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Author : Murdock D. M. (Acharia S)
Title : Acharya's religion 101 for seekers
Year : 2009

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Preface. “Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, in any decently run universe, this guy would’ve been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say ‘this guy,’ because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man. No woman could or would ever fuck things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he’s at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn’t give a shit.” George Carlin, “Religion if Bullshit” The following articles and rants come from a series I wrote in the 1990s, during my early years online, when the wild worldwide web was a new and strange playground for free speech. A number of these essays represent responses to emails I received - some of them not so nice. As such, my replies at times may be deemed surly, to be sure, especially as concerns the essay, “Proof that God Doesn’t Exist,” as one example. I have nevertheless left it pretty much as is, just for your amusement, to serve as another, more “playful” aspect of my writing. It should be noted that an “Atheist Here to Destroy?” represents a full essay, completely different from the subsection by the same title in The Gospel According to Acharya S.. As an historical note, my essay “Religion is Mental Illness, God is a Psychopath” can be found pilfered in many places all over the net. Here I have updated it slightly. Because I largely focus on the Abrahamic religions, over the years I have been asked many times to write about Buddhism, so I include here “Is Buddhism All It’s Cracked Up to Be?,” an essay from about a decade ago, with various updates. I also discuss Buddhism in detail in my book Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled,” as well as in my other books to a lesser extent. ...