Neil deGrasse Tyson's Life Advice Will Leave You SPEECHLESS - One of the Most Eye Opening Interviews...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 9, 2020:

Great video. I always like hearing Tyson explain things.

If I ask "Do god(s)s exist?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 9, 2020:

I don't give a damn how you label me. Some will agree and some will not. End of story.

Stolen from my friend on Facebook Blaming all cops for the thuggish and murderous behavior of a ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 9, 2020:

Wrong is wrong and white is not might. I hear all sorts of people speaking out saying that George Floyd was a common criminal. OK, I got it. That means it is OK for the cops to kill him? I don't think so.

An unassumed atheist

DenoPenno comments on Jun 9, 2020:

You do not have to tell them. I finally told my family and the response was that they "still believed but in their own way." Isn't that the main problem with this? Everyone believes but in their own way. WTF? At my workplace it sometimes comes up about "god belief" and my standard answer is this. "I studied to be a Pentecostal preacher but that is not me today." I'm afraid they are all going to have to accept that answer. I work for a very religious corporation.

I live in a very conservative Christian southern state and if I happen to be going through a ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 8, 2020:

But of course. Don't you know that if you are a believer god will alter his plan just for you? I used to believe that god killed Madalyn Murray O'Hair just because she did not believe in him.

According to my physics teacher, people who become atheists will be punished by God.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 8, 2020:

You cannot counter his argument successfully. People like him believe that god created black holes in space as a sort of vacuum cleaner. Reality says we know very little about black holes and nobody would have believed this way 100 years ago. His thinking fits the puddle he believes himself to be in. This is similar to an ignorant man becoming a Christian and then going around to say to people "it's a wonderful day that god created for us today." I've known people like this but even as a one time believer I never thought that a god created our every day. I guess this gave god something to do. IDK?

I am an atheist.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 8, 2020:

The Lord is a sheep herder that i shall not want. That covers it.

Conservative Charlie Kirk Mocks Protesters: Racism “Doesn’t Exist” | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 8, 2020:

Racism doesn't exist? All my life I have heard religious people talk about how black someone is while I've found so many white people wanting to get a sun tan.

My encounter meeting a racist, transphobic, chatterbox, conversation hog

DenoPenno comments on Jun 8, 2020:

I do not hangout with many people at all, especially the ones who believe the garbage going around today. As I aged I became more understanding and tolerant in many ways, but I do talk too much. What you need to understand about your man in question is that he is a god believer at heart. In his mind a perfect god cannot create anyone transgender, and he is also racist because his god is racist. Most bible lovers cannot see that this is what the OT is all about.

Consider this: people have used religion to justify and advance their agendas since the earliest ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 8, 2020:

My conclusion is that your god likes the same things that you do. This is about as bad as someone believing that their god is the right god. Yes, let us create god in our own image.

17-year-old girl among victims in Alabama mass shooting where 7 died - al.com

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

This is all sad. I have 2 guns and one is a rifle. They are both 22. magnum and in my house un-loaded. I very seldom even check on them and no longer do any target practicing.

So - for those of you, like myself, who wouldn't mind finding a partner, it seems yet more ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

I agree with you fully only I do have dentures. Some people don't give a damn about themselves enough to have them. I see more and more people today who only have 4 or 5 teeth. Disgusting!

This is how much damage a single rubber bullet can do.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

This is a terrible tragedy. It should not have happened and who is going to pay for her facial surgery? She should sue the city. Just because Trump thinks it is OK to use rubber bullets on protesters does not make it legal or anything that should be happening. Would Trump pay for this? The man has already declared that he is "not responsible." OK, then who is? It certainly is not Obama.

Louisiana GOP Backs Child Marriage Bill: “A Lot of 16-Year-Olds Are Very Mature” | Hemant Mehta ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

One of my wives was 16 and I went to a Southern state where it was legal. I regret the marriage but my only 2 children came from that union.

something a bit perplexing about the christian god.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

Yes, but it was not perplexing to the goat herders of the galaxy. They had no Internet and news traveled very slowly. Today we have Christian apologists to explain this stuff away.

