From the monthly archives:

June 2006

  1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans ™ always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
  2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
  3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
  4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
  5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
  6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
  7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
  8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
  9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
  10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

Via Consistently Inconsistent

FYI: I do not hate gay people nor do I support any attempts to legally discriminate against them.  In other words, this post is pure snark aimed at the idiocy of the bigots who think that “CIVILIZATION ITSELF!!!!!” will end if gay people are afforded the same rights and privileges we straight people enjoy.

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Secular Fundamentalists?

by Karen on June 29, 2006

in Politics, Religion

Vjack of Atheist Revolution has a post up about the use of the phrase ’secular fundamentalists’ in a book he is reading. Apparently, the author thinks that the opposite of theocratic rule is secularism. I’ve encountered that kind of thinking in RL and I think it is somewhat of a misnomer.

The exact opposite of stamping “God” on everything is stamping “No Gods” on everything not removing “God” from everything. Under an atheocratic rule ‘In God We Trust’ becomes ‘In Gods We Do Not Trust’ and ‘One Nation, Under God’ becomes ‘One Nation, Under No Gods’ and so on and so forth.

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Alien Flower Desktop Pic

June 28, 2006

Just thought I’d share a wallpaper that I made in Photoshop from a picture of a Bird of Paradise:

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Constitution Wins by One Vote

June 28, 2006

Despite the best efforts of elected officials which included 13 Democrats - the Constitution won by one vote in the race to defame the deaths of countless Americans who have died and continue to die in service to it.

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Is Religious Fanaticism a Disease?

June 27, 2006

We often hear of alcholism and other addiction disorders as being ‘diseases’. Now, personally, I’ve always had a problem with calling such things diseases. A disease is generally something that you can catch - like Hep-B or often just something that happens in our bodies such as cancer. It’s generally [...]

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New Scam: Iraqi War Booty & The US Army

June 27, 2006

Heard of the Nigerian scammers? Well, they’ve apparently relocated to Italy and are now a ‘faction’ of US soldiers in Iraq who need help getting their war booty out of the country:
Dear Friend,
My name is, Major. Jeffrey Burton and i represent a faction of American soldiers,serving in the military of the 1st Armored [...]

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Reframing the Abortion Debate

June 27, 2006

In the June/July edition of the Free Inquiry Eileen McDonagh writes that it is time to reframe the abortion debate in the wake of South Dakota declaring that a fetus is a person. I think this is a great article and reminds us that something has been lost in the debate.
A woman has the [...]

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God & The Problem of Evil

June 26, 2006

The problem of evil is the reconciliation of the existence of evil (or suffering) with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent god. In sum it is:

God exists

God is omnipotent
God is benevolent
Benevolent beings are opposed to all evil.

God is opposed to all evil.

God can eliminate evil completely.

Whatever end result of suffering, [...]

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When Christians Clash

June 25, 2006

This video is a great demostration of what happens in a debate when both sidesbase their positions on the existence of an imaginary being revealed to them in a body of text that can be interpreted to support all kinds ofpositions.
Both women are Christians and the views of each can be found in the Bible. [...]

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Do you think you're a good person?

June 23, 2006

Do you think you’re a good person? Want to test that theory? Click here.
Me? Evil. I’ve:

Stolen batteries (Hey! I was four! Give me a break!).
Avoided religious services like the plague since my emancipation.
been completely converted to “Jesus Frigging Christ on a Pogo Stick”.
just told a lie - I actually [...]

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