YouTube – AMERICAN DAD hidden message about project bluebeam revealed

Just when I think I have a final Top Ten Of The Stupidest Things I’ve Ever Heard, I stumble across something like this that makes me revamp the list:

So I was casting about for a specific video on YouTube on American Dad (the musical number where Stan sings about he doesn’t want a partner, he wants a wife), and I stumbled into the tangled throes of a conspiracy theory based on some pretty wild allusions, delusions, and replete with bibble-driven allegories.

The first embedded video is actually some crazed conspirotard claiming there’s hidden messages in an American Dad episode.

What this fellow specifically talking about is one Project Blue Beam, which is rumored to beam data directly into the human brain.

First up, is the ‘Free Press International’ commentary, which I found here, and then here. (Note: I love the first link, which specifically claims that “The International Free Press network is not a religious group, neither is it a political organization, but an independent worldwide investigation press agency in the field of politics, economics, medical and military.”, and then goes on at length about the advent of the Antichrist and New World Order, ad nauseum).

[Note: Serge Monast and another journalist, both of whom were researching Project Blue Beam, died of "heart attacks" within weeks of each other although neither had a history of heart disease. Serge was in Canada. The other Canadian journalist was visiting Ireland. Prior to his death, the Canadian government abducted Serge's daughter in an attempt to dissuade him from pursuing his research into Project Blue Beam. His daughter was never returned. Pseudo-heart attacks are one of the alleged methods of death induced by Project Blue Beam.]

Really, this is adorable. Not that the man died of a heart attack, but that two ‘journalists’ did so while investigating this. Cue the X-Files whistle music. People do die of heart attacks regardless of a non-history, just as non-smokers die of lung cancer. No name for the second fellow. No citations. Bald assertions streaking across the page.

The infamous NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] Blue Beam Project has four different steps in order to implement the new age religion with the Antichrist at its head. We must remember that the new age religion is the very foundation for the new world government, without which religion the dictatorship of the new world order is completely impossible. I’ll repeat that: Without a universal belief in the new age religion, the success of the new world order will be impossible! That is why the Blue Beam Project is so important to them, but has been so well hidden until now.

“New Age Religion’” is christlation for ‘them damn hippie tree-huggin’ pagan bastards!’ This bozo’s been watching way too many episodes of the Left Behind series, I’d guess.

Then we get this nonsense from a website titled ‘Sweet Liberty’:

Following is the transcript of a taped presentation by Serge Monast, a French-speaking Canadian journalist. Although there was no date on the tape, Monast speaks of 1983 as "eleven years ago", so we will assume this talk took place in 1994. We heard rumors from time to time of harassment against Mr. Monast, and later had heard that he was killed. That is an unconfirmed (by us) report.

Because the tape from which we transcribed was not of high quality, and along with the very heavy French accent, we were unable to make out some of the words. We had to guess at the spelling of some of the names.  If — as you read — you find words incorrectly spelled or can fill in any of the gaps, please contact me.

     I’ve decided to transcribe this tape because the information relates to events occurring today. The projected time-line was off target, because Mr. Monast expected the plan to be fulfilled by the year 2,000… as did many. 

     He also indicated during the presentation that the planners had originally set the date for 1983. That could explain the title of George Orwell’s book, 1984.

    The date 1984 (’85)  also jives with information presented to a special Legislative Committee in Illinois in 1978 studying the effects of Regionalism on the State, by a gentleman who testified that:

he was a former secret courier for the National Security Agency;

the ‘official position of the U.S. Government is to change this form of government to Socialism… via Regionalism’; and that;

"the logic behind this is that when the new order takes place, which is scheduled around the 1985 period, that the representation for the committee that will sit on the world council will be very equal to the population of the European countries."

(speaking of intended  numbers of populations in each region being limited to about 20 million each so no ‘region’ could ever effectively gain independence from the World Government).

     Off the subject, yet not. . . Regionalism is being sewed up nice and tightly right in our own back yards. . . local levels of government. Will you just ‘let it happen’? 

You will also want to read Betty Mill’s Vision and Circles of Power, from 1991. Betty knew of Project Blue Beam, although when she made the tape she did not know or know of Serge Monast. Betty went Home last January, where she is at peace from the awful ability – we never decided whether it was a gift or a curse – to see far beyond the illusion of what has been presented to the terrible intentions lurking behind the unfolding events. I dedicate to her with deep, deep love and gratitude – for her love for all of us, and her precious friendship and mentoring to me – this confirmation of her unearthly insight.  