Texas GOP Leader: George Floyd’s Murder Was “Staged” to Create “Racial Tensions” | Hemant...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

I read one about this that reported it was all staged to embarrass Donald Trump. OK. Some of the cops are now quitting because of the George Floyd murder in support of the cops that were involved in the killing. How does this woman justify that when it would indicate that cops do not like Trump? I don't find this to be so. There is to much of **ALL** of something or somebody to keep the bipartisan hatred going. Things do not work that way in real life.

How many of you found the christian straight jacket view of sex turned you off and enticed you away ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

The bible holds nothing for a gay person and so many kept trying to hold onto their religion and their gayness. A straight jacket view of sex. What is that, the missionary position? :)

What would it be like if the whole world became an atheist?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

NO. The reason is that the bible was true on a few things and the love of money is one of them. You can have a world of atheists and still end up with a fascist government.

Brazil Bolsonaro's president says he is a conservative Christian, but his attitudes do not match ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

Hypocritical? All believers are hypocritical. Just take abortion. Jesus said nothing about that issue at all but there is something in the OT in Numbers 5:11-31 that gives a procedure they followed if the husband suspected he was not the father of the soon to be born child. Keep in mind also that the bible says a child is not a person until it draws the first breath. Now let's jump to so called religious ones killing abortion doctors and they actually think they are doing god's work. Does that add up? It is hypocritical and not in the bible.

I had a really good conversation with a co worker this week.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

Nicely worded. Today I went uptown to the local Christian mission place. It's a store that sells used things for profit and I was looking for some chair cushions I saw there the other day. They had already sold them but I was told they had to hold them 72 hours without anyone touching them to know they are COVID free. I was told this is the policy they follow to protect everyone. BS I said. If that was true you would also be holding all the money the same way and we all know that isn't happening. That money is collected and goes straight to the bank. One woman there started laughing and told me I got them on that one. She then said she does not believe this virus is even real. I told her it would be hard to get the worlds dying people to just go along with it. Something here is real. I them told her about the 5G scam going on because believers in that claim 5G is causing all this. It's not and believers of it have no logic. This was about the time I had to leave. She was no longer talking to me or wanting to hear me. The poor woman thinks we have a created virus coming from cell phone towers and other wifi devices. Some people want to believe nonsense.

Scamvangelist Kenneth Copeland: Vote the Way God Wants You To and You’ll Be Rich | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

Please explain how god wants me to vote. Why are religious people (fake or real) trying to tell us how to vote?

Here Are Some Common Sex Myths That Everyone Really Needs To Stop Believing | IFLScience

DenoPenno comments on Jun 6, 2020:

My sex education came in my high school daze through a book called "Sexology." A woman I knew in her 20's loaned me her monthly magazines of it. Of course, my stepfather found one of the books one time and labeled it "pornography." Sorry, dad. You were wrong.

An Object in Deep-Space Sends Radio Signals to Earth Every 16 Days — and Researchers Don't Know ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 5, 2020:

Maybe ET is trying to phone home?

I’ve been studying the Tao Te ching for over a year now.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 5, 2020:

The first key to wisdom is to realize that you do not have any wisdom. That worked for me and I used to have inner knowledge about everything. It was real coz I read it in a book.

A Quick Introduction to the Endtimes | Roll to Disbelieve: A Quick Intro to the Endtimes

DenoPenno comments on Jun 5, 2020:

I hope they are all raptured. Maybe they can be taken to Kolob. If not, maybe they could all be dropped inside a volcano.

Researchers report that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 5, 2020:

Very little difference between an atheist and an agnostic. What this ridiculous study is trying to prove and show you is that the invisible man in the sky is real. Everybody knows that the cloud in the sky really does look like Jesus. They also know after taking a psychedelic that their dog turns into Jesus and he talks to you. There. Their must be something to it. I might start believing again tomorrow coz I found my car keys in the frige.

This year really has me questioning the validity of life.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 5, 2020:

The longer I live the more I feel like you. I just turned 74. You are still here because you are not dead yet. You feel as you do because someone is always trying to manipulate your emotions for their own gain.

Goldfein: ‘Every American should be outraged’ at police conduct in death of George Floyd

DenoPenno comments on Jun 4, 2020:

This is as it should have been. Those cops committed murder.

