon" Romney went up one point on the douche meter (that is positive) and said that he will not sign this ridiculous anti gay pledge that is circulating. Of course Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann and Rick "I don't have a nickname for him yet" Santorum said that they will sign it. The pledge says crazy stuffs like today's African American kids have a better chance of
having two parents under slavery than today. WTF does that even mean?

I need a vacation...from my mind (8:31am and it is starting. I feel like crying and I feel defeated...really feel like punching someone in the face right now. le sigh). Any who if I had an extra $4,629 I would...buy a new computer cause my sh*t is broken right now (and maybe another gun, maybe), and I certainly would not go on this adventure vacation to Israel with former prez candidate Mike Huckabee. Really, for just under 5,000 dollars you can travel the holy land with the Huckster. But why?

It is never too early to start the Christmas talk (and the subsequent Christmas debunking like, didja know that Christmas was banned here in the states at one time. It's true, I read it on the interbutz). Start saving up your pennies and nickels because there is a new doll in town. Salvation Sally is the evangelical two faced doll, really...really creepy that is. The doll has two faces, one that is sad faced pre Jesus and the other is happy because, well, just read the weird creepy article.

"I'm starving to death and these missionaries gave me this doll with two faces. I'm scared."

I'm getting tired, this is the last one...and it is a doosie. Texas Gov, Rick Perry is being sued by the super awesome Freedom From Religion Foundation over an "evangelical prayer rally." Really, think about all the times believers insist on praying on the public square and peeps like FFRF have to sue them, waste time and resources just to get politician believers to do the right thing (and often times the believers propose more prayer as an answer in the form of "Let's invite all religions to come and open the meeting with a prayer." Of course the only believers invited are Christian. WTF).

The founding fathers did not intend for this to be an exclusively Christian nation where the bible is taught in public schools (unless you ask Chuck Norris. Click this link and be very scared). The secular public square is fair to everyone. A faith based public square is elitist and exclusive (members only). Anyways....didn't Jesus say that prayer was a private matter and that when you do it...go to your room (the answer is yes).

Gov. Rick Perry, my name is Kriss, now go to your room. And that is Religion in the News. I'm out , I'm frustrated (f*ck it started early today), and I would kick something, but my foot is fractured. Thanks for all the support everyone.

Team Atheist Forever.