Noah's ark in Kentucky

I was reading today some of the atheist/science blogs that I frequent, and I came across something I found both hilarious and disturbing. From what I can tell, and admittedly I haven't gone out of my way to learn more about, it seems the state of Kentucky is funding, by way of 37 000 000 dollars in tax incentives, a creationist museum featuring a life sized replica of Noah's ark.

First the funny bit:
The ark was supposedly  300 cubits in length ; 50 cubits wide; 30 cubits tall with three levels . This works out in metric to: 135 meters long by 22.5 meters wide by 13.5 meters tall. now if you take the length and multiply it by the width, you get the area of the floor in side, structural integrity aside you get 3037.5  time 3 floors equals 9112.5. Wow huge... but there's the animals, currently over 1.7 million of the worlds species have been cataloged. take away the plants and fish and bugs and so on, and leave just the land vertebrates that's still 31000 species. take those 31000  and multiply those by 2 because the bible says there was two of each animal. so now that's 62000 animals.  take those 62000 animals and dive them by the available space an that makes about 7 animals per square meter. not to mention food and water for the animals, bedding, space for the 8 people. Crazy.

next is  the angering part:
Why is Kentucky giving 37 million dollars to a creationist theme park? I promise that if I wanted to build an atheism theme park I'd be told where to go, and in a hurry. Where is the separation of church and state in this one? or any where in the states? I guess I don't really get to complain, as i am in Canada, but as a concerned neighbor, I'm just sayin...


C'mon people why can't you see how insane all of this is? I mean seriously, 7 animals per square meter, One and a half per square foot, and that is being generous, omitting all internal structure. I don't get how can anyone remotely believe that this is possible? Not to mention  where did all that water come from, and where did it go? and what about the plants, I don't think they like salt water, nor do fresh water fish. I could continue but my head hurts.

wake up people.

Joey the Rat

Well last time  I posted about this, back in October I was complaining about Archbishop Silvano Tomasi when he made his ridiculous statement to the UN but it gets much worse. In the subsequent months there have been a lot of reports of clergical  pedophilia coming out in the news from all over the world from Ireland to Brazil to Australia back to the United States.

And more and more these indiscretions (to put it mildly) are being linked to the pope. That's right, it seems as though Nazi boy Ratzinger had a role to play in all this. He offered protection, in the way of transfers and canonical laws he created. Now as of a couple of days ago there is a physical paper trail leading directly to the pontiff. Correspondence bearing Benny's signature have surfaced, regarding a long delay in defrocking a known offender. Today  the vatican issued an order to bishops, stating that they should turn the transgressors over to authorities where required by law.

Am I missing something here? "where required by law"? how does this work? If your in a country that for some reasons allows kiddie raping, keep on keepin' on.  Get 'em while there fresh! Why would you say "where required by law"?

Sounds to me like Joey the Rat is condoning child rape, or maybe at least fondling. I wonder how long it will be before allegations against Ratzinger surface.


Source (newser.com)

I WANT TO DIE AND GO TO HEAVEN....

I want to die, and go to heaven and be with god.

That's what I was told by my six year old son yesterday.

Religion is pure poison. If this doesn't prove it i don't know what does. A six year old boy, wanting to die, be cause there's a better place. What the hell? Why does this happen? i think i know, i think it's the same thing that happened to me when i was a kid. It happened in Ontario, when I was in 4th grade, before praying in public schools was dis allowed. I don't recall which group it was, but my class was subjected to this groups idea of "Armageddon". Fire, Storms, general destruction and of course, death.

It's possible that I don't remember clearly, or maybe I'm imagining it but:

Next we were told about hell, fire, brimstone, pain suffering, torture. Awful stuff.

but wait there's more:

"if you're good, and live a good life, according to the bible, you'll go to a wonderful place. Imagine the best place you've ever been, and then imagine that you got to eat your favorite food whenever you want to."

Wow, I was liking where this was going...

"this place that you imagine will be like the worst place in the world compared to Heaven. you will see all your relatives. and all your favorite things will be there, you can do all the fun things you like to do. but best of all you get to meet Jesus, and God. You will never feel pain, or be sad again!"

Holy Crap! i can't wait!

I have to admit I was stoked, and ready to believe

next they handed out bibles, i actually read it frequently when i was young, and i should thank them i suppose because it helped me figure out what was up. all the violence and just general nastiness completely turned me off of it all.

Now except for the hell and junk in t he bible, i don't have too much of a problem with it all. but when 6 year old kids want to die and go to the place that is so much better than here, something's off.

My son, being in a catholic school (much to my shagrin, But that's another story), has been exposed to much of this. And somehow he got the idea got in to his head, probably from the jackass kids he wants to be friends with. they pick on him, demands of his toys as bribes, and maybe roughing him up a bit. Now I'm not blaming the kids for the death wish. i do blame the church for convincing him of these lies.

with out religion, I am certain, that my son would not want to die, and go to heaven. it wouldn't even enter his mind... He's SIX!

Religion is poison.