38 days and we still have no idea if he's alive.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 4, 2020:

The man cannot believe if he wants to not believe.If you do not understand what our current fascist regime is doing in America, they want us to be treated badly too. I hope Mubarak is OK, but the ones behind Trump want a "Christian Nation."

Dave Grossman has been America's preeminent police trainer for about a decade.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 4, 2020:

We do not need that kind if training. My opinion is the cop that did the shooting should be doing 25 to 30 years in prison for murder. The video speaks very plainly on what happened. Some cops should never be cops.

Why Jesus is white (:

DenoPenno comments on Jun 4, 2020:

Jesus sitting around telling stories to children. "There I was, the only white man in Jerusalem."

I know this church, I know this neighborhood, my life partner's family had a business here in the ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 3, 2020:

Are there laws for all people? If so they are not the same laws.

It’s not just the fringe anymore.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 3, 2020:

They have to do this to claim their "Christian Nation" belief. They believe that old "thou shalt have no other gods before me" gave us rules and law. Without him we would have nothing. It never occurs to them that he was a tribal god.

Today, June 1, Marilyn Monroe would have been 94 years old. [youtu.be]

DenoPenno comments on Jun 1, 2020:

Only if she would have lived that long.

Rich Goscicki Ever since high school I've always been impressed with Rene Magritte, the father of...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 1, 2020:

I agree with you but I would take away the top paragraph.

I shared this on FB 3 years ago.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 1, 2020:

All I have to do here is see Trump's face and I know instantly that he is making fun of a handicapped reporter. Why did he get away with this and why do others pretend that they do not know? Trump is disgusting!

Do we have free will?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 1, 2020:

There is no free will. You think you have free will but it is a delusion. In your mind you might think you are going home to have a nice steak but you get home and have something else. The very concept of advertising works on an idea of directing your will and it proves to be greatly successful. A rich person may have more choices in a certain matter than you do and a female may see things differently. Free will is not involved but everything in your past certainly is. Most of us have a different past than others and this is so because we are individuals. Now here comes the concept of free will in total.** It is a religious concept** argued by the Christians because their god created you with free will. This is so because this god wants you to worship it/she/him out of the freedom of your own mind and not because you were commanded to. Without "free will" the religious concept will not work, and does not work.

Actually, natural is neutral | Nature Human Behaviour

DenoPenno comments on Jun 1, 2020:

It isn't nice to mess with mother nature.

From Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ([rep.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 1, 2020:

There is no evidence for a belief in gods. None at all, and i really do not care what Hume and Kant thought about the matter. If you also do not believe in gods of any kind you are most likely atheist, but the terminology is yours to make.

Steve Bannon and Stephan Miller, and the orher white Supremacist in the WH must be loving the ...

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2020:

Stephan Miller is said to write a lot of Trump's speeches.

Peter Lorre 1904-1964 I will dispence with the bio since I have posted it before.

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2020:

Hey, it's Lazlo Lowenstein. I've watched a lot of his stuff in my lifetime.

Clem wears the Neither Shoes.

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2020:

I don't dance.

Humanist family gofundme shared by Florida Humanist Association on Facebook [gofundme.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 30, 2020:

This is interesting but I'm afraid I would have to have more information.

Supreme Court Rejects Church's Challenge To California's Coronavirus Rules : Coronavirus Live ...

DenoPenno comments on May 30, 2020:

I don't think they have seen anything yet.

Angry Young Preacher: The Bible Says Gay People Should Be Executed (Humanely) | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on May 30, 2020:

What is the truth about the sun and the moon? I really want to know. Why would atheists drink Coke and play video games? Maybe they should drink Pepsi or RC Cola. As for the need to execute gay people as your bad book says, how do you find out if they are gay? Maybe you could torture them until they admit it. You could see if they would float in the water. If you really want to kill them I hope you understand that the court system will not stand with you on the issue. Maybe Trumpy court will. IDK.

Prompted by calls to 'give grace' to cop who killed George Floyd, black activists question the rush ...

DenoPenno comments on May 30, 2020:

Forgiveness. NO. These cops ought to be doing hard time for murder. No forgiveness. When my grandson was murdered in a drug deal the killers mom wanted to remind us all that he had kids and was trying to raise them. OK. So did my murdered grandson. My view is if you do the crime you should also do the time.

