Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Thank you for that, I had to favorite this topic. Awesome summary of how myths can evolve in culture from sun worshiping (esp. during culture-wide agricultural and language development) and then into humanized dieties, and finally into one human-like deity (monotheism).

Until now I’d been over-thinking about possible neuro-based, unconsciously…[Read more]

Woman and her small son in a taxi, headed out somewhere. The taxi takes a route via the red light district with several working girls available

Little Boy :- Mommy, Mommy, who are those women under those red lights?

Mom :- Oh they’re just ladies, dear

Taxi Driver (turning over his shoulder) :- Go on, tell him the truth!  They’re whores, that…[Read more]

I want to turn my website into a book when it’s finished.  The way I see it, at the moment, as soon as I die, so does the web site (within the year).  And half the world hasn’t got the internet anyway.  But books can survive hundreds of years, which can give the philosophy a chance to catch on.  Also, we rely too much on wifi and smartphones, for…[Read more]

Welcome, Sean!

And good job on your profile pics. I should improve my own, something like that.

Hey Sean, welcome to Atheist Zone!  Check out Reg’s Sunday School, a weekly treasure trove of delight!

Finally, secular archaeologists can examine the evidence without the fear of retribution.  Perhaps the real origins of Christianity will be uncovered and be exposed as just another fraud.

In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was “Arrrgh!”
—PIRATICUS 13:7

Actually flying spaghetti monsters shrink as they get older. So in fact, that isn’t the baby flying spaghetti monster lying in a cradle next to his parents…because he is really old and when flying spaghetti monsters are born, they immediately eat their parent. So  his parent hasn’t been around for a long time! In fact they are having a goodbye…[Read more]

The baby FSM seems to be too well guarded to be enjoyed with a fine chianti.

I object to any pastafarian nativity displays on public property depicting baby FSM, mon. Unless it is fresh and I am hungry.

I’ve always lived in quite secular countries so the really really religious bit about Christmas has always been background noise. And the secular parts of Christmas (tree, gifts, food etc) dominate the holidays. I’m sure if I was in Folktown, Alabama and an atheist, I’d wear ear plugs and find excuses to avoid family events or else I might go…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

nearly everyone has respect due to them as a human being.

I would say “everyone”, if we follow the “veil of ignorance” and assume that any of us could have been born into the position of not being seen as human for one reason or another.

But as it says in the lecture, “there never was a [making or signing of a] social contract”, in that there was never a pre-contract phase (except pre-human) and then everyone decided to make a contract.

I think it’s much more plausible that social norms came first, and a society’s laws reflect its social norms.

I hold to the view that the social…[Read more]