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Funny Christian atheist (We're non-theists)

Seth Andrews, Imagine 7 Conference, 6/3/17 (The Thinking Atheist, YouTube, 6/20/17); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Christianity made me talk like an idiot

Would a Jewish leader really be so arrogant and elitist as to say, "You shouldn't be worshipping one Jew [Jesus Christ], you should be worshipping all of us"? (Israeli Rabbi Chaim Richman/rense.com)

This meme could serve as a poster for Christianity's current mission in the world.

Don't judge Christianity based on these easy targets. There's no need to. Judge it by its best.

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It's all in your head, Christians.

(TheThinkingAtheist) Former self-described "idiot" sounding Christian, Seth Andrews became an atheist and gave this very funny speech in the summer of 2017 in Toronto at the Imagine 7 Conference.

It's a humorous (and perhaps therapeutic) romp through Andrews's religious past and the often-bizarre words and attitudes that reflected his fundamentalist Christian faith.

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Religion sucks, so we're Buddhist nontheists

If atheism is good enough for Professor of Religion Bart D. Ehrman, it's good enough for me. Buddhism is not atheists. Some Buddhists are, but Buddhism isn't.

Buddhism is nontheistic. That means the world may be polytheistic or pantheistic, but that does not have much bearing on my awakening (bodhi, "enlightenment").

If there is a god, a God, or a GOD (deva, brahma, or Brahman), that's fine and that's great, but that being is not awake, not enlightened, not even on the path to making an end of illusion and suffering.

Can we be believers, be Christians, be agnostics (unknowers), be Hindus, be anything AND also be Buddhists? YES. In Buddhism, no one has to believe; moreover, no one is precluded from believing. What one must do, eventually, is KNOW. This is a path to direct knowing-and-seeing. That is the highest thing, what anyone tired of mere "faith" and "belief" would wish for.

Meditators, this is a Teaching (Dharma) for the wise, diligent, inquisitive, ready to investigate

• The Buddha not only made known the Truth. He did something better: He made known the PATH leading to knowledge-and-vision of the Truth for oneself. It's personally verifiable and, if not verified, it's not of much use. To just believe on account of it (the Dharma) would be like using a smart phone as a hammer or paperweight.

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist (S. Batchelor)

And it still wouldn't make "God" important to what's ultimately true or necessary in this cyclic existence (samsara). In other religions, God is the very reason for religion. But in Buddhism (and to an extent also in Jainism), God isn't what it's all about.

So there are Buddhist atheists. It would be better to be pantheistic or polytheistic. There is no necessity of worshiping, regarding, or devoting oneself to these beings. That's not what's important. It may be helpful. It might be harmful. Be that as it may, being nontheistic is better than being atheistic.

There is No God...and He is Always with You

In nontheism, it doesn't matter if there is or isn't a god/God. Let there be. Let there not be. It's all the same. We still have play and work to do. We must still work out our own liberation. Reality is still the same reality.

Too often the world atheism has come to mean "not believing in any religion" or anything higher than self-will. That's a mistake. It's fine not to believe any religion. We need freedom from religion to be sure. But something that limits me from believing what is not yet seen, not yet tested, not yet experienced?

Our quest is our spirituality, and we believe in

• the historical Buddha's great awakening,
• karma,
• the need for kindness and compassion,
• knowledge and wisdom,
• real magic,
• sciences and experimentation,
• visions,
• entheogens (psychedelic mind-expanding natural substances),
• rebirth,
• yoga,
• visions,
• ghosts,
• the unseen,
• devas,
• psychic phenomena,
• the paranormal,
• Edgar Cayce's abilities,
• limitless human potential,
• Sasquatch,
• UFOs (and not just when the government says it's okay to),
• ancient advanced civilizations,
• lycanthropy,
• the possibility that all of this is a simulation,
• and lots of "crazy" stuff.

Not all Christians stay in Christianity?

And we investigate. And we meditate. And we're called "New Age." And we're laughed at for now and regarded as normal later. Does that mean we can't be atheists? To some, depending on how they're misdefining the term.

Buddhism (as well as the Dharmic religions in general, the non-Abrahamic faiths, New Age cults and religions, and Eastern Philosophies are more science-friendly.

But belief in religion, its tenets and/or Gods, hasn't stopped many Christians, as Andrews points out, from practicing science, going to doctors, and taking safety precautions while praying or practicing their beliefs/faiths/cultural customs. They should be free to do that, and we should be free of them doing that to us. But being free means more than just not believing in God, a theos (dios, deus) or in the crazy dictates of someone's interpretation of a sacred text or book.

Buddhism is great because it has the Kalama Sutra, a discourse the Buddha gave to the Kalama people. In it he advises them not to believe, not to have mere faith, not to trust in some guru, not to take his word for anything. But rather, he tells them that it would be wise to see if they don't already agree with some basics. And is he, the Buddha, really saying anything different? He begins with the point at the heart of this question: Does greed arise for the benefit of a person, the people around that person, or everyone around? Does hate? Does delusion (wrong views)?

But why not? We all want these things. We want. We hate. We fancy this view as being right or wrong, obvious or foolish. Is that doing us good or harm? Well, obviously, the Kalamas can rightly say that from their own experience, from their own observation, when a person is greedy, that's not actually good for that person. It's surely not good for others around that person, nor is it good for society in general. (It would be better that they were unselfish and shared things).

I disbelieve in dinosaurs. I believe in Eric Dubay

The same with hate. It feels "good" (relief) to hate, to express anger, to seek revenge, to be self-righteous, to "even" the score, to retaliate... But is that actually good for a person? It's obviously not good for the people around that person nor for the greater society, everyone being teed off and attacking each other for how they've been slighted.