REMINDER: Tonight is ZOOM CHAT NIGHT from 7-10 PM EST USA.

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2020:

I would love to do this but Zoom chat is not possible on my computer. This is because I have used the full extent of Destroy Windows Spying and much of the app part from Microsoft cannot work. I'm left with an operating system that is totally responsive to me only and it does not surprise me with build updates either.

Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence' | Technology | The Guardian

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2020:

Let Twitter do this and we will see others follow. To defeat Donnie Dump you have to first stand up to Donnie Dump.

42% Of Total U.S. Covid Deaths Are From The 0.6% Of The Population In Long-term Care

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2020:

Cannot read this as Forbes wants me to turn off my adblock. For me to do so is not as easy as they tell you.

I recently made made a comment that I thought better of.

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2020:

Let me try to explain one view of non-whites being inferior. It first came about as the white man visited the Americas and brought his diseases along with him. The white men did not know what was happening here exactly. The natives were declared inferior to the whites, but they made good slaves. It was because of new diseases that natives died and this reinforced the idea of white supremacy. Whites hold this idea today without knowing where it came from.

MINNEAPOLIS on fire [powerlineblog.

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2020:

I try to understand what is going on even though I cannot support the actions of this. P. S. I'm not talking about the white people involved. Derek Chauvin and friends need to come to justice. Swift justice will counter black looting.

I don't know if there is anyone from PA on here, but I was in tears watching this.

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

He lays it on pretty thick doesn't he.

Trump to Executive Order Against Social Media Companies

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

Somehow i don't think Trump knows that this will also apply to him. He claims otherwise but we are not in a dictatorship yet.

Trump executive order would challenge Section 230 protections for Facebook, Twitter and Google - The...

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

What Trump fails to realize is that this would apply to him also. How would he continue to spread his lies?

there was a time in my life when I was able to have a truly bisexual relationship.

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

Yes, anything is possible. Some people live like this all the time while others hide what they think would offend someone and cause them to lose friends.

George Floyd was accused of trying to pass a fake $20.

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

The best I can say here is that this video has to be allowed at the trial and there certainly should be a trial. These 2 cops should be convicted of murder, One for doing the crime and the other one for being complicit and allowing it to happen. When they are sentenced for murder it should not be a token sentence because they were cops. It should be a real sentence of 25 to 30 years. There is no way any normal person could not watch this and see the cops involved are racist thugs. They need to be taken off the street and put away.

John Pavlovitz argues that "Prolific Racism Needs Complicit White People.

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

I believe you are correct. Too many people do not want to speak up.

religious people threaten me

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

Simama, please! I read this and you are confusing me.

I accepted the job I applied for as an adoptions specialist today!!! All on my own! No glory to God ...

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

Congrats to you. :)

How did you, or do you react to these 2 photos, and the stories behind them?

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2020:

I agree with this fully. The shame is in the fact that no one even tried to understand why Kap took a knee in the first place and they thought Bone Spurs was patriotic when he told everyone what you must do at a game.

Vincent Price 1911-1993 Born in St.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2020:

I liked him a lot and he was so good in the horror films of my time. He was great in Dr. Phibes films too.

With or without religion

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2020:

It is most likely impossible to have a society without religion. My reasoning is that someone would come along and once again just start making the crap up.

On a serious note .

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2020:

I had to double check to see if I had written. LOL The truth is I am wishing you all of the best and none of the bad. Get well, please. Many of us need you and want you around. I'm sure that your family needs you too.

Why to wear a mask.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2020:

Everyone is talking about their "god given rights." Let's put them to the test and ask that they show us these rights because I'm not sure just where they are listed. Are they in the bible, or where?

Another Christian bites the dust! Frontman of Christian rock band reveals he no longer believes ...

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2020:

I bet he lived in a world for years where he thought "everybody knows there is a god but only my god is the real god." Then one day you just wake up from that. I have friends who try to define a "real Christian" to me and we all know they are just making this up.

Is homosexuality a choice?