So did you get all that? Monast (if he ever existed) expected all this to be implemented by the year 2000 (here it is ought 9, and no sightings), and yet the ‘New World Order’ was scheduled for around 1985, and he mentions this ridiculous tape by one Betty Mill, and the only place this is mentioned is on that website. Basically, it’s a recycle of all the old bullshit – there’s a Satanic secret society plotting in the shadows to overthrow the current world governments, secretive anecdotes (‘I can’t give you a citation, or they’ll come kill you and me!’), a lot of loosely knit unrelated events that add up in the crackpot pit of mind to TOTAL WORLD DOMINION as predicted by Nostradumbass or St. John the Hallucinatory.

Oh, and the Betty Mill is vastly amusing. References to Bush’s (Sr.) 1990 speech to the UN (did he say New World Oder? He did! It’s a code word! He’s in on it! Yeah, guy was talking world peace, so that’s what that qualifies, the title is FREEDOM FROM WAR, for Pete’s sake.), Malachi’s The Keys of Blood, just more crazy quilt contextomy.

Here, cue the eerie whistle music again:

PROJECT BLUE BEAM

The infamous NASA Blue Beam Project has four different steps in order to implement the new age religion with the antichrist at its head. We must remember that the new age religion is the very foundation for the new world government, without which religion the dictatorship of the new world order is completely impossible. I'll repeat that: Without a universal belief in the new age religion, the success of the new world order will be impossible! That is why the Blue Beam Project is so important to them, but has been so well hidden until now.

Oh wait, where’d we hear that one before?

The first step concerns the breakdown of all archeological knowledge. It deals with the setup with artificially created earthquakes at certain precise locations on the planet where, supposedly, new discoveries will finally explain to all people the error of all fundamental religious doctrines. The falsification of this information will be used to make all nations believe that their religious doctrines have been misunderstood for centuries and misinterpreted. Psychological preparations for that first step have already been implemented with the film, "2001: A Space Oddessy;" the StarTrek series, and "Star Wars;" all of which deal with invasions from space and the coming together of all nations to repel the invaders. The last films, "Jurrassic Park," deals with the theories of evolution, and claim God's words are lies.

Ah, a larger case of denial I’ve not seen. Are you fucking kidding me? Where have these ‘discoveries’ been unearthed by earthquakes? And I somehow doubt that any ‘earthquake machines’ have been created, let alone possess the required finesse to pinpoint and open a fissure. I’m not saying that earthquakes don’t unearth archeological finds – sure they do. But the ‘error of all fundamental religious doctrines’? They’re ALL in error. Historically, logically, and ironically. But...planting evidence deep underground, and then using seismic technology to unearth it? Do any of these people actually sit down and say this crap out loud, and if they do, do any of them realize, hey, this sounds like a load of horseshit? (Rhetorical question there.)

What is important to understand in the first step is that those earthquakes will hit at different parts of the world where scientific and archeological teachings have indicated that arcane mysteries have been buried. By those types of earthquakes, it will possible for scientists to re-discover those arcane mysteries which will be used to discredit all fundamental religious doctrines. This is the first preparation for the plan for humanity because what they want to do is destroy the beliefs of all Christians and Muslims on the planet. To do that, they need some false "proof" from the far past that will prove to all nations that their religions have all been misinterpreted and misunderstood.

Say whaaa…? Hey, why’d they leave the Jews out? Seriously, that’d be the first attack I’d make in this sci-fi crap. Christianity and Islam are built on the backbone of Judaism. The actuality of the reality is that archeology (sans earthquakes) has pretty much wrecked any of ‘gawd’s truths’ as spouted in those egregiously incorrect texts. Oh, and if you’re wondering where they got the ‘earthquake machine’, it’s actually a pretty common conspiracy patchwork.

The second step involves a gigantic "space show" with three-dimensional optical holograms and sounds, laser projection of multiple holographic images to different parts of the world, each receiving a different image according to predominating regional national religious faith. This new "god's" voice will be speaking in all languages. In order to understand that, we must study various secret services' research done in the last 25 years.

So…are they selling tickets? Note lack of any citations. Which ‘secret services’? KGB? CIA? FBI? Oh wait – let me guess. I’ll need to dose up on way too much coffee and Twinkies, and spend at least 200 hundred hours of ‘reading between the lines’ (or someone else’s mangled versions). ‘The Truth Is Out There’. Yeah, WAY out there.

