Think they only come from the religion of Islam? Try Christianity: Three Burleson men who belong to a “radical Christian activist group” were in the Johnson County Jail on Friday night after a church deacon caught two of them attempting to ignite an explosive device on Independence Day at a church under construction in north Burleson, authorities said Friday. Dayton … Read More
A Famous Evangelical Sees The Light
Then: It is the afternoon of September 25, 2000, and Jonathan Edwards is making his way to the triple jump final at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney. In his kitbag are some shirts, spikes, towels – and a tin of sardines. Why the sardines? They have been chosen by Edwards to symbolise the fish that Jesus used in the miracle … Read More
Christians And Their Bikinis
I came across this and decided that it needed unpacking…. Bikinis are Inappropriate Swimwear According to ChristiaNet Poll ChristiaNet.com, the world’s largest Christian portal with twelve million monthly page loads, recently conducted a poll asking participants to decide if bikinis are appropriate swimwear. It is interesting to note with this poll that many voters felt that the attitude and the … Read More
I’m Going To Hell
I know because I took an online test… … and online religious tests don’t lie.
I Guess Now I Have To Gay Marry A Dude?
Massachusetts legislature votes to defeat vote on same-sex marriage ban: A proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was defeated today by a joint session of the Legislature by a vote of 45 to 151, eliminating any chance of getting it on the ballot in November 2008. The measure needed at least 50 votes to advance. The vote came after House … Read More
The Jesus Diet
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Religion And Black-Vs-White Thinking
I’ve said it before; I’ll say it again. The greatest threat facing the world isn’t Islam, but religious extremism. Any extremism. Reuters: Violent Muslim, Christian and Jewish extremists invoke the same rhetoric of "good" and "evil" and the best way to fight them is to tackle the problems that drive people to extremism, according to a report obtained by Reuters. … Read More
This Just In: OT Blogging Completed
David Plotz at Salon decided to read the Bible cover-to-cover, and blog it has he goes along. His journey through the Old Testament is now complete, and his posts are indexed here. Here’s a smattering of what you can expect — this, from his entry on Genesis 3: Chaapter 3: The Lord—not so good at follow-through. In Chapter 2, He … Read More
Sex Scandal (And Other Silliness) At Creation Museum
Geez. It’s only been open a couple of weeks…. The man who plays Adam in a video aired at a Bible-based creationist museum has led a different life outside the Garden of Eden, flaunting his sexual exploits online and modeling for a clothing line that promotes free love. After learning about his activities Thursday, the Creation Museum in Kentucky pulled … Read More
Where Kangaroos Came From
How did kangaroos, indiginous to Australia only, survive the Great Flood depicted in the Bible? Were they on Noah’s Ark? Fortunately, Conservapedia (the conservative alternative to wikipedia) has the answer: Their entry on kangaroos, for instance, says that, "like all modern animals . . . kangaroos are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that … Read More
NC Witnesses Can Swear on Quran In Court
I’ve been following this story for a while, and frankly, I’m not sure why it was an issue to begin with: The issue surfaced when Muslims tried to donate copies of the Quran to Guilford County’s two courthouses. Two judges declined to accept the texts, saying that taking an oath on the Quran was illegal under state law. What exactly … Read More
On Jihadists
Like Glenn Greenwald, I am getting increasingly tired of the Malkin-types who make it their daily mission to try to scare everybody into thinking that Muslims — even American Muslins — are all hell-bent on committing acts of terrorists. If an imam prays to Mecca before boarding a plane in some remote airport, the right wing punditry — Rush, Malkin, … Read More
“We Became Friends”
An interesting eulogy of Jerry Falwell …by his nemesis, pornographer Larry Flynt: To my amazement, we won. It wasn’t until after I won the case and read the justices’ unanimous decision in my favor that I realized fully the significance of what had happened. The justices held that a parody of a public figure was protected under the 1st Amendment … Read More
Falwell’s The Ends Well
The post-mortem deification begins. So, in the interest of equal time, let’s also remember some of Falwell’s greatest hits, courtesy of the Carpetbagger: March 1980: Falwell tells an Anchorage rally about a conversation with President Carter at the White House. Commenting on a January breakfast meeting, Falwell claimed to have asked Carter why he had “practicing homosexuals” on the senior … Read More
Tammy Faye Death Watch
Jerry, then Tammy. These things happen in threes, right? Don’t know who’s the third.