“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
I am proud to be an American, but some of my fellow citizens really make it difficult.
One of our local news stations is on Facebook and posted yet another thread about the “Ground Zero Mosque” — this is the fault of idiot media continuing to call the Park 51 Islamic Community Center the “Ground Zero [...]
People continue their anti-islamic bullshit, fear-mongering and just plain stupidity.
I’m not pro-Islamic, just anti-bigotry. In fact, I’m generally anti-religion, and ONE of the reasons for that is because the greatest function of religion seems to be hating on all the other religions, and this is no more greatly exemplified than the current hoo-haw over the [...]
This is LOVELY.
A ridiculous ignorant fundagelical pastor had been picketing a nightclub every week for FOUR YEARS, for absolutely no rational reason whatsoever other than because he wants to be an asshole-for-Jesus. These religious idiots go and stand in the right-of-way so people have a hard time going into the nightclub, interfering with the nightclub’s [...]
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 [...]
Who the fuck does Al Mohler think he is, anyway? In ‘Evolutionary evangelist’ gives heresy bad name Mohler is pretending to rake another Christian minister over the coals and does little but display his own judgmental asshole-itude.
Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, has released a new work that critics say strays even [...]
Yet again, some religious nutter is trying to impose his personal convictions unto clients at his day job.
A former bus driver has sued the Capital Area Rural Transportation System, charging that the nine-county transit service discriminated against him based on his religion when he was fired for refusing to drive a woman [...]
While doing my daily news reviews I came upon this interesting page: The Bible and Homosexuality, put up by the College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C. Their “Who Are We?” section is revealing:
who are we?
We are the only Baptist congregation in Greensboro that is welcoming and affirming of everyone who follows [...]
Daniel Fincke’s latest post discussing the comments of another is sooo reminiscent of things you have said previously, and his response to Loyal is better than I could conjure up on my own.
The God of the Bible is a horrid character, and there is no justification for the atrocities attributed to him. It is impossible [...]
A couple days ago I wrote about the ruling that parts of DOMA were unconstitutional. And I wrote about the Bible.
Steve responded:
You say this: “But there is simply nothing in the Bible that would prohibit same-sex marriage,” only out of denial, because “Obviously it doesn’t matter to me what the Bible says.” The Bible IS [...]
Following on the heels of the immediately previous post…..
I hope I have made it clear that I really do support religious liberty. People can believe whatever they want, follow whatever religious rules make them feel good.
The previous post mentioned the efforts of the religious right to force their unfortunate lack of understanding and modern scholarship [...]
Interesting discussion ensued yesterday over on Facebook, but I’d like to present it for further discussion here.
I’ll first post the video that started it, and then I’ll quote verbatim the entire relevant discussion.
And then add to it under the quoted parts.
and here’s what was posted after:
Ray
“We pray for you, and you go to OUR [...]
Back before we had the Internet, it was helpful to have debates and then publish the transcripts for those who were unable to attend.
This is particularly true regarding Christianity vs. Reality. Reality always wins and always has.
But now, virtually everything that could be said has been said, and in virtually every case, Christianity loses. [...]
Up in the Twin Cities there is a problem:
Ban of evangelist at Pride festival is sought
Pride Festival tries to bar anti-gay evangelist
The gist of it is that this Brian Johnson has appeared at previous Pride Festivals and apparently been obnoxious by distributing anti-gay religious literature and telling people to repent of their “sin of [...]
The Pope is coming to the UK in September.
BBC/Channel 4 is preparing a documentary about the Pope’s life since the 1930s, and his impact on both developing and Western societies. They have selected a gay rights activist to front this documentary. Not surprisingly, a few self-righteous Catholics are pissed.
It’s really awful,” said Jack Valero, a [...]
This is just ridiculous!
Tea Party Supports Teachers Accused of Sprinkling Atheist
A while back, an atheist teacher spoke about her atheism in class. From a previous account:
Ely student Toni Calloway told wsvn.com that Schandra Rodriguez‘ class was having a discussion on religion during third period on March 11 when the two overheard Rodriguez tell the class [...]
This is disgusting.
A nun has been “reassigned” and “automatically excommunicated” because of her role as hospital administrator (a paperpusher/manager, NOT specified as a nurse, doctor, or other medical professional) in terminating a pregnancy that would have likely killed the mother if carried to term.
Hospital nun rebuked for allowing abortion
According to the story, the presiding bishop [...]
No, no…. I would not seriously suggest killing someone as an act of mercy for the rest of us. But seriously, I would not be saddened if Sarah Palin were to suddenly drop out of public view and just go back to private life. She is an ignorant buffoon and is not at all qualified [...]
This is brilliant and doesn’t need too much further comment on my part. Ten Ways Christians Tend to Fail at Being Christian.
Mostly it is a summary list of longer articles addressing each of the 10 points. They’re all pretty good points, and I agree with them. Basically, most of the Christians I know pretty much [...]
