The Rant Institute

We love what we hate more than we love anything else.

In a time of lies the worst thing you can ever say is the truth.

You can never tell the difference between a sinner and a saint, and mostly because there isn't any anyway.

The right to die should be as much of a fundamental right as a right to life. In fact, death is as natural as life itself, for "all that lives must die." And those who fear death simply hide behind their faux morality pretending to care about "life" while those who are dying are forced to experience every bit of pain imaginable while they shuffle loose their mortal coil. Only demons in hell would revel in such agony, along with those "believers" in hell who think "life comes from God," so that God therefore demands we must suffer in agony all the horrendous tortures that God can inflict upon a person, before we dare lift a finger to alleviate any of it.  The fear that a person experiences when facing certain death is the cause of at least as much suffering as the physical pain that person will be forced to endure as the bloody hands of one serial killing disease or another finds ever more cruel and hellish ways to do its worst. Experimen...

When you boil it all down, martyrdom is based exclusively on an iron clad belief that Jesus had to die a gruesome death because God knew no one in their right mind would take him seriously otherwise.

A writer is a hoarder of ideas that can't get around their house without having to write everything down so they know where it is.  It's a lot like being in hell.

People who are afraid of change only ever change for the worse.

A friend is someone we love because we think they are, at lest in some ways, better than we are. And an enemy is someone we hate for the same reason.

If animals have no souls, and thus their suffering does not matter, than one cannot commit a sin against God by torturing and killing an animal, even if we torture and kill every animal on the planet - just for our own twisted amusement. And since God basically tortured and murdered Jesus for his own twisted amusement as well, rather than simply forgiving Adam & Eve by turning the other cheek (as he commands human beings do for each other), I guess the apple doesn’t fall from the tree.

Christianity teaches us to love "our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,.." This "father figure" is the god who created us, so we are taught to "believe," who is as infinitely greater to us as we are to a spermatozoa.    A newborn infant, on the other hand, is likewise much greater than the spermatozoa from whence it, when combined with female gametes or "ova." And the intelligence of the adult is on average of a much higher order than that of the newborn infant, in the same way that the intelligence that is said to have given birth to humanity is believed to be on a much higher order of intelligence than that of even the smartest human beings throughout history.  Yet Christianity wishes for humanity to believe nevertheless that it can, and indeed that it must strive more than anything else, to use its own intelligence to 'infallibly' understand  that greater intelligence we call "God," even though t...

It is not that the atheist is more obsessed with God than the theist, but that the atheist is at least as passionate about revealing the fraud that religion  relies on to perpetrate all of its sins agaisnt humanity as the "believer" is passionate in facilitating those sins by denying that they are guilty of supporting the greatest fraud in human history. In this sense, every "believer" in the world is just as guilty of the persecution of anyone who dares to question the false idol of their religious beliefs, as Pontius Pilate was in the crucifixion of an innocent man, who failed to worship the God of Rome.

A camera is a two way mirror, through which the world watches itself, and learns how to behave.

The same way pornography reduces women to mere objects of pleasure for men, so Religion reduces people to objects of pleasure for a "God." One wants women to be brainless bimbos while the other wants people the world over to be "true believers" in a "God" that we can neither understand nor define in any reliable sense.  

A god who is pro-war, pro-guns, pro-capital punishment, pro-capitalism, or pro-wealth, cannot also be pro-life.

We all hope someone will save us from the truth ... By convincing us to believe in a lie.

Truth is kryptonite to religion.

Jesus dying for our sins is like God signing a blank check for humanity to sin as much as it wants, or even can.  In fact, it amounts to  God daring humanity to try and sin more than the amount of forgiveness He - an infinite omnipotent God - can pay out.   This same idea was what the  Church selling indulgences were all about.  The selling of those indulgences caused the Protestant Reformation, when Martin Luther left the Catholic fold for questioning the "treasure house of merit" that the Catholic Church was selling to build the "temple" of St. Michael in Rome, much the same way King David built a temple in  Jerusalem.  It should also be pointed out that Rome is as alien to Christianity as Jerusalem is to the Judaism, and in the same way. Rome is a city that Jesus never visited, nor discussed, but from which came St. Paul. So to, Jerusalem is the city that King David decided to make the capital of Israel, when he came to power, than...

Economics is a religion that turns every moral virtue into a financial vice, and every moral vice into a financial virtue.

To be saved is to be broken in all the right ways. And love is someone who can see that.

 Most people who claim to "believe" in "free will," likewise subscribe to religions that deny that people should be free to chose.

Religion is how the devil convinced humanity to cut down the tree of life and turn it into a cross with which we would crucify each other, in order to avoid hell, and prove to a God who is said to have crucified his own son for sins (because he couldn’t think of a better plan), that we deserve eternal life.

If Jesus was an eternal and infinite god who died for our sins, then by doing so he wrote humanity a blank check that would be as infinite as God himself, so that humanity could sin as much as we wanted, because we who are so finite can never sin more than an infinite God can forgive. Christ crucified, in other words, only incentivizes humanity to aspire to an amount of sin that would put even the devil and all his minions to shame. 

The supreme irony of Christianity is that it is a religion founded on the teachings of a man who was murdered by religious believers for questioning their religious beliefs.

Religion anesthetizes empathy.

The reason only one of the lepers came back to thank Jesus was because the rest were all too busy thanking God.

Protest is a form of art. Because art is the voice of a society’s subconscious mind. Violence is always an expression of fear masquerading as love for one’s ideas, and the salvation we are convinced those ideas alone can provide. And poverty is the greatest form of violence of all, because humanity only ever uses its different religions to justify it, far more than uses those religions to alleviate it.

Abraham Lincoln once said "a divided house cannot stand."  He was quoting Jesus. Jesus said, in Matt 12:22-28 22  Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the [ a ] blind and mute man both spoke and saw. 23  And all the multitudes were amazed and said, “Could this be the Son of David?” 24  Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by [ b ] Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.” 25  But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26  If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? 27  And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 28  But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of G...

Honesty is the most intimate connection two people can ever have.

An enemy is someone we hate for being the same thing we love about ourselves. A sinner is someone we hate because we hate something about ourselves. And religion is the thing we love most about ourselves, even though it teaches us we can only love ourselves by hating the fact that we are all born sinners. 

To love God is to hate yourself.  And who wouldn't hate themself for feeling in anyway responsible, for the brutal torture and murder of Jesus, which Jesus had to undergo in order to forgive us our never ending list of sins, which only grow like compound interest grows money? In fact, the Christian actually believes that a person is somehow made more moral by first believing they are so sinful that they could only be forgiven by God through the torture and murder of his only son Jesus, and than believing that even though they were forgiven by the torture and murder of Jesus, they are nevertheless still held responsible, to some infinitesimal degree, for both the torture and murder of Jesus.  The miracle of Christianity then, is that we are forgiven our sins through our willingness to torture and murder our god.     And to prove ourselves worthy of that "god" we call money, we joyfully torture and murder each other, and call the perdition we worship and c...

Love can only exist in finite things and between finite things, that know their finite nature, because eternity can love nothing less than itself, anymore than a person falls in love with a cancer cell under a microscope, or the ant they step on when walking home from work.  In fact, eternity is the incubator of hatred, when you think about it, because the idea of eternal life with those we hate or fear, seems like pure hell; especially for people who think they deserve to live forever for having "the gift of faith," which amounts to nothing more than having "the good sense" to be prejudiced agaisnt anyone who fails to think like they do.