A Godless Mammal

A blog about a Homo Sapien's atheism and general free-thinking. He may or may not say things that offends you greatly, and he really doesn't care if that does happen.

‘The Thaw’… I’ve rarely heard anything that stupid in my entire life.  Theses kids are going to regret featuring in this movie when they’re older.

bradventuretime: mysearchforself: ladystormcrow: wholove: A graphical representation of the contradictions in the bible. Each red line links 2 contradicting statements. WILL ALWAYS REBLOG. WOAH This reminds me of a really fascinating theological idea I read once. It poses that God meant for the Bible to be full of contradictions, because it isn’t an instruction manual, but a test of character. If you can read through all the books and stories, all the confusing, contradictory statements, and you still choose to take home a message of peace, acceptance, and forgiveness, then you’ve passed God’s test.  I’m not a very religious person, but I still really like that idea.  ^ I like that interpretation :D Or it could just be old men trying to keep control of society by writing laws without checking what else was written in it.

bradventuretime:

mysearchforself:

ladystormcrow:

wholove:

A graphical representation of the contradictions in the bible. Each red line links 2 contradicting statements.

WILL ALWAYS REBLOG.

WOAH

This reminds me of a really fascinating theological idea I read once. It poses that God meant for the Bible to be full of contradictions, because it isn’t an instruction manual, but a test of character. If you can read through all the books and stories, all the confusing, contradictory statements, and you still choose to take home a message of peace, acceptance, and forgiveness, then you’ve passed God’s test. 

I’m not a very religious person, but I still really like that idea. 

^ I like that interpretation :D

Or it could just be old men trying to keep control of society by writing laws without checking what else was written in it.

(via soulsnotsoldiers)

A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics.

—Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via we-are-star-stuff)

(Source: bostonwalkforchoice, via we-are-star-stuff)