I was talking with a friend last night and told him I’d posted this. Then I realized I had just ranted about it.
Rick Warren is seen as ‘bringing people together’ because it is still OK to hate fags and atheists.
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Via Pendagon.net..
Regarding the placing of the menorah, star of david (I assume) and islamic crescent next to an xmas tree
Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights, disagrees, saying the town has chosen to display Jewish and Islamic religious symbols while leaving out the Christian religious symbol of the season, [...]
Honestly, I don’t even know what to say about this. You think you’ve heard all the bizarre stuff about Christianity (like those folks who go and crucify themselves), and then there’s this.
El Caganer: (S)catalonia’s Fecal Christmas Festivities – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International
You really have to read the whole thing, but, in short, it [...]
Some things make me sad
“I could see the longing my little girl has to have a right relationship with God. She knows something is wrong, she is broken because of sin, and she is desperate for the love and comfort of Jesus.”
it seems more likely she wants the love of a mother who doesn’t [...]
thanks to Pharyngula and Evolved RationalistI got to read The Woman Of Virtue which made the deliciously bold claim that slavery is just plain old fine in the Bible.
While Evolved Rationalist is right in many of his points, I actually think he’s missing the point. Or, at least, not getting to [...]
These guys have actually caught my eye more than once on a number of topics (like how the people in New Orleans should be grateful that they got any help at all, regardless of how toxic the trailers are), but this one is particularly sad, and seen too often:
Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
FFRF is wrong [...]
The whiny Democratic atheist brigade – Crunchy Con
In the Democratic Party, every day is secularist day! Cut Obama and the DNC some slack — they’re right to do this kind of outreach.
Now, Mr. Dreber does have a point. Historically, the Dems are more secular. However, there’s a couple other, more subtle things at [...]
I can’t say much about this book, and from the interview at least, it sounds like it is primarily critical of anti-religion arguments by atheists, rather than somehow defending the existence of god, which is fine, but the fact is that the sources cited for the existence of Jesus are simply pathetic. If a [...]
From StreetProphets
I don’t know what I find the most tragic aspect of this case to be. That a child suffered and died a needless death. That the parents of the child had such a narrow and distorted faith that their actions led to that death. That those same parents now face charges and jail time [...]
Its OK, we killed our daughter because of our religion. Shouldn’t we get a free pass?
A day before Madeline died, according to the criminal complaint, the father wrote an e-mail with the headline, “Help our daughter needs emergency prayer!!!!.” It said his daughter was “very weak and pale at the moment with hardly any strength.”
Fuck [...]