The Soviet's have perfected an advanced computer, even exported them, and fed them with the minute physio-psycological particulars based on their studies of the anatomy and electro-mechanical composition of the human body, and the studies of the electrical, chemical and biological properties of the human brain.

Yeah, because all the ‘experts’ have such a near seamless command of the human mind. I don’t think so.

These computers were fed, as well, with the languages of all human cultures and their meanings. The dialects of all cultures have been fed into the computers from satellite transmissions. The Soviets began to feed the computers with objective programs like the ones of the new messiah. It also seems that the Soviets - the new world order people - have resorted to suicidal methods with the human society by allocating electronic wavelengths for every person and every society and culture to induce suicidal thoughts if the person doesn't comply with the dictates of the new world order.

Didn’t the USSR collapse? Hmmm… So satellites are pumping suicidal rays into folks who won’t go along, right? How is this NOT a tinfoil hat conspiracy? Is this provable in a lab? Oh wait – because any scientist who’d look too far into the matter will off him/herself. Or have their heads explode like the movie ‘Scanners’.

There are two different aspects of step two. The first is the "space show." Where does the space show come from? The space show, the holographic images will be used in a simulation of the ending during which all nations will be shown scenes which will be the fulfillment of that which they desire to verify the prophecies and adversary events. These will be projected from satellites onto the sodium layer about 60 miles above the earth. We see tests every once in a while, but they are called UFOs and "flying saucers." The result of these deliberately staged events will be to show the world the new "christ," the new messiah, Matreya, for the immediate implementation of the new world religion. Enough truth will be foisted upon an unsuspecting world to hook them into the lie. "Even the most learned will be deceived." The project has perfected the ability for some device to lift up an enormous number of people, as in a rapture, and whisk the entire group into a never-never land. We see tests of this device in the abduction of humans by those mysterious little alien greys. who snatch people out of their beds and through windows into waiting "mother ships."

Yeah, this sounds extremely unlikely. Why? Because the Earth rotates, for one thing. So people getting a ‘vision’ on one side of the planet doesn’t take into account the other half will be in various stages of sleep. And with humanity’s capacity for self-deception, I can accurately predict that 50% of those folks (especially in the US) will refuse to believe it. And alien abduction is pretty much the venue of the mentally disturbed. I also love how these nutjobs tap into the Rapture nonsense as well.

The calculated resistance to the universal religion and the new messiah and the ensuing holy wars will result in the loss of human life on a scale never imagine before in all of human history. The Blue Beam Project will pretend to be the universal fulfillment of the prophecies of old, as major an event as that which occurred 2,000 years ago. In principle, it will make use of the skies as a movie screen (on the sodium layer at about 60 miles) as space-based laser-generating satellites project simultaneous images to the four corners of the planet in every language and dialect according to the region. It deals with the religious aspect of the new world order and is deception and seduction on a massive scale. Computers will coordinate the satellites and software already in place will run the sky show.

So wait a minute. So there’ll be carefully tailored holographic images (plus narration!) that will be displayed on the sky, that will inform these people of some imminent ‘messiah’. And wait…the sodium layer isn’t a solid wall, and between the diffusion of light in the atmosphere and gravitational lensing, that makes this scenario even more far-fetched. Let’s not even factor in the objective speckle pattern, or the near field speckles. What happened to the ‘images beamed directly into the brain’, anyways? These folks are a few clowns shy of a circus.

Holographic images are based on nearly identical signals combining to produce an image or hologram with deep perspective which is equally applicable to acoustic ELF, VLF and LF waves and optical phenomena. Specifically, the show will consist of multiple holographic images to different parts of the world, each receiving a different image according to the specific national, regional religion. Not a single area will be excluded. With computer animation and sounds appearing to emanate from the very depths of space, astonished ardent followers of the various creeds will witness their own returned messaihs in convincing lifelike reality. Then the projections of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddah, Krishna, etc., will merge into one after correct explanations of the mysteries and revelations will have been disclosed. This one god will, in fact, be the antichrist, who will explain that the various scriptures have been misunderstood and misinterpreted, and that the religions of old are responsible for turning brother against brother, and nation against nation, therefore old religions must be abolished to make way for the new age new world religion, representing the one god antichrist they see before them.

