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May 2, 2007:
Vatican says "It is terrorism" to criticize the Catholic Church| |
Excerpt: "This, too, is terrorism. It's terrorism to launch attacks on the Church," it said. "It's terrorism to stoke blind and irrational rage against someone who always speaks in the name of love, love for life and love for man."
Comment: Even more than most of the men who've recently worn the Vatican funny hat, Pope Benedict often seems to confuse himself with God. |
April 13, 2007:
Theocrats infiltrate U.S. government| |
Excerpt: The infiltration of the federal government by large numbers of people seeking to impose a religious agenda -- which is very different from simply being people of faith -- is one of the most important stories of the last six years. It's also a story that tends to go underreported, perhaps because journalists are afraid of sounding like conspiracy theorists.
But this conspiracy is no theory. The official platform of the Texas Republican Party pledges to "dispel the myth of the separation of church and state." And the Texas Republicans now running the country are doing their best to fulfill that pledge. |
March 13, 2007:
Sane Christians know, "The Rapture is a racket"| |
Comment: When con-men regale Christians with tales of the Rapture (for a price) or when war-makers like George W Bush claim to be Christians, there's no more vivid example of taking God's name in vain. |
Dec. 28, 2006:
How old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service won't say.| |
Excerpt: Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
"In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology," stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. "It is disconcerting that the official position of a national park as to the geologic age of the Grand Canyon is 'no comment.'" |
Oct. 5, 2006:
Amidst mourning after murders, Amish turn to forgiveness| |
Comment: This is a Christian response of forgiveness -- not at all easy, but exactly the response you'd expect of Jesus himself, and exactly the opposite of anything you'd expect from such outspoken charlatans as Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson or George Bush. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK
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Aug. 8, 2006:
Cheering for apocalypse, evangelical lunatics counsel Bush White House| |
Comment: This Christian-Zionist thing sickens me. To work for war to fulfill a prophecy is a heinous sin, and criminal.
To make a comparison to illustrate the point, just because Jesus foretold that he would be betrayed doesn't mean that you would want to be the Judas to betray him. Likewise, to kill thousands, even millions of people hoping that that speeds up the return of Jesus is just sick.
You don't want to be the person responsible for killing those people when Jesus does return!
Mr. Chuckles PERMANENT LINK |
Aug. 8, 2006:
Math is bad, because it isn't Christian!| |
Excerpt: Math is Bad, because it's not explicitly christian. I mean, it uses zero, which was invented by a Hindu, and brought to europe by Muslims. Algebra was invented by Muslims! The word "algorithm" comes from the name of a Muslim mathematician!
... "What makes this calculus course distinctly Christian? What makes this different from the local secular university? Are we using the same text? Yes. Are you teaching it the same way? Yes. Then why is this called a Christian college and that one a non-Christian college?" |
Aug. 4, 2006:
Another Rapture writer says he advises White House| |
Comment: Most Americans were raised in Christian families. Nothing wrong with that.
But for some 'Christians', Christ's own teachings are easily discarded. For these believers, the Bible does not have a happy ending, and all of human history is just preamble for the end times. Many of these people see wars in the Middle East as a sign of the coming end times — as "good news." To these people, the more war, the better.
And these are the people advising the White House?
Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
July 12, 2006:
Jerusalem's Christians, Jews, and Muslims,
stand together in condemnation of gays| |
Comment: This is why I'm agnostic. I don't have enough hate in me to practice any of the world's religions. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
July 10, 2006:
Christian group sues to unite church and state| |
Excerpt: A 29-foot war memorial shaped like a cross should be allowed to remain on public land. A teacher should be able to emphasize references to God in the Declaration of Independence. Protesters should be permitted to approach women near the doors of an abortion clinic.
These courtroom fights and dozens of others pending across the country belong to the portfolio of the ambitious Alliance Defense Fund, a socially conservative legal consortium. It spends $20 million a year seeking to protect what it regards as the place of religion — and especially Christianity — in public life.
Considering itself the antithesis of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Scottsdale-based organization has used money and moxie to become the leading player in a movement to tug the nation to the right by challenging decades of legal precedent. By stepping into the nation's most impassioned debates about religion in the public sphere, the group aims to bring law and society into alignment with conservative Christianity. |
June 15, 2006:
Pope warned Hawking not to investigate origin of cosmos| |
Excerpt: World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God. |
June 14, 2006:
Sun Myung Moon money flows to Bush family| |
Excerpt: Over the past quarter century, South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon has been one of the Bush family’s major benefactors -- both politically and financially -- while enjoying what appears to be protection against federal investigations into evidence that his cult-like organization has functioned as a criminal enterprise.
