Its Summer??? Wow....

So its Summer already and Ive had my kids for summer break since the beginning of June. Its a full time job, seriously. I'm finding it works better if I split them up and spend time with them alone.

 Secondlife ( my band, duh!! www.secondliferocks.com ) is having a small lull, with no gigs. Whats wrong with people, I'm freaking begging for gigs, ready to play for free just to get the name out. And this band is good, real good. The singer, David Porter, is really talented. There's no pitch breaking in his voice, its just super strong and powerful. But thats the music business in Greenville, and South Carolina. They only like bands that play covers, and mostly AC/DC and Lynryd Skynyrd. Dont get me wrong, we do Simple Man, but whatever happened to taking a chance and listening to original music???

 I've been keeping busy with my new art classes at Vino and Van Gogh, and working on a project that involves both a graphic novel and a new album. It will be a concept project with the comic book detailing a story involving God, Michael, and Lucifer. The music will be the backing music for the comic.

 So summer is going to be busy for me.... wish me lucky!!
 
 James

Things I like

Thank you for reading my rants on religion. I think its time for me to do something positive. So hears a million or so things I like.

My kids, when they like me and are happy to be in my presence.
My wife, when shes happy to be around me.
Good movies ( that list will come later)
Good Music ( also later)
Anything and everything to do with Jimi Hendrix.
Savannah Ga.
The Ocean
Scuba diving - its been awhile
Surfing - since I was an inch high
Dolphins - The closest things to human
My Music, my guitars, my amps, my effects - they are my soul
Furman University early in the morning and at sunset.
Downtown Greenville
Silver Surfer Comics
Batman and Superman Comics
The smell of a brand new Chromium Cassette Tape
A dark room with xmas lights
A good conversation with a stranger at a bar
Mr. Ernest Hemingway ( we share the same Birthday)
The last page of Guitar World from guitargeek.com
San Diego mid afternoon on the beach front
The color of the water in the Bahamas
Any movie with Humphrey Bogart
The sounds of  violins and cellos, they make my heart cry
Anne Rice novels - The vampire chronicles and Mayfair witches, why did it end?
Halloween forever 365 24/7
Technology - the internet is evil but oh so good
Naked women
The curve of a ladies bottom where it meets her thigh
Gillian Anderson, Melanie Lynsky, and the goddess Kate Winslet
Marylin Monroe - she was the template for beauty
Hugh Hefner - I pattern my life after him
Horror Movies
Ireland - My home, My heaven
A good lesbian scene that makes you believe its real.
Standing in the presence of a Van Gogh, or Renoir
Asian furniture, clothing and culture
There are many more things to come....

Jesus and his Followers Pt. II

First off you should read my first rant. It was more in rage than this.

I find my self in the company of a christian who is continually sharing his faith with me. I clearly state that I am an atheist  who subscribes to the teaches of Buddha, and Jesus. I don't believe in salvation because I dont believe in God. I dont recognize a higher power but I do like the idea of Karma based on the science of energy. Science is my savior if I have to pick one. But his reaction when angered by me doesnt say WWJD, is says Im human and Im going to do the human thing and be mad at you.

How did I come to this conclusion? Why do I despise people who preach salvation and forgiveness but treat me like shit????? Well here it is.

Well I was a southern baptist from birth. My grandfather was a preacher and always encouraged me to find the answers for myself in the bible. So I read a lot. I read the bible 5 times before I was 13. I was very interested in the weird things that nobody could explain to me. Stuff like the Nephillim, the Witch of Endor, the Unicorn, the contradictions in Genesis.... they plagued my mind. The more I read the more I cross referenced biblical scholars. The more I found out things that weren't written in the bible. Through High School I maintain my place as Christian Warrior. I fought for God, led bible studies and I would take on men with degrees in theology with my knowledge and they would fall everytime.

Then I went to the Catholic side in my 20's, and in a way I am still Catholic, but only out of an instilled reverence. My mind thinks Catholic, but my heart says there is only science.

Science and my inability to accept things are what pushed me to the point of trusting science over religion and faith.

It wasn't one book, it wasn't in one day. It was over 15 years and hundreds of books. For instance the bible says that the earth is around 6000 years old. Science says the universe is 13 billion years old ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe)
The earth is 4 billion years old according to science. Now science can show me on paper, physical evidence on how they obtain this date. The bible doesn't. According to biblical scoring the earth is only several thousand years old.

The bible is full of contradictions, ( http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html ) you can spend hours reading on how the bible is full of incorrect facts. Now don't get me wrong, people need to understand the bible and how it came to be. Scrolls were collected over time, stories told and retold, scrolls rewritten hundreds of times, the scrolls turned into codex then down the line into bibles. Bibles were in latin vulgate in the beginning, then they eventually went into the kings english. During that transfer, things were transposed incorrectly. So "God" may have said one thing but it comes out totally different and somebody is stoned to death or made to endure unspeakable pain for a typo.

