The Path Ministry

 First, and most importantly, the Path makes no demands and asks for no obedience to any rules save one: Try not to be a dick. However, a lot of people claim they believe in a literal interpretation of the Xian bible. Why don’t we take a look at what that means as it pertains to the old testament? There are actually quite a few things in there that are considered abominations, most of which Xians completely ignore: Clothing made of mixed fibers. Take off those poly-cotton blends. Shellfish. No Red Lobster. Eating pork. Put down that bacon. Tattoos. If you have a tattoo of some Xian religious symbol, you are a huge hypocrite. Not growing a beard. Get away from the razor. Interbreeding different kinds of animals. So much for ligers, zeedonks, and mules. Sowing two kinds of seeds in the same field. There goes crop rotation. (A whole bunch of biblical scholars have tried to twist this into something else, because it is inconvenient.) The old testament also demands t...

 Let’s talk a little about what the jesus character in xian mythology said versus what so-called “christians” actually do. (The verses quoted are all from the book of Matthew. It shouldn't matter, because every account of the exact same events should be identical, right?) First, let's look at 25:45: “…as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.” Basically saying that feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and clothing the cold is doing good to jesus, and denying these things will condemn you to hell. By that rule, every conservative xian, particularly those who voted for 45/47, is going to burn. They have actively, knowingly voted to have strangers locked in gulags, homeless people rounded up, and food stamp cuts to take food from the mouths of underprivileged children. They have voted against free meals in elementary schools, health care for everyone, and pretty much anything that will make life better for anyone but themselves. They obviou...

 Around 60% of Americans accept the theory of evolution as the most reasonable explanation for observable biodiversity. About 33% reject this theory, believing instead that everything was created exactly as it is and has never changed. Now, let’s take a look at these two conflicting views of the world, starting with creationism. This is the idea that some character referred to as “god” in Xian mythology made everything, one thing right after another, exactly as they are now. He is said to have accomplished this feat in six days and then took a day off. There is absolutely zero evidence of any of this. No “first humans” anywhere in the fossil record, or any proof there was a garden as described in the book. The book itself doesn’t reference any of the denizens of Earth during the hundreds of millions of years prior to man’s emergence. The theory of evolution is that organisms change over time due to environmental or internal pressures. There are literal mountains of evidence...

I try not to be tribal. I really do. But there is a certain kind of faith-rape going on in the country, and I am a rebellious soul by nature; I reject any religion that claims to have authority over me, and I can even explain why. The Xian religion is based on ignorance and lies. It is intended to instill fear in the uneducated and keep them pliant with a bunch of rules and the dire consequences if these rules are broken. Hell is the whip, heaven is the carrot. Xians also break their own rules constantly; nobody will kill you faster than somebody who believes "thou shalt not kill" is a commandment. These are the same people who would firebomb Planned Parenthood for violating their religious beliefs, because apparently killing is okay sometimes. They rationalize irrational behavior by claiming it's what their god wants.  One of the funniest things about churchgoing people is that they are disobeying a direct order from their own jesus character, who instructs his followers...

 Having just perused Genesis, I'd like to point out some narrative inconsistencies and plot holes that I have never seen answered or addressed. So, let's start with the story of creation. For one thing, the god character didn't create water; it was already there. Then he separates the water in half lengthwise, putting half the water above the gap and the rest under the gap. As the story moves forward, that upper water is never mentioned again. According to this, though, the planet is not only covered with water, but surrounded by it, as well. Which makes space exploration kind of awkward. The god character also says "let there be light" twice. One interesting thing I noticed was that man was created twice, once during the creation sequence and once afterward. It is in this second story that man was created from dirt and woman crafted from a rib. In the first one, both man and woman were created at the same time and told to go forth and multiply, but were not given...

 People have been "trying" to help the homeless for decades. There was even a War on Poverty, but that didn't seem to get very far. Let me tell you what "trying" looks like: Trying is packed shelters with no transition to stable housing. Trying is a five-dollar-a-night, bedbug- and cockroach-infested flop house.  Trying is leaving homeless veterans to fend for themselves. Trying is walking past tents all over the downtown sidewalks. That's trying. Now, why don't we actually do something, since trying isn't working? I know the problem is money. So why not provide some kind of incentive for developers to create some low-income housing? Something that balances out the money they get for more expensive apartments that would sit empty, anyway, since nobody can afford them. Also, a note about "anti-homeless architecture." It is used to refer to those arms in the middle of bus benches and bolts imbedded in the concrete around doorways to make it u...

 Let's talk one of the funniest stories found in Genesis: The one about Noah's ark.  (We will be allowing for "seven pairs of the clean and two each of the unclean" as stated in Genesis 7:2-3. We will also assume a 50/50 split between the two.) The given dimensions for the boat are 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall. Assuming two stories, that gives us 67,500 square feet of floor space.  Now, first let's see how many animals we can fit in there. The recommended amount of space to allow for an elephant to move around freely and not be under constant stress is one acre. That would take more than one full floor. If you squeeze two to fourteen elephants into a tiny, confined space, they will become violent. Two lions need about 450 square feet. It becomes quickly apparent that there is no way you can cram specimens of every landfaring animal into a vessel of the given dimensions. Even if you had single ten-foot by ten-foot square enclosures for every creatu...