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Genesis is the first thing you see when you open the Bible and it's just a fraction of the whole book. It's only the beginning, and this story not ...
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Genesis is the first thing you see when you open the Bible and it's just a fraction of the whole book. It's only the beginning, and this story not only conflicts with proven scientific facts, it conflicts with itself. Even if you completely reject all the science and knowledge developed over the past 2000 years, this story doesn't even hold water on its own! There are 46 more chapters in Genesis, and 65 more books in the Bible. And all the stories in the books that follow Genesis conflict with science and all known knowledge, and often with themselves. Now imagine if you bought a map as flawed as this book is, and found out it was full of mistakes and contradictions. How long would you keep using a map that's always wrong? How many wrong turns and dead ends would it take before you realized it was useless and threw it in the garbage? When you boil it all down, whether it's the literal story of creation in Genesis, the so-called science of creation, or the theory of intelligent design, the core of the Christian argument is "what else could it be?" Well, how long you got? The list of what else it could be could go on forever. And everything on that list, no matter how crazy or absurd it is, would have just as much evidence to back it up as believing in magic does. Nothing in the natural world needs assumptions, or magic to explain. To believe in any religion you must believe in magic because it's the only way the mistakes and contradictions in the holy books can be explained away. There's just one little problem - magic isn't real. Without the magic the Bible falls apart. And without the Bible, Christianity falls apart. Every religion falls apart without its holy book. No one who has any knowledge of science, history, archeology, paleontology, biology, or cosmology can possibly believe the Bible's version of creation unless they've been brainwashed to believe it. Only mindless vegetables who can't think for themselves because they've had scripture pounded into their brains from early childhood could ever buy such obvious nonsense. Now look - no one say with 100% certainty that there is no God, but it CAN be said with 100% certainty that there is no evidence that proves there is. No one can prove a negative, and it's not the skeptics job to disprove the claim - the skeptics job is to be skeptical. The burden of proof is on person making the claim. Do I know the answer? No - nobody does. But I sure as hell know the wrong answer when I see it. I can't tell you what the truth is -- all I can do is tell you what it isn't. If you actually believe the universe was created by God in 6 days less than 10,000 years ago, and that all life was created in its present form during just 2 of those 6 days, you're an complete idiot. It's unfathomable to me why this book isn't required to have a sticker on the front that says: Warning -- this book is fiction. Do not base your moral conduct or political position on its contents. Must be 18 to read. Illegal for use in public schools. That's the beauty of being an atheist or agnostic. It's obviously beyond the ability of humans to figure it all out, so why bother? Just be the best person you can, enjoy life, and don't worry about it. One thing I do know for sure -- peace & love... that's where it's at!
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This is "meee" a few years ago. My have I grown HAHA!!!!!! Testing out my video editing skills at the time.
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A lot of people have asked me what I think about Ron Paul. He's obviously the only sincere Republican presidential candidate - I think he really be...
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A lot of people have asked me what I think about Ron Paul. He's obviously the only sincere Republican presidential candidate - I think he really believes in what he says. And he's been consistent all along. Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate calling for the end of America's horrendously wasteful wars - I 100% agree with that. He thinks the war on drugs is a joke and that drugs should be legal - and he's 100% right about that. How can anybody defend a government that puts people in prison and ruins their lives for simply possessing a harmless weed while none of the Wall Street crooks who ruined the lives of millions of Americans have been charged with anything or spent even a minute in jail? He's for auditing and even getting rid of the Federal Reserve Bank and going back to the gold standard which I'm all for too - hatred of central banks is one of the reasons our forefathers moved to America. Fractional reserve banking is the Achilles heel of our economic system which is doomed to fail, and we're seeing the beginning of that right now. I remember when gold was $32 an ounce - gold hasn't changed one bit since then - it's the dollar that's changed - it's only worth about 1% of what it used to be. He's also against the massive corruption that has overtaken our government and I 100% agree with that too. A lot of what he stands for is right on - the problem is it's wrapped in an overall misguided ideology. Like any extreme ideology, libertarianism offers a single answer to complex problems. On the surface it's very attractive - defending liberty. Who's against that? As long as you don't hurt anybody else by what you're doing, who doesn't want the freedom to do what they want and not be told what to do by some big horrible government? It seems like a noble cause, doesn't it? The problem with libertarianism is that it excludes too many other values modern society depends on. Libertarians believe that individual freedoms should never be sacrificed no matter what the consequences are. Civic responsibilities, including survival of the poor, the sick and the vulnerable all take a back seat to the individual's liberty. Libertarianism has 3 flavors: ethical, economic, and political. The ethics of libertarianism, are best exemplified by Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged. She said that personal liberty is the only true virtue - which is just another way to describe being selfish. Economic libertarianism claims that the free market is the true and only source of prosperity. Political libertarianism is the idea that government intervention a "road to slavery." But modern history has proven that democratic governments that provide public goods and help for the poor, don't really threaten liberty. If you don't think so just remember that most of Scandanavia, and Europe and even Canada are all kicking America's butt now in economic mobility, healthcare, and overall quality of life. You have to be mighty stupid to be at the back of the pack screaming "we're number one, we're number one!" And none of these other governments have anywhere near the amount of corruption we have in Washington D.C. If you take libertarianism to its logical conclusion there are no public spaces. Take communism to its logical conclusion there is no private property. The way we are headed in America today with corporations being people and money being free speech, it's just a matter of time before corporations will control every square inch of what used to be our country, and we will have become the Corporate States of America. It's already happening - and to embrace pure libertarianism is at this point is like pouring gasoline on a fire. The logical answer to our problems is simple - it's a mixture of capitalism and socialism - a mixture that requires compromise of some principles by both ideologies. And anybody who refuses to compromise is the true enemy of progress. Ron Paul is running as a Republican, and the word compromise isn't even in their vocabulary.
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