Bliss is Ignorance

• Jangothor wishes to speak to whomever is in charge.
• The person in charge is Jesus.
• Therefore Jangothor wishes to speak to Jesus.

Obviously Canned Voice on Phone(OCVP): Hello, you've reached Heavenly Headquarters, press 'one' if this is not in error.
Jangothor: [presses 'one']
OCVP: for believers press 'one' -for non-believers press 'two'.
Jangothor: (pauses, mutters to self)...mmm, trick question [presses 'two'] I can always call back.
OCVP: To accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior press 'one'. All others press 'two'.
Jangothor: (pauses, mutters to self) Holy Shit! [presses 'two']
OCVP: We regret that we are not able too complete your call as dilaed.
Jangothor: (pauses, mutters to self) Jesus Christ! You know, you sound a lot like Stephen Hawking.
OCVP: To return to the main menu, press pound.
Jangothor: [pounds phone, hangs up.]


An Atheist is the worst kind of creature. Given the choice to have a soul in the "LET'S MAKE A DEAL" of life, the Atheist picks the wrong door. She picks "ONE LIFE TO LIVE" and that makes her morally suspect.

I worry that someone will find me out. They may open the door and see me in the closet attempting to hide the Scarlet Letter "A" on my lapel. Nobody likes the Atheist. We can all handle the Agnostic which literally means 'I don't know'. That's just ignorance after all, or even better; they're open minded and are more fun at parties. The favorite cry of the "aggy" is...

I can see what you mean totally but I can also see the other side of the argument.

The sixties counter-culture allowed for some religious experimentation but Atheism was still frowned upon as if it was somehow hopeless and did not allow us to live forever. And anyway, wasn't love devine?

Even now my post-catholicism-stress-disordered psyche has a hard time with letting go of its soul and I'm convinced it was never there in the first place. If I were to believe it was 'there' as a Catholic I would have to believe all that other crap too. (I know what you non-Catholic Christians are thinking!) Although the Pope has granted acceptance to Evolution (and the Dodo do thank him) he still thinks birth control is a sin and I think that's just sinful. All religions have baggage that the believer must carry. It's carried in the soul that is manufactured by an agreement between the believer and her belief.

"...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions."

Richard Dawkins

Why would someone manufacture a soul? Seem obvious to me at first but then I ponder the question more deeply.

As Dawkins points out above, our parents have an interest, in at least some cases, to make us believe and they do it without reservation. Sometimes they do it unconsciously but they always do it without reservation. It is considered good. We all want good children and most of us don't know how to raise them. We don't really believe we are very smart or very fair. In polite society one worships something larger, better, stronger, smarter. It humbles us and in many ways that can be benficial. It keeps us from thinking that our ideas can be true before they're tried. At the same time though we do like being right even if we are wrong. Being right is so much easier than being good but it requires delusional thinking.

According to Karl Jaspers (a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy.) A psychopathological delusion requires these criteria:

1. certainty (held with absolute conviction)
2. incorrigibility (not changeable by compelling counterargument or proof to the contrary)
3. impossibility or falsity of content (implausible, bizarre or patently untrue)

This sounds very like my mother (RIP) and every other Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Scientologist etc. who ever argued with a scientist. It even sounds like a few scientists I've heard