The Rant Institute

 Christians burned witches and heretics. Think about that for a second. Are "witches" even a real thing? To Christians they were, and are, even if to everyone else they are simply projections of Christian fear masquerading as love of their brand of a "God." Why didn't God show those Christians who were burning those witches the "truth" about what they were doing? Well, apparently for the same reason that same God never revealed to those Catholic parents what some of those Catholic priests were doing to their own children: because witches are no more real than the Catholic conception of God. Ironically enough, like the witches they accused of magic and burned as necromancers, it is the Catholics who use sacramental hocus pocus to transform bread and wine into divine flesh and blood of an Apollo like man-god, that they then claim to eat and drink as a way of curing themselves of their sinful nature.  Eating such divinely transformed flesh and blood - whi...

  Christianity changes how we see both ourselves and other people. And not for the better.  Rather than seeing human beings as being born as innocent as Jesus, Christianity wants us to believe that almighty God choose instead to ensure that those whom he had made in his own image and likeness were all born infected with an inherent desire to act in the image and likeness of Satan. And he did so, according to Christianity, in order to determine whom of us is worthy of forgiveness for spending their life stuggling to resist the sinful infection of their pre-programmed sin-stained souls, and whom of us deserves to be turned into an everlasting charcoal briquette.   God freely allowed the devil to pass onto us his own sinful nature, so the story goes, even though any father who threw their infant into a poisonous snake infested garden would be guilty of both child abuse and attempted murder.  With this story, Christianity sees homo sapiens not as the apex of all cre...

 There can be no greater form of abomination than to believe in what can be neither demonstrated to exist nor made any actual clear unambiguous understanding of.  For to "believe" in things that only invite our reason to crucify itself in knots of nonsensical logic pretzels is to blaspheme against the gift of reason one has been given, and all out of a desire, and a devotion, to need the fairy-tales one was taught as a child to be true, because we have been taught to depend on those fairy-tales for all of our emotional support.  Selling such 'beliefs' is to invite grown human beings to remain children, in other words, not out of a desire to remain as fearless as children are when they are born, when they are wholly as innocent as Jesus himself, but out of the fear that children are taught to have, by Christianity and other religions, that they are sinners all headed straight to hell and damnation.  And the only road they can travel to assure their salvation comes fro...

Why does the Catholic Church seek to police and regulate the way that people express themselves sexually? Answer: because sexuality is for most people the most intimate thing and personal thing they have. And by controlling what a person does sexually, the Church seeks to control the source and fount of all of the person's creative energy.   Christianity has long demonized homosexuality as a sin by convincing its followers that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is the Bible's version of America's 9/11, with the divine attack intended as not only punishment of homosexuals and, even more so, of all those who tolerated them,  including women and children, but also a warning to all future generations of God's willingness to nuke whole cities over who is kissing whom. Christian morality, as such, is based on the idea that it is right and good for God to firebomb whole cities for a "sin" that such an infinitely enlightened being freely chooses to be offended by,...

Friedrich Nietzsche pointed out that there are no facts, only interpretations. A fact is basically as useless as a brick until you use it for something. To use a fact for something is to give it meaning. To give a fact meaning is to engage in the process of interpretation of the fact in relation to other facts or ideas. If we say the sun revolves around the earth, for example, such a claim is meaningless until we understand why such a claim is given any meaning at all. The meaning such a claim was given was that it made sense not simply because that is what appeared to be the case, but because such an interpretation conformed to the claim that earth was the one celestial marble God preferred over all of the other marbles rolling around in the universe.   The Catholic Church made such a claim but never took any responsibility for the fact that it was, in fact, wrong. Catholic Popes decided that they, like the Roman Emperors before them, were given the power of infallibility fro...

I can think of no greater form of violence to truth, and nothing more offenseive to nature and reason, than that Christians teach their children to love and worship a God who created them as born sinners so he could butcher his own son to death for their spiritual deformities, which can only be fully forgiven by accepting a lifelong enslavement to a religion, and that if they question the wisdom of such a "dvine plan" they'll be burned for all eternity in an afterlife that makes Auschwitz look like Romper Room and Jesus's crucifixtion look like a hang nail, but if they shut up and simply obey a priesthood that protects its own child-rapists, they'll live happily ever after in shang gra la with a God who lives in the cloulds like that giant in Jack and the Beanstalk. If this is not the epitome of insanity mixed with pure evil, nothing is.

All Christians are required to do at least three things to maintain their status as a "good" Christian. The first is to never ask a question about their own religion that their religion cannot provide an answer for that only ever proves their religion is infallibly true.  The second is that, if ever they encounter a question that their religion cannot provide an answer for, they should convince themselves that either there is no answer or if there is, it simply doesn't matter because it would only prove their religion is infallibly true anyway.  And third, they must believe that, no matter what questions are asked that their religion cannot answer, it is their obedience to their religion that guarantees they will be both "saved" from eternal tortures and given all of the answers after they die.