Indeed, the newest disclosure about Moon funneling money to a Bush family entity bears many of the earmarks of Moon’s business strategy of laundering money through a complex maze of front companies and cut-outs so it can’t be easily followed. In this case, according to an article in the Houston Chronicle, Moon’s Washington Times Foundation gave $1 million to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, which in turn acted as a conduit for donations to the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. |
May 30, 2006:
Faux Christian nutballs in a dither over BC and AD| |
Excerpt: In April, state board of education members approved a proposal to include BCE, or Before Common Era and C.E. for Common Era with the traditionally used terms B.C., or Before Christ and A.D., for Anno Domini, or in the year of our Lord.
... Emotions ran high at the hearing on the issue, which could be revisited by the board at its June 13-14 meeting. Opponents of the bill say it is an attack on their faith. |
May 29, 2006:
"Christian" leader supports slavery, prostitution, forced abortions in U.S. Mariana Islands| |
Comment: A year after the Interior Dept reported that Chinese workers, brought to the US Mariana Islands to work at sub-minimum wage, were being forced into prostitution and forced to have abortions, faux Christian leader was calling for, basically, more of the same.
Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
May 24, 2006:
School fires teacher, apparently as retaliation for her ACLU work| |
Excerpt: Dr. Patricia Kilzer, a nontenured Munford High teacher who was the faculty adviser for the newly formed ACLU campus chapter has lost her teaching job.
School officials gave her the news that they would not be renewing her contract on May 12. That's the same day a letter was faxed to the school by an attorney representing the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee. The letter requested that the school cancel all prayers during Monday night's graduation program.
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May 18, 2006:
Judge, four others assassinated in Turkey, apparently over headscarves| |
Comment: The women's head, her clothes, where she works, goes to school -- I get the impression that the men can do any damn thing they want but if the women get out of line, there is hell to pay.
Usually by the women.
Chris M. LINK |
April 13, 2006:
The Christians you can't see on TV
by Ron Buford, The Capital Times [Madison, WI]
April 12, 2006:
Dozens arrested at Brigham Young protest against Mormon Church's anti-gay bigotry
March 9, 2006:
Missouri proposes Christianity as official religion
March 1, 2006:
Los Angeles Archdiocese will ignore anti-immigrant bill, if it becomes law
Feb. 17, 2006:
Exorcism: Abusing the already abused
by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Christian churches have child abuse scandals coming out pretty often. How do you think this affects the kids involved when they grow up? These kids are confused, and if they can't trust someone, a person who won't take advantage or harm them, they will grow into messed up adults. |
Feb. 6, 2006:
Radical Islamic fundamentalism; radical Christian fundamentalism: Two different versions of hate
by Leigh Saavedra, My Town| |
Excerpt: Embassies are being burned down this time, protesters are marching in London with placards calling for beheadings, westerners are turning to their pacifist friends and wagging their "I-told-you-so" tongues. If hate begets hate, surely one step up the food chain for either side begets a separate but equal portion of hate. Far smaller things have led to real-life wars, those that leave irreparably dead bodies and wasted land and a legacy of hate in their wake. |
Jan. 26, 2006:
School district bills Liberty Counsel for costs incurred by untrue "War on Christmas" tale
Jan. 17, 2006:
Churches that campaigned for Ohio Republican face IRS complaint
Dec. 30, 2005:
House bill would make it illegal to aid undocumented immigrants
Nov. 25, 2005:
Is there a black and white to right and wrong?
by Pissed Off, Unknown News
Aug. 23, 2005:
The end of science, and the dawn of the new dark ages
by Elizabeth Q., Unknown News
Aug. 5, 2005:
The question behind the question of evolution and intelligent design
by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News
May 12, 2005:
Whistleblowing chaplain fired at Air Force Academy
April 26, 2005:
A Pope to be ashamed of
by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News
Feb. 15, 2005:
Pharisee bation
by John Dear, Common Dreams| |
Excerpt: Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Baptist college in Pennsylvania. After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I took the stage and got right to the point. “Now let me get this straight,” I said. “Jesus says, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,’ which means he does not say, ‘Blessed are the warmakers,’ which means, the warmakers are not blessed, which means warmakers are cursed, which means, if you want to follow the nonviolent Jesus you have to work for peace, which means, we all have to resist this horrific, evil war on the people of Iraq.”
With that, the place exploded, and 500 students stormed out. The rest of them then started chanting, “Bush! Bush! Bush!” |
Jan. 14, 2005:
Scientists study religious faith
Dec. 18, 2004:
44% of Americans oppose freedom for U.S. Muslims
Nov. 30, 2004:
It's religion, stupid
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News
Oct. 4, 2004:
Rev. Robertson says: If Bush 'touches' Jerusalem, we'll form a third party
July 27, 2004:
Separation of church and state
by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News
July 9, 2004:
Who would Jesus vote for?
by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News
May 16, 2004:
Cleavage gets 13-year-old sent home from Catholic school
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