(I can actually see the military ramifications – if you’re fighting full out in the Middle East with a bunch of religious crazies, a holy vision in the skies in the guise of Allah telling them to knock it off would go pretty far. In fact, it’s a  great idea, but possible and probable tend to be two very different animals.)

Wow. I mean, just wow. This is a full 30 gallon tinfoil sombrero. This is a powerful illustration of why religion is an anachronism, and why we shouldn’t respect or heed it. It’s a Dunning-Kruger effect (the superiority arises from gleaning illusory clues to a non-existent condition, I’d say, but that’s a guess) on acid. This Apocalypse culture (or cottage industry – take your pick) is dangerous. Because it’s grounded in superstition, and harms society by gleefully predicting the downfall of every social order. How many people bought into this apocalyptic crap, and ruined their own lives, or the lives of others?

Was there a project Blue Beam? There might’ve been. So was Remote Viewing, but that’s been relegated to the purview of the tinfoilers.

These people’s minds and energies are completely misdirected. The only people who are trying to take over the world are the mega-corporations, and that’s for profit. And those fellas just aren’t that organized. And from a historical viewpoint, (almost) all the folks who have attempted world domination lost their asses. Not to the cowboys in the white hats, but to their own arrogance and ineptitude.

As a fantasy novel, or even a graphic novel, this would be a fun read. But we don’t live in a comic book world. That someone would actually believe this nonsense – well, for scariness, I’d rate that as a 9.7 on the Batshit Crazy-ometer.

Of course, I’ll gladly eat these words if all this comes to pass in…let me hazard a guess…in 2012!

Till the next post, then.

Blogger Slactivist lays out the best explanation of xians’ zany-ness:  The burkha-logic of NOM.

…”constantinianism” — the inversion and perversion of Christianity that occurred when a religion of slaves and women and the poor became a religion of emperors and empires. Constantinian faith requires and assumes the establishment of an official, privileged religion. It comes to believe, in the language of the First Amendment, that its own free exercise depends on such an establishment — that its free exercise is incompatible with the free exercise of any other religion (or of no religion at all).

Without tiresome psychobabble, slactovist implies that the “krazy-xians” suffer from a form of bipolar disorder that allows them to hold two opposite and contradictory ideas without blowing a brain gasket (this, by people who can’t walk and chew gum concurrently!).

Belief A: America is a Christian nation, the majority of which is composed of godly, Christian people. Christians therefore ought to be allowed to express this majority faith both officially and unofficially — with Christian prayers in public schools, Ten Commandments (Protestant formulation) placards on courthouse walls, and pervasively sectarian Christmas greetings on the lips of every store clerk — and religious minorities will just have to deal with the fact that they’re outnumbered.

Belief Not-A: Christians are a persecuted minority, the righteous remnant in the Sodom and Gomorrah of 21st-century America, a nation so sinful and decadent that it deserved the attacks of 9/11 and the devastation of Katrina (God has bad aim). Public expressions of faith by Christians are always retaliated against, yet brave Christians demonstrate their courage in the face of adversity by continuing to thank their creator at awards shows and sporting events, to invoke his blessings at election rallies, and even to take the radically counter-cultural step of sending greeting cards on Christian holidays.

Could this be how they can use modern medicine BUT still believe prayer works?  They use cell-phones BUT long for 1958 again (…sigh…).  They want justice for themselves BUT support the  Spanish-InquisitionEnhanced-Interrogation for the rest of us.  They will tell you, with a straight face, that they love every one of Gob’s children BUT can go immediately to “hate teh gay” protests, without a qualm.  They’ve even embraced xian-rock (way, waaayy “emo”:  “Jesus, I’m so in love with you”)!!!

“Qualm” is not in their lexicon.  They steal everything they can get their hands on, including intellectual property of others.  Ask the Druids where their holidays went.  While we recently debated “Zeitgeist: The Movie”, no matter how accurate it was in particular, in general it meant that xianity has stolen many legends, in jeebus name, to enhance his image and his myth.  “Shame” is not in their lexicon, either.

“Meekness” is missing from their demeanor, as well.  They preen with satisfied superiority (a positive, to them) and then humbly-but-righteously project it onto atheists (now, a negative).  Being better people, we brush it off, like a pesky gnat.  Of course, for the most part, inside us is where we keep our loathing and lack of respect for the lunatics-who-believe.

