I’m going to try to come at this as objectively as possible to see if it makes any more sense without my samurai sword of subjectivity towards this particular topic. Let me know.
Christian-based materials dominate a growing home-school education market that encompasses more than 1.5 million students in the U.S. And for most home-school parents, a Bible-based version of the Earth’s creation is exactly what they want. Federal statistics from 2007 show 83 percent of home-schooling parents want to give their children “religious or moral instruction.”
Change the word U.S. to Germany and 2007 to 1900 and that seems like something you would read in Hitler’s biography. Speaking completely objectively, shouldn’t home schooling be illegal? There are enough schools out there that you should be able to find a decent one. Home schooling’s intelligence is like calling yourself a home dentist because you have a silverware set.
“The majority of home-schoolers self-identify as evangelical Christians,” said Ian Slatter, a spokesman for the Home School Legal Defense Association. “Most home-schoolers will definitely have a sort of creationist component to their home-school program.”
Oh good.
“Those who do not believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God will find many points in this book puzzling,” says the introduction to “Biology: Third Edition” from Bob Jones University Press. “This book was not written for them.” The textbook delivers a religious ultimatum to young readers and parents, warning in its “History of Life” chapter that a “Christian worldview … is the only correct view of reality; anyone who rejects it will not only fail to reach heaven but also fail to see the world as it truly is.”
In case you missed it…this is a Biology book, not a Theology book. You might as well write a biology book based on the board game “Operation”. Fuck me. Where’s my sword.
You have to hand it to those orators who can inspire and spread love and hope even at desparate times. There is nothing like the sound of voices united in good, quelling the shortcomings of hatred. Nothing can compare to a united population, teaming up to r-
On August 16th, Pastor Steven Anderson delivered a sermon titled “Why I Hate Barack Obama.” In it, Anderson admitted he prays for the president’s death.
Oh. Well there must be some kind of mistake. No priest would condone the use of vio-
Pastor Steven Anderson said he and his congregation have received death threats after the controversial sermon earlier this month. “Guns are a great deterrent,” said Anderson. “We haven’t had any violence because people know if they come down here swinging a baseball bat, we’re ready to protect ourselves.”
Does anyone have a clue anymore what the message of the Bible is or do people sell books of violence, murder and revulsion with a cover that says, “byeBEL”?
“If you want to know how I’d like to see Obama die, I’d like him to die of natural causes,” said Anderson. ”I don’t want him to be a martyr, we don’t need another holiday. I’d like to see him die, like Ted Kennedy, of brain cancer.”
At least we can feel some comfort that his constiuents do not stand for this mes-
Yet members of the Faithful Word Baptist Church defended their pastor’s opinion of the president. “If (Obama) thinks the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are obsolete, it would be better if (Obama) wasn’t here,” said parishioner Renee Houlihan.
Renee Houlihan? Of the famous “Houlihan’s Restaurant & Bar” bloodline, perhaps? Lady, if you think the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are obsolete under Obama, were we operating under the charter of “Leif Erickson’s Viking Rule” when Bush was president? See if I ever eat any onion rings at YOUR restaurant ever again!
Christopher Broughton says,”I concur, I think we’d be better off if God would send (Obama) where he’s going now instead of later. (Obama) is destroying our country.” When asked if he was advocating violence against the President, Broughton said he wouldn’t answer the question directly. ”I don’t care how God does it, I’m not going into further detail than that,” said Broughton. “It would be better now than later.”
Yeah God, you hear that! Get off your ass and start killing innocent people already, or give me a sign and I’ll do it for you! A sign can be anything from a sunrise to a sunset. Just give me something! Woooooooo!
I do give organized religion a bad rap, but sometimes a religious story makes me bite my tongue and rethink my fervent stand against its sometimes misunderstood stances. This story isn’t one of those, and in fact, it made me bite my tongue in shock.
A Christian group in Michigan has filed a lawsuit alleging that a package of hate crimes laws named after murder victim Matthew Shepard is an affront to their religious freedom.
