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People who can say in all seriousness that the Bible is the entirely accurate and literal word of God (despite all the really obvious parables) and that there is no mention of evolution, therefore evolution didn't happen. And yet, in Leviticus 11, it clearly states that camels have a solid (non-cloven) foot. Soooo.... is the Bible mistaken, and therefore not the infallible source of all knowledge they claim, or have camels changed from the beginning times until now? One of the two must be true....

4Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

Go and read. It's hilarious.

http://www.blaghag.com/2009/04/natural-sexuality.html

(If the link is an issue,

endotoxin, let me know and I'll re-host it.)

( Gay Marriage Flow Chart )

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/27/circumcision/

Apparently, there is no conflict here AT ALL between thinking Obama can't be American if he's uncircumcised, and screaming that because a review of several studies by the CDC shows potential benefit for infants who've been circumcised, Mr President will personally push through a law forcing doctors to circumcise all boy-children everywhere.

*headdesk*

Thanks endotoxin, for pointing up the crazy to me.

Both? Show us the president's penis!

http://www.examiner.com/x-19545-Anchorage-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m8d27-Birthers-want-to-see-Obamas-penis

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3242

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/losing-my-religion-for-equality-20090714-dk0v.html?page=-1

oddly, rather connected. though that was not intentional.

courtesy

jenndolari, by way of

interactiveleaf:

"No, Moslems don't believe that Jesus was the messiah.

Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu'uran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. There's still Jesus, but he's not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn't shown up yet.

Jews like the first movie, but ignored the sequels. Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third one doesn't count. Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second one so much they started writing fanfic that doesn't fit with ANY of the series canon."

This pisses me right off. This goes right up there on the list of "what the hell were you thinking when you made THAT rule", along with making it illegal to leave your keys in your car, lest it be stolen. Because obviously, it's not the fault of the car thief, they were totally innocent and your dangling keys FORCED them to jack your damn rig.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/05/craigs.list.prostitution/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Seems obvious to me that the people posting child-prostitution ads are the ones in the wrong here, not the website. What's next? Shall we ban phones because people call their drug dealers? BAH!

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and this one:

A 9 year old who was raped by her stepfather and impregnated got an abortion.

Abortion is only permitted in Brazil in cases of rape and where the mother's life is at risk and doctors say the girl's case met both these conditions.... The Catholic Church tried to intervene to prevent the abortion going ahead but the procedure was carried out on Wednesday. Now a Church spokesman says all those involved, including the child's mother and the doctors, are to be excommunicated.

So, rather than excommunicate the rapist, pedophile, sick bastard step-father, we'll ex-communicate the mother and doctors who're trying to salvage the girl's life? WRONG FUCKING TARGET! How very kind of them to spare the child's soul excommunication due to her age. Maybe they could get a brain and decided it's good to spare the kid's body a pregnancy and childbirth (of twins, no less!) due to her age too? And Christians wonder why so many people look askance at them.

or so they say. And then their supporters act like this...

http://vimeo.com/2053489?pg=embed&sec=2053489

Submitting faith to proof is absurd. Reason defines one kind of reality (what we know); faith defines another (what we don't know). Reasonable believers can live with both at once. Watching representatives of the two camps duke it out has become an intellectual blood sport with no winner. Hitchens's latest opponent was Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, a Roman Catholic priest and physicist who spoke movingly of the importance of both science and faith in his life and declined to say much beyond that. "Faith," he said, "is like trying to explain to your uncomprehending family why you have fallen in love with so-and-so. They have all the arguments, and you can understand what they're saying, but you can't help it, you're in love." Hitchens, cruising for a fight, evoked barbaric religious practices, evil done in the name of God, immorality disguised as theology. Over and over, the priest expressed his sympathy and agreement. He reminded me a little bit of Ferdinand the bull, the children's book character who refuses to gore the matador, in spite of all provocation. Albacete's God is not the one Hitchens objects to, and that, he seemed to say, is that.

From Lisa Miller's article "Arguing Against the Atheists" in Newsweek, October 6.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/161225

At least this time, they aren't pastors specifically close to any of the candidates. But that doesn't stop them from coming across with the crazy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802365.html

CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 28 -- Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of "severe moral schizophrenia."

The point of this, is that there's a group of pastors trying to get in trouble so they can start a (high-profile; if they weren't doing this for the attention, they'd just start an initiative, right?) legal action to overturn the ban on tax-exempt church officials telling their congregations how to vote. That whole separation of church and state thing? Apparently not important. I mean, I guess I can see a point about how just because the state can't tell you how to worship doesn't mean your church can't tell you who to vote for. But I do seriously think that if places are going to get wound up in politics, it should be the same for them as for any other business; pay your taxes, record all your donations, etc.

I found this an amusingly horrid mangling of a (much abused) quote:
"We want people when you prick them, they bleed the word of God," Rev. Ron Johnson Jr. said.

And reading further, I think I'd be insulted if I was one of this man's parishioners. Apparently, they're all too oblivious and/or stupid to cope with this world.

Asked why he felt the need to discuss the candidates by name and to be explicit in rejecting Obama and his pro-choice views, Johnson said he must connect the dots because he is not sure that all members of his congregation can do so on their own.

sep dc = 24

Driving away Fred Phelps: http://friendlyatheist.com/4718/how-to-make-fred-phelps-disappear/

New comic. I haven't read it yet, but it comes with Uncle Warren Ellis' recommendation: http://www.paulsizer.com/bpm/2008/06/bpm-page-01.html

Good stuffs!

From

dindrane: http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

From

interactiveleaf: http://antispore.com/2008/09/08/spore/
http://antispore.com/2008/09/11/understand-my-beliefs-please/
It's worth reading the whole thing, and some of the comments as well. If you don't have time though, just read the last entry. But make sure you read it all the way through, it's SO worth it.

From

evil_egg: http://www.qntm.org/?board

Enjoy.

So it seems that all of the grand political contenders in the current race are plagued with inconvenient religious leaders.

We've all heard about Obama's racist pastor problems, and McCain's issues with the "Katrina is God's punishment for gays" pastor endorsement.

And now Pastor Ed Kalnin, the senior pastor of Palin's former Pentecostal church, has also come under fire for his comments. In 2004, he told church members if they voted for John Kerry for president, they wouldn't get into heaven. He told them, "I question your salvation."

Yep, that's right, God says vote Republican or burn.

So, who's got the word on what church Biden goes to? Let's keep this balanced, folks.

And just to add to the fun, here's the lyrics of a song I absolutely love. Voltaire's ( God Thinks )

snagged from

interactiveleaf: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/09/how_to_avoid_the_gay_agenda_up.php

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/ksc/725674463.html

This is grand. Ganked from

sagaciouslu

http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/all-time-classic-creationist-pwnage/

Bad Science is a lovely column written by a doctor in England to dispute misconceptions and misleading science in media. Generally witty and fun, and quite informative.

This particular episode involves an exchange between Andrew Schlafly (of right-wing/conservepedia fame) and Richard Lenski (a researcher who's been monitoring genetic changes in E. Coli colonies for the past 20 years). It is quite hilarious.

This amuses me.
Fight the homophobic by starting ultra-uber-hyper-conservative initiatives? why not, logic hasn't worked.

http://www.wa-doma.org/Default.aspx

America, Not Keith Ellison, Decides What Book a Congressman Takes His Oath On
By Dennis Prager
Prager’s writing is indented, mine isn’t

( lengthy )

...is such a fun phrase. But totally applicable in this case. It seems that PeTA, ever on the search for people to chastize, has sent emails berating Reverend Jason Armstrong in Anchorage, Alaska for subjecting animals "to cruel treatment and danger," by forcing them into roles in the church's annual manger scene.

The catch here is that PeTA's research folks failed to look at what they were slinging mud towards. The only animals shivering in the cold in THIS Nativity are (human) members of the good Reverend's congregation.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/oddities/743548/peta_mistakenly_targets_alaska_church/index.html

by the by--I've received 2 more emails from PeTA begging for money for dog houses. It seems that so far this year, they may be able to get dog houses for THREE hundred dogs. Maybe they should take the salary that Jackie Vergerio, (PETA's captive animals in entertainment specialist--in charge of the above harrassment) away and buy more dog houses with that?

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