Testicles...God's perverse attractions

First and foremost, I want to say that I am in NO means a bible scholar or anything near that. I do my research like anyone else who isn't an expert in the field, I use Google and what it finds (like Wikipedia). So the following is just a random search of something I've heard happening in Christianity before (I believe it was just Roman Catholic, but I'm not sure).

Today, I'm going to talk about people known as Castrato. If you don't know what a Castrato is, you can read more on the Wiki page. I will get into the section labeled "Castrati in the European Classical tradition".

First and foremost, these are men who have lost their testicles. This does not mean getting something as simple as a modern day castration where they just snip one of the 2 tubes connecting the testicles to the rest of the body, this is the full removal of the testicles from the male body.

What does this mean for the prepubescent boy who has gotten this done (more than likely with parents approval or forced)?

Their limbs will grow longer and their chest cavities will be bigger allowing for an increased amount of air being introduced into the lungs (something I will touch on in a min). It also keeps their vocal cords at the prepubescent stage (that part where it makes young boys sound like young girls).

So, what is my point in all this? Well, to start, the castrati were used during the Middle Ages as individuals in choirs in most churches of the time. This was due to the fact that women were not allowed to be part of the choir. As such, they needed males who could sound like females...and not just by replacing prepubescent boys every year or so (not that this has stopped the bishops and cardinals anyways).

However, here is the part that starts to make me wonder. Not just about the churches practicing this, but in their god in general.

King James Bible
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Wait a second...those that are "wounded in the stones"? That's the castrati. Obviously god doesn't like them so much that they can't hold offices of any sort (depending on your interpretation of the interpretations of some Bronze Aged fairy tales), but even if you have been mutilated, you can at least sing pretty to the people of the church?

O_o Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!!

Now has that for something truly messed up. Though, I guess I should be surprised, the first 4 commandments are just god being a rather vain asshole...so wanting some boys to remain girls (something that he obviously didn't do or make) so he could have some pretty music waft up to heaven seems rather worse in comparison.

Of course, I am transgendered so I find very little use of them to begin with (the body still produces sperm, but, it's as useless as a screendoor on a submarine), however...if I was told at the age of like 6 or 7 that I was going to have them removed so I could be a choir singer...I'd have 2 simple words and some actions to follow:

FUCK YOU!!! t(=_=t)

My Dream

This post came about from my comment to a reply on my Martin Luther King post

Now, I'm definitely not a visionary or an orator like MLK was, but, nonetheless...here we go. All references to religion are major non-earth based religions.

Just like Martin Luther King, I too have a dream. I dream of a day when religion no longer controls the world around me. When all people truly are treated as equals and there is NO second class citizens. For too long religion has dictated and controlled people into thinking that you MUST believe in God in order to truly live and this has extended out to the people who run, not just the US, but for the most part the world.

These people have actively been trying to make things fit their narrowed view of reality. This includes preventing equal rights for anyone who isn't just like them.

People who are gay or lesbian

People who believe in a world based religion

People who fit into the counter culture

People who fit neither gender mold and instead bring themselves up to a higher point.

These are just a few people who are affected by the cult of religion. This cult has managed to, time and time again, change things to make them fit it's views and not allow anything else.

I do not need the "parenting" of an invisible sky fairy who tells me that sex is only between a man and a woman only after their married and then only specifically to reproduce. No, this is a world where someone should be able to relax and enjoy themselves without causing harm or distress to others as well.

If this dream were a realization back between 0CE and through about 1960CE...could you imagine where we, as the human race, would be now? Sure we wouldn't have all the religious art and buildings, but then again, most of them are just showing the outright thievery that religion has committed over the years.

I hope that this dream can come to fruition before I become too old to be able to understand the natural world around me. Until then, I will fight for my, and anyone else who has been displaced by the cult of religion, rights to be able to live in complete comfort in an non-bigoted world where I can freely express myself and who I am.

My dad really is clueless

Yeah, I've got another one from my dad. This time I was a bit more blatant.

It started off by me bringing up the group who decided that it would be better to send solar-powered bibles to the people of Haiti rather than something they truly need...food, clean water, shelter, medical supplies and the people to administer them.

He agreed with me that sending bibles to Haiti is nothing less than retarded. However...that's when he brought up the bible crap again. He then went off stating that Revelations has given prophecy that things like that are happening now and that it's a sign that Jeebus (he didn't say Jeebus, I just like that name) is coming.

My initial reaction was to laugh, but instead I looked at him and in a totally straight tone of voice told him that all the stuff that's supposed to happen in Revelations has been happening since the book was written. It happened 1000 years ago....it happened 500 years ago....hell, it happened when Bush was our president for crying out loud.

His response "it's happening now".

-_- wow...what a way to ignore everything I just said.

So I pointed out again that all that stuff has happened before and then also asked him if it was god (sorry, I just can't show that sort of respect...now the Flying Spaghetti Monster...) doing all that. He simply replied "yes" and I immediately replied "Wow, god's a dick then"

He just kept going on about how it's god's will and after a few more sentences I asked him to say one thing in revelations that is going on now...SPECIFICALLY.

