Archive for Religion
A different look at 2012
Posted by: | CommentsA DCS reader pointed out this website in one of my article about 2012. While I don’t believe much of what’s written in the article, the author is looking at the 2012 date in a way we’re not used to see with doomsdayers. You can have a look but I think the core of the article can be explained by these couple of lines:
WILL WE SURVIVE?
Yes, we will. A human is not and has never been his body. He is his mind, with all its virtues, lusts, evils and defects as I described in my article about Quetzalcoatl.
WHO WILL SAVE US?
The Hindu Triad or Holy Trinity is Brahma, Shiva (The Destroyer), and Vishnu (The Preserver). Shiva and Vishnu are also part of the Unbegotten Brahma. In reality, Shiva and Vishnu are also the same Deity, for Vish is just a reversal of “Shiv.”
Shiva will protect us again, as he has always done in past Maha Yugas. He will swallow the poison of our evils, turning his throat blue. From then on, throughout all the other successive Kali Yugas, Brahm, through his Shiva and Vishnu aspect, will send out sons in the flesh who will die on their crosses to reassure us that we will always be redeemable.
I’m pretty sure you get the picture. While I don’t think it makes much sense, at least it’s not one of those “everybody is going to die” theory.
Evolushark: A weird but funny attempt at discouraging conservative Christians
Posted by: | CommentsI came across the small but funny Evolushark website today and It’s definitely worth a look. The website tries to discourage conservating christians from trying to inject creationism into public school science curriculum. I don’t think it is the proper way of fighting the situation but it still remains funny and you should have a look whether you are Christian or not. Here’s the mission statement from the front page just as a teaser:
Evolushark, a blue shark uniquely formed by the word “evolution”, is a science mascot specifically designed to discourage conservative Christians from trying to inject creationism into public school science curriculum. By intimidating their mascot Ichthys, Evolushark symbolically warns conservative Christians that attempts to impose their sectarian beliefs on America’s secular society face strong opposition.
Secularism, the view that public education and other matters of civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element, is embodied in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Over the past 80 years, creationists opposed to Darwin’s theory of evolution have repeatedly tried to violate this clause. They first attempted to replace Darwinism with creationism, then worked to have it removed from biology textbooks, and finally tried to get creationism taught alongside evolution in science classes. In the last few decades, evangelical Christians (creationists, charismatics, born agains, etc.) have politically joined forces, in an effort to impose their shared conservative Christian beliefs on all of America. Evolushark offers a humorous, yet powerful way, to express disapproval of these serious sectarian attacks on our secular society.
Enjoy!
You can’t escape your destiny, period.
Posted by: | CommentsI read an interesting article today titled Darwinist-Materialist Misconceptions About The Human Genome Project and I think it’s worth commenting on because there are a couple of things I really do not agree with. In that particular article, from someone selling a book of course, there’s an argumentation about the fact that God is controlling your destiny and that there’s not much you can do about it: You are programmed to live the life you live.
So, first of all, let’s have a look the core of this article:
This is true for everyone and every event. For instance, God has created everyone with a certain lifetime and everyone’s moment of death is determined as to its location, time and form in the sight of God. If, in the years to come, someone’s lifetime is extended with timely interventions in the genes, this would not mean that this event defeated that person’s destiny. It simply means the following: God gave this man a long life and He made the completion of gene mapping a means for his life being long. The discovery of the gene map, that person’s living in that period and that person’s life being extended by scientific means are all his destiny. All is determined in the sight of God before this person is born into the world.
Similarly, someone whose fatal sickness is cured through the discoveries made within the scope of this project has again not changed his destiny. That is because it is this person’s destiny to recover from this illness by means of this project. Consequently, completion of the human genome project and the fact that man will be able to intervene in the genetic makeup, do not mean confronting the destiny created by God. On the contrary, in this way, mankind follows the developments created for it by God, and explores and benefits from the information created by God. If man lives 120 years thanks to these scientific developments, this is surely a lifetime decreed for him by God, that is why he lives so long.
While I don’t have any problems with religion and people believing in God, I think sometimes it goes too far. I don’t like how everything seems so clear and right. Like “God created everyone with a certain lifetime and everyone’s moment of death is determined as to its location, time and form”. What if it’s not the way God (assuming it exist) is dealing with us? How can you be so sure of such affirmation? I think it’s just speaking of something nobody has any idea about. The only thing we can do is PRESUME that’s the way God created us: With a start and end time bound to a location. You can’t say for sure that’s how it is.
