I picked up Penn Jillette’s new book God, No!, yesterday, and am already most of the way through it. It’s pitched as an atheist’s version of the “Ten Commandments”. (This apparently was prompted by an exchange Penn had with Glenn Beck that resulted in Penn dashing off his own version of the Ten Commandments and [...]
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Hell, No
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on October 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Degrees of Crazy (Small σ)
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science on May 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Just an observation: Obviously the end-times whackos proclaiming that God is going to destroy the earth this weekend because of some crazed interpretation of an equally-crazed prophecy from their Bible are ludicrous. They deserve all the ridicule they are reaping, and all that is to come when their prophecy fails. But their beliefs are almost [...]
Truth in Labeling
Posted in An Agnostic Reads the Bible, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Read Your Bible, Reading the Qur'an, Religion on March 29, 2011 | Comments Off
French atheist group sues publishers to include warning labels on Bibles and the Koran: This book contains sexist, homophobic, sectarian and crime-inducing passages. It is necessary to set it back in its historical context knowing it was written before the Middle-Ages. Or just “. . . is psychotic imaginary bullshit and provides no justification for [...]
I'm Putting All My Friends to Death, Because I Love Them
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Gender Issues, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Things That Suck on February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
What the hell is with these Miss America dumbfucks? I mean, it was always a stupid and reactionary institution, but when did they go from mouthing mindless platitudes to spewing hateful right-wing bigotry from the stage? Last year, Miss California Carrie Prejean endeared herself to the right wing when she answered a question about same-sex [...]
Reality Has a Well-Known Liberal Bias. So Does God.
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Sour Grapes/Pouting/Whining on October 6, 2009 | 23 Comments »
There’s a lot of amused commentary today at the expense of the chuckleheads at Conservapedia, whose latest clash with the parts of the world that don’t fit their preconceptions involves . . . the Bible. Naturally, they’ve set out to do what conservatives do with any text they don’t like: censor the parts they can’t [...]
Render Unto Ceaser
Posted in Church & State, Culture, Legal Issues, Marriage Equality, Politics, Privacy, Read Your Bible, Religion on August 4, 2009 | 11 Comments »
He doesn’t quite say this, but that is the conclusion of this conservative evangelical re: gay marriage: Allow me to frame my perspective for you: I am a conservative Evangelical from Texas. I minored in Bible and Theology at Wheaton College, which is Billy Graham’s alma mater (and also Wes Craven’s, interestingly enough). I know [...]
Quote of the Day, 2009-05-08
Posted in Church & State, Flame Bait, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hilzoy, on the National Day of Prayer faux-controversy: I would think that people of faith, in particular, should be wary of politicians holding ceremonial observances of National Prayer Day. For one thing, one’s communications with God are intensely personal. If you think of God as a person, and not as a political weapon, the idea [...]
Jesus's Horrorshow Droogies, on the Attack Again
Posted in Church & State, Culture, General, News & Current Events, Privacy, Read Your Bible, Religion, Things That Suck on December 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Surprising no one, some jackass Southern evangelical Christian congregation is behaving abominably – this time to one of their own former members, whom they drove out of their church with public persecution but still won’t leave alone. Rebecca Hancock, a 49-year-old adult woman whom you think would be perfectly capable of making her own decisions, was, [...]
Race Denial at its Finest
Posted in Church & State, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Race, Read Your Bible, Religion on March 18, 2008 | 23 Comments »
I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to the “Obama’s Pastor” controversy, because it’s the product of three forms of conservative stupidity that I am glad to be immune to. The first is their deliberate, calculated, and organized distortion of political campaigns with red herring issues and machine-gun assaults of irrelevant attacks whipped up [...]
A Bit More On The Coulter Flap
Posted in Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion on October 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
KTK has already said most of what needs to be said about this, but I think there are a couple of additional things that are worth pointing out: First, as KTK points out in comments, but needs to be addressed more explicitly, the fact that one “truly believes” ones religion does not prohibit us from [...]
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