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Queen of Christ Starved Child

Mar 3

Posted by askegg in Blog | 10 Comments

Often I am asked why I care about other people’s beliefs.  Where is the harm in supernatural beliefs?  Why is it wrong to live your life as if a deity can step in and rescue the situation at any time?  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Queen of Jesus Christ.  Behold!

On Tuesday, along with two others, the Queen of Jesus Christ (real name Antoinette) was convicted of starving her 16 month old boy to death.  Why?  Because he would not say “amen” during mealtimes.  The insolence of kids today!

Poor Javon spent a week without food or water before his heart gave up and stopped.  The Queen of Jebus responded by commanding her followers to pray for the boys resurrection while she talked to him, danced his with his lifeless body, and tried to give him drinks – bit that for that my dear.

After a few weeks of this and obviously not getting anywhere, the boy’s body would have turned black and started to smell- so they stuffed him into a suitcase and moved in houses – stashing the suitcase and its gruesome contents behind the shed.

Is there a boy in here?

At the time of Javon’s death the house also contained three other children (who made damn sure they said “amen” after every mouthful) and a family friend.  She obviously Queen Jebus does not think much of her friends since she committed to a mental asylum after she spoke to outsiders about the toddlers death.  I dunno, maybe it was the “God weed”  that made her talk crazy like that (this manics pet name for marijuana, which she encouraged everyone in the cult to smoke regularly).

This monumental idiot is so delusional she thinks the only defence required in a court of law is a hand written application for the non-profit status of “1 Mind Ministries” (here dumb ass cult).  I think they over estimated the number of minds involved.  It also happened to be the document that describe her as:

“…as a chosen daughter of the most high God and a queen of Jesus Christ.”

Whatever, you fucking whack job.  Bailiff!  Lock her up!

According to cult members, Quee… no, Antoinette ran a very strict household.  Members where only allowed to wear white, blue, and khaki (hey – don’t ask me), they were only allowed to leave the house in pairs (echos the oppression of Muslim women), and were told to destroy all identification and cut contact with relatives and friends (lest they talk you out of this bat shit crazy insanity).

Antoinette still believes prayer will raise the decomposed and suitcase encased corpse that once was her baby boy back to life.  She says she

“…I don’t care if it makes me sound crazy.”

Oh believe me, it does!

Of course there is absolutely zero evidence that the boy will be resurrected, especially now at least a year after the fact.  There is no evidence god speaks to Antoinette through marijuana.  There is no reason to think wearing only white, blue, and khaki will make god happy.  There is no evidence for anything in this massively shitty personal catastrophe.

So what’s the harm in believing things for which there is no evidence?  It allows all manner of things and prevent none.  Just ask Javon.

References

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35676266/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

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The Burden of Proof

Mar 1

Posted by askegg in Blog | 47 Comments

Time and time again I have had conversations with people who completely misunderstand the burden of proof, so I though I might state it as clearly as I can here, once and for all.

Imagine, if you will, that there are two people in a room.  At first no one is speaking to the other.  No one has made a claim which they need to back up with a logical argument, or (shock/horror) even evidence.  No one at this stage bears the burden of proof.  Then one of them pipes up:

“This table is made of wood.”

Not a massive claim, I know, but a claim none the less.  A claim which is easily verified by the other person observing the table and concluding it is indeed made from wood.  There is evidence to support the gentleman’s claim and the claim is accepted.  Now let’s suppose he adds:

“The wood came from Noah’s Ark.”

Now this is a hell of a claim, with many ramifications for it presupposes Noah’s existence and a global flood.  Notwithstanding, should we accept his claim on face value, or request the evidence that leads inescapably to this conclusion?  If no evidence or even a logical argument can be presented to support this claim, why accept it as truth?

Same goes for a God.

If you claim there is a mystical invisible entity residing outside of space and time, then please provide evidence this is actually the case.  If you further claim that this entity took human form and killed himself to wash away something called “sin” with his blood – well you certainly have your work cut out for you.

Keep in mind it is NOT up to the sceptic to disprove your claims.  Take, for example, this conversation:

You: “There are no diamonds in the trunk of my car”

Me: “OK”

That’s it.  Why should anyone investigate the claim any further?  Do it make any difference to anyone if there really are not diamond in your car?  Do I have any reason to suspect otherwise?  In a recent conversation the response to this question was:

“What if you were a thief and believed I did have diamonds in the truck of my car?  Then you might get mad and assault me.”

What the author of this comment failed to realise is that the thief holds a belief for which there is no evidence.  He is in error and acts upon his illogical and unsupported beliefs with horrible results.  To anyone familiar with religions, this should sound very familiar.

So why do so many theistic arguments go along these lines?

