“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
I like this:
This is like listening to Christians talk about their Jesus — it sounds like each one of them knows a different Jesus. odd, eh? Clearly they cannot all be correct, but they can all be (and likely are) wrong!
One can only hope. But, sadly, it isn’t likely.
Cousin John sent me a link to this article in the Guardian: The internet has done for Scientology. Could it rumble the Christians, too?
The article’s author is discussing the fate of Scientology in other countries, and how it is increasingly being exposed for the fraud that it [...]
I was amused to read Demon Sex and Time-Released Curses, but disappointed to discover that the article at CBN was move or removed. It’s a good read, anyway, and shows the insanity of Christians at this time of year.
But, having failed to find that article warning of the supposed spiritual dangers of Halloween (really, there [...]
Once again the Baptists (parrotting the rest of the anti-gay religious crowd) get it wrong.
In their latest post, bemoaning President Obama’s signing the Hate Crimes Bill into law, states:
“All violent crimes are hate crimes, and all crime victims deserve equal justice,” ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley said in a written statement. “This law is [...]
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As a Western-raised, rational, adult man, I find this story beyond offensive: Alaa Al-Aswany: When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists. In parts of the Islamic world, women are forced to expose their breasts for examination, and then forced to [...]
Okay, so most of my Facebook contacts know that I am a gay, atheist, yarn-dyer.
This past weekend, one of my granddaughters asked, “do you have a Facebook?” I told her I did. She ask if I would accept her friend request if she sent one. I told her “No, because I put things on Facebook [...]
I don’t understand what makes supposedly intelligent people unable to function and think their way through idiotic religious legalism.
This article, Rabbinical Ruling Causes Havoc on Elevators makes it clear that some people just don’t get it.
The Jewish day of rest has become a bit more labor-intensive for Yosef Ball.
The Orthodox Jew and his wife are [...]
This idiot, from the Lighthouse Baptist Church, in Grand Prairie, TX, is amazingly full of shit at every turn:
He complains that some translations of the Bible seem to eliminate Mary being a virgin (she wasnt’), along with some of his other pet doctrines, so he prefers the King James Version and claims it is THE [...]
Yesterday I was standing in the front yard talking with the landlady about this and that, and a pair of nicely dressed, pleasant young women walk up the drive. By their black name-tags I recognized them as Mormon missionaries. I tried to wave them off, but they said ‘We just wanted to ask a question.”
They [...]
Y’know…. I find it very difficult to have respect for people who do this sort of stuff.
A billboard in Moscow, ID reads, “Millions are good without God.” And some one (or ones) decided to climb the billboard and spraypaint over the word ‘without’.
Why don’t all those god-botherers get it? The sign is not the least [...]
A coalition of atheist organizations have funded an ad campaign for the subways in New York. Bravo
The advertisements ask the question, written simply over an image of a blue sky with wispy white clouds: “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?”
It is a plain statement of fact. These ads are aimed to [...]
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 [...]
The legal case is making it’s way throgh the courts to address Proposition 8 — the passage of which stripped California residents of the right to marry the person of their choice. Specifically, it ended same-sex marriage in that state. So those who wanted to be married sued to get Prop 8 overturned. And the [...]
Okay, so let’s pretend, just for a moment, that the story about Noah’s Ark is true. We know it isn’t, and we know it logically could not be true. But just for a bit, let’s pretend it might be.
So, the whole earth is fucked up and God is super-pissed. He’s going to flood the entire [...]
There’s a dude in Cambridge who wants to open an occult center. This has the local religious in a twist.
But Father David Paul of St Laurence’s Roman Catholic Church in Milton Road, raised fears over the occultist’s move on the city.
He said: “It will be a shockingly bad thing for Cambridge. Whilst it is obviously [...]
the United States military is hemorrhaging necessary troops, even under Obama’s administration.
He said (again) this weekend that he wants to end DADT. All it takes is an executive order. Just get it done, already. Here’s a bunch of other countries that allow gays to serve in the military:
1 Argentina
2 Australia
3 Austria
4 Belgium
5 Bermuda
6 Canada
7 Czech [...]
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 [...]
