Brand New Atheist

I plan on making some big changes in 2010 and this website is not part of it. I’ve enjoyed using this site to get things off my chest, hash out some ideas, start controversy, this site has served it’s purpose and will be abandoned for the foreseeable future.

I’ll leave the site up but I don’t plan on tweeting from my BNA account or posting anymore articles. I’ve even gone to the trouble to delete some BNA accounts and disable others. Thanks to all my Twitter followers and anyone who took the time to have a conversation with me. If I get any comments to this article I may respond in 2009 but not 2010.

While this journey was educational it was also stressful and not always enjoyable. We only get this one life and I want to spend as little of it as possible on things that don’t bring happiness to me and my family.

Wish me luck and I’ll see you in the next life (that was a joke) :)

I reverted back to atheism two years and two months ago, because we’re all born atheists. In that two years I did a lot of research into other religions and their belief systems. By no means am I well educated on all the religions but I’ve done enough that they’re not a mystery to me anymore. In my education of the extremists I began to understand why people hate America, from their point of view.

We are the infidels and infidels must be removed from the Earth. If you weren’t born in an Islamic country you’re likely an infidel to them. So much for peace when they trust a book that instructs them to kill us, however, it’s not that different than the Bible which instructs Christians to kill me because I’m an atheist.

I learned that because of this hatred of America certain people gave their lives to kill Americans. They believe they were doing God’s work and would be rewarded in heaven. But we call them crazy for taking their Bible (The Quran) too literally. These are the people that have been blamed for the attacks of 9/11. These are the people that two wars have been started over.

I was skeptical of a lot before returning to atheism, now I’m spectacle of everything and I take nothing at face value. I follow the facts, sometimes they take you where you expected and sometimes they don’t. This is one of those time they didn’t.

I started watching all these documentaries about 9/11, however, the facts they were showing me didn’t match the official government approved story. Since I would never rely solely on a single source I thought, I’ll watch them all. Here’s a brief synopsis of what I learned from each documentary.

The End of America, This movie discusses the truth about our loss of liberties do to The Patriot Act because of 9/11. If you’re willing to give up your privacy for security then 9/11 did one of the things it was intended to do. Over one million American citizens are on the American watch list for terrorism.

Terrorstorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism. This documentary explores declassified events that prove our government has used Black Ops to attack its own people to sway public opinion for war. It’s happened several times and it will happen again.

Loose Change 2nd Edition. Compelling information that easily disproves the governments official explanation for 9/11 plane crashes. It shows how demolition was used to bring down the towers and building 7 that wasn’t hit by a plane.

911: Press for Truth. This documentary is not about the planes but about governments involvement with the terrorists, and it goes really deep. Rich an powerful Americans have ties to terrorists through oil. The Bush family and the Binladin family are friends.

911: In Plane Site. This documentary shows all of the proof that the official government story about 9/11 is a lie. Bush was video recorded as saying he watched the first plane hit the tower as he sat outside the classroom. How could he have seen it when it happened if it wasn’t even on the news?

National Security Alert. This documentary focuses on the official flight path of the plane that hit the Pentagon. The flight path has to be exact for the official explanation, however, every single eye witness (including government employees) claim the official flight path is very inaccurate. One Pentagon employee who was in the building when he heard an explosion said he ran out to a loading dock and saw a plane flying away from the Pentagon.

Zeitgeist Addendum. This documentary further explores and explains how our government has created a revolving door of debt.

Zeitgeist. This documentary explains who has power over you & why. It starts with religion, moves to 9/11 then on to the Federal Reserve.

Each of these documentaries carry with them enough facts to make you question the official government explanation for 9/11. What will really bother you is the lack of available information from the White House. Here’s a few important questions you won’t get answered:

1. Why did Norad stand down for almost 2 hours during the attack?

2.Why were none of the terrorists (that hijacked the planes) on the flight manifest for any of the planes they were suppose to be on?

3. Why have many of the terrorists (that hijacked the planes) shown up alive in other countries and one even did an interview on the BBC?

4. Why was no one ever prosecuted for the attacks of 9/11?

5. Why did all 3 WTC buildings fall EXACTLY like they were demolished?

6. Why was demolition grade Themite (Thermate) found under the WTC buildings?

7. Why were no planes or bodies found at either Shanksville or the Pentagon?

I have concluded that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are among the those involved with the attacks on 9/11 and with their power they made many other parts of our government complicit without their knowledge. They are domestic terrorists and should be imprisoned for the rest of their lives. Homeland Security and The Patriot Act are tools from the Bush administration that are being used to today to get around your Constitutional Rights as an American.

Watch these with your own eyes and ears and make your own conclusion, you’re not allowed to just trust me.

I remember a time when Karen and I had little conversations about this. This has to be on the minds of all christians at some point in their marriage. The church and the bible give you the impression that once you marry you become one and will spend your eternity together. So inevitably one of you will ask, “If I died, would you remarry?”

It seems to be a two part question. Almost as if you’re saying, “If I died, would you desecrate our marriage by marrying someone else?” and “If I died, would you remarry and have sex and more kids?” Oddly, these things seem important when you believe in an all powerful being that left a book behind 2000 years ago with rules on how to live your life today.

