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Welcome to Boobquake 2010! The end of the world never looked so good!!!!
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Being an atheist, I have received a lot of attempted religious conversion emails. I posted a few on #fb for fun. http://tinyurl.com/y7nesv7
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Religious Child Abuse
For those who have suffered through psychological, physical, or sexual abuse or neglect connected to any religion. A call to arms against all religious child abuse including children being labeled with religion. Everyone for this cause is welcome!
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With or without God faith is insanity. It is only with God that insanity is not deemed a completely unacceptable expression of behavior.
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Sarah Palin gets OWNED by chick with a mental disability! http://tinyurl.com/ygbsxuf
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Happy Commercialized Romantic Delusions Day!!!!
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Happy Birthday to Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and, yours truly, Aidan Maslow!!!!
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"Why doesn't God have internet in heaven, so that I can email grandpa?" a quote from my nephew.
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My dad died at 7:15 am today....
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Got the news about an hour ago that my dad has less then two weeks to live. He made it a point to say his goodbyes today.
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Happy New Year!!!
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Hilldale Baptist: A Poem
I wrote this for a creative writing class. It got really high reviews from my classmates and I thought that you might enjoy reading it."Hilldale Baptist"by Aidan MaslowHere is the home of the fundies,healthy development is far from mundane.Oppression is free on Sundays,Authoritarianism joyfully unconstrained.Their doctrine is creation,evolution – a chimera for the lame.Evidence is truth imitation.Why validate? It’s God’s game.Brains free from reason,with only certainty to…See More
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My five year old nephew decided, out of nowhere, that "God is fake" without anyone suggesting it to him. I am an extremely proud uncle!!
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- I was brought up in a “strong” southern Baptist home. Someone I knew called them the “Nazis” of the Christian world. I am not sure comparing them to Nazis is accurate but to say that they are the closest thing American Christianity has to al-Qaida would be an understatement. As a Baptist, I believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible. After falling in love and getting my heart broken I became a professional alcoholic. I am not certain about the specifics of the next year and a half. I was having tons of fun, but I had become an extremely self-destructive person. I lived to drink and I was very successful at it because I would drink to excess six, something seven nights a week. I could not hold down a job but I somehow found a way to feed my habit. However, I eventually found the motivation to overcome my addiction and I stopped drinking "cold turkey".
So like every “good” Christian who had a problem, I went to the Bible for help. It seemed like I was reading the Bible for the first time, but in reality this was merely the first time I was reading it objectively. I realized that I could trace the lineage from Adam to Jesus using the Bible, so I set out to do exactly that. I was shocked to determine that the Bible indicated that the Earth/Universe was only about 6000 years old. I immediately knew that there was something wrong with that determination. I did not know the age of the Earth or the Universe but I did know that the dinosaurs had died out 65 million years ago. As a kid, I was fascinated with dinosaurs and sharks, and I knew that I was one hundred percent correct on that date. When I later looked up the age of the Earth and the Universe up on the internet I could no longer ignore the fact that I had stumbled on: the Bible was wrong! If the Bible was wrong then I could no longer justify my belief in a Christian God. The idea scared me to death and I decided to ignore all such trains of thought for the time being. Southern Baptists are conditioned to fear hell on an unconscious level and any thought that questioned the existence of God was a first class ticket to hell. I did my best to put such evil thoughts out of my mind.
Despite my close encounter with atheism, I continued to educate myself. I read Plato, Buddha, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aristotle, Sigmund Freud, Ayn Rand and many others philosophers. Their combined wisdom caused my unspoken atheism to grow stronger. It was not, however, till I saw an interview with Richard Dawkins that my perspective changed. He was discussing his book “The Selfish Gene” and talking openly about his atheism. So seeing Dawkins talk with such confidence about being an atheist allowed to find the confidence within myself to acknowledge my atheism. While I started out a full-fledged atheist, I now see myself as an atheist in respect to all theistic Gods, but more agnostic in respect to deistic ones.
My path to enlightenment led me to Austin Peay State University, where I recently got my B.S. in Psychology. I am finishing up a minor in creative writing and then I hope to get a masters in either psychology or creative writing. My first book -- "God Hates Faith: The Absurdity of Faith-Based Morality" -- is available on Amazon.com and Createspace.com. Just search for "god hates faith"!!
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Hilldale Baptist: A Poem
Posted on December 29, 2009 at 9:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I wrote this for a creative writing class. It got really high reviews from my classmates and I thought that you might enjoy reading it.
"Hilldale Baptist"
by Aidan Maslow
Here is the home of the fundies,
healthy development is far from mundane.
Oppression is free on Sundays,
Authoritarianism joyfully unconstrained.
Their doctrine is creation,
evolution – a chimera for the lame.
Evidence is truth imitation.
Why… Continue
"Hilldale Baptist"
by Aidan Maslow
Here is the home of the fundies,
healthy development is far from mundane.
Oppression is free on Sundays,
Authoritarianism joyfully unconstrained.
Their doctrine is creation,
evolution – a chimera for the lame.
Evidence is truth imitation.
Why… Continue
God Hates Faith
Posted on August 29, 2009 at 10:36am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The title of my first book is :
“God Hates Faith: The Absurdity of Faith-Based Morality“
Description:
Faith has motivated individuals to perform some, if not all, of the most horrendous acts in human history. Recently, there have been a lot of books that have argued that belief in a God is a destructive thing. This book sees things differently. This book assumes that it is, in fact, the concept of faith that is destructive and not a belief in God. The book… Continue
“God Hates Faith: The Absurdity of Faith-Based Morality“
Description:
Faith has motivated individuals to perform some, if not all, of the most horrendous acts in human history. Recently, there have been a lot of books that have argued that belief in a God is a destructive thing. This book sees things differently. This book assumes that it is, in fact, the concept of faith that is destructive and not a belief in God. The book… Continue
My First Blog: Book Update
Posted on August 23, 2009 at 4:39am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I ordered the first proof of my book yesterday. It would be here within a week or two. I will then proof read it for the 6th and final time and finish up the notes and references. I will then send it in get the final proof sent to me for approval. I am looking at the second or third week of September before the book become available on amazon, as well as createspace.com and target.com. It will then be another couple weeks before I get my national bookstore and international amazon (Canada, UK… Continue
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Greetings, Aidan! I'd like to invite you to a group where we talk about anything on our minds, Hang With Friends. :D
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