Someone once tried to flag this as a "hate site".
This is not a hate site.
Some people have gotten the wrong impression about my attitude towards "believers", particularly Christians and specifically Jehovah's Witnesses.
Let me set the record straight. I love these people. As far as they are sincere, I respect them for living their lives as they think is right.
What my writings have sought to do is to critique beliefs by looking at the facts, and to roundly criticize those who have taken advantage of people's gullibility.
Take the Jehovah's Witnesses: the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (aka the Governing Body) lords it over these mostly loving, simple-minded people: telling them what to think about everything; forcing them to watch their children die rather than receive life-saving blood transfusions, etc. I know for a fact that this society has lied, and continues to lie to their trusting followers, endangering their lives unnecessarily and pointlessly. So, I "speak up" and point these things out. It doesn't mean that I hate Jehovah's Witnesses or that I'm "picking on them". It means that I care about my former "brothers and sisters" and I want them to know the facts that I know, so they can free themselves from the mind-control inflicted upon them by their "masters".
When it comes to Christianity, my writings have mostly critiqued the fundamentalist brand. It strikes me as irresponsible to base one's life on the patently absurd. It is simply a fact that the Bible is a mass of contradictory nonsense with just a few pearls of wisdom thrown in. Most of it is glaringly immoral. Humankind needs to pass beyond its infantile stage of superstition and barbaric moral codes if it is to advance and tackle the problems of the real world. Belief in the Bible as the "word of god" stymies that process.
As for Christianity in general, it is flawed by being based on the Bible. There is no evidence that the man they claim to follow: Jesus of Nazareth, ever lived. In fact, the evidence points decidedly against it.
The idea that there is a god who had a son, and that he had to sacrifice that son in order to forgive humankind for a "sin" committed by their distant ancestors (when those ancestors didn't know right from wrong) is the very epitome of ludicrous. Then there's the Christian belief that this son of god's came back to life after having been dead for three days, and then flew up into the sky and was never seen again except in hallucinogenic "visions". Perhaps this would serve as an amusing fairy tale for children, but I would hope such stories would be filed away next to the "Easter Bunny", the "tooth fairy", and "Santa Claus" upon reaching adulthood.
No, this is not a "hate site": this is a site seeking truth, and attacking falsehoods and those who use falsehoods to lord it over others and block humankind's progress towards a more ethical, reality-based world.
And, yes the site also criticizes killing: whether it's the mass slaughters of innocent people carried out by my country throughout its history and continuing today in the wars it is currently waging, or the killing and abusing of non-human animals. I don't hate the people who do such things: I hate their actions.
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