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Pitching Ditching Religion

Australian TV show challenges agencies to make TV commercials about banning religion – Boing Boing

Do you think a network in the USA would run something like this?

Atheist Sees Image of the Birth of Planet Earth in Burnt Toast

This genuine picture was photographed in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England by science atheist Dr. Terence Meaden earlier this month.
He could barely withhold his excitement.
“I was having breakfast when this piece of ciabatta toast got burnt,” he said. “Suddenly I was aware that the pattern of light and darkness across the toast resembled what could have been a visible manifestation of primeval events at the time that planet Earth was forming four and a half billion years ago.


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Homophobic Rabbi Thinks Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes

Leap of Faith: The making of a Republican front-runner

While looking over Bachmann’s State Senate campaign Web site, I stumbled upon a list of book recommendations. The third book on the list, which appeared just before the Declaration of Independence and George Washington’s Farewell Address, is a 1997 biography of Robert E. Lee by J. Steven Wilkins.

Wilkins is the leading proponent of the theory that the South was an orthodox Christian nation unjustly attacked by the godless North. This revisionist take on the Civil War, known as the “theological war” thesis, had little resonance outside a small group of Southern historians until the mid-twentieth century, when Rushdoony and others began to popularize it in evangelical circles. In the book, Wilkins condemns “the radical abolitionists of New England” and writes that “most southerners strove to treat their slaves with respect and provide them with a sufficiency of goods for a comfortable, though—by modern standards—spare existence.”

African slaves brought to America, he argues, were essentially lucky: “Africa, like any other pagan country, was permeated by the cruelty and barbarism typical of unbelieving cultures.” Echoing Eidsmoe, Wilkins also approvingly cites Lee’s insistence that abolition could not come until “the sanctifying effects of Christianity” had time “to work in the black race and fit its people for freedom.”

Read more and be sickened:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all

The Devil's dictionary

atheist camp rules (votes tallied)

Poll: 52 percent approve of God’s job performance

"When asked to evaluate God on some of the issues it is responsible for, voters give God its best rating on creating the universe, 71-5," the polling report said. "They also approve of its handling of the animal kingdom 56-11, and even its handling of natural disasters 50-13."


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Outlier

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George Carlin - Religion is bullshit.

believe in god?

A message so big, it breaks the blog!

Miss USA 2011 - 51 Delegates Interview (Q2 - Evolution taught in school)

Playing Favorites

Bible-Style Marriage

Texas Strangers

'Psychic' tip-off sparks police hunt for mass grave in Texas

Police in Texas are investigating whether a tip-off from a woman claiming to be a psychic that sparked a hunt for a mass grave of dismembered bodies, including children, was a hoax.

Officers raided a rural farmhouse in Hardin, north-east of Houston, after receiving a report that up to 30 bodies were hidden inside. But police gave up the search hours later after nothing untoward had been found.

"There's no crime scene," said Liberty County judge Craig McNair.

Yes well there is one really big clue as to why no bodies turned up...

...can you guess what it is?

House!

Franklin Graham: Second Coming of Christ will be on YouTube, Twitter

"Social media could have a big part" in the Second Coming of Christ, evangelist Franklin Graham said in an interview that aired Sunday.

"I believe there's no question, I believe we're in the latter days of this age," Graham told ABC's Christiane Amanpour. "When I say latter days, could it be the last 100 years or the last 1,000 years or the last 6 months, I don't know, but the Bible, the things that the Bible predicts, earthquakes and famines, nation rising against nation, we see this happening with more frequency."

"So what will the Second Coming look like?" Amanpour wondered.

"Well, the bible says that every eye is going to see it. And, you know, I thought how is that going to happen? There's so many phones today. And just look at what's happening in Libya or Egypt and everybody has got their phone up, and everybody is taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you or -- and they get shown around the world. I don't know but he said they'll be coming on the clouds and the world is going to moan. They're going to groan," Graham explained.

You Can't Touch Mormon Jesus

Green Dragon, the New Anti-Christ?

HOLY OTHER - YR LOVE

did I say that out loud or just think it?

Advice God

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Texas Lawmaker Defends Bill That Would Protect Creationists On The Job

Last week, I wrote about an unusual piece of legislation in Texas that would ban workplace discrimination against creationists. HB 2454 would make it a crime to "discriminate against or penalize in any manner" a professor or student based on his or her "conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design." On Friday, the author of the bill, Republican state Rep. Bill Zedler of Arlington, called me to defend it. Here's an excerpt from our conversation:

Best flash intro ever!

http://www.evangelcathedral.net/welcome.htm

it makes me want to find Jeebus. Or do a bitchin' solo.

Needs a rewrite...

...but this could easily be re-purposed to apply to evangelical types.

The Passive Agression of the Christ

C'mon. Flip the switch!

Now do it 100 more times!

Fact or Fiction: Miracles

But You MUST Believe!

mistaken identity

Atheists never...