Today I rode 57km to go and hike and then rode back same distance. To say I am tired is an understatement.
In other news religious leaders want the atheist group deregistered. They claim among other things
We are a people of faith, therefore registering any party that believes that there is no God is a mockery to people of Kenya. The danger is that we are now opening up to ideas that are out to promote immorality through erosion of our values, which are anchored on religion,” he said.
But says nothing about the pastors who lie through their teeth, the thieving pastors and many more. I am glad they are scared.
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Boom. They should be scared. The religious extortionist don’t want Kenyans to find out that they’ve been ripped off. Did you see this?
It’s not satire.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/04/29/south-african-pastor-who-allegedly-took-pics-when-he-visited-heaven-now-says-his-phone-was-stolen/
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Haha hahaha.
I didn’t see that but last I heard, he had said those who wanted to see had to pay to see the photos.
How people can’t see through this fraud is beyond me
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Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.
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Unfortunately, America is plagued with these Charlatans.
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I think our charlatans borrow the rule book from the US.
I want them to go to the streets to protest. But more importantly, I want them to pray hard or ask god to show up and do his dirty work himself. Let’s see what god can do
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That charlatan that’s running for governor in your country allegedly paid people to proclaim, in from of the congregation, that they had experienced a miracle — a healing, etc. I totally agree that these evangelical charlatans in your country learned the tricks of the trade from U.S. evangelicals charlatans.
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That they can live with. Atheists! No no. They will protest that.
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This one was quite original, though. I’ll give him that. There’s an overpass on one of the highways here in Chicago where, several years ago, the face of Christ appeared as a giant water stain on the wall. It had to be painted over eventually because some local pastor and/or church tried charging admission to go see it. They put a sheet over it and charged people to look under it. Of course, this wasn’t legal, and the city wasn’t making money on it, so it was painted over. Also, huge lines of people gathered to see this water-stained miracle, and this became dangerous as the water stain of Christ was on a bloody overpass to a very busy highway. To this day, people go to this spot, kneel down, and pray. Utterly ridiculous.
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Haha hahaha.
Utterly ridiculous, I agree.
Those churches are forward thinking. That was a business line there. A path to wealth
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Yes it was, and because the city wasn’t collecting taxes on it, they painted over the water stain that was Christ’s face.
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Please tell me the face showed up again, then maybe we could believe Christ has some power, you know, like over paint
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It didn’t, but people still go there occasionally. I never saw Jesus in the water stain when I looked at it. I saw a dirty wall with a water stain on it, but that’s just me.
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Your problem is you are a skeptic. You refused to use your imagination to see Jesus. Remember no one knows how he should look like😄
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Too true.
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Idiots.
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They usually are
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Looks more like Hitler to me.
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Is there a difference?
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Hitler didn’t have a beard.
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Btw, you have quite the endurance. I’m impressed. How long was your hike?
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6.2 km up mount Longonot
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You must feel exhilarated. I love the high from exercise.
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While at it, I keep asking myself, why am I torturing myself.
At the end, the feeling is beyond measure
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After no chance of bikeriding during winter, and very little last summer (because I am being relocated to Hannover and went back to Cologne over the weekends instead of doing some bike riding) I am just starting again. I just rode 44 km around Hannover today and that was enough for me already. I have to train again a lot now to get back into a better condition.
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44km isn’t a short ride either!
I ask myself how one rides in all that snow and possibly cold weather.
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Some people do, but I don’t. Now I have to slowly start training myself again. Part of the problem today was that on the way back, I had to ride against some rather strong wind, so it felt like going up all of the time although it was flat terrain. The first time after a long time is always the hardest. After that, it looks like the muscles are switching back to sports mode, maybe some genes are being activated. The second tour tends to be much easier. I am also starting again to go to work by bike instead of using the tram, at least as far as the weather allows it.
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I think the upside with cycling is you only a few days to be back to form.
I used to cycle to work. It was so convenient, so fast till I had an accident. I will resume some future date
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Which god?
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The jury is still out on that
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Ah.
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I’ve noticed a pattern where those who try to defend their religious privilege target atheists who criticize their beliefs by first painting them with the same traits, attributes, and practices that best describe them… intolerant, bigoted, immoral, tyrannical, dogmatic, extremist, fundamentalist, and so on.
What always surprises me is how many in the targeted atheist group then line up to defend the painting of some hypothetical Others in the target group but not themselves, of course as legitimate. It’s such a capitulation of principle and yet so very common, which is why this vilification built on lies and deceit is so effective: it divides and conquers and elevates the most unprincipled and cowardly in the targeted group to be what they aren’t: brave, tolerant, fair, moral, authoritative, open-minded, principled, and really, really nice.
Meanwhile, the privileging gains exemption while the vilifying continues unabated.
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I think the religionists have adopted divide and rule as their strategy and take advantage of the fact that most atheists are comfortable to be just left alone.
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There are assholes like that where I live too, bragging about how where they live is godly and righteous and such. Something they might do well to remember is that “we” are people of many different views and beliefs; “he” is just one person stating his opinion.
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I want them to go to court.
I will suggest that the atheist lawyer ask them to bring god as a witness. God can tell us what it wants
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Xenophobic, egotistical, bigoted, contrarian, tribal, privileged, short sighted, simplistic, morons.
Did I leave anything out ?
They probably have some kind of problem with the fit of their underpants as well.
Refusing to allow for anyone that isn’t just like you to enjoy a simple organized group is beyond pathetic.
A non belief in something that does not exist should take precedent over the belief in something that does not exist.
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Nope, you didn’t leave anything out.
These people are mad. It’s a madhouse here
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Probably not much difference here. The southern states are a cesspool of religious nuttery. Different landscapes, different country, but people are much the same the world over…
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That fine American, Mark Twain, said human nature is the same. Nature isn’t extravagant. It produces few extremes. It would be ambitious to think it produces a certain type in Europe and another in Americas.
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