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Found these off of del.icio.us: Atheist Quotes. Unlike most “mine is better than yours” comments, many of them are fairly interesting and philosophical.

The National Geographic Society announced the discovery of the Gospel of Judas. I am fascinated by the Gnostic gospels. This is the 4th acknowledged Gnostic to be discovered, the others being Thomas, Mary Magdalene and Philip. It points more towards the fact that the New Testament was hand-crafted to fullfill the needs of a King (I can’t remember his name off hand).

I don’t consider myself religious at all but I find christanity an interesting topic. These types of discoveries help paint a clearer picture of our history. I think its important to acknowledge that the facts, assumed to be true by many, have a deeper history than we are lead to believe.

Okay, someone answer me this because it’s got me pissed. If religions are supposed to be all-encompassing, all-loving, and all-accepting, why will they not marry non-members of the church? If God is so all-caring why do I have to have the priviledge of belonging to a church to be married under God? The Lutherans are no better than the Catholics.

I started researching Scientology today. Just like I have curiosity about the traditional entity-based religions I also am quite curious about Scientology. What is it? Why is it so popular? What are the fundmental beliefs of a Scientologist? Why are millions of people following the beliefs of a single science fiction author? To me, L. Ron Hubbard is nothing more than an author with some beliefs. If you’re curious as well, check out the What is Scientology website. At least this religion knows how to use the Internet appropriately.

Everyone seems to hold such a strong opinion about Scientology. Maynard James Keenan, of Tool, has a line in a song “Fuck L. Ron Hubbard and Fuck all his clones.” But what makes John Travolta go out and make the world’s worst movie, Battlefield Earth, because it was written by Hubbard?