'Not gonna go!' Boy, 7, drives away in family car to skip church

For a 7-year-old, his driving wasn't too bad, Anderson said.

"He had a few near misses, but he didn't hit anything or crash."

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Backfire

President Jimmy Carter. God I love him. He wrote this editorial in the Age (australia). Read the whole thing. Here's a sample:

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. Nor, tragically, does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue or temple. This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a Higher Authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women's equal rights across the world for centuries.

At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.

The impact of these religious beliefs touches every aspect of our lives. They help explain why in many countries boys are educated before girls; why girls are told when and whom they must marry; and why many face enormous and unacceptable risks in pregnancy and childbirth because their basic health needs are not met.

He'll be ripped to shreds, again. By people with 1/10th the heart. 1/10th the compassion. And clearly, 1/1000 the ability to think about what they believe in.

On a related note. This paper talks about the tendency of conservatives, when confronted with information contrary to (falsely) held beliefs, to harden their stance. Let's hear it for the obstinate fuckers.

A Step in the Right Direction?

The church is located on the corner of Church and Gay Street. Don't judge.

Dinochrist

Arizona state Senator Sylvia Allen (R)

Woah there Senator. Back up a little.

How old?

Christian Symposium On Aliens Ancient of Days 2009 Roswell UFO Conference

The vision of this symposium as organized by the selfless hard work of Guy Malone and others of alienresistance.org and ancientofdays.net is “to present the Biblical evidence that the phenomenon and entities commonly referred to as “aliens” by popular culture are indeed spiritual in nature as opposed to genuinely extraterrestrial and is best described as the activity of ‘fallen angels’ interested in deceiving mankind away from the knowledge of the true God and gospel of His Son and our Lord, Jesus Christ.”

The Mission of the symposium is to assemble many of the most noted Christian authors and researchers in the field of ‘alien’ research so that others may benefit from their consensus view and combined decades of research and ministry and thus equip the Body of Christ to not be deceived by these ‘seducing spirits and doctrines of devils’ (1 Timothy 4:1) and perhaps most importantly to effectively minister to those currently bound and tormented by their influence.”

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