The Rant Institute

Our world is but a reflection of our minds. And madness anywhere in the one, is only an echo from the other. The “believer’s” antidote for this and all other human failings is to drink the blood of a god who was killed by those “believers,” from whom his own beliefs  derive all of their earthly legitimacy, as a blaspheming liar when he tried to reveal to them who he was and why he came - which was to save them from himself and his divine wrath, for failing to believe him. They call the ability to rationalize all of that into a religion “the gift of faith,” which is a gift that comes from the very same God who was put to death by “believers” from whom this very same gift was necessarily withheld, either because God chose not to give it to them, in accordance with His “divine plan” (however unhappy Jesus would be about it) or because he simply forgot to.  As this intellectual tail-chasing helps to illustrate, our minds are incapable of distinguishing the difference betwee...

 The universality of death is incontestable evidence that life is simply a perpetual process of evolutionary change, especially about our ideas and our "beliefs," while religion depicts death as a doorway through which the "gift" of eternal life is awarded to all those who not only deny this is true, but who worship a "belief" that the very opposite is the only "truth" there is.  Religion, as such, is a way of crucifying the mind of humanity to the cross of the past through the worship of tradition, one which celebrates contempt for any evidence that challenges those traditions as the highest virtue of all, and embalms human understanding in the remains of a tree as dead as a cross called a Bible. Like water, the spoken word becomes as rigid as ice when written done, which is reflected by the idea of "the living word" being nailed to a cross, a Roman instrument of torture and death that Christians worship as the tree o...

The Bible tells us that we are all natural born original-sinners, as if the only way to teach a child anything is by first convincing them that they are a natural born idiot, ones who’s entire intelligence depends upon, and comes exclusively from, their educational institutions.  Theistic religion was the first of these educational institutions, of course, Christianity being but a single species most like the chameleon with its ability to devour its’ prey like a lion by calling itself "the lamb of God." And it is to these institutions that the “natural born idiots” must forever depend for their understanding of everything they were taught, through the mandatory indoctrination programs that end with high school, in which the principal should be seen as the pope, and each of our teachers seen as saints; and all of whom possess the same various degrees of divine and infallible "truth" as the authors of the worlds first text book ever written for such indoctrinatio...

The meaning of the metaphor that the story of Christ represents is the courage to speak one’s truth, even though you will be crucified for doing so, by those who claim they love god, and whose honor they are obligated to defend, even if they must break all of his moral laws in the process.

Of the many reasons why so many people in America today suffer from anxiety and depression, one comes from  the fact that, virtually from birth, people are taught to hate themselves for always failing to measure up to some infinite ideal standard - be it of wealth or beauty or sinlessness and obedience or what have you - that is simply impossible to achieve.  Christianity, for example, calls people to compare themselves to Jesus, a god who became a man perfected and sinless, which is like calling all numbers to compare themselves to infinity, or every day of the year to eternity. The self-loathing that inevitably results from the failure of such a Sisyphean task only helps to reduce a person to putty in the hands of those social managers they have been conditioned to depend upon to guide and “save” them, be they priests and politicians, marketers and myth-makers of various sorts. Such managers then project this 'intelligently designed' self-loathing onto an "other,...

The earth has a conciseness to it, but because we are still struggling to understand our own, and getting much of it wrong most of the time, we are still light years from being able to understand it, even though it is, in many ways, the easiest thing in the world to understand. The problem is that we still haven’t learned how to listen it, because we're too busy arguing amongst ourselves.

Ever notice how the picture of someone comes to life the moment they are gone forever?