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2020:

Christians tell you flat out that god did not create Adam and Steve. Since they believe man and woman are to procreate and "replenish the earth" they automatically understand that this cannot happen when people are gay. If you are homosexual you are going against the teachings of their book so being gay must therefore be a choice you have made. It makes sense to them but they fail to see that biblical homosexuality only deals with men. This is because women are actually considered property. The bible never deals with lesbianism. Wrong as they are, they think gay is a choice and Mike Pence and friends will always want to "pray away the gay." Many even think that demon spirits made you gay. Trying to pray away this gay is no different to them than praying that the playboy male who married Susie will be faithful to only her now and stop going with all the other women. If this is a little trucked up it's because their book cannot be wrong and neither can their god.

To me.

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2020:

I use Facebook only as a political activist and also use the same name there as here. Some of my family and friends are there and I have posted pictures. I do have foreign friends also, but most of my postings are to the various memes listed from other sites. I also borrow and post memes on my page describing the current political regime and the fact that our current infodemic is all "deepfake." As for the FB site being all about family and friends, etc. it is not. It is an information gathering agency that sees and sells your info and trends for profit.

A president who doesn't know how to hold a glass, close an umbrella or even .

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2020:

Maybe he has a stick up his ass.

A Man Coughed on a Wegmans Employee. Now He’s Charged With a Felony.

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2020:

As for the man coughing on an employee and now charged with a felony, I would have to ask if the cough was deliberate and do they have witnesses? As for wearing a mask it looks like more in my area wear them than they do in your area.

Does Trump have PSP Frontotemproal Dementia? I am sure that he does.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

He has all of those symptoms whether he has this disease or not. I agree with Kathleen's statement that people knew he was unfit to be president before he ran.

Memorial Day thoughts of a former Nationalist.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

I agree with you fully, David. People are continually tell me that Memorial Day is now open to anyone who has lost a loved one. I'm sorry. This is all wrong. Memorial Day is to honor those fallen servicemen who lost their lives fighting for this country. That is the sole purpose this day was set aside for. If you want to go to the cemetery to visit a loved one who was not military you can do that also if you like, but it is NOT what this day originally was for. Yes, we have heros lost in the COVID-19 battle to but let us not cheapen the day please. As for god choosing America and Americans now being his chosen people, this is something that started with Herbert W. Armstrong and his "British Israelism" ideas. The basic premise is that the Jews lost the chosen people status for their role in the crucifixion, and the mantle of being the chosen people went on the Britain and then later to America. I'm sure many thought Armstrong was crazy as a loon but the idea caught on beyond his World Tomorrow program. Most likely this advanced the "Christian Nation" ideas. Believers just keep on making it all up.

Someone Special Comes Into Your Life For a Reason?

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

No, this is not correct. You are making an assumption of science and applying it to people. Things happen for a reason in science but with people things just happen. Being creatures that like to connect the dots we will take up with that "someone special" simply because we believe they are special. To believe that someone special comes into your life for a reason you have to believe that your life is being directed or guided in some way. Some people will want you to feel this way simply to be with you. Who or what is guiding your life?

I am Tired of Men wanting to Fck me, but not Love Me. {Adult} | elephant journal

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

There is love and there is in love. I think men just want sex because it is their nature to be this way. Relationships keep failing when we get to a point of no longer sharing and then there is no growth together. In any relationship you have to know the other's needs. Maybe my ex and I were both too dominate. In the end the education goal was achieved but I am no longer a part of the picture. I miss her dearly but I have greater peace of mind.

There could hardly be anything more beautiful... [mymodernmet.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

That is interesting. Deer crossed in front of my van early one night in Texas. As my headlights caught them in the road I saw many of them crossing while 2 big bucks walked up to my van like crossing guards and I stopped for them. Once all the deer had crossed the gravel road they were gone instantly.

No class at all.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

No class but I feel sorry for her. In the beginning she did not want to even be in the White House. I'm sure he may have threatened her and if I was her I would not walk with him. Then again, it must all be about money, right?

Mural of trump at the detention centers.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

I like the Obama quote but Trump, he is just a goat. :)

What is interesting about this apparently very normal photograph?

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Plenty of food there and a woman eating grapes inside the store. The trucks and balls and things are totally out of place on top of the produce area. This would have to change.

Nobody has gone there yet, but I will.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

If this is about mistreatment at our Southern border you will see less of it when Trump is no longer in the picture. Otherwise the border thing will still go on.

Less fear of hell?

