I saw the most adorable photo today, stating the following:


“THANK GOD / FOR WHAT YOU HAVE / TRUST GOD / FOR WHAT YOU NEED”


How inspirational! I couldn’t help but take a few moments to thank god for all he’s done for the human race:


Thank you, my dear god, for blessing we few whilst you damn the rest of the world with poverty, hatred, and suffering despite whether or not they “trust you” to begin with. Thank you for creating the terms of survival to include adorations towards an invisible being that has historically arrived at the ends of European rifles. I appreciate the fact that you have spread disease and disaster amongst the planet (often through your zealous followers), and though I do not understand why any kind of benevolent being would wish such ill upon the human rance, I’m too blind to recognize that simply chalking this hypocritical notion up to “mystery” is intellectually dishonest. I appreciate the fact that your Church recognizes that spreading lies about contraceptives and speaking against them is more important than allowing individuals all around the world to have protection against sexually transmitted infections that may result in their slow, eventual deaths— along with the deaths of their children, whom will be born with the diseases of their parents. I’m also very supportive of the work you’ve done to help spread abstinence-only programs, which have been statistically proven to be less effective than safe-sex programs, in our schools regardless of that fact that the programs you’re in support of actually lead to more abortions. I see no contradiction with the fact that you both support the programs that propagate abortions and the fact that you are abhorrently against the practice of abortions because the idea that my indoctrinated beliefs could in any way be wrong, even when they blatantly contradict each other, is frightening and impossible for me to conceptualize.


Now, although I do not consciously recognize that there are those that would kill for the remaining two inches of the Subway’s $5-footlong that I just threw away, I feel the need to pretend that my invisible sky-daddy, to whom I pray to nightly, is loving because he allowed me to be born into economic security while he lets the rest of the world squander for resources that would otherwise be abundant. You’ve made it so easy for me to allow me to take everything that I own for granted in a world in which there are a plethora of people that are starving to death, even so when they cry out your name in vain, and for that I thank you once more for kindly allowing me to be born with more prosperity and opportunity than everyone else despite the fact that your supposed son, the man-god Christ, explicitly asks me to share my possessions with all. I love the part of the bible that says that you’re allowed to cherry pick which parts you like and which ones you don’t and only lend belief towards the ones that don’t seriously impinge upon my welfare or my wallet.

Clearly, all of the impoverished nations of the world are simply not trying hard enough to survive whilst my people and I, the white heterosexual majority of this country and all others, have been raping and pillaging (exploring and saving with the power of Christ) every new society that we’ve thrust our filthy hands into. It’s okay though, because I justify these actions by simply stating that the force-feeding of my god-concept upon indigenous peoples is more important than their rights to live or to hold opinions contrary to my own.

Frankly, I care not that the ideology that I uphold has been one that has only propagated its existence through forced (now willful) ignorance and bloodshed.

I prefer to leave my beliefs about our reality up to the primitive scribblings of the ancient men that lived in misogynist, patriarchal societies whose more “moderate” values I continue to attempt to force upon my fellow, modern-day countrymen because these values are the only ones I know, and to consider anything else would be nearly impossible from my indoctrinated mind; this means that they are objectivelly true. I am against human sacrifice, but I am comfortable with the idea that a man-god could be sacrificed to his god-self in order to appease himself and save mankind from the condition of sin that this god himself allowed to exist.


Aside from that, I view science and the progression of mankind as correct and reliable when it is convenient for me to do so (like when I’m getting an MRI or arguing over the internet), but treat the entire thing as a backwards conspiracy the moment that it mentions anything in relation to the faith-based belief system that my parents have insisted I swallow in fistfulls every Sunday from the age of my birth until the day I die; happily, I probably will because I view change as dangerous to my perspectives of the world we live in, which could only result in reprehension from the mythical god-concept I assert exists without evidence.

Furthermore, I enjoy spitting in the faces of all of those that are less fortunate and happy than I am by pretending that the reason I am in this current position is because an invisible sky-daddy willed it to be so, whilst still maintaining the insance level of audacity to call this horrendous, murderous, hateful, sexist, selfish creature “God.”


P.S. After I take the holier-than-thou stick out from my ass, I might come to the sad realization that not all of your followers think the same way that I do. What a shame, though it goes without saying that their silence towards my supposedly “non-Christian” attitude is evidence of their agreement. I am the true Christian because I am the true Christian, and the other so-called “Christians” know it because the only people that ever speak out against people like me are atheists and other freethinkers, despite how their silence only further discredits their own claims of “moderation.” There is only extremism because our voice is the loudest and the moderate “Christians” are afraid to speak up.


The purpose of this piece:


..Please, Christians: speak up against the extremists in your own belief systems that are damning your beliefs. Your voices have been drowned out, so much so that it is sometimes hard to remember that the terrible portrayal I’ve just presented does not represent all of you. You are better than this. You are not all blind, hateful, and willfully ignorant.


This is a wake-up call to the hypocrisy of your beliefs, but also a call to arms against those that would speak harm from the same pulpits you call “holy.”


You are thinkers, but you are quiet.


You are far too quiet.