I’m on the fence with voting. Half of me feels like it’s a total waste of time. After all, from my limited understanding of such things, I learned in school that we have an electoral system in place, not direct elections, so how does my vote count? Plus, I don’t really care for any of the candidates. Some of them are downright despicable, but the others are just not my choice for the role they’re campaigning for. I hate the idea of voting for the best of the worst. That’s a lousy choice.

On the other hand, I feel that we have to do whatever we can to make things as good as possible, individually and collectively. This means doing stuff like voting, which is a responsibility, not a luxury. Plus, if you don’t vote, then I feel you have no right to complain about whoever gets elected.

Then, as we get closer to the election, I become increasingly alarmed by what I’m hearing and seeing about the candidates. Below is a short Associated Press video of Matt Damon talking about Sarah Palin. He basically sums it up in under 2 minutes why I have to vote against McCain/Palin.

From what I gather of Palin, if she gets into higher office, it seems like we’re doomed. She’s a pentecostal. She believes in armageddon. Not just figuratively, but literally. Which means she doesn’t care about the world, or peace. If the violent biblical prophecies happen then they’ll be closer to getting to heaven. So World War 3 would be just dandy to someone who believes in armageddon. Read more…

This is really sick. This type of thinking is what one expects from barbaric uncivilized humans. Not in a modern society. It saddens me that this man is on death row. He doesn’t deserve to die. There’s really no crime here. This man just downloaded an article on the internet. It’s not like he murdered someone.

Stumbling around the web, I found this snippet of Bill Maher’s interview with Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas for the documentary, Religulosity:

So this senator, who helps run the country, believes in a snake talking to Eve in the garden of eden 5,000 years ago. The senator makes a funny though. Yeah, really funny.

So there’s this new networking tool called Scoutle.
I’ll let this 4 minute video explain it, since it does a very good job:

If you join, find us, we’re HDC. Make a connection with us and we can support each other effortlessly. Here’s a link to the Atheist Network on there. You can also go to our widget in the sidebar.

Some people are just brilliant and funny at the same time. George Carlin was one of those people.

Here is a video (about 10 minutes long) from one of his standup specials where he talks about how religion is bullshit: Read more…