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Truthfully, I had little fear of hell even as a believer. People need to keep in mind that hell evolved just like their scriptures evolved. Along with all of that the meanings have changed. Hell was simply an idea coming out of a city garbage dump, and we end up today seeing it as a place. The original idea was that you would be burned up just like garbage in the end. See Jacob 6:10 and you see the Mormons have given us ideas we all think of for hell, even if you were not Mormon. Then we have the OT Valley of Hinnom where people (and even children) were sacrificed to Molock. In the Dake bible we see also that those in heaven will be able to look down into hell. I'm not sure if this is to keep you on god's side or for ones in heaven to gloat because they made it and some people they knew did not. My studies took me through all of this and I lost a fear of hell. My studies are why I no longer believe in gods today.

Do you watch The Atheist Experience?

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

I watch the show almost all the time. I admit that I miss some of the people who have left the show. Jan and Tracie were good. Some do not like the way Matt handles people but these same people cannot answer a simple question. They do anything to avoid it. After watching for years now I find that believers continue to bring in the same lame old arguments and think they have presented proof or something. They haven't, and the argument gets old. I know where they are going before they get there.

Do your grown children bring you items to fix?

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Looks like you did a great job. My kids don't usually bring me things to fix, but sometimes. What I share with them mostly is that we collect adapters, power supplies, connecting cords, etc. This way if I need one I go to my kids and they also come to me. I think this all started back in the days when all phone chargers were different. Now we all have boxes of computer cords and adapters and so forth.

The Death of Expertise

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

We are being programmed for something and in the doing there will be no more experts. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/coronavirus-information-apocalypse?utm_source=pocket-newtab

As a young catholic school girl, I tried so hard to believe.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Be thankful that you are free today. Before I came out atheist I wanted "Amazing Grace" played on bagpipes at my funeral. Today that doesn't seem too likely and I'm going to be cremated. My indoctrination has worn off.

James Dobson Warns Democrats Will ‘Enslave’ Conservative Christians | Michael Stone

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

My question to James Dobson would be "when did Democrats do this in the past?" Nothing is bipartisan in politics today, and this includes religion.

Jamie Lee Curtis Born in Santa Monica, California in 1958 to actor Tony Curtis and actress Janet ...

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

I always like her a lot. She's Bernard Swartz's kid. :)

AL Pastor Puts Up Sign Saying “Black Folks Need to Stay Out of White Churches” | Beth ...

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Elect a bigot president who claims racism is OK and you end up getting back to this sort of nonsense in a short time. It's like a former friend of mine claiming we should shoot those crossing our borders because "Trump would be OK with it." The "white right" is OK with this church thing because of the POTUS they helped to elect.

FEED MY BIAS ! My history is bad.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Good luck. We are in a phase now for the dumbing down of America in order to get you to not know exactly what to believe. This is done willingly and knowingly through QAnon, Plandemic videos, and other things. (They are soon to release Plandemic 2) Most people are part of the "deepfake" and do not even know it. When I was a boy in school we were told of the evils of Russia and how in their communism they did not even have enough food. Do not believe it today. The drive is on now in our country to scare us into hoarding food because we keep seeing empty shelves. Russia is still like this. Freedom is losing out to panic and this keeps profits at the very top level. Many tell me now that business insiders claim the next 2 months of quotas are already met. Marketing tactics are changing with a trend to make us all just like third world countries. The motive behind it all is money. Many still believe that businesses can be brought back to America. How would this ever happen when it would lead to a loss of profit? We are being trained for something now and COVID-19 came along just at the right time. Prove all things because soon we will not know what to believe. The Internet used to help me a lot but today you cannot look for an exact thing. Marketing has demanded that search engines produce what you are looking for along with related things. The trend is to make truth an individual thing. Either way, marketing today is selling you. You are now the product and you need a new app.

Drumpf's religious hypocrisy...

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

I believe the pastor on this one. Trump has said before that he never did anything to ask forgiveness for and those around him today claim he is "the Chosen One." We all know that Trump just eats this up. As for bible study being big in public schools a religious friend of mine said way back there somewhere they used the bible for their Weekly Readers. I'm sure he meant in the late 1700's or even the 1800's. The Weekly Reader program is only about 110 years old. What Trump is lying about this time is that he and DeVos would love to see the end of public education as we know it.

