Miracle on
the 33rd Heap
“The
first thing they teach kids is that there's a God -- an invisible man in the
sky who is watching what they do and who is displeased with some of it. There's
no mystery why they start that with kids, because if you can get someone to
believe that, you can add on anything you want.”
George
Carlin
Forty-eight hours after the attack on the
That cross is now marked to be
part of the permanent, memorial park at ground zero.
The spokespeople at American
Atheists, and other secular organizations, are arguing, predictably, that
the First Amendment prohibits the inclusion of such a blatantly religious icon
on a publicly funded memorial. Which is all dandy and fine.
But lately, the atheists never seem to want to mention the heart of their
argument: There is no such thing as an invisible man who lives in the sky.
It’s
no surprise really; atheism is just another organized religion. And the first
duty of organized religion is the survival of said organization. (At best,
truth is second).
Everyone knows in this pro-God climate
of the post 9/11 era, it is politically fatal to not believe in God.
Consequently, even the atheists are scared to speak that which is at the heart
of their beliefs.
Ellen Johnson, the President of American
Atheists, likes to boast that, "Nearly 14% of Americans reject
religion,” as though we unbelievers should be proud of our growing numbers. I prefer to think of it in the reverse.
86% of Americans actually believe
that an invisible man lives in the sky and he watches over us and all we
do.
That’s the real issue Ms. Johnson.
Forget Separation of Church and State – that’s a no-brainer. We must educate
this nation – the world -- into accepting that there is simply no nice
guy in the sky. Until then, how can we have an intelligent debate about
anything if some agenda-laden Christian conservative cavalier can trump any
argument with, “Because, silly, the Bible says so”?
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Ron Barrier, National Spokesman for American Atheists,
says “Erecting the cross would be wrong because, “Muslims, Hindus and
[Buddhists] were killed in the attacks as well.”
Well fuck the Muslims.
It’s because Muslims believe an
invisible man lives in the sky that I have to build a bomb shelter in my
backyard? Do you know what a bomb shelter does to a lawn??
Question for Islamic fundamentalists:
Why did you need to go to Heaven to find all those virgins when you have --
right in your own back yard – thousands of frightened, shivering earth women you
tortured and whipped and reverse-raped into divine virginal purity?
What, they aren’t good enough now?
Well fuck you. And fuck the Hindus and the Buddhists too. And fuck a Jew. And holly-holy fistfuck the Catholics too.
You are tearing this world apart.
Consider this comment George W. Bush
made at an
“I think the thing that--the prayer that I
would like America is to ask for is to pray for God's protection for our land and
our people, to pray against--that there¹s a shield of protection, so that if
the evil ones try to hit us again, that we've done everything we can,
physically, and that there is a spiritual shield that protects this country.”
HAS
EVERYONE GONE MAD??
Was that just the President of the United States –
one of the two most significant men on the planet -- saying he believes in an
invisible man who chooses sides in wars and then can deliver aid in the form of
a force-field?
And how much does it suck for us that
the other most significant man on the planet, Saddam Hussein, also
believes in an invisible man in the sky? And -- because his
invisible man doesn’t like Bush’s invisible man – everyone must die?
Furthermore, if God is responsible for that cross
in the heap; if he did swing by ground zero and drop off a couple of crosses to
uplift some spirits, well then shouldn’t he have dropped by before the
attack? Maybe he could have whipped up one of those snazzy force fields Bush
mentioned? Isn’t a cross in the rubble
too little too late?
What the hell are we gonna do with a cross now, except, maybe, take a photo and
mass produce it for snappy T-shirts like:
“My parents were murdered by Islamic Jihad
And all I got was this stupid cross.”
Or maybe God and some of his homey
angels could have stopped Mohammed Atta at the gate, dragged him into an
airport interrogation room, and jammed jagged, scorching jagged lightning bolts
into his ass for 2823 hours.
Speaking of sodomy . . .
The Church molestation scandal has
proven, once again, that they are just another mercenary corporation whose
primary concern is its own survival. That anybody still acknowledges the
Church as an authority on anything -- much less a social code of morality, is the only miracle I know of.
(Stolen from Cartoonweb.com)
And if the
Catholic Church is a corporation, then the Cross is their billboard. Why
should we give that foul logo – dripping with the seed of diseased priests --
top billing at
EJD
Five Most
Excellent Links Regarding This Story
1) Read George
Carlin’s many comments on the subject. As you will see when clicking here, I
steal from him liberally: bible babble
2) This is from Free Thought
Today. It’s a bunch of spontaneous quotes from various celebrities and intelligosos on the subject of the existence of god: Free Thought Today
3) Try this quirky zine
thingy: cross
in the ruins
4) Here is one from the
believer’s perspective. Bible
Network News
5) This is a whole different
story, of a whole different guy, who found a whole different cross, sticking in
a whole different heap: WTC Cross.com