Archive for May, 2006
The Myth About School Prayer
Yesterday I wrote about the interruption of a public school ceremony by Christian students after they lost the opportunity to say a Christian prayer as a part of the ceremony. Today, I would like to address one of the myths about school prayer. The myth is that students should be able to pray in [...]
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Another Anti-Atheist Rabbi
First, we had Rabbi Gellman writing about “angry atheists”. Now we have Rabbi Shafram who thinks we are little better than hit men for the Mafia:
…the notion that there is no higher authority than nature is precisely what enables the vast majority of the killers, rapists and thieves who populate the nightly news.
Utter bullshit. Anyone [...]
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What It’s All About: Power
Go Get Yourself Some Power, Progressives:
What this means is that we have to make being progressive in politicians’ self-interest, and acting as a right-winger against their self-interest.
You see, politicians care about getting elected, and that’s pretty much all they can afford to care about. You can’t blame them for this, just like you can’t [...]
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Keeping Atheism Simple
Several months ago I came across a discussion wherein a (self-proclaimed) pastor had managed to start an argument amongst atheists by registering a complaint about atheists who claimed there were no gods. It took the atheists maybe a page or two, but they did forget the pastor. I don’t think more than one [...]
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Fear, Respect and God
First, it was very confusing for the people in the beginning of the ages in biblical history. God seemed to be a wrathful God, killing thousands, and thousands. Unfortunately, people later developed the wrong perception of God Himself. What the people didn’t realize that God was trying to teach them something. To fear Him, then [...]
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Iraqi Police Murder Teenager
According to a news report by KNX, the Iraqi police removed a young man from his home and executed him in the street for alleged homosexual activity.
Ahmed Khalil was accused of corrupting the community and creating a scandal because he had sex with men. “Ahmed was, in fact, a victim of poverty. He sold his [...]
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Teacher Fired Over Fertility Treatment
In another damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation another Catholic schoolteacher has been fired. In the past teachers have been fired for being pro-choice, for having children outside of marriage and now for having twins via in vitro fertilization.
After five years trying to conceive, Kelly and Eric Romenesko decided to try [...]
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