If thy left hand offend thee, sit on it
The Jews banned pig from the menu and the Christians suggested self mutilation in order to escape offending themselves. So, what’s a Muslim to do?
Why state the devil uses his left hand to eat and drink with and thus forbid each other from eating and drinking with their respective left hands.
(Via Atheist Media):
The first thing I thought of was my mother and her sister - both left-handers and both religious zealots. Not too sure about the sister who’d usually choose death over embarrassment, but if my mother was alive and Christianity made such a claim, I could see her sitting on her left hand. She did, after all, decide that any one who wasn’t a Baptist was plain evil after years of not liking Baptists because they called every one else evil.
Screaming to commence in 3…2…1…
The religious right and other assorted religious bigots love to scream about how they’re being persecuted here in America. Some are so damned bad they’ve declared telling them to leave you alone is an act of persecution.
The fact of the matter is that Christians are in fact persecuted in the United States. One such Christian is Barack Obama who has went through months of having his Christian beliefs attacked.
For example, the following video:
Surely the religious right and the rest of the bigots will start screaming about this attack on Obama’s deeply held religious beliefs?
Nah, of course not. They are the one’s attacking Obama’s religious beliefs as this the video is by the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. It’s mission states that it intends “to advance religious liberty by protecting Christians from defamation, discrimination and bigotry from any and all sources…”
So what we have here is the religious right admitting once again that they define “defamation, discrimination and bigotry” as disagreement with them.
No need to pray sayeth Reverend Ray
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times - if you but prayed to God you’d find out that God was real and wouldn’t be the disgusting atheist that you are.
Well, it looks like the game has changed. Atheists no longer need to pray. Just ask Ray Comfort who apparently accidentally deleted yet another post titled “Good News”. Atheists do not have to pray anymore. In fact, an atheist who prays is doing little more than wasting their time.
Thus typed the Right Reverend Ray (JPEG of Google Alert):
Atheists–there’s no point in you praying though. God says that He will not hear you, because of your sin and your proud heart. He resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
We atheists generally being of no conviction that the entire universe was created to amuse us and also generally snorting at the idea that it’s alleged creator would commit [temporary] suicide over us are, by default, “proud” and incapable of being “humble”.
So, the next time some silly Christian tells ya to pray to God, tell ‘em the Right Reverend Ray said God was on a smoke break - permanently.
Something to do
Every so often I get into a cleaning mood, today is that day so that’s what I’ve spent the day doing. Cleaning. As a Domestic Ringmaster (aka: stay at home mom) I suppose it’s my job anyway, but I enjoy ignoring that part of the deal.
Anyway, here’s something for ya’ll to do. Some professor (via Friendly Atheist) is doing a survey of atheists about coming out of our various closets and I thought I’d pass it along.
On the same subject to a certain degree I’d like to recommend Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America’s Nonbelievers
Of the active atheists, he found with great surprise that they can be as dogmatic and close-minded as the staunchest bible-thumping Protestant.
Personally, I ain’t insulted as I find a lot to respect about “the staunchest bible-thumping Protestant[s]“. Anyone who actually has the courage of their convictions gets an “A” in my class.
Now, it’s back to cleaning for me. Have a nice “whatever time of day it is for you”.
XXXtian Babes gets pulled by Baptists
When it comes to the excitement over Sarah Palin being offered the VP slot no one seems to exude it more than the religious right. Tony Perkins, a Southern Baptist and president of FRC, declared her nomination “an outstanding pick”.
The key words in that last sentence is “Southern Baptist” and if there’s one thing the typical southern Baptist man may hate more than a gay man it’s a woman who doesn’t know her place. While they may bitch about birth control, abortion and divorce, what really gets them going is women pastors.
So it’s no surprise that they’ve pulled the latest issue of Gospel Today from the shelves of Lifeway Christian Bookstore, a national chain run by the SBC because the cover has a photo of women in bikinis women who are pastors in their respective churches.
What’s been amusing however is how much the leaders are pretending that they’re not being hypocrites in their support for Palin while continuing to insist women must be “servant leaders” never just plain leaders like the men.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
You’ll note that there’s no asterisk referring one to a note that “sit down and shut the fuck up” only applies at home and church but never in public.
Southern Baptists. Keeping the Hypocrisy in Religion since 1845.
Ike was here…
And he tore up our neighbour’s fence.
Besides some trees that were uprooted/snapped, that appears to be the worst of the damage in our neighbourhood. We all have electricity, water and cable as of tonight so we’re sitting pretty compared to the rest of the region.
And that’s about it. I’m just too damned tired to post anything else.
McCain: Obama made me lie
John McCain has taken to running a nasty campaign by releasing a series of smear ads aimed at Obama. Yesterday at the national service forum McCain was asked why his campaign has gotten so nasty. His response? Obama made him do it.
Questioned about the tone of the campaign, Sen. McCain insisted he was running an issues-based campaign and put the blame on his opponent for refusing to join him in town hall meetings.
“First of all this is a tough business,” the Arizona senator said. “Second of all, I think the tone of this whole campaign would’ve been very different if Sen. Obama had accepted my request for us to appear at town hall meetings all over America.”
This is where John McCain is at. He’s absolutely obsessed with being POTUS and he doesn’t care how he gets there. People keep saying McCain will be Bush’s third term. I disagree. McCain will be Karl Rove’s third term.
On a related note, here’s a video by Brave New Films countering the attack ads McCain has been putting out.
It’s almost kind of sad. McCain used to be decent enough for a Republican but I guess that’s over and the new message is “DC or Bust”.
