God Is Imaginary!

Women clutch photos of murdered loved ones.

Chain Wrapped Around ‘Old Man’s Body’ Found in Mosque
From CNN.com, by Arwa Damon

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — “There are the bloodstains on the wall, and here it is dried on the floor,” Abu Muhanad said as he walked through a torture chamber in a Baghdad mosque where more than two dozen bodies have been found.

“And here, a woman’s shoes. She was a victim of the militia. We found her corpse in the grave.”

Chunks of hair waft lazily across the floor in the hot Baghdad breeze.

“This was the torture room,” said Muhanad, the leader of a U.S.-backed armed group that now controls the mosque.

“This is what they used for hanging,” he said, pointing to a cord dangling from the ceiling. “Here is a chain we found tied to an old man’s body.”

The horrific scene at this southwestern Baghdad mosque is what officials say was the work of a Shia militia known as the Mehdi Army. Residents who live near the mosque say they could hear the victims’ screams.

The militia had been in control of the mosque, called Adib al-Jumaili, for at least a year and a half.

The neighborhood lies in an area that became one of the capital’s many sectarian fault lines when violence was at its worst.

It’s been about three months since the Mehdi Army, loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, abandoned this mosque as it withdrew from several strongholds across the country.

Spray painted on the walls is a chilling warning: “Spies, you will dig your own graves. Long live the Mehdi Army.”

Now the mosque is under the watch of the Sons of Iraq, a local armed group that is largely financed by the Americans working alongside the Iraqi police. They are charged with trying to keep the peace in the neighborhood.

Muhanad is their leader.

“We found this chain on an old man’s corpse that we dug out of the grave,” he said, gesturing to a bloodied chain on the floor. “We recovered about 22 corpses and then another five.”

Only now are people able to understand the true magnitude of the Shiite militia’s atrocities and the brutal laws they were enforcing on the people.

“This was my son’s grave,” Abu Wissam said, pointing to one of the many shallow holes in the mosque’s garden. “We recovered his corpse completely rotten. His hands and legs were amputated, and his head was decapitated.”

“He was just a college graduate,” his mother sobbed, clutching her 25-year-old son’s photo.

They say the Mehdi Army abducted their son about a year ago, accusing him of being a traitor. They shot up and looted his home. The family fled.

A gruesome video of their son’s mutilated body was delivered to their doorstep.

The militia “still raid our homes,” Abu Wissam said. “Their families are in the district. The day before yesterday, at noon, they tried to assassinate me, but I was able to call the police for help.”

The neighborhood is eerily deserted. Most of the residents fled the militia’s reign; many who stayed bore the brunt of the violence. Homes stand abandoned, shops shuttered, buildings shot up.

A single car drives down the main street as a pack of dogs runs through the twisted piles of metal that was once an outdoor market.

Lingering at the mosque are a handful of residents whose loved ones were also abducted, looking for clues.

“They said they were just taking him for a few minutes, for an investigation,” said Karima, who only wanted to be identified by her first name, as her eyes filled with tears. “But they never released him and we heard he might be buried behind the mosque.”

Umm Diab’s breath came in shallow gasps as tears flowed from her turquoise-green eyes. She wiped them away using the corner of her abaya. In her hand, there’s a passport photo of her father, who was abducted by the militia.

“All we want are their dead bodies,” she said.

Although the Mehdi Army has moved out of this mosque and is less visible on the street, residents know that they’re not gone.

“They’re still threatening us,” Umm Diab said.

I’m firmly convinced that the people who love and worship this horrible deity have never actually read the Bible.

And those who have, must not have comprehended what they were reading.

I apologize for using so many quotes in this blog, but Richard Dawkins sums up my feelings better than I ever could…

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomanical, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror.”

Take these little girls, for instance—completely desensitized. But at least they’ve got it right; God does in fact hate homosexuals. The Bible says so.

Such a wonderful, loving guy, that Yahweh.

Fundamentalist Muslims like to kill people, while moderate Muslims are easily offended.

Why?

I think it’s because their so-called “prophet” is an embarrassment… and woe be to anyone who draws attention to his sexual exploits.

