Planet Earth - A Dangerous Design

"I want you to consider emancipating yourself from the idea that you selfishly are the sole object of all the wonders of the cosmos and of nature"
Christopher Hitchens

The Fragility of Humanity on this planet.
"What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind [through the universe]? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day."

Death By Black Hole, Neil deGrasse Tyson

"I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky."
Carl Sagan



Problem of evil and religion's double standard Q: Many have criticized Pat Robertson's suggestion that the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti was the work of the devil or a form of divine punishment. But if one believes God is good and intervenes in the world, why does God allow innocents to suffer? What is the best scriptural text or explanation of that problem you've ever read?

One of the striking differences between modern, "organized" religion and tribal or folk religions--religions without seminaries and theologians and official books--is that in tribal religions they have no double standard! They thank their gods for the good stuff that happens and blame them for the bad. The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians. And of course it doesn't work all that well. The Problem of Evil, capital letters and all, is the central enigma confronting theists. There is no solution. Isn't that obvious? All the holy texts and interpretations that contrive ways of getting around the problem read like the fine print in a fraudulent contract--and for the same reason: they are desperate attempts to conceal the implications of the double standard they have invented.
Daniel Dennett

"No one can believe in a good God if they've sat at the bedside of a dying child."
Bertrand Russell

"I always have to think too of a little boy sitting on the banks of a river in west Africa who has a worm boring through his eyeball, turning him blind before he's five years old. And I reply and say, "Well, presumably the God you speak about created the worm as well," and now, I find that baffling to credit a merciful God with that action."
-David Attenborough

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[Leon612]

The hippies and neo-pagans think the great Mother Earth loves them, but in reality she wants

to bitch slap them with a hurricane or an earthquake!

[aaqucnaona94]

Song please

[aaqucnaona94]

Life IS like a lower in the crack of a pavement - no one put it there and the pavement wasnt made for it.

[Lindholmer5k]

@bonnie43uk i dont know, didnt jesus die for our sins, dosnt that cansle eve's apple mistake?=P

[bonnie43uk]

Eve has got a lot to answer for !!! ... one fucking bite, and all this shit ensues!!