Realist's Weblog

Tuesday, February 24th

Sexual Slavery in Christianity

Experts' Report at Vatican Faults Sex Abuse Policy in U.S.
By FRANK BRUNI
A Vatican-sponsored report said American bishops' zero-tolerance policy on pedophile priests could be counterproductive. The New York Times February 24,2004.

Excerpt: If an abuser is at high risk of hurting another child, Dr. Hanson said, 'he may be better off in the church, where there are strong supervisory structures, than in somebody else's backyard."
===============================================

Please click "more" below to read Realist Comments
Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.24.04 @ 01:28 PM EST [more..]

Sunday, February 22nd

Living On The Edge of Disaster

Security Efforts Turning Capital Into Armed Camp
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
A huge effort to build safeguards for buildings and monuments is turning Washington into a fortress.
The New York Times Sunday February 22, 2004
================================

Please click on the link "more" below to see how your ideology is destroying America's freedom!

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.22.04 @ 10:59 AM EST [more..]

Saturday, February 21st

Iranians Go to the Polls, With Little Doubt of the Outcome

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Iran held parliamentary elections on Friday with more significance being placed on voter turnout than on the results. The New York Times Saturday February 21, 2004
======================================
Please click on the link "more" below for additional information.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.21.04 @ 03:25 PM EST [more..]

Wednesday, February 18th

Nuclear Witch-hunts

Salesman on Nuclear Circuit Casts Blurry Corporate Shadow
By RAYMOND BONNER
Investigators are trying to determine whether a businessman's companies in Malaysia are a cover for nuclear-black-market activities.
===========================================

Realist Comment: Do not be distracted by these witch-hunts!

Please click on the link "more" below for comment

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.18.04 @ 03:27 PM EST [more..]

Sunday, February 15th

Thinking the Unthinkable - Saying the Unspeakable

New York Police Take Broad Steps in Facing Terror - Sunday, February 15, 2004 The New York Times.
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and JUDITH MILLER
The department, working with city health officials, federal authorities and other agencies, has been preparing for a possible attack with unconventional weapons.
===================================

Realist Comment: This article goes on to describe how the NYPD is preparing for a nuclear, biological or chemical attack in a theater, high-rise or cruise ship, and concludes with this incredible statement:

"Officials say the department has even taken to the city's streets to conduct a drill with the city's medical examiner's office to prepare for a chemical weapons attack that would litter the streets with contaminated bodies. We're thinking about the unthinkable Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said in a recent interview."

Why Do We "Tolerate" Such Incredible Words From Our Leaders?

Why do we calmly allow the police commissioner of a city of eight million people to tell us that he is making preparations for streets "littered with contaminated bodies?" Am I the only person who hears what this man is saying? What is wrong here?

Here is what is wrong! All of our: politicians, scientists, intellectuals, media personalities, clergy, reporters and laymen, have been indoctrinated by academia with the flawed concepts of atheism or theology! They have also been brainwashed with the concept of "tolerance;" therefore, they fear being declared - "intolerant." They would rather pay the price of "streets littered with contaminated bodies," then be called a bigot for confronting the real problem. We should not tolerate any concept (religious or atheistic) that will leave our streets "littered with contaminated bodies."

Help us win the war on ideological terrorism: Think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable!

We Can't All Be Right About God!

Please click on the link "more" below to continue.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.15.04 @ 01:03 PM EST [more..]

Saturday, February 14th

Immoral Christians and their Immoral Christian Leaders!

Michael Jackson's Never Never Land and The Catholic Church

Please click of the link "more" below for the connection.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.14.04 @ 03:21 PM EST [more..]

Thursday, February 12th

The Powerless God of Modern Judaism!

Humanistic Rabbis Urged to Perform Gay Weddings
(RNS) While other religions are deeply divided over the issue of homosexuality, Humanistic rabbis are being urged to perform gay weddings and advocate for the "freedom, equality and empowerment" of gays and lesbians.
-- Kevin Eckstrom

================================

Realist Comment: Why are Rabbis are being urged to perform Gay weddings? This is not about God or Freedom for Gays - it is about blatant political expediency. Without support from politically active groups like Gays and Lesbians, Judaism is a very small and powerless religion.

Please click on the link "more" below to read additional comments.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.12.04 @ 01:54 PM EST [more..]

Wednesday, February 11th

A Pilot's Career Destroyed by Christianity!

This Is Your Proselytizer Speaking
Passengers already frustrated by removing their shoes and discarding their nail-clippers are not likely to take kindly to a pilot who turns preacher. The New York Times - Wednesday, February 11, 2004

==================================
Realist Comment: I decided to write about this story, because I truly feel for this Pilot.

Please click on the link "more" below to read additional comments.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.11.04 @ 01:13 PM EST [more..]

Tuesday, February 10th

Our Powerless Religious Leaders

Religious Leaders Press Constitutional Amendment Against Gay Marriage
BOSTON (RNS) A wide variety of Massachusetts religious leaders, led by the Roman Catholic Church but including mainline and evangelical Protestants as well as Jews and Muslims, have released a joint statement pressing for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
-- Holly Lebowitz Rossi

====================================
We must try to face the reality that these religious attempts to write secular laws reveal that there is something terribly wrong in our modern religions! The fact that they are utterly powerless has critical implications, for all of us, that simply cannot be ignored.

Please click on the link "more" below to read my comments.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.10.04 @ 04:58 PM EST [more..]

Monday, February 9th

Ideological Insanity

Insanity is doing the same things over and over and hoping for a different result!

Atheism and Theology produced violent secular and religious cults that have caused all of the holy wars and violent atheistic revolutions of history.