Finally, a report from Teh Road:  xian graffiti is vanishing from restroom walls all across our nation.  I guess they finally realized that they did their “Luv” no favors, writing his name in a place that smells of urine and feces 24/7.  But rest assured that “Boff + Kitty 4EVER” is still going strong…

Update: Thanks to ChuckA for his creative contribution!

Bishop Robert W. Finn is “waging spiritual war” in order to enforce the “spiritual laws” of his imaginary friend. As usual, God cannot enforce his own laws and when he doesn’t show up, some of his followers take it upon themselves to defend him. Funny how a great and all-powerful being has to constantly rely on mere humans to fight his battles for him.

Bishop Finn speaks as if we are in some great cosmic video game, “The Church Militant” vs the “agents of Satan.” (Can we market this and make some money? Oh wait, that’s already been done.)

The Devil And Bishop Finn: Catholic Prelate Wages Spiritual War To Enforce God’s Law

Using highly intemperate language, the Kansas City, Mo., prelate said the “Church Militant” is “engaged in a constant warfare with Satan” and “human enemies,” people who are “deceived by Satan’s distortions and lies.”

Finn identified among these human enemies those “who wish to establish a path of living that contravenes God’s law: promoting abortion; unnatural substitutes for marriage, and all such distortions of true freedom.”

I agree with AU’s Joseph L Conn when he says :

Debate on these topics is understandably vigorous and often contentious. But when a leader of one faith tradition begins to dismiss those who disagree (including apparently the president of the United States) as pawns of Satan, democratic dialogue breaks down. When that religious leader characterizes those who differ with him about a political matter as “human enemies,” the bonds of civil society are stretched to the breaking point.

At its heart, Bishop Finn is bent on undermining freedom of conscience. If he succeeds in imposing his version of God’s law through legislation, the separation of church and state is clearly jeopardized.

It’s why we have website like ours’, we must keep ever vigilant.

Asshats abound. Take a look at the comment section at the Catholic Key blog and see how many people actually agree with Finn.

“History is not history unless it is the truth.” – Abraham Lincoln

Is political correctness distorting historical truth in our public school systems?

Gary Bauer is a conservative and most of you will remember him as a former undersecretary of the Department of Education under President Reagan. At present, Bauer is president of American Values and chairman of Campaign for Working Families.

Bauer has written this opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor. He is proposing that the information in historical textbooks which are supposed to provide factual and objective account of events that have happened throughout the course of history, is being altered so as not to offend the perceived fragile sensitivities of the various cultures.

Bauer writes:

Most Americans understand history as an objective accounting of past events. In recent years, however, textbook publishers have come under increasing criticism for rewriting history. Claims are presented as facts while controversial material is whitewashed or omitted.

Today these trends are quite apparent in the way public school history books address Islam. In his 2008 study “Islam in the Classroom: what the textbooks tell us,” Gilbert Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council (ATC), reviewed 10 of the nation’s most widely used junior and senior high school history textbooks. The results should disturb anyone interested in conveying to our children a truthful history of the religion whose extreme adherents drive so many of today’s tragic headlines.

But how do we do this without instilling fear and hatred of an entire culture? Not an easy task.

Bauer goes on to say:

Let’s be clear. Religion is by nature a sensitive topic to teach in the classroom. And in a world where stereotypes wrongly tar all Muslims as being prone to violence, it’s understandable that schools would err on the side of caution. Indeed, they should affirm the piety and charity practiced by hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world, an acknowledgment that should be extended to Christians as well. At the same time, textbooks shouldn’t cower from covering the violent periods of Muslim conquest or the Islamic beliefs that fundamentalists exploit for violent ends.

Sewall found that many textbooks gloss over or delete important facts. For example, in the 1990s, “jihad” – which has many meanings, among them “sacred” or “holy” struggle but also “holy war” – was defined in the Houghton Mifflin junior high school book only as a struggle “to do one’s best to resist temptation and overcome evil.”

The many acts of violence committed on behalf of Islam in the past decade have made that definition incomplete, to say the least. Yet, as ATC notes, “by 2005, Houghton Mifflin apparently had removed jihad from its entire series of social studies textbooks.”

Is it okay to “soften’ history in order to make it politically correct and “less offensive”. Let’s face it, there is much about history that isn’t pretty and we can dress it up and downplay certain aspects but that doesn’t mean those events did not happen. And if we forget history, it is destined to repeat itself.