Then comes science has not much to do with us living longer, it’s all God’s will. So basically, a thousand years ago, God didn’t give a damn about people so that’s why they weren’t making it further than 40 years old? Now, science, medical breakthrough and quality of life are all factors helping us staying alive longer, but that’s only because of God’s will? God is feeling a little generous with us so he allows us to play with DNA and everything? I think it’s a little more complicated than that and I believe we have a certain form of control over our life. I’m sorry but I don’t feel my life is being programmed. I feel it’s just a poor attempt at tying God with modern science. I’m not trying to kill the idea of God, who am I to say such a thing? I just don’t feel right about this theory that you have a certain destiny and if for a reason you go out of your predetermined path, well God will probably allow it. It just sounds like we can do whatever we want, God is just feeling generous these days. So, if we can do whatever we want without God interveigning in our business these days, does that mean we don’t have a destiny after all? Now we go the opposite direction with the same argument.
This is a poor explanation of God Vs. Science in my opinion, but you’re the judge. I just feel the author was trying to explain the relation between God, science and destiny but his argumentation is kind of killing the idea of destiny.
You think I’m pushing it too far? I’ll end with this quote:
Consequently, the discovery of the human genetic makeup by no means implies man’s challenge to his destiny, and it never can. Every incident, every act of speech and development are all predetermined in the sight of God according to a certain destiny. So are scientific developments and the innovations they will introduce. God is All-Knowing, and All-Encompassing.
Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Here is an interesting Parody religion I found on Wikipedia:
Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) is the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, “Pastafarianism”. The religion was founded in 2005 by Bobby Henderson to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. In an open letter sent to the education board, Henderson professes belief in a supernatural creator called the Flying Spaghetti Monster which resembles spaghetti and meatballs. He furthermore calls for the “Pastafarian” theory of creation to be taught in science classrooms.
Beliefs
Henderson proposed many of the beliefs in reaction to common arguments by proponents of intelligent design. The canonical beliefs of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism are set forth by Henderson in the Open Letter, the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and on Henderson’s web site, where he is described as a prophet. The central belief is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, which created the entire universe “after drinking heavily.” All evidence for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to test Pastafarians’ faith — a form of the Omphalos hypothesis. When scientific measurements, such as radiocarbon dating, are made, the Flying Spaghetti Monster “is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage.” The Pastafarian belief of heaven stresses that it contains beer volcanoes and a stripper factory. Hell is similar, except that the beer is stale, and the strippers have VD. The religious text of the Pastafarian religion is called the Loose Canon. In place of the Ten Commandments, it contains the Eight I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts. The official conclusion to prayers is “RAmen”, contained in certain sections of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and so on. It is a portmanteau of the Semitic term “Amen” (used in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and Ramen, a noodle. While it is typically spelled with both a capital “R” and “A”, it is also acceptable to spell it with only a capital R.
Pirates and global warming
According to the Pastafarian belief system, pirates are “absolute divine beings” and the original Pastafarians. Their image as “thieves and outcasts” is misinformation spread by Christian theologians in the Middle Ages and Hare Krishnas. Pastafarianism says that they were in fact “peace-loving explorers and spreaders of good will” who distributed candy to small children, and adds that modern pirates are in no way similar to “the fun-loving buccaneers from history.” Pastafarians celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19. The inclusion of pirates in Pastafarianism was part of Henderson’s original letter to the Kansas School Board. It illustrated that Correlation does not imply causation. Henderson put forth the argument that “global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of pirates since the 1800s.” A chart accompanying the letter shows that as the number of pirates decreased, global temperatures increased; the absurdity of this demonstrates how statistically significant correlations do not imply a causal relationship (see confounding).
For more details about this parody religion, visit the Wikipedia page.
Alien bible found…and translated
Posted by: | CommentsI came across an interesting article located here: Alien Bible Translated. Once again, total nonsense at its best. Fortunately, it comes from a “fake” news website. I find it reassuring as it looks totally fake and that’s the purpose of the website. The real danger is that I realized people are actually believing this, without even checking where the news was coming from. Here’s a summary of the article:
WEEKLY World News sources have confirmed that a professor at Webster University — the birthplace of the world-famous English dictionary — is in possession of a book that was printed on another world. What’s more, the thick volume isn’t a cookbook.
“It’s an alien bible,” said 41- year-old linguistics professor, Dr. Emmanuel Johnson, whose skill with foreign languages has earned him the nickname “Magic.” “And wait till you hear who their god is!”
Back in his library, Dr. Johnson opened the container.
