Its still me

So I'm still here, but forget to post all the time.

I got a new rattie. She was looking at me cutefaced in the store and she was all alone and had been alone in her box for like two weeks. I felt so bad that I caved and bought them and brought her home. I named her Biscuit and she gets along well with Flip, Flop, and Toggle; they snuggle up all four in the nest together, and even seem to be getting along better than usual. When I stick my hand in the cage Biscuit attempts to grab it in her little hands and then noms me.

I saw part of that movie Expelled, as much as I could watch before Ben Stein's voice put me to sleep and made me drool. (Okay, so less than five minutes). From scanning through it, it seemed really disappointing; I had really hoped they would at least make an effort to be relevant in today's society without droning on about 'a loving God', which to me is a deal breaker in any science lecture. It didn't seem like he had a good concept of what his own theory was, much less the one he was competing against. However, I must reserve judgment until I actually watch the movie. Consequently, I may have to judge this movie in five minute increments between naps.

Also: I have a sudden desire to watch old episodes of "Win Ben Stein's Money". I loved that show ^.^

I remembered I had a facebook account. I should do things with it like... I don't know. What do people do with facebook accounts? I sent virtual plants to people and this was somehow suppose to save the environment. I will join some random groups I like too.

Faith begets violence and death

So in this article on faith in the military, one soldier says his faith helps him justify his actions in the war.

And that is the whole problem.

Faith justifies violence. People say atheists are amoral and faithless, and think that this makes them violent, but this makes them the opposite of violence.

I have no faith in God or fate. Thus I have no excuse for violence, and I would not kill another human being EVEN IN MY OWN DEFENSE. How many Christians will make that vow, despite all the talk of 'turn the other cheek'? Few if any, because they believe everything is written in the sky for them, and that their actions are justified even if it means innocents will die.

Want to argue this? Tell me just one single military conflict of the last decade that wasn't based on someone of one religion hating another. Just one.

And these soldiers saying that God will protect them need to wake up. To say that you are certain God will protect you is to say that all those troops that have died were faithless and evil, which is clearly not the case, especially from their view.

No. Your God, supposedly both all powerful and all loving, has allowed this mess to continue. Again, either your God is all powerful, in which case he couldn't be all loving when you look at the results of his creation, or he is all loving, in which case he wants to help but is powerless to do so because of the mass idiocy of his followers.