My favorite flub in the bible is the tale of Noah. Great story right, wrong it was stolen from Gilgamesh. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh ) Gilgamesh happened in 2000 bc and Noah in 2900 bc. Gilgamesh happened before Noah. Then people changed the characters and made it about God, as inspiration. This is based on testing of the original scrolls. Science doesn't lie.

How many people have died in the name of science? How many in the name of God? Christians have murdered more people in the name of God than just about any other group of people on earth. Even the Muslims and Islams, they kill for a God that is basically the same as the Jewish God. The same God we share.

Take the time and read through every major religion and its creeds and beliefs and its main characters. There will always be a higher power, there will always be a special person (prophet or messiah) and there will always be promises of a wonderful afterlife if good things are done and pain if they disobey. Its a like Star Wars, Darth Vader is devil, Luke is Jesus, the Force is the Holy Spirit, the dark side is sin. When the Jedi's die they are turned into incorporeal beings - much like in the bible when the spirits rise from the graves and ascend into heaven.

There are many things like these. things that I couldnt sit back and pretend to accept.

But the final straw happened when my son developed Brain Cancer, and everyone used it to condemn me for leaving his mother for another woman. "God was using that cancer to bring them back together", or "God is using the cancer to punish the father for being ungodly". No... my son had a mutated cell in his brain that turned into cancer. Everyday babies are born with cells that are mutating, most die off but some turn into cancer. And my favorite was praying for the hands of the surgeon. He was Indian, and not christian. "God" didn't help him and he was insulted by the thought. He has his own faith but the christians have to tear it down because they are always right! Like when they invade third world countries and offer clothing and food if the people attend church and become saved.... those are called missionaries.

But then my grandfather died. I loved my grandfather more than I ever loved any other adult. He was my best friend, my dad, my spiritual adviser. He lived everyday for the christian god. He would skip out on birthdays and other things for his church. He was there everyday, gave all his money, love and time to people. He would give someone his paycheck if they needed it. If there was a modern day prophet his name was James Lee. I held his head in my arms as they pulled the plug, I cried as he struggled to breath and then he died. He lived everyday for god, and he died like a dog in the desert. Why would a god let his loyal servant die in such a horrible and insulting way??? Why would a kind gentle god let a baby boy have a brain tumor, and have to have 7 surgeries before his first birthday??? Why would a kind and loving god let children die in horrible ways daily????

It was that day that I gave up on any belief on god. And I don't regret it at all. My life is better, fuller and easier. I don't worry about "burning in hell", nor do I care what others think about my actions. Now I have met other atheist who act like they are bob jones cult member, all clean cut and such. But I'm just a perverted foul mouth creature and I enjoy offending people. But I am also very intelligent. I failed the MENSA exam by a few points. What I say about god and science I have read both sides of the arguments, and each time I go with my mind. What makes sense? Someone saying that some dude just pops out of the sky and creates the perfect world and its messed up by one little sin, and then boom, brothers are having sex with mom, brothers are killing each other? The whole worlds population is from incest????? Actual studies have show that the mitochondria of a females eye is in directly relation to that of Africans. So all earth has evolved from black Africans. I find this to be hilarious! All the racist in the world having to accept that their original parents are from Africa!! Evolution started in Africa and we are all brothers in some way or another.

Its a lot to take on. People usually tell me Im stupid and I need to have faith in God.... but Im happy, and continent to be exactly who I am.

Thank you so much for caring, thank you for thinking of me. But leave god at the door, hes not welcomed in my house.

Jesus and his followers

Okay so I have all these Jesus friends (first off let me say I'm under the influence of Klonapin) and they pride themselves on being all fucking Jesus like. What would Jesus do??? First off he'd buy a gun and shoot all you assholes!!!! But I digress.

So I have them on my Facebook and in my neighborhood and so forth. And they all know my views or lack thereof on Religion. What am I saying I have lots of views on religion, none of them friendly. I'm a self proclaimed Atheist. I base my faith on science, I have faith that science is right and they are wrong.

So what I hate is the whole treat me less than everyone else. Is that what Jesus would do? Mark 2:13-17, Jesus ate with the Tax Collectors and Politicians and they were the worse of the worst of the worst in those days.But all these so called followers treat me as if I have leoparsy (?) and move to the other end of the room when I come around. And gawd forbid that my music isnt jebus music then Im slowly pushed out from the in crowd.  You would think that they would want to show me love and sway me into their realm where they could convert me and bathe me and let me be one of them. Hell I am officially a Reverend!!! Really I am I can marry you, bury you and fuck you like a priest fucks a school boy (but not if you were a school boy, gross).


I dont fit in with you I get it, but at least try to act something like Jesus. He was a great man who had many wonderful things to share and teach and he loved everyone even if he did get pissed off at the dumb asses who did things in his name that he hated. So what would Jesus do, he would act like you .


The Reverend James A. Heaton
Man of No-God