Yeah! Cause if we want to torture and kill people for their physiological differences – all in the name of Jesus Christ – then we’re gonna do it! Yay God!
Haven’t we had enough with organized religion by now? My issue isn’t with the basis of religion, itself. My issue is with the fact that idiot humans are left to openly interpret things on their own 2000 years later that was written in a language that they don’t speak. It would be as if Nicholas Cage found a millenium old treasure map under the lost city of Atlantis and started to tell us what the symbols meant without having any idea what those symbols actually meant.
Filed by the Thomas More Law Center — which bills itself as the religious answer to the American Civil Liberties Union — the complaint claims that protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people “is an effort to eradicate religious beliefs opposing the homosexual agenda from the marketplace of ideas by demonizing, vilifying, and criminalizing such beliefs as a matter of federal law and policy.”
Ah yes, because the byproduct of protecting someone from being physically or mentally harmed due to their sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion seems like the un-Christian thing to do. I must have missed that part of the parable when Jesus brought that gay leper Lazarus back to life so he could torture and re-kill him. Come to think about it, I must have missed the entire section of the Bible which said, “Judge everyone else. Judge the shit out of them and throw the first stone for whatever reason befits your interests. Hate thy enemy…and fuck it, hate thy neighbor the same. And where the fuck is Judas, that cocksucking prick?”
This story might be the most mind boggling thing I’ve ever read. I just love it when religion is used to bring joy to people’s lives and make us truly understand what the word tolerance can mean. It’s magic!
After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark decided to adopt a baby boy through a state agency. Since the Burkes were young, scandal-free and solvent, they had no trouble with the New Jersey Bureau of Children’s Services,
Seems fine. What could be the problem?
—until investigators came to the line on the application that asked for the couple’s religious affiliation.
Oh here we go.
John Burke, an atheist, and his wife, a pantheist, had left the line blank…In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes’ right to the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being. Despite Eleanor Katherine’s tender years, he continued, “the child should have the freedom to worship as she sees fit, and not be influenced by prospective parents who do not believe in a Supreme Being.”
What? Read that last sentence again and tell me if your brain doesn’t want to just explode? Judge Camarata, atheists don’t raise their kids in a solitary confinement cell while sliding them plates of goop under the door while having them wipe their ass with pictures of God. Atheists are tolerant people.
Judge Camarata ordered the parents to send David’s sister back to the New Jersey adoption agency. Two weeks ago, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Burkes appealed directly to the New Jersey Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case. If they fail in their appeal, Eleanor Katherine may have to leave the only family she has ever known and await adoption by another couple whose religious convictions satisfy the State of New Jersey.
In related news: God quits.
You know what we need in this country, we should have the church and state separate by law! I bet that would finally fix all this religious fanatical nonsense and a child can be raised by loving parents, no matter what their belief or creed. Let’s start a petition for that.
Texas. We’ve written about it. We’ve laughed about it. Just like the Niceans (people from Nice, France) make the Parisians (people from…fuck that, you should know where they’re from) seem like a friendly, and altogether, warm bunch of people, Texas makes the rest of America seem logical and civilized.
Books are a common sight in classrooms around the nation, but the Bible is one book that is not. Come this fall, a Texas law says all public schools must offer information relating to the Bible in their curriculum.
What. the. fuck.
This has gained mixed reactions from East Texans. ”I think it is a good thing because a lot of kids don’t have that experience, and they already want to take prayer out of school as it is– and you see where our kids are ending up!” said Tyler resident Laura Tucker.
Laura, I wish Thomas Jefferson was here so you could bring this gripe to him and I wish I could be sitting there as he punched you in the face. You see where our kids are ending up? How about you try parenting to keep your idiot kid in order instead of relying on the power of prayer?
Dear Mexico: People don’t give you enough credit for throwing the war with Texas and leaving us a heaping pile of political and intellectual shit. Touche.
I can’t seem to figure out why people with imaginary friends, multiple personality disorders, or loss of complete brain functions are deemed “to need help” and yet this army of idiotsgets to roam the streets without medical supervision.