Life is hard, stress can be overwhelming, there's always more bullshit on the way, it's always going...

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

I deal with stress mostly by avoiding it. Way too many people thrive in stress and even try to create it. I do all I can to avoid it. Stress and drama go hand in hand. I do not like either but I am aware that your job can stress you if you let it. Sometimes this happens because you are one person at work and another person when not at work. I try to be the same person all the time and it's OK because I have no desire to be corporate in any way. I try to not let my work or other people play games with me.

I read in my local newspaper some Atheists are being blamed for burning down a church in ...

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

Atheists being blamed for burning down a church in Mississippi. How do they know the culprits were atheists? Do they have them in custody and they confessed maybe and said they did it because of their atheist belief. That's a far stretch. Are they true Scotsmen? Maybe this is hearsay.

I love this rare clip from Christopher Hitchens. It's amusing, raw and honest.

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

Hitch was always interesting to me. I agree with much of what he has said.

Too many atheists are hostile to the religious.

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

As a once religious person I think today that you are not playing with a full deck if you believe in the magic man in the sky. People might ask "well, what about you?" It's the same story. Once upon a time I did not play with a full deck, but I woke up.

Lincoln Project is going after McConnell - and I think they will get the turtle!

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

Bitch McConnell does not deserve to even be in office. He has the Senate can most of the legislation and he said proudly that they would do all they could to see that Obama was a one term president. He is bought and paid for by the top 1 percent.

Why Atheists Are Not as Rational as Some Like to Think [phys.

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

As an atheist I do not believe in magical thinking. I also do not believe in or follow right wing authoritarianism. If you cannot take care of all of the people you are only taking care of a select few.

Was Jesus a man who became mythicized or a myth that became historicized or something else?

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

Food for thought here. The bible as we know it today came into being some 300 years after the time of Jesus. Paul is credited with writing almost two thirds of the NT and claims he met this Jesus but it is not true. Jesus was an apparition in the sky only but did speak. How would this said Jesus have had an audience with Pilate and in what language did they speak? Prophesy in the bible appears to have been contrived and made up, or in some cases the events mentioned are after 70 AD. The man, Jesus, could have been a Roman invention and Paul was part of this. There is no way to actually check it out. Why did Jesus have a tomb when most crucified people were put into a mass grave? The bible says a guard was placed at the tomb. I suppose they were afraid that he would actually rise from the dead. In Israel they value tourism and will gladly show you the tomb of Jesus. None of this is what the bible thumpers of today think it is. Why would anyone ever think that Jesus would like crosses and have you wear one as a religious symbol? If there was a Jesus he was a Jew. Not at all what his cult following has come to believe today.

An interesting history, it may interest US members especially who would like to know about life in ...

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

Morals without religion is actually redundant. The problem is that bible believers think their OT tribal god who was jealous and killed people is the one who gave them morals. Somehow they attribute this to the Ten Commandments. Exactly where is it in there that this god gave you morals or even a "moral compass" as so many talk about? I studied for the ministry as a Pentecostal and I cannot find it. Your morals are largely dictated by the structure of your society.

Trump orders houses of worship to open [cnn.

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

Trump believes he has total power and can order anything he likes. He is a moron that is surrounded by those who claim he is "The Chosen One." They are mostly batshit crazy. Trump can no more order a church to open than he can a jar of pickles. He is not magic in any way and he lies a lot.

Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a ...

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

I don't think about it much. I do remember Michael Landon who died of pancreatic cancer. On a TV program once they questioned him about taking coffee enemas. He said something to the affect of a person would try anything in his state. It was non-operable. That tells me that people worried about the virus today will also try anything.

COVID-19 pandemic myths are spreading faster than the virus. But Why?

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

Lots of trusted and believable info in that HuffPost article. Too bad that people just believe what they want to believe and many of them believe without any knowledge of the subject matter. They just want to connect the dots.

A girl I work with told me yesterday that she hated the Democrats because they are the ones who gave...

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

See if this link works. I got it from another feed with a similar subject. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/psychology-why-people-believe-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories_l_5ec46c59c5b6956f4169cea4?ncid=newsltushpmgnews