Today I found an interesting gem

TMCM - #169

Now as interesting as it may seem, and I hope it makes some Bible thumpers think about things. (not that any read my blog) It logically should have no bearing on a person's theological stance. But it may make people question things. That's always good.

I don't have a problem with people believing in god, or that some entity created the everything that we know to exist. For all I know they might even be right. Probably not. In fact I'm probably as sure that's not the case, as many of them are sure it is. But it is something that we will never be able to test, never be able to find definitive evidence for, so nobody can truly claim to know the truth.

However religion is not about preaching possibility. Religion touts the imaginations of people no smarter or better than any of us, as inscrutable fact. And when people buy it and support it, they end up walking out and booing Bill Nye The Science Guy when he explains that when Genesis says God made two lights, isn't exactly accurate. And that in fact, the moon just reflects the light of the Sun.

This level of ignorance is one of the main things that frustrates me in this world. If the Moon was a real light, it would always be full. It would never be dark. But it does get dark. It gets dark because the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, and the Earth makes a shadow on the moon. Of course that is just a logical sounding explanation that somebody imagined. Better proof does exist. We actually sent people to the Moon! It wasn't some magical, intangible light floating in the sky. It's a big ball of dust that reflects light pretty damn well. We even have photos to back up our claim. All religion has, is a book. A book written by someone who had nothing to do with the creation of the world, and wasn't even born until a few thousand years after they claim it all happened. Ask the Jews! Their people were the one's who wrote the old testament and even they don't believe it as factual truth.

I think I have spent too much time on this now. But it just really pissed me of when I read this and I had to get it out.