This story is as credilble as the guy who supposedly killed the Ramsey girl. Every network every 3 minutes and it's a non story. The media are all idiots. Just sheep following the herd.
The Church of Reality today has issued an edict challenging other religions to speak out against the Bush administration plan to legalize torture in the United States. The Church of Reality is a church based on believing in everything that is real and does not recognize the existence of any deities. In this edict the Church of Reality claims to have a superior moral position to that of God believing religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam stating that it is the only religion that takes a strong position against torture as part of their official doctrine.
"We are Atheists", claims Marc Perkel, founder of the Church of Reality. "Yet we have developed a stronger and more sophisticated set of moral values than religions that are supposedly inspired by omnipotent deities. If these deities actually exist then why can't they keep up with the Atheists? We in the Church of Reality clearly understand that legalizing torture is clearly wrong and we are willing to take a strong position against it. The Theists however seem to be confused and unclear about if torture is right or wrong. We in the Church of Reality are challenging believers to pray about it to see if their God is as wise as we mortal Realists are."
Perkel admits that part of the reason his edict is so provocative is to inspire debate within the theistic world and get them inspired to take a position against Bush's plan to legalize secret torture camps in foreign countries who allow torture. "We in the Church of Reality are strongly against this and we are trying to get the attention of our fellow religions to get on board with this issue.", says Perkel. "We want them to share in the glory of doing good things for the human race."
In the edict the Church of Reality vows to remember the lessons learned from the concentration camps set up by the Nazis in Germany during World War II and sees Bush's torture camps as a dangerous first step in that direction. "This looks like the Holocaust to me", says Perkel who was raised Jewish. "Judaism never impressed me much. But I do remember seeing people with numbers tattooed on their forearms from being Hitler's prisoners. What amazes me is why the Jews aren't ahead of me on this."
Here is a link to the new edict challenging religions to decree torture to be imoral.
http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/edicts_of_doctrine/
Here is a previous edict denouncing the legalization of torture by the United States:
http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/current_event_edicts/
Please feel free to contact me. I will debate any religious leader live on this issue. I ask everyone to spread this challenge to every place you can. Please post this everywhere. We can not afford for America to become the next Nazi Germany.
Marc Perkel
First One
Church of Reality
Letter to the Editor
John McCain has caved into Bush yet again on the only issue that people thought still had meaning for him. McCain who was a prisoner of war has now caved into Bush's plan to allow the CIA to torture prisoners in secret prisons in countries that allow torture. The Republicans think that if you tamper with the definition of torture then it makes it not torture. However - if Bush doesn't intend to torture then why do you need secret prisons in countries that allow torture in order to do it?
I don't know about anyone else but I am more troubled by Americans lowering our standards to the same level as Islamic Terrorists. There is now no moral difference between us and them. We are both a society of barbarians who practice the methods of Hitler in the way we treat people. This isn't going to save any American lives. It's going to cost American lives because more people around the world we hate Americans for our barbarism. This is so outrageous that it will even cause Americans to hate Americans. This is no longer my country anymore. The America I remember would never legalize torture.
Letter to the Editor
People have been wondering why the Republicans poll numbers are going up lately. Is it that Bush has become more popular? Does the public like the idea of American's setting up secret torture camps? I don't think so. The reason Republicans are doing well lately is that they are finally standing up to Bush. Republicans finally get it that Bush has led America in the wrong direction and the people don't want to go the wrong way anymore. When it come to standing up to Bush, maybe the Democrats can learn something from the Republicans?