At their yearly gathering of Christian fundies in Tampa this year, things went askew when a member of the audience at a symposium entitled “Defending Marriage: What’s At Stake?” stood to ask the panel a question: After the panelists had their say (after about an hour of this, I might add), the “town hall meeting” was finally opened up to … Read More
Well, I’M Convinced
Creationist arguments: The really cute part is that they keep saying that evolution is "obviously" a "fairy tale" (because if you say it several times, it MUST be true). Then they debunk evolution by mis-stating its founding principles. While energy may have played a role in the origins of life, the first life created was microscopic in size. And THEN, … Read More
The War On Reality In Our Schools
From the DesMoinesRegister.com: A community college instructor in Red Oak claims he was fired after he told his students that the biblical story of Adam and Eve should not be literally interpreted. Steve Bitterman, 60, said officials at Southwestern Community College sided with a handful of students who threatened legal action over his remarks in a western civilization class Tuesday. … Read More
My Two Cents
Dear Unamed "Christian Advocacy Group": Oh, for God’s sakes. They’re risking their lives and getting shot at and dying for a ridiculous unnecessary war that you support. The very least you can do to support them is to let them have their porn. Love, Me
What I Miss On Daytime Television
Not much, apparently. I hear/read a lot about "The View". Seems those women are always fighting about something. But this video made me spit up my Pepsi. One of the co-hosts of The View, Sherri Shepherd (center), said she didn’t believe in evolution. So co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked her if she believed the world was flat or round. She wasn’t … Read More
Immaculate Conception …Of A Shark?
It’s a miracle: Students at Carl Hayden Community High School were stunned when a baby shark appeared in one of their fish tanks. More amazing was that the mother shark had been in the tank alone for nearly four years. How did it happen? This type of birth is known as parthenogenesis, in which an unfertilized egg develops into a … Read More
New Revelations About Mother Theresa
While gathering biographical material for his case to the Vatican that Mother Theresa deserves sainthood, a priest finds that the Nobel Prize winner was, if not agnostic, then certainly riddled with doubt about the existence of God. Wow. And you think you know a saint. Er, potential saint. Her doubts appear in letters and private correspondence to friends: Shortly after … Read More
Law-Breaking Pastor Calls On God To Smite His Accusers
Wiley S. Drake recently used Church letterhead — and his talk show broadcast directly from his First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, CA — to endorse Mike Huckabee for president. But some atheist jerks at Americans United for Separation of Church and State ratted him out to the IRS, who are now investigating the church’s tax-exempt status. How did … Read More
Only Mentally Impaired Women Have Abortions
Bet you didn’t know that. There’s an infamous video out there — I’ve probably linked to it before — in which anti-choice activists are interviewed. ALL of them say that abortion should be made a crime. But when asked "If abortions become a crime, then what should the punishment be for women who have abortions (i.e., commit that "crime")? Almost … Read More
Religious People Are The Best People
Another day in the culture wars yields this ugliness: Church Cancels Memorial for Gay Navy Vet ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay. Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard Sinclair was gay when they offered to … Read More
I Hate The Westboro Baptist Church
I really do: The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., plans to stage protests at funerals of victims of the 35W bridge collapse to state that God made the bridge fall because he hates America, and especially Minnesota, because of its tolerance of homosexuality. The church and its pastor, the Rev. Fred Phelps, have become notorious over recent years for … Read More
That’s Some Protective God You Got There, Judge Roy Moore
"Judge"* Roy Moore: That same providential God has sustained America through two world wars, the Cold War and several other conflicts around the world. Through economic depressions, natural disasters, acts of terrorism and political strife, He has been our strength and stability. Only blocks away from where Washington gave that first Inaugural Address, terrorists brought down the Twin Towers of … Read More
The Unauthorized “Christians United For Israel” Tour
Max Blumenthal has done it again. He attended a conference of the "Christians United for Israel" people, and brought his camera. What he saw was alarming. Watch it. Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour from huffpost and Vimeo. There is, of course, nothing inherently wrong with anybody being pro-Israel. What makes me squirm about these people is … Read More
Debunking An Email
There’s an email circulating — maybe you’ve seen it — that is so replete with factual inaccuracies that it cannot withstand even the slightest scrutiny. Here it is, with my debunking: This is worth remembering, because it is true. It’s familiar territory, but those of you that graduated from school after the early 60’s were probably never taught this. Our … Read More
Hin-Don’t
A milestone in the Congress yesterday: a Hindu invocation in the Senate chamber. But before it began, three protesters, who all belong to the Christian Right anti-abortion group Operation Save America, and who apparently traveled to Washington all the way from North Carolina, interrupted by loudly asking for God’s forgiveness for allowing the false prayer of a Hindu in the … Read More