“Being whacked against the foreman’s head had loosened the top,” Dr. Johnson said. “It popped right off. I began to wonder if, in fact, that was how the aliens opened containers on their world. If so, they must have suffered brain damage over time.”
Inside, Dr. Johnson found a small, thick book. The cover illustration showed a constellation that bore the unmistakable likeness of Oprah Winfrey. Stunned, he opened the book, which consisted of multicolored, cloth-like materials. The writing glowed when the professor looked at it.
“It was an illuminated manuscript,” Dr. Johnson explained. “I was immediately able to translate the title, which is called Their Eyes Are Watching Me. The book was comprised of two sections: A Sacred Alien Testament: Written and a Sacred Alien Testament: Oral.”
“The Oral Testament actually speaks to the reader,” Dr. Johnson revealed. “Naturally, it talks in the authoritative but reassuring voice of Oprah.
“It begins with a section called ‘Syndication,’ which encourages aliens to do good deeds on other worlds, including the Earth,” Dr. Johnson continued. “We suspect that the alien visitors who owned this bible were missionaries, members of Oprah’s ‘The Angel Connection.’ It instructs acolytes on the basics of worship, including the use of something called ‘the remote.’
Please, we really have to stop that kind of things as it makes every UFO believer lose credibility. I know it’s fake news, but people are sadly actually believing this. I know it’s a small majority of people, but that’s too much.
I particularily enjoyed: “The cover illustration showed a constellation that bore the unmistakable likeness of Oprah Winfrey.”
Anyway, I thought it was a funny article, but unfortunately, some people believe it.
Prince Christian of Denmark is Jesus…Huh
Posted by: | CommentsI read an article today about the fact that we will be told soon enough that Jesus Christ has returned. It is a very long article firing in about 50 different directions making it one of the best(funny) article I’ve read recently. The article is located here: Not just a prince, The Prince so you guys can have a read. Be prepared to read about 50 subjects in one single article, ranging from NATO, Royal family, Tarot, meteorites, Russia, Australia, Bible, Heath Ledger(that’s true) and a lot more! But first, let’s quote on here a couple of “out of context” quote for our entertainment:
Soon enough we are going to be told that Jesus Christ has returned, it sounds out of this world…but sure enough…on TV, in all the papers, probably amongst a bit of chaos…someone is gong to announce; “We got ‘JC’ over here”. It is going to blow everyone’s minds, people are going to panic, people are going to get on their knees and the people on the other side of a pending war are going to announce…Bullshit!
NATO is a military organization that was founded by the United Kingdom and other Western European states, it quickly included other Royal countries like Denmark and in an effort to balance the state of play at the time; the United States was added to the alliance. Now most of the issues that you have in Eastern Europe today relate to an old agreement called the Warsaw Pact which basically relates to NATO and Russian forces.
So if NATO is the side that the Prince will be part of, Russia will be the opposing side who will one day exclaim…Bullshit. So who is the strapping lad that you will one day be told is the Son of God, again? Prince Charles? Prince William? The drunk one? What about Tony Blair…you see most of us are expecting someone who can speak for themselves, perhaps a diplomatic heavyweight or at least someone of the majority.
Now we have a number of meteor showers that occur annually; they are a very well known and documented. During the month of October, right around Prince Christian’s birthday, the meteor shower is called the Orionids and this is very significant because of the constellation Orion. Orion is known as the constellation of Osiris which represents Spring…keep that in mind for later.
Recently the world experienced a very interesting phenomenon which seemed to come out of nowhere…The Da Vinci Code. Most people were unaware of the very old story about the next child of God in fact being a rose or a woman. Now this fact is well understood by the Papacy and indeed the participants are well instructed in this conundrum. When Princess Mary constructed her very own Coat of Arms she was very coy about explaining why she had decided to include a golden rose right in the middle.
Matilda Rose Ledger is the daughter of the now deceased actor Heath Ledger; he died on 22 January this year. He is of course Australian with both Scottish and Irish heritage. The events surrounding Heath Ledger’s death are such that nobody will ever really know what happened to him before he died during a brief visit to New York. Indeed Matilda Rose Ledger’s birthday is 28 October 2005.
So where does all this leave us? What else has to happen for all this to start unfolding? And what will happen when the Royal Family makes their claim? In answering the last question first, I along with Russia will exclaim; Bullshit! And then I and my daughter will make our claim and if we are right we will eventually be killed in Jerusalem (wherever that is, I take nothing for granted these days) some time from now.
This thing goes on and on and on…A pretty good read if you feel up to the challenge of following 50 different irrelevant stories at the same time. Enjoy!