“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
Tamara Scott is the state director for Concerned Women for America and needs a better education. In a recent speech she said being gay was as dangerous as using products that have been recalled.
This is not about hate. Let me ask you this. Recently, there was a series of cars that were recalled by [...]
Almost daily I find stories of idiots trying to thwart the science education of young students. Fortunately, here in the United States, the teaching of Creationism has been struck down repeatedly by law. In other countries, however, religious idiots continue to push into the public schools to indoctrinate students to their own brand of foolishness.
In [...]
A couple days ago I posted about Jen Keeton suing Augusta State University — she was in a counseling training program and refused to give up her religious bias toward LGBTQ people.
This morning I see another student has sued another school for practically the same thing, this time it is Julea Ward who was a [...]
The Vatican has decided that they want to open up dialog between the Roman Catholic Church and non-believers. But there’s a catch!
The Vatican is planning a new initiative to reach out to atheists and agnostics in an attempt to improve the church’s relationship with non-believers. Pope Benedict XVI has ordered officials to create a new [...]
Wow… Yesterday over on Twitter there was a big brouhaha because #NoGod became the number one Trending Topic. It was begun when a Tweeter posted “No god, no peace; know god, know peace”. And in Twitter fashion the phrase “no god” became the trending topic.
The funny part is that the religious folks were getting all [...]
I was surprised and pleased when yesterday’s mail brought me Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. In this volume, Dawkins provides his summary of the actual evidence for evolution. I’m just past 100 pages into it, and will need to read it again, but more slowly. It is different from [...]
I noticed that I haven’t bought many books lately. I have now rectified that by ordering
I also ordered
I posted this to my Facebook page, but it’s still nagging at me so I’ll expand on it here.
It seems there is going to be a folk music festival in North Carolina. Each year the festival designates a charity to which proceeds are directed. Last year it was a children’s charity. This year they decided [...]
This is another awesome video from Qualia soup. This one explains why it it impossible to argue for God.
Because God cannot be described or defined, there is no argument for God. The Bible, Koran, and other texts are full of attributes and claims made about God (many of which are mutually exclusive and contradictory, [...]
After yesterday’s post, I’m happy to see an article from the churches who put up the positive billboards
What would Jesus do?
For some people, that’s just a slogan on a jelly bracelet. But for a coalition of five LGBT churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, it is the basis for what they hope will be productive [...]
I love Keith. He’s funny, and usually spot-on.
In last night’s “Worst Person” segment he awarded TX Governor Rick Perry the “Worst Person in the World” for contemplating appointing Cynthia Dunbar to head the Texas State Board of Education. Ms. Dunbar is a certifiable nutcase who, as Keith points out, believes fundamentalists are too liberal, among [...]
No, wait… “Homosexual PENGUINS Adopt Orphan Chick!” There, that’s more accurate!
Contrary to bigots and idiots who say homosexuality is not natural, not normal, or not right, science has long recognized that homosexuality occurs throughout the animal kingdom. And (once again, contrary to a certain negative breed of religious idiots) humans are animals and we are [...]
From McLeroy Rejection as Texas Education Chair Based on Unsuitability, Not Religion
McLeroy is notorious for trying to undercut the teaching of the theory of evolution in Texas schools, making the state into a worldwide laughingstock. But his controversial statements are not limited to the teaching of science. When the SBOE approved 150 literary works for [...]
Don McLeroy’s nomination as chair of the Texas Board of Education failed, but just barely (click for live-blogging report). 19 Republicans voted to install him, and 11 Democrats voted against. So they didn’t get the 2/3 majority they needed, and that’s a good thing in itself, but it is amazing how the idiots would prefer [...]
More specifically, why are fundamentalist Christians so intent on censoring OTHER PEOPLE? it never stops. They’re always whining about how other people live or what other people do.
i get so sick and tired of hearing what narrow-minded people want.
Don’t like sex-and-violence on TV? Turn the goddamned fucking channel.
Don’t like to see naked people enjoying the [...]
This was just posted to YouTube, but refers to an event a couple years ago.
One of the state’s TOP science educators was terminated because she would not (indeed could not) be neutral on creationism.
Creationism is not science. You can’t be teaching science and remain neutral about a religious doctrine specifically invented to deny science and [...]
DISCLAIMER: I put the title in quotes because that is the title attached to the video. I am as offended by saying “x” is retarded as I am when I heard “that’s so gay”. It is demeaning to those who actually are mentally retarded, or gay, or whatever other [...]
The idiot Christians are at it again! Y’member the other day how they totally fucked up the prayer study, inventing lies to pretend the study shows the opposite of what it actually showed? Well, now some other idiots are trying to do some “creative editing” and “non-sequitor interpretation” on a report from the American Psychiatric [...]
just saw an interesting piece on the evening news. This is what Connie Culp looked like before life (and her husband) dealt her a wicked blow. She was an attractive, vibrant woman, working with her husband in a painting and contracting business.
Then, for whatever reason, her husband decided to change everything. He shot her in [...]
Quotef from a relative who shall remain nameless:
“Ten years ago they used to say a black man would become President when pigs fly. Well, just 100 days into his term, swine flew.”
This person was afraid to tell share this with me because I voted for Obama (and would again), and thought I’d be offended. I [...]
