tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54101042009-02-21T04:39:20.137-07:00The Maltheism BlogDedicated to my Dad, Paul Zimmerman, who advocated real freedom of religion (and freedom FROM religion) by promoting the belief that the God most people believe in is really a bully, a liar, and a great deceiver, that worshipping him is an act of self-denigration, and that realizing our self-worth as living thinking human beings is the greatest thing we can do in this world, for ourselves and for each other.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03787125112755039599noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410104.post-1103137184186054632004-12-15T11:56:00.000-07:002006-01-02T09:28:19.556-07:00"The Real War" (3/2002)
I think with all the talk about Christianity and Islam being at odds with each other, about "the West" being at war with the Muslim world, and about all the "us against them" posturing that's going on, we are losing sight of what's really going on here. The terrorists are using the people they recruit to engage in violent acts against those they see as not whorshiping GodCraigZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17512705611647773135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410104.post-1102542008183507312004-12-08T14:39:00.000-07:002004-12-08T14:40:08.183-07:00God is like the family patriarch who runs a family business and expects all his "children" to continue to work for him forever. When his children elect to go out into the real world and find their own way (as is their right of course), he not only seeks to keep them from doing so—discouraging and even lying to them about the outside world to keep them reined in—he also reaches out into the world CraigZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17512705611647773135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410104.post-1102538147594839192004-12-08T13:33:00.000-07:002004-12-08T14:38:01.170-07:00"Why We Don't Proselytize to Theophiles" (5/2003)
What people don't seem to get is that I am not in any way at all interested in proselytizing to theophiles. For most of them, there is no hope of their changing their minds about their beliefs—so entrenched in them have they become that it's virtually impossible to get out of the rut. And even if I could: listening to some of these people speak CraigZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17512705611647773135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410104.post-1102458933158277472004-12-07T15:26:00.000-07:002004-12-07T15:53:24.553-07:00"The Myth of 'Necessary' Evil" (1/2003)
Taken from Paul Zimmerman's notes in the early part of 2003, combining several entries into one for completeness. This entry provides a rebuttal to the belief that God needed to create evil in this world, as an excuse for his not making a world without evil in it. Here is a link to one of the original posts on Beliefnet from which this was derived.
I was CraigZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17512705611647773135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410104.post-1102435038138487422004-12-07T08:54:00.000-07:002004-12-07T09:51:23.030-07:00"Imagine if you would: Religion and the X-Files" (11/2001)
Imagine, if you would:
The world is under attack from an extraterrestrial force, not of this Earth. Those in charge deny there is a problem, deny that there is anything wrong. In fact, unbeknownst to us all, those in charge are collaborating with the enemy.More than just collaborating: they are acting as the enemy's fifth column, CraigZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17512705611647773135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410104.post-1102434185880711782004-12-07T08:40:00.000-07:002004-12-07T09:12:22.560-07:00Greetings to all.
Having worked out various details, I am finally getting ready to post excerpts from my Dad's writings here on this blog. The first of these will be posted later today, with more to come. I hope you get something positive out of the things my Dad had to say.
--Craig
CraigZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17512705611647773135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410104.post-1094524473531759152004-09-06T19:24:00.000-07:002005-11-22T11:47:29.643-07:00Introduction from CraigMy name is Craig Zimmerman, and I am Paul Zimmerman's son. My Dad was the one who posted for many years on the Usenet, on Beliefnet, and elsewhere on the subject of Maltheism. Some think he's the one who coined the word Maltheism many years ago, but we're honestly not sure. He's definitely regarded by many as a founding father of the movement.As many of you already know, myCraigZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17512705611647773135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5410104.post-1053375126001857832003-05-19T13:12:00.000-07:002004-12-07T09:08:30.850-07:00My Dad's first and only post to this weblog
Welcome to the Maltheism WebLog.
Maltheism is a belief system whose main tenet is that God exists, but is not "good" (as he claims to be) but rather is wholly evil. Maltheists, in general, believe that the Bible is genuinely the "word of God," but like an autobiography of a scurrilous scoundrel or horrific dictator, the "spin" offered by the text is Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03787125112755039599noreply@blogger.com