For those of you who don’t know the story, here’s a quick recap:

At the age of 49, Muhammad was betrothed to a six-year-old girl named Aisha, who was the daughter of his friend, Abu Bakr.

Three years later, at the age of nine, Aisha began menstruating, which was a sign for old man Muhammad to marry the child and sexually consummate their “marriage.”

Now, Muslims can sugarcoat this all they want—but adults who have sex with children are called pedophiles. They are child rapists who should be locked up and castrated. In other words, they are the usual sort of scum who convince themselves and their mindless followers that they are “prophets” of “god.”

So, when a book by Sherry Jones dared to describe Muhammad’s very real sexual relationship with his child-bride… wouldn’tcha know it?… all hell broke loose.

According to Muslim journalist, Asra Q. Nomani, before writing The Jewel of Medina: A Tale of Lust, Love and Intrigue in the Prophet’s Harem, Ms. Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha’s life, and came to admire her protagonist as a woman of courage. For her efforts, Ms. Jones signed a $100,000, two-book deal with Random House and The Jewel of Medina was slated to hit the streets today.

But Random House chickened out and reneged on their deal, because “credible and unrelated sources” said “the publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community… and could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment.”

Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Texas in Austin is, allegedly, the one who instigated the panic.

According to Ms. Nomani, Ms. Spellberg contacted Shahed Amanullah, the editor of a popular Muslim website, and told him that the novel “made fun of Muslims and their history,” and asked him to warn Muslims.

Mr. Amanullah then sent an e-mail to a listserv of Middle East and Islamic studies grad students, telling them that the forthcoming novel was found to be “incredibly offensive.”

The next day, Mr. Amanullah’s e-mail was posted on “Hussaini Youth,” a website for Shiite Muslims, with the headline, “Upcoming book, ‘Jewel of Medina’: A new attempt to slander the Prophet of Islam.”

Then some guy by the name of Ali Hemani proposed “a seven-point strategy” to ensure “the writer withdraws this book from the stores and apologise[s] [to] all the muslims across the world.”

Meanwhile, an editor at Random House’s Knopf imprint sent an e-mail to Knopf executives, informing them that Ms. Spellberg thought there was a “very real possibility of major danger for the building and staff and widespread violence… a declaration of war… explosive stuff… a national security issue… far more controversial than the satanic verses and the Danish cartoons… [and] thinks the book should be withdrawn ASAP.”

Finally, the author was told that the publishing of her novel was indefinitely postponed for “fear of a possible terrorist threat from extremist Muslims” and concern for “the safety and security of the Random House building and employees.”

In defence of the book, Ms. Nomani writes, “… for all those who believe the life of the prophet Muhammad can’t include stories of lust, anger and doubt, we need only read the Quran (18:110) where, it’s said, God instructed Muhammad to tell others: ‘I am only a mortal like you.’”

Muhammad was mortal all right, but rest assured, his “instructions” from Allah were nothing more than the voices in his head.

Ms. Spellberg called the novel a “very ugly, stupid piece of work.” Perhaps what she really meant was that Muhammad was a “very ugly, stupid piece of work.”

Here is an excerpt from the book:

This was the beginning of something new, something terrible. Soon I would be lying on my bed beneath him, squashed like a scarab beetle, flailing and sobbing while he slammed himself against me. He would not want to hurt me, but how could he help it? It’s always painful the first time.

The pain of consummation soon melted away. Muhammad was so gentle. I hardly felt the scorpion’s sting. To be in his arms, skin to skin, was the bliss I had longed for all my life.”

Ms. Spellberg is quoted as saying, “I don’t have a problem with historical fiction. I do have a problem with the deliberate misinterpretation of history. You can’t play with a sacred history and turn it into soft core pornography.”

Obviously, I don’t believe there’s anything “sacred” about Mohammad’s life. But I do think Ms. Spellberg has a point about “deliberate misinterpretation,” as I’m quite certain a nine-year-old girl would not have “longed” to be raped by a 52-year-old man.

As I said, Muhammad is likely an embarrassment to his modern-day followers, who don’t have the cojones to admit their “prophet” was nothing but a sexual deviant, a womanizer, and a charlatan.