Maybe it’s time we have an open mind and all take a look at those textbooks that are being used to teach our children instead of merely trusting that what the schools are teaching are the real facts?

Once again the Religious Right are whining and worried that their right to gay bash and promote bigotry from their pulpits will be threatened. Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913) would target hate crimes is intended to “allow the U.S. Justice Department to offer assistance when a crime that results in death or serious injury is committed against any American because of the victim’s race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.”

Full article: Pastors In Prison?: Religious Right Spreads Lies About Hate Crimes Bill

I guess that pastors may be feeling a wee bit guilty for they do know what they are doing… encouraging bigotry and they know it. They should be a bit worried about being charged with instigating a hate crime if someone who hears their bigoted and hateful Sunday Sermons and the lovely passages from Leviticus and go find a homosexual to beat up or stone to death. (Which has been done in the past, as we all have seen on the evening news.) So, they are spewing out lies and propaganda to their congregations without fully understanding what the legislation is all about. No one is going to arrest pastors for simply exercising their freedom of speech. That is a total lie. Even if a pastor goes around preaching his bigotry and hate on a street corner, no cops come and arrest him. Now if he would start beating the crap out of someone, then yes, his ass is going to get thrown in jail.

As Becky Dansky, federal legislative director for the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, told the Washington Blade, such claims by the Religious Right are “completely inaccurate, unless their priest or reverend or religious leader is physically assaulting someone based on their sexual orientation while they’re giving that sermon.”

But the thick-headed fundies just refuse to get it. They are in full persecution mode over this one. How typical to turn themselves into the victim in need of protection.

Yet Religious Right leaders keep playing the “your-pastor-will-go-to-jail” card.

“An offended homosexual could accuse a pastor, Sunday School teacher of broadcaster of causing emotional injury simply by expressing the Biblical view that homosexuality is sinful,” blares the Rev. Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association in an e-mail alert.

Over at the Traditional Values Coalition, Andrea Lafferty warns, “Your pastor could be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit a hate crime if it passes and become law. This so-called ‘hate crimes’ bill will be used to lay the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute, and persecute pastors, business owners, Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers, youth pastors – you name it – or anyone else whose actions are based upon and reflect the truth found in the Bible.”

And as Rob Boston says:

What is the Religious Right’s evidence for these extravagant claims? It doesn’t have any.

They are simply stomping their feet because they will have to be a bit more careful in this world about the things they say about people who are different and hold different viewpoints, lifestyles, values, beliefs and non-beliefs. Why not preach about how to help others instead of cherry-picking the parts of the Bible that promote divisiveness.

This is a bit long, but worth watching.

The lecture is divided into four sections: 1. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation / 2. Mining the Eddington Concession / 3. God as Science Ficton / 4. Q&A on dealing with Creationists

Link to video

This video is such unbelievable bullshit it’s not even funny. While the video is right about the schools expecting children to be tolerant of homosexuals and all people in order to get along together in this world, they are in no way persecuting Christians when they request simply that students have respect for others who are different from themselves.

At one point in the video, a teacher tosses a child’s Bible into the trash and I am sure that might happen in rare circumstances, but I am sure it is not what most teachers would do. That does not fall into the respect or tolerance that schools are trying to maintain in order to teach children in the classroom. Christians are so dramatic with their imagined persecution scenarios!

The video says:

“A closet is by no means a suitable place to live, but to abandon it only to force people of faith into it is not tolerance. In an age where good is called evil and evil good, concerned parents must inoculate their children from the cultural engineering of the Secular Humanists.”

This is such bullshit. No one is forcing people of faith into a closet by coming out of their own. If they can’t have their way 100% they start bellyaching and boo-hooing that they are being persecuted. Just because schools must provide a secular education independent of religious and supernatural claims does not mean that they are trying to “take their Jesus away” or any other religion. That is what churches, mosques and synagogues are for and our country is loaded with mythology temples of all sorts. So the boo-hooing about people of faith being “forced into a closet” simply by others being allowed to come out of theirs’ is utterly ridiculous.

I lost track of the number of false descriptions of homosexuals in this video. The video paints all homosexuals and drunken perverts, who have no values and who want to destroy society and corrupt their children.

Lately, it seems that some folks have been picking fights with me. There was a ridiculous brouhaha here, which led to a severe misdiagnosis of my present mental state. Following this, I actually got into it with an antireductionist asshat at Pharyngula (because despite what my detractors may say about me, I do try to be polite at first, but being accused of something I’m not doing tends to irk me, go figure).

