The Rant Institute

Most of the people who are responsible for all of the problems in the world are convinced that they are the only solution.

Charlatans have always used love to spread hate, and the desire to do good to commit unspeakable evil. In the 21st century, there has been a reversal of that maxim from Edmund Burke. Because today, evil triumphs far more when many a good men believe they are doing good, than when good men do nothing.

Tomorrow is always waiting on us, and in more ways than one. We conspicuously consume resources that our children's children may one day need to survive, confident that they'll figure out how to live without them, and hopefully they'll do so with much less bloodshed than we've invested to keep them. And we do this, while inconspicuously too many of us try not to choke on our pride for surrendering our responsibility to do anything about it. We are the 38 bystanders who watched a psychopath brutally slice Kitty Genovese to death in 1964, who did little more than yell about it in their own living rooms, much as we all do, parked in front of our screen as we are, but not one of them was bothered enough by what they watched out their window that March 13th, at 3 a.m., to call the police.  And our window is our screens, which is also a mirror of us.  And when you consider that studies have shown that an inordinate number of the top people people running everything ar...

The only thing harder than finding the truth in a world overwhelmingly addicted to lies is deciding whether to share it, especially when everyone who has ever tried to do the same thing has only been crucified for doing so. And in every age, it has always been the most religious who end up screaming "crucify him!" the loudest.

"Religious freedom" is an oxymoron.

The only reason religions all work to convince human beings that we are intelligent enough to understand an infinite God is to convince us we are not stupid enough to be enslaved by anyone who tries to convince us they know more about that "infinite" God than we do.

Even if there isn’t a secret cabal like the  Freemasons or the Illuminati running the world for their own gain, regardless of the misery it may produce for anyone else, it is a far saner thing to believe that there is than that a mythical devil and his minions are tempting souls to commit evil so the loving creator of those souls will throw them all into an eternal hell. I mean, hell isn't like a normal incinerator that a carpenter might pitch a flawed piece of wood into, it’s one where that flawed piece of wood suffers in those flames for all eternity,  for this is precisely what the Christian God thinks Pinocchio deserves for bearing false witness, and nothing less.