He couldn't answer that each and every time I asked. After me asking like 5 or 6 times, he finally replied "Would you just go to church?"

That's when I had to walk off to laugh cause it was obvious he didn't know how to win that little debate....oh...wait...there was no way to win it as he was basing his entire side off a book that makes as much sense as tattooing the answers to a test on the inside of your eyelids....no matter how you look at it, the bible or your eyelids, you just can't see the answers.

But, it's at this point that I must cut it short as I have to work today and I still have a few things to do before I head to bed.

Honoring Martin Luther King

Please watch the above speech given by him.

While he was a Baptist minister and created several Christian themed groups, he is probably one of THE greatest examples/orator/icon for peace and equality. With him, he didn't let his religious affiliations cloud his desire for freedom for all as is apparent in his speech included in the video above.

His influences list on wikipedia is long with Jesus at the front, but considering his position for non-violent shows of opposition and disdain for things going on extends to more Eastern traditions that wouldn't require anyone to be of any religion.

As today is a day remembering and honoring the memory of MLK, for what he believed and what he accomplished, I too feel that equality is coming...it doesn't have a small price or an easy one either. But if we continue in the steps of MLK, we can easily accomplish peace and true equality, not what the bible thumpers/jesus freaks/fundies/religoutards say it should be, but 100% peace and true equality.

As I finish this post, I would ask that any readers of this post take a moment to reflect on the life of MLK and realize what an impact he had on the world back in 1963 and think how they could have the same impact in 2010 to help realize the idea of true peace and equality. You don't need to post what is that you will do, just keep in mind at all times what is that you can do to help. Myself, I will work to dispel the multitude of myths, from the downright stupid (Hitler was an Atheist and that means all Atheists are evil) to the ones that seem pretty innocent (Because you're an Atheist you have no hope)

Mormons and their stupid beliefs

So, unbeknownst to me today, my parents took a call from a neighbor who wanted to come over and visit...I found out less than 30 min before they showed up...which they did as I was eating dinner.

Now, I normally try not to be rude when guests are at the house...but considering they wanted to talk to me about church (without asking me if they could come over for that matter), I just kept eating as if they weren't there.

So they started their spiel about the church and gave their message and at one point, one of them made the comment regarding the church "we all know the truth" I had to smirk when I heard that cause they don't know what the truth is and are so far removed from it that it's just pathetic.

Of course, at the end of their little meeting, they had to "give their testimonies" which basically included "the church is good and I fap to jesus" bullshit. I just ignored them and was checking on my toenails.

Overall, my point is that they don't (neither them or my parents) discuss any of this crap with me and just tell me "oh, they're coming over at this time" instead of asking me if I want them to come over...which I've said time and time again that I don't.

And, just before they leave, they tell me that they're inviting me to go to church, and now that it's later in the day I can make the meetings. =_= Yeah...just what I want to spend my Sunday doing...sitting in a church, listening to some bullshit story instead of doing something productive...say doing laundry, cleaning and vaccuming, cleaning the inside of the cars still parked out front, and other random stuff around the house....oh...wait...that's EXACTLY what I did today while I was home and my parents were at church...hmm...I think the use of my time was MUCHHHHHHH better than theirs was.

They'll get the point of my blasting the church and religion in general soon enough. Until then, I'll just keep it up and keep pointing out all the things that are wrong with religion.

Delusion of others

So I got a text message from one of my friends that I've known for over 2 decades that said something along the lines of "Want to come with me to my stake's conference?" (they're Mormon)

I had to stare at my phone for a second and think "I guess I'm not obvious enough"

I say this as I have them added on my Youtube channel as a friend, but as you can see by my list of subscriptions, I have a LOT of free thinkers added on there, some with "atheist" as part of their channel name. I also have several of Laci Green's videos added (in particular her deconversion from Mormonism, so I kind of know how she feels). They've commented about Laci before to which I launched into the faults of Mormonism and how I agree with Laci and share similar religious beliefs (atheistically speaking).

I've also blasted religion in general (and picked on Mormonism a bit as I know they wouldn't understand any other sort of Christianity) while talking to them. I've pointed out the total errancy of the bible...I even brought up the fact that Joseph Smith was a treasure seeker who used stones in a hat to "locate treasure" then used this same divination technique to write the book of mormon They just stared at me like they didn't know what to say...which doesn't surprise me since the church willfully denies these charges (even my dad doesn't know what to do when I bring this up).

Ultimately I just responded back "No" as I didn't feel like explaining again why I don't want anything to do with the church....or religion for that matter. Besides, I was working and putting flyers out around downtown, so I had something much better to do than discuss this through text messages.

Out sick @_@

I do apologize for not having posted lately, unfortunately I've been sick recently and haven't had much energy to be online (let alone awake). I do however have some topics I will write on as soon as I'm able to be up long enough to do so.