Sherry Jones was quoted as saying, “My portrayal of Muhammad is extremely respectful, and of the origins of Islam is very accurate and respectful… Muhammad says in the Koran that he was a mortal. I assume he did all the things a man does. He had 12 wives—I’m sure he had sex with them.”

Of course he did. But shhh…. don’t tell anybody.

[sources: The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Answering Islam]

Javon Thompson

Javon Thompson, a toddler, whose remains were found inside a suitcase this spring, was starved to death by his mother and members of “One Mind Ministries,” after the deluded lunatics concluded the child was a “demon” for refusing to say “amen” after meals, even though the child was just learning basic words.

They stopped feeding him when he was 18 months old.

A witness told homicide detectives Javon was beaten, physically abused, and deprived of food and water.

Javon’s mother, Ria Ramkissoon, and three other members of the ministry have been charged with first-degree murder.

Ria Ramkissoon

An informant told police that after Javon died, one of the members left the boy’s body in a room for more than a week, claiming “God was going to raise Javon from the dead.” Afterward, she placed his body in a suitcase, which she periodically opened and sprayed with disinfectant to mask the odor.

Javon’s grandmother, Seeta Khadan-Newton, said the Maryland Department of Social Services refused to respond to her phone calls saying the baby might be in danger. “They told me it’s not their job,” she said. “They told me I need to get the proof and bring it to them.”

Well… they’ve got proof now. Yet another case of an innocent child, abused and murdered in the name of “god.”

[Sources: CNN and The Examiner]

Many of you probably receive e-mails like the one I’ve copied below. And, hopefully, most of you are astute enough to recognize a scam when you see one.

On the other hand, those of you who are completely deluded by religion make perfect victims. The reasoning being: since you’ve already been scammed once, you are obviously an easy mark.

Have you fallen for something like this?…

One With Christ: It’s my pleasure to share my testimony with you, I am Rev Barrister Sam Obodo , the legal adviser to late Mr and Mrs Zech Joseph a Russian couple that lived in my Country U.K for 25 years before they died in auto crash at Totlenham court airpress way, They are good Christian, They so Dedicated to God but they had no child till they died. Throughout their stayed in the country, they acquired a lot of properties, house properties, etc. As their legal adviser, before their death, they Instructed me to write their WILL. Because they had no child, they dedicated their wealth to God. According to the WILL, the properties have to be sold and the money will be given out to a ministry for the work of God, Orphanages and less privileges ones. As Their legal adviser, all the documents for the Properties were in my care. They gave me the authority to sell the properties and give out the fund to the Ministries for the work of God. In short, I sold all the properties after their death, as they instructed and as matter of fact, after I sold all their properties, I realized more than Ten million, five hundred thousand US Dollars ($10.500,000,00), and what supposed to be the percentage interest of my right legal fee was firstly deducted by me out of the total amount realized from the sold properties, this was base on the initial agreement between me and the owner of the properties before their death. Therefore the total amount left to be invested into God’s work as instructed by the owner is Ten million, five hundred thousand US Dollars ($10.500,000,00) only. But Instead of giving the main fund out for the work of God as instructed to me by the owner before their death. I have intention of investing the fund in abroad for personal use. then packaged the fund and deposited it with a security Finance Firm. I did not want the management of the Security finance to know the content of the consignments; therefore I registered the content of the consignments as family treasure. Now, the security company believes that what I deposited with them was family treasure.I had encounter with Christ when Rev. Billy Graham was preaching on television concerning Amanas and Sapphire in Acts 5:1-11. After hearing the word of God, I gave my life to Christ and became a born again Christian. As a born again Christian, I started reading my bible and knowing who is God and becaome a Preacher in a Missionary, one day the Lord opened my eyes to Ezekiel 33: 18 and 19 where the word of God says: “When the righteous truth from his righteousness, and committed iniquity, he shall even die thereby. But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby”. From the scripture, I discovered that the only way I could have peace in my life is to do what is lawful and right by Giving out the fund as instructed for the work of God by the owner before her death. I have asked God for forgiveness and I know that God have forgiven me. But I have to do what is lawful and right in the sight of God by giving out the fund to the chosen ministry or charity eg: for the purpose of God’s work as instructed by the owner before her death. After my fasting and prayers, I asked God to make his choice and direct me to a honest Christian but after my fervent prayer over it, then you were nominated to me through divine revelation from God, so these are how I received such a divine revelation from the Lord, how I got your contact information, and I then decided to contact you for the fund to be used wisely for things that will glorify the name of God. I have notified the Security Company where I deposited the fund that I am moving the package to abroad and the security company has since been waiting for my authority for the consignment to leave my country and move to abroad. You should also forward to me your telephone and fax number for easy communication and to fax you the documents concern are in my position. Prompt response will be highly appreciated. Yours in Christ Barrister Sam Obodo

