HELP WANTED....FOR THE NEW YEAR AD commonly refers to Anno Domini, Latin for In the Year of (Our) Lord, and applied to years following 1 BC in the Julian and Gregorian calendars signifying the date of the birth of Jesus Christ. Ive never known why our Lord is added to this Catholic interpretation of the date since the Lord that is referred to is a Jew, and there is no record of the date of his birth. So why should Catholic clergy from the Dark Ages be given any credit for veracity much less accuracy in establishing a timeline for the world? Or for anything, for that matter? Besides, 1 AD is not the beginning of recorded history even for the poor lost souls who believe every word in the bible....words that have been misspelled, misinterpreted, made up and changed by monks and others who added their own flourishes and corrections to the holy word.... so its irritating to have to calculate backwards to get dates for important things that happened before Roman Emperor Constantine decided to invent a form of Christianity for his own purposes. This is just one of the inanities found in religion. And not limited to the Christian variety either. Jews and Muslims are equally misled by the unscrupulous, the ignorant and the fanatic feeble-minded to whom anything they cant understand is beyond the pale of reasoned interpretation. I have probably erred in recounting even this minimal religious history, and Im certainly guilty of mocking things that many good people believe is gospel. I am not schooled in any religious dogma. What I know is what I have learned through sharpening my own intellect and the borrowing from others whom I trust and admire and find more credible than priests and adherents. What I know in the very fiber of my being is that fundamental religions are not just idiotic, they are evil. My greatest hope for the New Year is that the populace will dismiss the ravings of the religious right. And after that, my hope is that we can begin to dismantle all the trappings of evangelical lunacy in this country and help young people release themselves from ignorance and superstition. Sixty-three percent of Americans do not believe in evolution. How the world must laugh at us, a country famed for its achievements in science and literature. We MUST remove ourselves from the mindless and deadening thrall of religion if we are to be great again. We can start by seeing the following is relegated to the dustbin of history: answersingenesis.org/articles/1999/11/05/dinosaurs-and-the-bible and this A Scientist Visits A Creationist Museum youtube Scientist Colin Blakemore visits a creationist museum in Kentucky. That old smartypants, Kierkegaard, said: There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what is not true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true. -30-
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:58:29 +0000
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