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The Most Hated Family in America

Aug

2010

Brave British reporter spends three weeks with the Phelps family (aka: Westboro Baptist Church): MORE AT ATHEISTNATION.NET Watching that video makes me grateful for my dad. He once showed up at the frontdoor with a loaded rifle in one hand. Why? He didn’t want members of our mother’s insane church on the property. Living with ...

Islam, Italy & Women

Aug

2010

It looks like the anti-Muslim bug that’s been going around has finally made it’s way to southern Europe. Apparently, Italy is one of those countries that not only gives money to religion, but has a list of “official” religions. Islam is not one of them and, if the bigots have their way, won’t become one ...

YouTube – Mr. Deity and the Denial

Aug

2010

Buddhism: Not biased, just sexist

Aug

2010

Most religious groups balk at the idea of a woman being in charge. In fact, the Catholic church recently stating that ordaining women is on par with raping children. Other Christian groups have split because a woman was allowed to do more than clean the sanctuary. Not so with Buddhism. None other than the Dalai ...

Team Jesus vs. Team Mohammed

Aug

2010

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Extremist Makeover – Team Mohammed vs. Team Jesus www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

There is no Ground Zero Mosque

Aug

2010

Keith Olbermann is not one of my favourite people, but his recent comments on the Islamic community center in NYC is awesome.

Christianity’s latest (absurd) whine

Apr

2009

A few weeks or so ago a British man managed to get the Church of England to officially recognize that he was no longer a member. As a result of the publicity somewhere around 100 thousand Brits have downloaded the form requesting the church quit counting them as members. As you’ve probably guessed from the ...

Bi-religious priest gets the boot

Apr

2009

Here’s something for the ‘can’t make this crap up’ file via CNN: For nearly 30 years, Redding has been an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. Her priesthood ended Wednesday when she was defrocked. The reason? For the past three years Redding has been both a practicing Christian and a Muslim. Redding apparently believes there’s ...

The patriarchy made flesh

Mar

2009

From Cath Elliot’s article about how religion makes life a living hell for women: To the men of religion, women’s lives simply do not matter: "respect for life" never ever means "respect for a woman’s life." And they show it every chance they get. From disowning the mother of a child rape victim to getting ...

Freedom of religion is freedom from religion

Mar

2009

Atheist billboards and bus signs are spreading like a wildfire across North America so I suppose it’s about time some Christian said something so intensely stupid you just know they haven’t given two seconds of thought to what they said. The Christian I write about is Bryan Fischer, executive director of Idaho Values Alliance, who ...