Me: “I can see no evidence of god”

Theist: “You’re not looking had enough”

Theist Logic

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Prayer Vigil causes closure of Forums

Feb 26

Posted by askegg in Blog | 10 Comments

For years we warned atheists that we would take down their site entitled RichardDawkins.net, by the power prayer.

The atheists laughed and said prayer did not exist. They cursed us and said there was no God. I warned them time and again, and now, we see the true power of God as he has closed their sinful site, RichardDawkins.net.

For those of you who do not know, Richard Dawkins is one of the worst offenders before God. He promotes bestial relations. He thinks that a “less evolved” human man and a monkey woman had sexual relations to create us.

Evolutionists believe monkeys and humans procreated to give rise to you and me, and that this type of behavior is normal. That is why atheists also believe in such nonsense as homunculus, animals in the womb and why Richard Dawkins cusses in the face of Christians.

God has had enough of atheists and has heard our prayers. I would like to take this time to thank all of you who helped us organize the ChristWire Against Dawkins network.

That network alone grew to over 93,000 members worldwide and was able to raise nearly $15,000 in our capital campaign to fund prayer against the richarddawkins.net forums.

A special thanks to our friend and colleague Quoc Van Thai, who in addition to volunteering long hours to create brochures for the mailing list, also translated our materials on the atheist forums to Chinese for our Asian missions.

It is truly a wonderful day and let us pray the lives and “entertainment” sources of atheists continue to dry it. Those who stand against God stand against America, freedom and humanity. It is a blessing to see the atheists cursed and to know that a person filled with so much vitriolic hate as Richard Dawkins is have a miserable day. Glory.

When I organized the first ChristWire prayer day against Dawkins, this is the day of triumph I was shown. Praise to our Father.

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My homosexual friends deserve to die.

Feb 25

Posted by askegg in Blog | 1 Comment

There is not much more to add to this – listen, enjoy and think about it.

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Note Left on Windscreen of Cars

Feb 25

Posted by Nige in Blog, Pictures | 10 Comments

Someone has been putting this under the windscreen wipers of cars around the Hobart area. Click image to embiggen.

What would you think if you returned to your car to find that attached to it?

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RDF Forums

Feb 24

Posted by askegg in Blog | 2 Comments

This was my reply to the “Have the Richard Dawkins Forums Died?” on The Friendly Atheist’s web site.  I post it here in an attempt to spread accurate information, rather than the over the top reaction from some members of the community.

I am lucky enough to chat with Andrew Chalkers (tech head at The Richard Dawkins Foundation) on many occasions, and have conversed with Josh on email. While I may not be privy to all the internal workings of the RDF web site, I do know of some of the issues and have helped diagnose and fix some.

The existing forum software is horribly written, IMHO. It does make make use of good DB schema, it has repeated calls to the database for common functions (where one JOIN would do), the indexes seem to miss the mark, etc. In short, the combination of users (250 maximum active users at a time, not the 85,000 users reported), posts and comments, ground the system to a virtual halt. The fix from the developer was “throw more hardware at it” which helped for a while, but is not a sustainable and effective solution in the long run.

Various approaches were considered to fix the existing system, but in the end the amount of work required meant writing a new system from scratch would be easier.

From what I know, Richard Dawkins wants the focus to be on science, rational thinking, and reasoned argument. Quality over quantity. Given this, the decision was made to switch the existing forums to read only, and enact the new system (migrating over the existing user accounts).

I understand the new system requires the initial thread to be approved, and then allows free discussion of the topic, so long as members stick to the terms of service rules. This seems fair and balanced to me.

I am confident that Andrew, Josh, and Richard are well aware of the community and have no desires to kill it. However, with progress comes change, and with change comes pain.

Personally, I look forward to a high quality, fast, active discussion forum on RDF that has a laser focus on interesting and challenging ideas. Bring it on!

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The Preachings of xXJesusIsLordXx

Feb 24

Posted by askegg in Blog | 14 Comments

Every now and then I get a private message or email from some religionist who his convinced I need to hear the salvation story one more time, thus be saved from the eternal torment of their omnibenevolent and merciful deity.  The latest comes from a Youtube user who calls himself “xXJesusIsLordXx“.  Whatever:

Ask Egg,

Not a good start.

Please come onto the LORD by Jesus, a lot of bad things may have happened in your life to cause alternative beliefs to the truth, I am deeply sorry for these but unless you accept Jesus as your personal saviour you are not going to inherit the kingdom of God,

Why does he spell lord in capitals?  This is not the lord’s name for starters, and from what I have read he does not take too kindly to misuse of his name.

Anyway, why is it that ONLY some awful occurrence in my life could the only reason I eventually rejected the idea of god?  The truth is much more boring than that – I thought about the concept, consider the evidence, and found it lacking.  I cannot bring myself to honestly believe things for which there is no evidence.

Please read this, it is important for your eternal life!

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