1. CNN Request for 'I-Reports' on religion

Comment #64987 by nogodude on August 22, 2007 at 3:06 pm

Here's my post to CNN, just tryin to do my part.

"Are you one of the millions of people who live by faith?" Absolutely NOT! Religion/Faith is nothing more than myth, wishful thinking for those who have not taken the time to think for themselves. This planet will be much better off when people finally evolve out of this and religion is put on the shelf with all other myths and fanasy where it belongs. I never gave it a lot of thought until the Repubs and Bush took over. That was when I realised just how destructive a force power and religion can be. It is truly the most destructive force ever known. It's too bad that so many people have been indoctrinated/brainwashed into this BS from early childhood. That is really the only way to get people to believe in the absurd.
thanks,
No god here

2. Holy Hot Rods

Comment #47201 by nogodude on June 3, 2007 at 12:56 pm

Those guys at the "Onion" are so clever! This is a repost from the Onion...right?

Like Bill Maher says "satire pretty much writes itself these days".

3. US Congressman Holds No God-Belief

Comment #25397 by nogodude on March 12, 2007 at 10:51 pm

A little history on Pete Fortney Stark

When Stark moved to the Bay Area in 1957, the Air Force veteran and MIT graduate became a banker and registered with the GOP because he "wanted to be a successful businessperson, and that's what a successful businessperson did."

But the Vietnam War, which he vehemently opposed, as he does the Iraq conflict, led Stark to switch parties. He also concocted a novel protest that helped launch his political career. He put peace symbols on the checks of his Security National Bank, and a giant peace sign on the roof of its Walnut Creek headquarters. The stunt won national attention, boosted his bank's deposits and drew the kind of annoyed attention that Stark seems to relish.

He admits a certain calculation. "It's awfully hard to differentiate a bank," he says, and "a pain in the butt" to switch checking accounts, which many people did as a result. But there is no mistaking his pleasure all these years later as he recalls evading local zoning laws — and the frowning city fathers of Walnut Creek — by declaring his peace sign an exempted "work of art."

Stark was elected to Congress in 1972, running as an antiwar environmentalist. He beat an 81-year-old incumbent in the Democratic primary and survived the McGovern undertow in November to win a House seat he has never relinquished. (Stark sold his bank after being elected; the proceeds made him a millionaire.)