Et voici la prochaine contribution néerlandaise d’haute musique:

Bedankt Powned

Zie youtube

God helpt ons door de eurocrisis, toch?

Afbeelding gevonden op evolutieblog

Uit Roma van de onvolprezen Federico Fellini

Gevonden op YouTube

Steeds meer boerenbedrijven melden geboortes van lammeren met een misvorming. Momenteel zijn 32 schapenbedrijven bij de Gezondheidsdienst voor Dieren (GD) bekend waar misvormde lammeren zijn geboren. Daarnaast hebben 16 bedrijven contact opgenomen met de gezondheidsdienst, omdat zij mogelijk ook te kampen hebben met het Schmallenbergvirus. Dat blijkt uit een brief die staatssecretaris Henk Bleker (Landbouw) woensdag naar de Tweede Kamer stuurde.

Ik heb de volgende hypothese:

De broeders van Sharia4Belgium willen het huwelijk openstellen tussen schapen en mensen…

Bron: Telegraaf, Geen Stijl

Bron: unreasonble faith

Voor alle goede mensen wacht de Hemel! (citaat van mijn grootmoeder).

Bron: friendly athiest

Bron: unreasonble faith

Wikipedia:

Hitchens sprak zich regelmatig uit tegen de drie Abrahamitische religies, of de drie grote monotheïstische religies: jodendom, christendom en Islam. Hij zei: “De echte as van het kwaad wordt gevormd door het christendom, het jodendom en de islam”. In zijn boek God Is Not Great breidde Hitchens zijn kritiek uit tot alle religies, inclusief hindoeïsme en het neo-paganisme. God Is Not Great werd genomineerd voor een National Book Award op 10 oktober 2007.

God.voor.dommen.nl heeft dankbaar de bijdrages van Christopher Hitchens op onze website geplaatst; wij zullen hem missen.

Update

De website unreasonble faith heeft 20 meest favoriete quotes:

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

The Portable Atheist

By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And—most of all—what kind of designer or creator only chooses to “reveal” himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

The Portable Atheist

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

God Is Not Great

What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes.

God Is Not Great

Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world…. Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

God Is Not Great

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance, and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.

God Is Not Great

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

God Is Not Great

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

God Is Not Great

Is it too modern to notice that there is nothing [in the ten commandments] about the protection of children from cruelty, nothing about rape, nothing about slavery, and nothing about genocide? Or is it too exactingly “in context” to notice that some of these very offenses are about to be positively recommended?

God Is Not Great

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to be able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard—or try to turn back—the measurable advances that we have made.

Sometimes, true, it will artfully concede them. But this is to offer itself the choice between irrelevance and obstruction, impotence or outright reaction, and, given this choice, it is programmed to select the worse of the two.

Meanwhile, confronted with undreamed-of vistas inside our own evolving cortex, in the farthest reaches of the known universe, and in proteins and acids which constitute our nature, religion offers either annihilation in the name of god, or else the false promise that if we take a knife to our foreskins, or pray in the right direction, or ingest pieces of wafer, we shall be “saved.”

God Is Not Great

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

God Is Not Great

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

God Is Not Great

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

God Is Not Great

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

God Is Not Great

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Hitch-22

Faith is the surrender of the mind; it’s the surrender of reason, it’s the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It’s our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.

Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

Op 22 april plaatste P.Z. Meyers op zijn website Pharyngula de brief van Christopher Hitchens die hij aan de deelnemers van de American Atheist Convention schreef. Vanwege zijn ziekte kon hij niet aanwezig zijn.

Dear fellow-unbelievers,

Nothing would have kept me from joining you except the loss of my voice (at least my speaking voice) which in turn is due to a long argument I am currently having with the specter of death. Nobody ever wins this argument, though there are some solid points to be made while the discussion goes on. I have found, as the enemy becomes more familiar, that all the special pleading for salvation, redemption and supernatural deliverance appears even more hollow and artificial to me than it did before. I hope to help defend and pass on the lessons of this for many years to come, but for now I have found my trust better placed in two things: the skill and principle of advanced medical science, and the comradeship of innumerable friends and family, all of them immune to the false consolations of religion. It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstitition. It is our innate solidarity, and not some despotism of the sky, which is the source of our morality and our sense of decency.

That essential sense of decency is outraged every day. Our theocratic enemy is in plain view. Protean in form, it extends from the overt menace of nuclear-armed mullahs to the insidious campaigns to have stultifying pseudo-science taught in American schools. But in the past few years, there have been heartening signs of a genuine and spontaneous resistance to this sinister nonsense: a resistance which repudiates the right of bullies and tyrants to make the absurd claim that they have god on their side. To have had a small part in this resistance has been the greatest honor of my lifetime: the pattern and original of all dictatorship is the surrender of reason to absolutism and the abandonment of critical, objective inquiry. The cheap name for this lethal delusion is religion, and we must learn new ways of combating it in the public sphere, just as we have learned to free ourselves of it in private.

Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.

As the heirs of a secular revolution, American atheists have a special responsibility to defend and uphold the Constitution that patrols the boundary between Church and State. This, too, is an honor and a privilege. Believe me when I say that I am present with you, even if not corporeally (and only metaphorically in spirit…) Resolve to build up Mr Jefferson’s wall of separation. And don’t keep the faith.

Sincerely

Christopher Hitchens

Bron: volkskrant, Richard Dawkins Foundation (1), Richard Dawkins Foundation (2), unreasonble faith
, pharyngula

Gather Politics:

Copland wasn’t just gay, he was flaming gay. He was famous for traveling and living openly with his much younger boy toys, flouting societal rules and disapproval. His relationships lasted only a few years, but he remained lifelong friends with many of his former lovers. Some of his most famous works include Billy the Kid and Fanfare for the Common Man.

Oh, yeah, Copland was also a communist for a short time who support the Communist Party USA ticket in the 1936 presidential elections, was heavily investigated by the FBI, and was interrogated during the McCarthy trials. He quit the Communist Party in the 50s and started voting Democratic after he saw how Communism repressed artistic talent and freedom.

Rick Perry gaat weer eens met zijn billen bloot.

Bronnen: PowNed en Gather Politics

Sharia Tube heeft nog veel meer filmpjes.

Bron: CarelBrendel.nl

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Het probleem is niet dat christenen in Amerika vervolgd worden, maar dat de scheiding tussen kerk en staat in het gedrang is.

Bron: unreasonable faith

Bron: LOLgod

Volgens de officiële biografie zou Nicolas Kim Coppola (a.k.a. Nicolas Cage) geboren zijn op 7 januari 1964 te Long Beach, Californië. Echter, het Algemeen Dagblad gaf ons het schokkende bericht dat Nicolas minstens 100 jaar ouder moet zijn. Hiervoor is snoeihard bewijs geleverd! Er is een foto opgedoken uit 1870, Bristol Tennessee. Jack Mord uit Seattle levert hiermee de keiharde ontmaskering van Nicolas! Best wel knap van die Jack; de roman van Bram Stoker kwam pas uit in 1897!

Ter verduidelijking: rechts is de foto uit 1870 en links is een hedendaagse foto. Mocht je overtuigd zijn, dan kun je je op e-bay laten oplichten voor $ 1.000.000,-.

Wikipedia over Dracula van Bram Stoker:

Dracula is een briefroman, geschreven als een verzameling van brieven, telegrammen en dagboekaantekeningen van de hoofdpersonen, en krantenknipsels uit onder andere de Whitby en enkele Londense kranten. Deze manier van schrijven werd toen Dracula verscheen reeds beschouwd als ouderwets. Bram Stoker gebruikte de schrijfwijze echter daar hij vond dat het meer diepgang gaf aan het verhaal, en het hem in staat stelde het verhaal vanuit het perspectief van alle personages te vertellen zonder een alwetende verteller-stijl te hoeven gebruiken. Tevens hoefde hij op deze manier niet vooraf al te verraden welke personages het verhaal wel of niet zouden overleven.[5]

Dracula kan worden gezien als een roman over de worsteling tussen traditie en modernisatie tijdens het fin de siècle. Er zijn in het verhaal duidelijk referenties naar veranderingen in het traditionele gedragspatroon. Zo is Mina Harker een moderne zelfstandige vrouw.

Stokers roman behandelt het conflict tussen de wereld van het verleden — vol met folklore, legendes en religie — en de moderne wereld met technologie, positivisme en secularisme. Vooral het personage Van Helsing is hiervan een voorbeeld. Hij gebruikt, zeker voor die tijd, moderne hulpmiddelen zoals bloedtransfusie, maar hij gelooft nog wel in het bestaan van bovennatuurlijke wezens. Geen van de personages in het boek verwerpt echter de wetenschap of geeft de voorkeur aan religie of bijgeloof.

Toegegeven, de Coppola’s hebben iets met vampieren. Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Er zijn betere middelen tegen vampieren:

Zijn wij getuige van het ontstaan van een nieuw geloof, gebaseerd op een griezelverhaal?

Ik stel de volgende voor: ‘Er is geen God, en de mens is zijn/haar profeet!’

Bron: De Volkskrant, De laatste Fatwa