Greybeard's Heavens

I promised myself I wouldn't keep on writing about religion - but this web link touched a nerve. Again.

When People Ask Why I Have a Problem With Religion, It's Hard To Come Up With a Single Answer......"

Many of my best astro-images have come without the aid of my telescope and below are the ones I took last night. The images are of our Moon, Jupiter and it's moons. 

A Christmas Eve message from Glitterland.

 My places.

....It's just our policy.

Puts a big beaming smile on my dial.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).

That's very heartwarming but....

Saturn.

Local shots.

Footballers.

Ms Bond.

Smoking.

Bryan Gaensler, talking to Macarthur Astronomical Society on 21st November 2011:

There aren't too many similarities between science and religion.

.... yet so little evidence.

... yet still we await E.T.'s first message.

I'm on the 'Do Not Call' List - but still they call.

A small part of my youth was spent being a "roadie" for a rock band.

I posted this article on the MAS web forum, in response to two members who had promoted the "god hypothesis' for the creation of the Universe.

- when christians say that Atheists "hate" god.

The Universe is a very extreme place.

If Australia were to become a republic, would we impose a Constitutional condition that the President of Australia MUST believe in a Christian god or MUST be head of a Christian church?

Biggest laugh I had in months yesterday: Cardinal Pell's appeal in The Australian for climate change scientists to provide scientific evidence!

She quit for the wrong reasons.

"In Bigotry We Trust".

Footballers who played cricket.

Cats. 

How can a civilisation progress, when a significant section of society is immovably transfixed by the ethics that were in existance at a point in time so long prior to our own?

Today, religion is redundant.

Carl Sagan was right.

Some very elementary climate change facts:

My best outer planet images so far.

I can think of three past major issues with which I disagreed with Federal Liberal Party policy.

Campbelltown has two main exit routes heading towards Sydney.

My daughter gave me a birthday card:

Imagine Campbelltown, NSW as the centre of the Solar System.

Today Mr. Ratzinger told his billion strong flock to believe in talking snakes, a tree of knowledge, rib-woman and a 6 day creation.

Climate Global warming should not be a matter of choosing a 'belief.' It's far more important than that.

America may be the leader of the free world, yet it can't get it's own house in order.

The shameful Catholic Juggernaut rolls on.

...and a prayer party in Dandenong prevented them from getting any worse.

I thought it was a good question.

.... who ever attended a Jimmi Hendrix concert and slept right through it?

... but why do we put ourselves through such torment every year?

You couldn't make it up.

A small sample of religion's contribution to the news over the last weekend.

Why are some organisations exempt from compliance with basic standards?

People will believe whatever they were indoctrinated to believe - in defiance of credible evidence to the contrary; and in the absence of any reliable evidence to support it.

"Mary MacKillop's canonisation tomorrow should be celebrated by believers and non-believers alike."

I'm switching my baloney detection antennae off.

God's report card.

19,999 disregard the serious crimes he is charged with.

Nothing is going to change.

The Catholic Church hierarchy. Why?

Throw away your bibles and buy Hawking's book.

If we were unfortunate enough to live in a theocracy instead of a democracy....

"There's a time to take religion seriously, and a time to laugh at it. Sometimes we have to do both at the same time".

Every cloud has a silver lining and there's some good news out of the Global financal Crisis at last.

This excellent document was accepted at the World Atheist Conference: “Gods and Politics”, held in Copenhagen recently.It is a very fair and sensible assertion of human ethics that ought to be adopted by governments and religions all over the world. How could any sensible person disagree with any part of it?

When people ask me what my star sign is, I always tell them the truth. 

Last month where I live we had 75 mm of rain.

'Greybeard's Heavens' has now been added to The Atheist Blogroll.

There are two types of thinking errors, according to American Sceptic Michael Shermer:

To paraphrase what the great scientist and educator Carl Sagan wrote in 1996 (The Demon Haunted World) we live in two parallel worlds:

I used to display my modest astro-images on these blog pages.

America has an annual 'National Day of Prayer' each May.

Unlike atheists, religious folks often get so offended if their religious beliefs are questioned.