In a world where you believe in such things these can be important questions. Because to you, it says a lot about the person you’re going to marry or are married to. While I think most peoples answers would be the same, you really don’t want to hear the answer. Most people will remarry and have sex and possibly have more kids.

What changes when you stop believing in the bible and your church? Well, for me, I’ve decided if my wife were to die I would not remarry. Not because of some vows I said when I was 20 years old or some feeling of entitlement towards her. The truth is, I would never marry again.

My marriage is as important to me today as it was the day I got married only for different reasons. The thought of getting married has completely lost it’s meaning. Without an all might being marriage is just a government issued legal contract. Any new relationship for me would be like Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.

That’s what my wife says to my girls when they get upset about something “Don’t trust your feelings because they will lie to you.” Yet isn’t this exactly what a lot of christians use to determine that their God is real? They use their feelings and emotions. Why do they use their feeling and emotion? Because that’s the only proof they have.

When you’re a robot like myself, feelings and emotions are easy to dismiss even when they’re your own.

I encourage you to dismiss your feelings about god and look for more. You may find that once you remove your feelings and emotions about any god, there isn’t anything left.

When I believed in God I also believed in all of that other supernatural stuff. You know, like miracles and ghosts. Like most believers I grew up thinking that those people I loved that died were watching over me.

I never really thought about why they were watching over me or when. Unless of course when I may have been masturbating. Why? Unlike during sex (with someone) when you don’t think a lot, masturbation allows your mind to wander while you’re pleasuring yourself. Many of those times I wondered if my Grandmother, Grandfather, etc. were watching over me at that moment. If they were, why? And if they weren’t, is that because there are rules to when they can watch over me?

Regardless of the fact that I thought people were watching over me, it never kept me from pleasuring myself. Which if you think about it is weird because most people would be embarrassed to be caught masturbating. But it’s OK if dead people watch you do it.

I could never reconcile this thought fully because it didn’t seem plausible that those watching over me would invade my private space like that. But like most people I just made that up in my head because that’s what made me comfortable.

When I became an atheist I immediately realized what a completely ludicrous thought process that was and how funny it was that I ever thought someone was watching over me at that moment.

So for all of us men and women that are the masters of our domain, fear not, for no one is watching over you when you are pleasuring yourself.

My daughter had a friend over and I did what normally do which is scare children. I burst into my daughters bedroom and yelled, “SQUIRRELS”, after the girl jumped I pointed at her and laughed and said, “You’re afraid of squirrels”. As I was taking them to a party we passed a church and I yelled, “CHURCH”, after she jumped I said, “You’re afraid of church”. A few minutes later I asked her “Why are you afraid of squirrels and church, what’s the connection?” She laughed and said, “”I don’t know”. All of the sudden it dawned on me and I said, “I know what they have in common.” my daughter said, “What?”, I said, “Nuts!”

My girls have been homeschooled and will be starting Montessori in 2 days. Today was an open house for attendees. We got to walk around and meet the teachers and see their work areas.

I only saw one teacher wearing a cross and one of the teachers looked like jesus, not kidding.

As I was walking around the very first book I saw was “God gave us this country” which made me think “Come on, seriously”. The second book I saw started with the word “Lord” and before I could finish reading the title I thought “This can’t be right” then I finished reading “of the flies”. OK, that’s better.

I guess now that I’m aware of them they are starting to stand out but I’m not looking for them.

These are the emblems I’ve seen on the backs of cars in just the last couple days.

I just deleted a comment posted in the “America was not founded as a Christian nation” article. Someone by the name of “Anonymous”, posted a link to an article about a former atheist turned believer in God.

That linked page had nothing to do with my article about America, nor does Anonymous indicate anything about why the post was made. Anonymous doesn’t indicate that it was a good article or that they read the book mentioned and it was worth looking into. They simply posted a link.

In essence Anonymous simply SPAMMED my comments page with an irrelevant comment. There are many other articles on this site that may have relevant to.

Sometimes I truly dislike the anonymity abuse on the internet. Everybody wants a voice and to be heard unless they are saying something they wouldn’t say to your face, then they must have their anonymity.

An anonymous voice is a nonexistent one. If you are incapable of saying or doing something and taking credit for it, then your audience will be anonymous as well.

I don’t have a problem with anonymity, my problem is the abuse of it and the unnecessary use of it. Spam exists because of anonymity.

One more thing: Anonymous, there isn’t really any true anonymity on the internet. Within 30 seconds of seeing your post I knew where you posted in from. Everything leaves an address where it came from.

I do, however, want you to comment, but please keep it relevant to the article in which you’re commenting.

Most of the time when someone ask me how I’m doing, I reply, “I’M BEAUTIFUL!”. It’s nice to invoke a pleasant reaction from someone. It makes people smile.

I say “I’M BEAUTIFUL!” instead of “I’M DOING BEAUTIFULLY!” because the reactions are funnier. And it’s easier to blurt out.

I’ve been doing that for about 8 years now and “I’M BEAUTIFUL” represents how I feel on the inside.

I’m quite happy, with my wife and girls, with my job, with my things, but I definitely strive for more.