WOTM: I Choose To Believe

Finding this pretty late. I have loved "Selling England by the Pound" since I first heard it and recently listened to it again through the magic of the internet. Big Peter Gabriel fan. "Biko" is still a gut-punch decades later.

Sexiest man alive, Ha! That's easy for you, you get to look in the mirror every morning!

About Genesis (the band not the book), and I'll get there. I read a book called "Forget the Alamo". It debunks the entire MYTH that is the Alamo. It turns out, they (James Bowi, William Travis, David Crockett, et.al.) were a bunch of racist slavers who needed to suceed from Mexico to keep their slaves after Mexico abolished slavery decades before the USA. Anyway, there are a bunch of folks who are "Religious" about the Alamo. Surprisingly enough, the guy who owns the most Alamo memorabilial in the entire world is a British guy by the name of Phil Collins. Yep, that Phil Collins, the drummer of Genesis. I hate that I now can't listen to Gensis without a twinge of ik. "Forget the Alamo", great Book if you need fodder. Love ya Bri Guy.

God made me an atheist. He made me demand evidence before I believe the unbelievable, and he put religious figures in my life who were so incompetent, so toxic and vile, so ignorant, and so unable to handle a curious child that my faith was (thankfully, only emotionally) beaten out of me. By the time i was in my mid-teens, I was at: A) If this is god's plan, it's a really shitty plan, and he's not worth worshiping. or B) There is no god, and this is just a whole bunch of fucked up humans trying to make themselves feel good by power-tripping over everyone else. In my 20s I was further enlightened by god, and he let me know that Jesus' failing to talk about germ theory and advocating AGAINST hand washing sentenced a solid billion men, women, and children to death due to disease and infection over the millennia, and that, "Slaves, obey your masters, even the cruel ones" was actually a pretty severe moral failing on his part too. That really strengthened my atheism, and I thank god for leading me on this much more sensible and moral path. If you're going to believe "all things through god", then my atheism and anti-theist leanings come from him too.

Seems to me that one might as well claim… "I choose to believe that gravity is a hoax"…?

I can remember, not so long ago, when the right wing was characterizing homosexuality as "a lifestyle choice". I always wanted to have the opportunity to ask them, "If homosexuality is a choice; When was it that you chose to be NOT a homosexual?" Or, "Did you wake up one morning and find that you had to make the choice?" Sorta like asking someone, when did they stop beating their partner...

I don’t know what you said, but “ You make me feel like dancing” 😂

Choosists?

I don't see how you can be the sexiest man alive when I have already chosen to believe that I am.

I choose what I have for breakfast, but I cannot accept assertions without evidence made by excusigists of any stripe - candy?

And The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway