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The End

Rob Jones "Brand New Atheist" — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:18:47 +0000

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) :)

What can you learn from old civilizations Gods?

Rob Jones "Brand New Atheist" — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:43:43 +0000

Karen and I just finished watching Troy the movie and what’s of most interest to me is how they portray the worst decision made based of their belief in Apollo. A God that no one today believes in.

If you look at the world today you see people making bad decisions based on their belief in God. A God who doesn’t even have a name. It would be like naming your dog “JD” for just dog.

I’m telling all of you believers out there, one day, when future civilizations look back upon your beliefs, they will criticize the decisions you made based on a God that no one believes in. I sincerely hope we are beyond the point where future civilizations will believe in any God at all. History has shown that we are almost there. Think of all the prior civilizations and the large number of Gods they believed in. The number of Gods kept getting smaller and smaller until the majority today are only hanging on to what I hope is the last one.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Rob Jones "Brand New Atheist" — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:57:02 +0000

Last night Karen and I watched “Stargate: The Ark of Truth”, this was the first time I really noticed how much religion plays a part in Sci-fi. Most of the bad guys in Stargate are false Gods. But they have people worship them and they have books to live by. The Gauld were more hands on but the Ori were more inline with the religions in the world today. They had their holy book and if you didn’t worship you would spend eternity in hell fire. Very original.

I think what amazes me most is how I watched this show for 10 years and never thought about it’s relationship to real religion. Now it seems almost comical. The crazy stuff they come up with isn’t any less crazy than the real stuff. Have you seen the drama with Scientology.

Even the robots in Battlestar Gallactica “Praise the Gods.”

I wonder if almost all Sci-fi writers are atheists? One of my favorite Sci-fi writers, Joss Whedon, is an atheist. He produced the awesome TV series Buffy and Firefly.

What we know.

Rob Jones "Brand New Atheist" — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:25:33 +0000

A great line from Men in Black.

“1500 years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the Universe, 500 years ago everybody knew the Earth was flat, 15 minutes ago you knew that people were alone on this planet. Imagine what we’ll know tomorrow.”

I can’t wait.