anti-athiest site

To this site:
http://ignorantchristian.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/proof-this-is-a-christian-country/

I just posted the following:

I was just searching on google images for some symbol to use on some kind of facebook app - and I wanted to find something that really captured what I feel is the most important and best aspect of who I am as a person - and I came across your web site.Wanted to say Hi. The graphic I was looking for was something that would clearly announce me as an Athiest. Hi there from an Athiest. And I'm your totally flaming, flamboyant, totally out atheist. I am liberal, I respect life and people and other cultures, and I have gay friends and I hope they all get to get married, and I don't plan on having kids myself and I live with someone and we're not married, and I want universal health care and an end to the war in iraq and I support alternative and sustainable energy production and am opposed to burning fossil fuels, and I'm an environmentalist.I also am relatively educated, and I apply reason and the scientific method, am skeptical and only "believe" in that which is empirically provable, (even if I can never actually spell empiricle correctly without a spell check and am too lazy to look it up right now, LOL). I am not an angry athiest, nor do I belive in astrology or wicca or magic or the christian devil (whatever name christians give that imaginary being) - because, like I said, I am an athiest. I don't believe in any of the many hundreds of various gods that have been worshiped in human history, I don't just not believe in yours to piss you off or because I'm unamerican or not patriotic, in fact, I'm very proud to be an American, and very patriotic and love this country dearly (which is why I'm always trying to save it - even from itself - as any true patriot from John Adams and George Washington on up would do). I am not an angry athiest in that I was not "hurt by god" or "angry at god" for some bad thing that happened to me. My move from being raised in a christian household to agnostisism to athiesm was not precipitated by any abuses or hardships. It was simply that I am an avid reader, and I think and contemplate what I study - history and philosophy especially, as well as many of the natural sciences. And - the more I learned, the more I saw, the more insight into life and the universe around me I gained, the more it became clear that there is no need for a god or any supernatural phenomina, moreover, the universe is a beautiful and awesome thing just as it is, all the more so because it is made up of completely random and meaningless matter and energy which for no reason at all happens to have formed matter able to be self aware (i.e. us) as well as all the other things we can be aware of... and to have to lower it to the point of saying some ghost decided, "oh, I'll make all this" and turn it into some crafted thing is to diminish it's value and preciousness greatly.Also - of course, there is the fact that there is absolutely no incontrovertible verifiable evidence of anything supernatural, yet there is overwhelming, chokingly massive amounts of evidence that shows where ever one looks, provided they look using the right tools to peer into the tiny crooks and crevices of the universe we find no god, no supernatural elements but simply more of the facinating and naturally explainable universe.Oh, but while I am not an angry athiest, I am a fearful one, because my studies have also shown me that no matter how much so-called good organized and otherwise religions claim to have done, their harm is always much greater and in my opinion, there is no greater threat to continued human civilization and humanity itself as an animal in this biosphere, than religion and the belief in the supernatural.Thank you.

Letter to James Dobson

To James Dobson, Regarding:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080720/ap_on_el_pr/dobson_mccainDobson said in a statement to the AP. "Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe about the institution of the family and what is best for the nation. His radical positions on life, marriage and national security force me to reevaluate the candidacy of our only other choice, John McCain."Radical? Obama's position on life, marriage and national security are actually pretty center. Personally - being an athiest, I find him a bit too "relgious-y" for comfort, but he's still an inspirational guy. Position on Life? He respects life - that's why he's trying to end the war, and why he supports stem cell research - to help save lives. Respecting a woman's right to choose has been the mainstream, centrist, majority position for my entire life. Marriage? I think he supports marriage - he is married. I have been listening to him a lot and so far I haven't heard him saying he wanted to ban marriage. In FACT - to be honest, not only does he support heterosexual marriage, I think he also supports gay marriage. Which is great - he's super pro-marriage. I have a lot of gay friends and well, they're just like straights, there are some good relationships and some not so good ones, but you know - if marriage is your thing - gay or straight, who am I to stop you? And for that matter - who the {explective} are you?! Hahaha - check your whole organization on that one. As to his national security policy - Honestly - he's drifted a bit too far to the right to appease the righty zealots in this nation - I wish he was a bit more liberal and radical there myself. But McCain - his policies are similar to this current evil, wicked, criminal, treasonous administration. Now, I think McCain is a much better guy than the dastardly thugs who are currently in command of the white house. (I wish I did believe in hell b/c if there *was* a hell, all those guy's would be toasting in it, unfortunately there is absolutely no substantiated evidence for the existance of any supernatural agency or planes of existance). But - even though he's much better than what we've currently got - McCain is still thinking in this us/them mentality that has brought the world to where it is today. Hopefully - we'll all get some change we can believe in.

Want to send James a note
http://family.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/family.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14190
select the "online form" link and have at it.

Try to uphold the ban on offshore drilling - it's a bad idea now, won't have any significant positive impact in the future, and the wrong direction -

Some of you have recently reproduced, others have offspring, and some have plans to reproduce - so all of you not only have a vested interest in trying to keep the planet's environment stable for human survival for the next 30 or 40 years but for at least another hundred.  (I very much doubt that this is possible at this point I'm sorry to say but just because I'm fairly certain that human civilization will fall due to unsustainable resource requirements coupled with changes to the planet's environment that will make sustaining an infrastructure unlikely and even though I think that it is also likely that even with the fall of the current human civilization that the planetary environmental attenuations will be so great that like the extinction of the dinosaurs, so much of the planet's flora and fauna will die off in the subsequent environmental calamities that no land animals larger than a few lbs will be able to survive (and probably those will be the burrowing kind), which means that in my opinion, we will live to see the fall of human civilization (or die as it crumbles around us) and that humanity itself will become extinct in the next hundred or so years - I still am not the type to give up - I still keep hoping that we'll pull some kind of last minute hail mary play out of our asses and not end up all dying.   Even though I'm pretty sure that this is not likely.)

Never the less, I just took action on this issue and thought you might find it interesting too.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=11621411&type=ML

This is what I wrote, think about it and maybe tell them the same thing:

I oppose ending the ban on offshore oil drilling.  Forget about the fact that it's totally polluting and bad for the environment - what do you hope to accomplish by drilling?  
1) it will take 10 to 20 years for the first barrel to become available to the market - that's going to help the current energy crisis how?!?
2) Even at peak production, if all possible offshore areas were exploited, how much of an impact would it have?  A few percentage points of the total estimated need NOW, let alone 10 years from now!?!?
3) How stupid and ignorant does a person have to be to think that fossilized hydrocarbons are the answer - we should be MOVING AWAY FROM burning fossil fuels. 

If you want to start implementing solutions today to help us 10/20 years from now - build about 100 new NUCLEAR reactor power plants!
If you want to do something to help abate the energy crisis today - give huge/compelling incentives to all homes and businesses to put various types of solar and wind collectors on their houses and property.   Incent the transportation industry to move to plug in electric and hydrogen fuel cells.  

There's more power falling on the earth every day than it needs in a year.  And - these suggestions I have made can be implemented with IMMEDIATE abatement results.  It's all about the energy - while each implementation is small the net result will be huge.  If every American household reduced it's energy need by 20% - how many less barrels of oil is needed?   If 25% of the vehicles on the road were plug in electric and were being charged by electricity generated by nuclear, wind, or solar - how much less barrels of oil would that be?  

THAT is what you need to do to solve this crisis now and to SAVE HUMANITY AND THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT in the long run.