Yay! Today marks the day of Zombie Jesus, the day that Jesus rose from the dead to atone for the sins of the world. The resurrection of Jesus is key to the Christian faith, if it didn’t happen then there was no atonement, and Jesus wouldn’t have been God in flesh. How do we know that the resurrection really happened? Well, we don’t, it’s one of those things that need to be taken on faith. Faith, belief in things without evidence, or things for which there is evidence against. No thanks.
Don’t forget that this also marks the Hebrew holiday of Passover, which marks the time that God decided to kill all of the first-born children in Egypt. That is unless you killed a lamb and spread it’s blood on your door post, as the Hebrew slaves had done, in which case the spirit of the Lord passed over that home and didn’t murder children.
God is good? God seems to be pretty focused on killing people that don’t obey his word to the letter of the law, sometimes on the pain of death. What is it that is supposed to be appleaing about these religions?
For all you non-god-fearing fans of Mr. Current, a recent video on what really happens when you go to the big social network in the sky. The end is, in a word, dead on.
Here’s a response to that conversation from orDover, a former Evangelical Christian turned atheist.
I’d add to this that besides lies not helping children or anyone else deal with death, they also belittle the experience of living. If this is all the time I have with any person, place or thing that I love, then every moment is precious and should be savoured, in case it’s my last.
My fellow heathens, Topic Agnostic is pleased to bring you a set of two new “Catholic Kitsch” Agnostic Art® desktop wallpapers.
Enjoy the plastic splendor of Jesus on your desktop! He’s doing an “E.T. phone home” thing with his finger! Or get pious with our Lady of the Fake Flowers, Jesus’ mom!
These images stem from the interest in personal, spontaneous outpouring of religiosity: in the case of this Catholic shrine, someone’s idea of what will help assuage death. Nothing can, realistically, but, for some, participation in the rituals and symbols ascribed to death by their culture serve to ease the cognitive dissonance that comes with contemplation of our ultimate fate.
From Transcendent Pictures Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (trailer):
and the first 10 minutes of this awesome documentary:
Ok! Here’s 5 ghoulish funeral practices from Cracked.com.
Religious / superstitious rites are can be quite bizarre, and, um, stinky. But it’s all up to what you figure pleases your God.
Personally I’ve always been down with with the underpinnings of jhator, the Tibetan practice ‘giving alms to the birds’ (letting them feast on your carcass). Do you know what cremation costs? Plenty! Why not feed the birds and, subsequently, the landscape at large with your no-longer-necessary remains?
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