Chaensaw

Who is the Chaensaw Messiah?
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"I am your apocalypse,
I am your belief unwrought,
Monolithic juggernaut,
I'm the illegitimate son of God."
- KMFDM, "Stray Bullet"
~•~ It's pretty much inconsequential who I am. I'm simply the guy that founded this site. I do not claim to be a deity of any kind; the "messiah" moniker is more a joke than anything else, though I do hope to "save" a lot of people from their own fucked up moralities.

"It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism,
but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty." - Steve Allen

For those of you who care, I am not a foaming-at-the-mouth extremist. I am not a freak or a social pariah, and if you passed me in the street you wouldn't think I was such a heathen. I am not a Satanist, nor do I believe in Satan. I am normal. Nothing happened to me to turn me against religion. What makes me different from the religious is that my parents raised me to have an open mind, without forcing any religion on me, and I came to the only possible conclusion one can reach if one is a truly rational person. Any belief otherwise requires a leap of faith, which is not grounded in any logic or reason and by its nature lacks any proof whatsoever. The truth is, there is no God, at least no God that really cares about anyone here on earth. If there were, why would earth be so chaotic? Why would there be more anger and fear than peace and love? Why would innocent, good people all over the world die from violence or horrible disease? Why would church vans full of good people be plunging off cliffs every month? The only God on earth is chaos, and it is unable to be worshipped. All we can do is live life to its fullest, and make each other happy.

Enemies of Mine
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"Choices always were a problem for you.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
What you need is someone strong to use you...
Like me,
Like me."
- TooL, "Opiate"
~•~ These people are not necessarily declared enemies of ME specifically, but they have exhibited many characteristics that are very detrimental to the notion that we should all be allowed to live in peace and happiness. This listing obviously could not possibly hold the names of everyone that would be opposed to this belief, and most of those people are not real "enemies," and they deserve the right to believe whatever lies they want to. The folks listed below, however, are truly enemies of anything good and decent because they tirade against basic personal rights in favor of replacing them with their own grotesque moralities:

Reverend Fred Phelps, the child-abusing wife-beating "Pastor" who runs www.godhatesfags.com and is the leader of the group that goes out and pickets gay activities with banners that say "AIDS cures fags." If there really was a God, Reverend Phelps would currently and forevermore be sucking Satan's smegma in Hell.
Pat Robertson, for founding the 20th century Inquisition, the Christian Coalition -- the single biggest political threat to personal freedom since Hitler's Third Reich. Plus, all the members of the Christian Coalition and similar organizations.
Pat Buchanan, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Rick Santorum, along with probably two dozen other congressional conservative scumbags -- often-outspoken foes of equal rights for women, minorities, gays, the poor, and non-Christians. Why the fuck do people keep electing these psychoes?
Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Dr. Laura, and other moronic ultra-conservative media loudmouths, reactionary morons who know little and talk much. If only people weren't so stupid and gullible, they'd be selling used cars (where they belong). (For further info on Rush, I highly recommend the book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken.)

Friends of Mine
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"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose free will."
- Rush, "Free Will"
~•~ These folks are not actually personal friends of mine (to the best of my knowledge), but they are worthy of mentioning because they exhibit many of the areligious characteristics that I respect. This list is NOT a role call of Chaensaws or their supporters, but rather a listing of people that have inspired me in some way:

Madalyn Murray O'Hair - the first truly loud voice of Atheism in America. Despite my logical problems with Atheism, her efforts to rid government of religious infestation have made all of our lives better.
Michael Moore - He's obnoxious and irritating and often wrong, but he helps balance out the obnoxious and irritating and rarely correct morons on the conservative side of the equation, and has great societal penetration. His movies and books ultimately serve a very good purpose.
Bill Maher - Former host of ABC's Politically Incorrect, a very visible supporter of personal choice on all fronts, as well as a critic of organized religion's inherent hypocracies and prejudisms.
Larry Flynt - Publisher of Hustler Magazine and one of the strongest proponents of the First Amendment and personal freedom of choice in the nation.
The Countless Enlightened Musicians who have told the truth and spread it to the masses - many of whom are quoted on this page.
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America - the Deist/Unitarian ones, especially those responsible for the First Amendment. May they be able to stop spinning in their graves someday.
The ACLU - though they do a lot of stupid things, they also do a lot of really good things, like fighting scary, unconstitutional, Big Brother-like legislation like the Communications Decency Act. Unfortunately, they're not quite a match for the Christian Coalition. Who said good guys always win?

Supporting Agnosticsm
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"Let's stop praying for someone to save us and start saving ourselves."
- KMFDM, "Dogma"
~•~ So you like what you've read, and want to the cause of agnosticism.

First, realize that I don't really care what you do. It makes no difference to me if you believe what I do or not. However, if you still want to be an agnostic, read the criteria below. And you don't have to do anything special to become an agnostic, which is the best part.

You are free to do what you want. Keep your money. Keep your job at the porno store. Keep jerking off and assfucking your gay lover and smoking pot and sleeping with whores. Just respect others' personal rights.
Do not hurt people (unless they want you to); do not rape, murder, steal, or anything that violates others' rights. Abide by the law, unless it's unjust, and then help fight against it in a civil, productive manner.
Renounce any silly beliefs you may have about god or satan or whoever or whatever. Spirituality by itself is perfectly okay, but instead of praying for good things to happen, actually make them happen!

Contacting Chaensaw
~•~ I do personally read all correspondence, but I do not respond to flames, and I will report spams and threats to the proper authorities. If you have a reasonable question or comment, I will be more than happy to read it. Unlike such lovely people like the Rev. Phelps (who runs the lovely site godhatesfags.com and is July 1999's Schmuck of the Month!), I don't send propoganda-laden form letters back, and I don't just read mail that praises me.

Letters I am likely to reply to:

Reasonable, well-conceived questions as to my stance or thoughts on something that wasn't addressed on the site.
Criticisms that are civil and well-conceived.

Letters I am not likely to respond to:

Outright condemnation of my site and my beliefs (flames).
Outright praise; ie: "I love your site!" - please do not think I'm ignoring you, I just don't have anything to say.
Questions relating to something directly answerable somewhere on the site.
Letters that are incomprehensible or otherwise unclear.

If you read and agree to all the stuff above and still have something to say, you can write me at chaensaw at comcast dot net