Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve heard that the US Ambassador to Libya was killed during protests in response to an un-watchble movie on YouTube. Some of my friends were Tweeting about the topic and one idea popped up that is especially dangerous in my mind. @obsolete29 @jacques_thekit We can’t base it entirely […]
Category Archives: religion
Hope Christian School In New Mexico Rejects 3-Year-Old Because Of Gay Parents
Awesome! Hope Christian School, a partially publicly funded religion-based institution in Albuquerque, N.M., has garnered local media attention after denying a 3-year-old admittance because he has two gay fathers, KOAT-TV reports. Emphasis mine. Am I missing something here? How can a school that receives part of it’s funding from tax payer dollars, discriminate against a […]
RE: blaming the shooting on a waning fear of God and Hell
I’ve fallen behind on my RSS reader a bit and I came across this nice little bit of reporting. blamed the American Civil Liberties Union for destroying the public school system by supposedly forbidding students from reading the Bible. “You wonder why all these terrible things are happening to us when there is no fear […]
Colorado Shooting
PZ Myers summed up my thoughts on the gunman pretty well so I won’t reiterate them here. While reading some news articles about it I came across this quote: The man pointed a gun at Jennifer Seeger, her mother said. The young woman slid onto the floor with a friend and crawled as bullets flew around her, […]
Chick-fil-A and gay marriage
The president of Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, recently reiterated his stance against gay marriage. Gretchen Koch had an excellent response . You aren’t just grateful for what you have. You don’t just support what you have. You condemn what other people have and want to have, and are doing your best to make sure they don’t […]
Religious freedom for me but none for thee
I’m a little late to this one but Louisiana is the latest in the game of “We only care about our religious freedom but not yours”. Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Watson, says she had no idea that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s overhaul of the state’s educational system might mean taxpayer support of Muslim schools. “I actually support funding for […]
RE: State Rep Rick Womick, Religious Liberty
So I was having a conversation on Twitter with TN State Representative Rick Womick and he said something that flabbergasted me: @obsolete29 It most certainly is for those of us who believe in God. Marriage throughout history has always been between a man and a woman. — Rick Womick (@RickWomick) June 23, 2012 My response to Rep […]
Murfreesboro mosque
I read that a Judge ordered that the construction on the Murfressboro mosque has to stop because of a technicality on the approval process. I’m no friend of religion or Islam and I think that our society would be better off without either but I just can’t believe how little respect for the basic ideas of our […]
The Bible is Wrong About Sexuality
Dan Savage is a sex advice columnist and creator of the It Gets Better Project. Dan does a lot of work to fight against LGBT teen bullying. I’m a huge fan of Dan; especially his podcast. Dan was invited to speak as a keynote speaker at NSPA / JEA’s annual High School Journalism convention, Journalism on the Edge. His […]
Atheists in Church: God is Watching
As my friends know, my wife Jen is a Christian and goes to church pretty regular. Check out my initial post, our Atheist-Christian marriage for some more background. Well today she invited me to church and I wanted to jot down my thoughts on part of the sermon. I often say that we (humans) can […]