Batshit insanity

So, election time is upon us, and once again, every single Republican candidate cannot manage to say enough how much they love Jebus. Some bandy it about more than others, as Perry and Bachman are running pretty much solely on the "We love us some Jesus" platform, but all of them make mention of it quite often.

Wouldn't it be nice if just once, a Republican candidate didn't mention Jesus? Unless asked, of course, I don't have a problem with them admitting their beliefs if the question is brought up (and it would be, frequently). It would just be nice if one candidate would make the election about the issues (unemployment, the sorry state of our economy, the fact that our government has spent us into debtor nation status), instead of their belief in god.

If ever there were an election where an atheist could actually stand a chance, this is it. If someone could actually bring some real solutions to the table, they would stand a decent chance of seeing the inside of the White House, no matter what they believed.

And, maybe someday, those poor pigs will finally sprout wings.

An interesting concept...

So, I work nights. I work, usually, alone. This means I have a lot of time to think, and one of my most recent thought processes was this:

Take the god of the bible. Now, remove the idea that he's the only deity/creator in the universe. So one day, this wise, all-powerful creature finds earth. Of course, he also finds humanity. He looks at humans and says to himself, "These creatures are ignorant savages. Maybe I can help them." So god takes one guy named Adam and puts him in a garden. Later, god realizes that humans like having companions of the opposite sex. So god gets Eve, and puts her in the garden.

He tells them not to eat the apple, not because he doesn't want them to do so, but because his plans aren't far enough along for that event to happen. But it does. So, he kicks them out and tries a different approach.

After a long string of failures to improve humans, he finds Moses. So, god decides that Moses is an alright guy and gives the whole 'improving humans' thing another shot. Most of the laws in Exodus and Leviticus are horrible, but keep in mind that this is still a step up from where the majority of humans were at this point. So god keeps trying to get people to stop being dicks to each other for quite a while and it isn't working.

A little while later, god thinks to himself, "Hey, maybe if I just told them to be nice. That might work." So he makes Jesus and sends his son amongst humanity to teach them to be nice to each other. And the humans nail Jesus to a chunk of wood. There are a few people who seem like they may have gotten the idea, so god sits back to see how that goes. It goes poorly.

Next, god finds Muhammad. He gives this guy the laws of Islam and almost immediately, it all goes to shit again.

At this point, god says 'fuck it.' "I've tried and tried to get you to stop being ignorant savages, and it just doesn't work. I'm leaving."

Ah, the things boredom does to the brain. Just felt like sharing the concept, which, in my opinion, makes a hell of a lot more sense than just about any other explanation for god (other than his non-existence). Thoughts, anyone (he asks rhetorically, because if I'm not mistaken, no one ever reads this)?