A Christian faith-healing clinic has opened in Christchurch offering to cure cancer, broken bones and mental illness through prayer. The New Zealand Healing Rooms clinic in Worcester St, Linwood, is set up like a doctor’s surgery, with a waiting room leading to treatment rooms, where two pastors and divine-healing technicians pray for patients.
Divine-healing technicians?!?! There’s no way they just said that! This can’t be real.
Pastor Marie Rea said they used “aggressive” prayer techniques based on the teachings of Canadian evangelist John Lake.
Unless these “aggressive” prayer techniques include chemo, surgery and pain killers, I am going to pray for these people “super aggressively” to get hit in the face by a meteorite. I hope I can outpray them.
Adele Marsh, another member of the group, said her daughter suffered from dyslexia and her handwriting was illegible. After a prayer session, her writing became legible.
Wow! What a cool God! Helping some random kid read correctly but seemingly not giving two shits about say…the children under 5 years of age that die every 15 seconds from a water related illness in places that Westerners don’t like to talk about because they don’t look like us.
It’s times like these that I am 100% convinced that we need a predator species to hunt us humans and take us out of our grand delusion. Dear God, please please please make District 9 be a documentary. We need it to be.
Haha. Get it? Best title ever? Well that is if none of the other 8 billion websites that report “news” didn’t use it first. Don’t know WTF I’m talking about? Well, the pope fell and broke his wrist.
Apparently the ‘Ol # 1 in the sky is trying to send some sort of message to the Catholic #1. Question of the day is, who do you pray to if the pope breaks his wrist?
Idiot: Dear God, did you hear?! The pope broke his wrist! It’s so awful! Please help.
God: Dear Idiot, I know. I did it. I feel like he has been trying to pull a Stringer Bell to my Avon Barksdale, and I don’t like it. I don’t trust the guy. He’s up to something and quite frankly he looks like the Emperor Palpatine, and fuck that guy, right?! Now stop wasting all my bandwidth with your stupid requests, please…Oh and I love you, you’re my sheep, you shall not want, and all that. Peace.
I would say that Gary Busey on heroin at the Full Moon Party, on Hat Rin Beach in Thailand is more level headed than this guy. Chalk another one up to religion! And don’t give me this, “Oh, but he’s manipulating the Good Book.”
Any book that can be manipulated to make some guy think what Pastor Drake thinks, needs to be taken a little more lightly. I don’t care if it’s Green Eggs and Ham. Sam, I don’t fucking want green eggs. Stop it.
In case you wanted to read more of this idiot. I’m starting my own prayer group to cancel out Pastor Drake’s prayer. At this prayer group we read from ‘Commodore 1:87″ and I hand out aluminum bats that I call, “Tolerance Sticks”. Bring a friend!
I mean, they just want to play ultimate frisbee like everyone else.
Heavily religious people (see: bigots) taking one line of a book of parables written 2 millenia ago out of context, never gets old does it?
Faith organizations and individuals who view homosexuality as sinful and refuse to provide services to gay people are losing a growing number of legal battles that they say are costing them their religious freedom.
View as sinful? I thought you crack pots believe that everyone sins? Is being gay a sssssssuper ssssssin? Thou shalt not be gay? Was there an 11th Commandment I missed? You know what are Commandments? Don’t desire your neighbors shit or his wife. And since everyone wants what they don’t have and everyone wants to bang a married chick, shouldn’t you stop servicing….everyone?
Religious freedom? That’s funny. You and Hitler had the same, “But this is what I believe” gripe. Gosh, those pesky Allies, huh? Why couldn’t they just let Hitler have his religious freedom of treating people however his religious beliefs wanted to?
Yes, I realize that Hitler practiced his beliefs a tad bit aggressively, but when a doctor refuses to artificially inseminate someone because of their sexual orientation, isn’t that being an itty bitty teenie weeny little minature baby Hitler?…..no? Still a stretch? Did someone just slide anthrax under my door?
My point is, you religious freedom wanting racist motherfuckers, why don’t you start doing the one thing your book tells you to do (be tolerant) and stop doing the one thing it tells you to not do (judge people)?
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