The same and more so with delusion (ignorance, wrong views, confusion). That's the root of all of our problems. So, yes, a Buddhist can be an atheist. And it would be better to be a nontheist and not trouble ourselves with making others wrong or making ourselves right in others' eyes.

Atheist evangelists proselytize church kids.

Obviously, religion has the power to make fools of people. And we'll sound like idiots. The same will be true when we worship at the altar of Science (Scientism), paying obeisance (and money) to the white-clad brotherhood of priests (scientists and lab workers) of the various votive orders (labs and universities). Just try having a new theory or taking a stand against the prevailing theory and see what happens.

Be free. Think. And don't forget this important message: There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. So be happy.

May all living beings be well and happy. And, remember, you can still celebrate the holidays. Atheists are not having as much fun as we should be having, having rid ourselves of the wrong views of those poor unfortunate religionists. 😁😸🎃

Dead Sea Scrolls view of Jesus (video)

Paulogia, Sept. 22, 2023; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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Dr. John Bergsma insists that John the Baptist and several of Jesus' disciples were part of the Dead Sea Scroll group. Meanwhile, Dr. Craig Evans insists that any notion of Jesus parallels is rejected by scholars and outside the mainstream.

Dead Sea Scroll scholar Dr. James Tabor joins the podcast to address all of this.

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National Geographic apologizes for racism

Prof. Hub Brown, Libby Denkmann (AirTalk®, Pi Day, 3-14-18); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

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I'll take that one, on the left. How much?*

As National Geographic finally admits it has been promoting implicit bias, white supremacy, stereotyping, ethnic prejudice, scientific racism, and apologizes in general for past racist coverage, will other US media follow suit?
 

I like reading it. It's a very good magazine.

As part of its April issue focusing on RACE, National Geographic (natgeo.com) made the bold move to acknowledge its own past racist coverage.

 

To explain the magazine’s decision, Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg wrote: “We thought we should examine our own history before turning our reportorial gaze to others.”

Me, too. If I read.

The list of past missteps included a slavery-era slur being used to describe California cotton workers and a 1916 story on Australia with a photo caption that read: “South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings.”

 

While this admission is unexpected, the content is not surprising given that National Geographic has been around for over 100 years, and they certainly aren’t alone in their offensive past.

"Post Truth World" of Trump (ThisModernWorld.com by Tom Tomorrow)

I don't read Nat Geo, just da Bible. It's a Southern thang. All y'all wouldn't understand.

I don't read, but if I did, I'd read this 1

For instance, The New York Times reported that it retroactively wrote obituaries for women who were initially overlooked.

And in 2016 Louisville, Kentucky’s The Courier-Journal publicly apologized for continuing to publish Muhammad Ali’s "slave name" Cassius Clay rather than his adopted freeman's name, even after the boxer legally changed his name in 1964.
 

National Geographic’s move has been trending on social media, and whether or not the response around it has been positive, it’s definitely been a conversation starter.

Libby Denkmann

What do readers think about National Geographic’s acknowledgement of past racist coverage? Will it prompt other media publications to do the same?

Are you yourself more apt to read the magazine now, or does this hinder you from supporting the old time magazine? More + AUDIO

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*White men didn't RAPE black children as "property," did they?

I wish it were the olden days! - Why, John?

Because of the power relationships at work, slave females in the United States were at high risk for child molestation, rape, and forced impregnation.
 

Many slaves fought back against sexual attacks by whites, and some died resisting.

 

It's not what it looks like!

Others carried severe psychological and physical scars from the attacks. Sexual abuse of slaves was rooted in part in a patriarchal Southern culture that treated black [and Native American] women and children as property or "chattel."

Black children as young as 6 were advertised and sold by white men to other white men to "satisfy their lust." It was not an aberrant practice looked on as violent "child molestation" and/or rape, but just a property right.
 

He loves black girls. - But with his tongue?

Whereas Southern culture strongly policed against sexual relations between white women and black males -- purportedly on the grounds of "racial purity" -- by the late 18th century, the many mixed-race slave children showed what white Christian slave owners were doing to slave girls and women. More

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Live Update: Tiger Woods Press Conference

Press conference, Monday, April 5, 2010

Woods is set to play in the Masters this week, his first competitive golf since the Nov. 27 car accident that led to revelations he was cheating on his wife.

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(Sports Network) Woods has entered the room. He is joined by the chairman of the Masters media committee. Woods is wearing a multi-colored striped shirt and a white hat. He has a short goatee. "I know that the players have been bombarded by questions...the public as well." Woods says he hopes his fellow players can concentrate on the Masters this week. He apologizes to them. "A lot has happened in my life the past five months." More>>

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What controversy?

Tiger Woods' Sex Addiction on "South Park"

Tiger Woods is the latest celebrity to be poked fun at on the popular TV show "South Park."

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"It's such an important issue in America right now -- the sex addiction outbreak," co-executive producer Matt Stone told the Associated Press. "We're all really concerned about him and hope he gets better." Woods is the latest in a long, long line of big-name celebrities to be poked fun of on "South Park" since it launched in 1997. More>>

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Buddhist Tiger Woods Apologizes

Million-dollar PR: Tiger Woods appears in a tightly controlled and crafted "press conference," reading a statement, taking no questions, and hugging his mom.

"I recognize I have brought this on myself. And I know above all I am the one who needs to change. I owe it to my family to become a better person. I owe it to those closest to me to become a better man. That is where my focus will be. I have a lot of work to do. And I intend to dedicate myself to doing it.

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"Part of following this path for me is Buddhism, which my [Thai] mother taught me at a young age. People probably don't realize it, but I was raised a [Theravada] Buddhist. And I actively practiced my faith from childhood, until I drifted away from it in recent years.

"Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught...."

Tiger Woods seen with his father (deceased), who taught him the game.

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