The point of contention (on the second part) is Anthony Powell, the crazed religious youtuber who killed a young woman and then himself. Now I’m just as guilty as any other atheist in pointing out that religion obviously doesn’t improve people like it claims (the common methodology the religious use is the old sharpshooter fallacy, or what I like to call ‘selected highlights), nor is it a ‘force for good in our world’. But as I’ve pointed out elsewhere, for the most part, claiming that religion motivates these people is a specious argument.

Now, I am on record here as citing Grossman’s Law, AKA “Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.” However, Freud’s famous maxim about cigars also applies.

Because anti-social behavior is predominantly a chemical imbalance.

This is where someone would jump in, and start pointing out differentials between cultures, and how it just can’t be primarily chemical with all the possible equations factored in. I’m going to have to say, yes it is. Because when some mentally ill parent torments a child, there is a biochemical response triggered, it’s a neurological pathway built, a misfire of synapse that sets up an alchemical mix of crazy that usually lasts a lifetime of scar. And if that child as an adult is seeking therapy, usually it’s a combination of verbal communication (this is chemical also) mixed in with (usually) a good dose of medication.

Let’s take another example: the isolated child (foster home or orphan), who has little or no interaction with other human beings through infancy and childhood. Again, this is specifically a chemical response. Again, neurological pathways are built, and in this case the child becomes sullen, withdraw, introverted.

And for a third example, the isolated prisoner. Solitary is the worst possible punishment for a prisoner. Why? Because we are primarily social creatures. Isolation drives most people crazy. The social interactivity is a complex blend, but primarily a heady mix of chemicals. Pheromones, input from the 5 senses, estrogen (or testosterone, contingent on gender)

And from the article from whence I copped the picture:

This neuroimaging research – in normal, non-violent subjects – strengthens the link between low levels of the brain enzyme, known as monoamine oxidase A (MAO A), and aggressive behavior, which has been a topic of research for more than two decades.

"Our study provides evidence of an association between brain MAO A level and aggressive personality traits in normal individuals," said Nelly Alia-Klein, an assistant scientist at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Translational Neuroimaging, who presented her work at the society’s 54th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. "If this model of understanding is tested with individuals who actually engage in aggressive or antisocial behavior, such as domestic violence, it could show promise in the future for pharmacological intervention against abnormal aggression," she added.

The researchers assessed brain MAO A activity in 27 healthy, non-violent male volunteers using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning. This technique uses a radiotracer-tagged molecule that binds to brain MAO A and can be measured quantitatively by PET. The subjects also completed a standard, 240-question personality questionnaire, which gave the researchers a complete profile of the men’s personalities, not merely their tendency toward aggression.

The main finding: The lower the subjects’ brain MAO A activity levels, the more they answered "yes" to statements about taking advantage of others, causing them discomfort, having a short temper, vindictiveness, and enjoying violent movies. "Only aggressive personality was related to brain MAO A activity – not other personality dimensions," Alia-Klein emphasized.

It is important to note that MAO-inhibitor drugs are effective in treating depression and are not associated with aggressive behavior, she added.

And while it’s a complex topic, there are certain indicators. The human body/mind has a specific internal balance. As these balances become out of whack, your doctor prescribes chemicals (sure, sure, for the most part they’re not sure just exactly WHAT causes depression, but there seems to be a specific chemical for alleviation of this particular illness).

So, no, on the larger scale, religion isn’t a cause, what it is is an excuse, or as is more often these days, an umbrella for the deranged to hide under. As for all those folks in the past who committed atrocities in the name of it, well, for the most part people are sheeple (as has been observed before), and are easily led to slaughter or engage in slaughter. So yes, the crazies were in charge, and fear is (unfortunately) a prime motivator to get folks to carry out horrendous deeds. There were perhaps in those days full scale dementia whipped up into a lather by the high shaman (and again, if you’ve ever been to a concert, been in a mob, or been in a revival tent think: all that rhythmic chanting/music/hollering, yep, that was all a chemical response, because there were chemicals being released into the air along with all those other mitigating factors).

Because Man is the animal who deludes himself. We are the species that hallucinates regularly, we are the creatures who hear voices from nowhere and see visions that don’t exist, whose brains can be tricked into imagining that we’re experiencing an OBE.

Till the next post then.