If those who run our schools continue to indoctrinate future world leaders with the antagonistic ideologies of atheism and theology, that caused all of our past holy wars and atheistic revolutions, what hope is there for peace?

If we want a different result, we must think differently!

It is time to address the ideological crisis in academia – they have not had a new concept on human existence since Darwin – two hundred years. Academia without new thought – is humanity without progress.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.09.04 @ 02:15 PM EST [more..]

Saturday, February 7th

Bombs Don't Kill People - Flawed Ideologies Do!

39 Die in Moscow as Bomb Goes Off on Subway Train
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Russian officials said they suspected that the bombing was the latest in a series of terrorist attacks linked to the war in Chechnya. The New York Times - Saturday, February 7, 2004

===================================

Let’s reread this headline from the New York Times - 39 Die in Moscow as Bomb Goes Off on Subway Train

Did a bomb just happen to go off on the subway? Is that what happened? Think about it.

When we get honest, here is how the headline will read:

The Violent Ideologies of Academia Cause a Fanatic to Place a Bomb in a Moscow Subway!

Bombs don’t kill people – ideological fanatics kill people with bombs.

All of our violent ideologies can be traced back to the atheistic and theological concepts of academia. All of the people in the media, politics, government, science and religion, have been indoctrinated with those concepts; therefore, they unconsciously protect their core beliefs. We have all seen it in the media. They will blame: fundamentalists, fanatics, extremists, etc, but the core ideologies are never blamed. Ideological violence is always couched in the framework of a fanatic who took a wonderful religious or atheistic belief to an extreme.

Do fanatics create flawed ideologies, or do flawed ideologies create fanatics?

It is time to admit that our atheistic and theological emperors are naked. If we are to prevent a looming disaster, we will have to confront the inherently flawed concepts of atheism and theology in academia.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.07.04 @ 05:41 PM EST [more..]

Thursday, February 5th

Gibson Film

Gibson to Delete a Scene in 'Passion'
By SHARON WAXMAN
Mel Gibson, responding to focus groups and Jewish critics, will delete a controversial scene about Jews from his film, "The Passion of the Christ." The New York Times - Thursday, February 5, 2004

Why are the Jews censoring Mel Gibson's film about Jesus?

Jewish groups have been censoring any attempt to closely examine the life and times of Jesus throughout history. They have even censored an entire portion of their history that surrounds him – The “New Testament.” Christianity and Islam run a close second in the attempts to censor an objective appraisal of the Jew who was called Jesus.

It is ridiculous for Jews to reject a huge portion of their own history, the New Testament, because they don't like what it implies. It is equally ridiculous for Christians and Muslims to claim that history as part of their religion

Think about it! There is something tragically amiss here.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.05.04 @ 01:30 PM EST [more..]

Wednesday, February 4th

Iran's "Election."

Iran's Leader Said to Refuse Delay in Vote
By NAZILA FATHI
President Mohammad Khatami and other reformers had asked for a postponement so that the hard-line Guardian Council might allow more candidates to run. Wednesday, February 4, 2004 NY Times

Here we see how religious leaders (like the atheists) once they have power will not allow for a real change in government, short of violent revolution.

In the 1980s, former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter (a Born Again Man of God) prayed about allowing the Shar of Iran to be toppled by Islamic fundamentalists. President Carter thought God’s answer to his prayer was that he should allow the Ayatollah Khomeini (another man of God) to take control of the country; therefore, he did not support the Shar against the religious rebels. The results of President Carter’s “communication with God” were: religious fanatics took control of Iran, America was labeled a "Great Satan," followed by the hostage crisis, and the Iran / Iraq war in which one million people were killed.

Religious leaders in Iran have turned the country into a nuclear, biological and chemical weapons state. Over the years these "men of God" have trafficked in weapons of mass destruction in one of the most dangerous parts of the world. They also supported terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and the Taliban. These zealots, in turn, took control of Afghanistan, destroyed the World Trade Center killing 1,500 people and wreaked havoc in many parts of the Middle East.

When will we ask the obvious question – is any of this of God? I think we all know the answer.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.04.04 @ 11:31 AM EST [more..]

244 Die in Saudi Stampede During Muslim Pilgrimage

244 Die in Saudi Stampede During Muslim Pilgrimage
By REUTERS
The pilgrims were crushed to death on Sunday in a stampede during a devil-stoning ritual at the climax of the annual hajj season.

This Islamic Pilgrimage often leads to the death of people in stampedes and fires. I wrote of a similar incident in chapter seven of my book. In that case 350 people were trampled or burned to death and 1,300 were injured, when a tent city housing pilgrims in the Indian quarter caught fire. When will we begin to ask the obvious questions about these extremely dangerous religious rituals?

Is any of this of God? I think we all know the answer.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.04.04 @ 12:35 AM EST [more..]

Monday, February 2nd

Ideological Violence

People who live in glass-houses love tolerance!

Academia has to call for tolerance, because it teaches the most divisive and violent ideologies of human history - atheism and theology.

What Are We Fighting About?

The cause of the majority of our wars can be discerned by the names we use to describe them: “Holy War” or “Atheistic Revolution.” These names reveal that the cause of this problem is our conflicting concepts about God. Academia's current concepts of atheism and theology leave us dangerously divided and confused. If we can solve that critical mystery with one definitive and verifiable truth, we can bring an end to ideological violence and release a surge of progress and prosperity unprecedented in human history.

My book The Awful Truth, provides a non-religious solution to that mystery, with definitive answers on both our origins and future.

We Can't All Be Right!

Please click on the link "more" below for information critical to understanding this problem.

Please visit: www.realists.org

Patrick Conway on 02.02.04 @ 01:40 PM EST [more..]

Home
Archives
Realists Home
Realists Login
Book Store

February 2004
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29