The reason I bring this up is because P.Z. Myers over at Pharyngula wrote an interesting blog today. In the blog he condemns Harold Camping for being a lying ass, naturally. Apparently Camping has now come out and said that Jesus did come back on Saturday but is playing hide and seek. The end of the world is still scheduled for October.
I guess when Camping said, "No new interviews. Give me a day." He really meant to say, "Ah fuck. Give me 24 hours to come up with some excuse that the world didn't end." So of course Camping backpedaled. Just like every other "profit" backpedals when they predict something that doesn't happen.
P.Z. thinks that the problem isn't just a fundamentalist Christian problem. He thinks it is fundamentally a religious problem. People who claim that their book, their belief system, their imaginary sky-daddy has all the answers are the problem.
On a slightly connected note, Sam Harris goes on in this video to tear apart Christian moral superiority. It is in the same style with what I wrote early. God is a psychopath and believing in any moral standard coming from him is insane.
This, to me, is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe, by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own. If you wake up tomorrow morning thinking that saying a few Latin words over your pancakes is going to turn them into the body of Elvis Presley, you have lost your mind. But if you think more or less the same thing about a cracker, you're just a Catholic.
For those of you who don't know Sam Harris, he is an author and neuroscientist who promotes science and atheism. I recommend watching his debates and speeches on youtube. They are pretty enlightening.
That is all for now. Sorry for the first post being something so...atheistic, but I just wanted to share a few things I found interesting on this lovely Wednesday morning.
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