Oh, give me a break!

What is wrong with you people?!

Obviously, there is no god. But if there were… why in the world would anyone with half a brain in their head worship such a masochistic, narcissistic psycho?

Here we have a woman who was raped and tortured every single day, for a year, by both men and women, had her breast sliced with a bayonet, and suffered unimaginable pain, suffering, and mental distress.

But she still believes her all loving, all powerful, all knowing, all merciful god allowed this to happen to her “for a reason.”

If so, her god must stand trial for crimes against humanity right along with Radovan Karadzic.

Here is an excerpt:

“Then they started torturing me. I lost consciousness. When I woke up I was totally naked and covered in blood and my sister-in-law was also naked and covered in blood. … I knew I had been raped and my sister-in-law too.” In a corner, she saw her mother-in-law, holding her children and crying.

“That same day we were locked in our house. That was the worst, the worst period of my whole life. That’s when it started.

“Every day we were raped. Not only in the house — they would also take us to the front line for the soldiers to torture us. Then again in the house, in front of the children,” Jasmina said through a translator, remembering the 10 other women who were brutalized with her.

“I was in such a bad condition that sometimes I couldn’t even recognize my own children. Even though I was in a very bad physical condition they had no mercy at all. They raped me every day. They took me to the soldiers and back to that house.

“The only conversation we had was when I was begging them to kill me. That’s when they laughed. Their response was ‘we don’t need you dead.’”

Once at the front line there were women soldiers who tortured her with a bottle and then slashed at her throat and wrist when it broke. Then the troops cut one of her breasts with a bayonet, said Jasmina, now looking older than her 35 years.

“It lasted for a year. Every day. … Not all the women survived.”

The following year, Jasmina tried to kill herself three times.

“I will never be OK,” she said. “I was beautiful once; it cost me my life.”

And why exactly did your god allow this to happen to you, Jasmina?

I’d love to hear his side of the story.

Read the full article here.

Grabovoy

All so-called “faith healers” are con artists.

Most are wealthy television evangelists who, inexplicably, get away with their crimes.

But, every once in a while, someone is actually charged and convicted of fraud.

Last week, for instance, a Moscow court sentenced Grigory Grabovoy to 11 years of hard labor in a Russian prison for claiming he could resurrect the dead.

Like all con men of his ilk, Grabovoy took advantage of people’s grief and desperation.

In one instance, a man paid the fraudster 39,500 roubles ($1,700) to cure his dying parents, and in another case, he took 118,000 roubles from a woman to resurrect her dead sons.

Grabovoy also promised to resurrect hundreds of children killed at a school siege in 2004. For a fee, of course.

Unfortunately, the gullible remain gullible.

Despite the guilty verdict, Grabovoy’s supporters still believe he has supernatural powers and that he has been unfairly persecuted.

I imagine if Jesus were alive today, he too would be convicted of fraud, or, at the very least, committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Actually, according to the Christian mythologists,  Jesus was convicted and sentenced to death. And yet, over 2000 years later, the deluded still believe their crazy hero was divine.

If you’re a Christian or someone who believes you have a “soul,” but animals do not, consider this:

I find it hard not to smile at religion’s conceit that we’re superior to animals on the basis that we have souls and they don’t, when five minutes in a slaughterhouse would convince anyone that, if anything, it’s animals who have the souls and human beings who don’t. -Pat Condell

People who believe in imaginary beings are delusional. People who talk to imaginary beings are delusional. Use your intelligence to free yourself from these delusions…

Secularism is not atheism. Pat Condell tells it like it is: