Without god(s) to tell me who to hate and who to love, I have to find my own way. 

These are my values.

1) Judgement. 

"Judge not least.."

Nope. Wrong again.

For those of you that spread pain, I judge you.

Not by skin color. Not by ancestry. Not by blood or body type. 

By actions.

If you make a decision to cause suffering to another person and hide behind an excuse of religion, culture, preference or simple agreement…

I think as Atheists many of us simply think differently in a very basic sort of way than our God fearing creationist brothers. Maybe even as children it was a little harder to instill in us the fear of an invisible man in the sky.

I woke up early this morning and lay there thinking about the things I was told about God. I think every other member of my family would call themselves Christian, though few of them regularly attend…

i'm reading through Erik Wielenberg's book Value and Virtue in a Godless…

This kid was from my old high school and he seems genuinely worried, so I was nice to him, but still... 

[Welcome to theists in my facebook inbox - sigh]…

As an opener I'd like to state that my worldview has absolutely nothing to do with my atheism. I like to think that were I a theist I would still hold life, the universe, and everything in exactly the same regards. This post is not intended to answer any questions about nor explain my view on theism. Correlation does not imply causation. That being said, let us proceed.

Where did we…

At the White House Correspondents dinner  on April 30, Obama and in turn Seth Meyers, LIT UP Donald Trump, who was also in attendance, about the recent idiocy that has been his commentary of moment.   It was brilliant. It was payback. It was the best thing I've seen on TV in months.

Some highlights from Obama:

• “I know that he’s taken some flak lately, but nobody is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest…

I have found myself a few times stepping to the defence of big oil, and I think I should make my position clear.

Firstly, big oil isn't that big altogether. They hold 12% of the proven reserves. A bigger problem is big government oil (National oil companies - NOCs) than big private oil.

Secondly, I have a belief that natural resources should be taxed heavily. Norway has a 78% excess profit hydrocarbon extraction tax and I think that is the best solution to ensure equitable…

alright guys, last week's chat with atheist bible scholar Robert Price was awesome. if you missed it you can still listen to the show- as you can with every show- from the archive so don't worry.

but tonight we have lined up Caltech theoretical physicist…

I like to think that in spite of my lack of belief in a god or religion that I am a moral person.  Not perfect by any means but I try.  (Check out my blog on licensing my dogs.  Better late than never.)

I have 5 children and the odds are that not all of them are going to be perfect.   One high powered accountant, one serving his third tour in Afghanistan, one struggling but surviving in a downtrodden economy, one finishing his first year in college.  If you are counting that is four. …

Commandment X

*“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’ s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”

while there have been numerous ways to maim

and not really

kill

but instead to extract what you wanted from an individual

to punish

& then possibly destroy them---

the most…

Commandment IX

*“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

in the middle ages,

well, really, in any age

there have been many, many, many

rattus norvegicus

&

though the usage of rats in torture

spanned multitudinous methods

the main goal of the most

efficient way of killing an individual

through the usage of

rats

was to…

Commandment VIII

*“Thou shalt not steal.”

probably one of the oldest ways of taking another’s life

because they

just

didn’t

act

like

you

wanted

them

to

act

was by flaying them

in this,

the good believers of

the middle…

Commandment VII

*“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

though rare in usage,

the good believers

who were always looking for better ways to torture & kill

conjured up the wheel

first in greece & then

germany, russia, france, sweden, england, etc.---

the wheel

aka, the breaking wheel,

was a relatively simple instrument

a large…

Commandment VI

*“Thou shalt not kill.*

la culla di Giuda,

die Judaswiege,

were among its many monikers

&

the good believers

took it upon themselves to punish you

for not being like

them

by firstly,

stripping you naked

and slamming you down

with your anus

or

vagina

thrust…

Commandment V

*“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

the cheapest good time in the middle ages

for the followers of fiction

came in the pleasure produced for the crowd

brought to them all by the

saw

nah, you didn’t need any expertise to carry out this bloody

picnic

no unique instruments developed by an…

Commandment IV

*“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the…

Commandment III

*“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh

his name in vain.”

the chair of that character called

“judas”

made of dark oak

bearing 1,500 iron spikes

covering the

arm-rests, the seat, as well as the

leg-rests, foot-rests & back of the chair---

razor-sharp & ground…

Commandment I

*“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

laid naked on your back

with your wrists in the rope cuffs

and your ankles bound likewise

underneath you the wheel that tightens and stretches

both your arms

and your legs

in opposite directions

it turns slowly at

first

as the good believer pushes the handle

you begin to feel it in your elbows…

Commandment II

*“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing…