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Religion:
Texas now has a law that requires all public schools to offer an elective course in the Christian bible, thanks to a bill authored by Warren Chisum, who will for all eternity be remembered as the "Bible-thumping dwarf from Pampa,"...
Posted on September 3, 2008 2:10 PM • 138 Comments
This is a terrifying video. It's Sarah Palin going on and on in front of her Assembly of God church, talking about the war in Iraq as "a task that is from God", promising the congregants the gift of prophecy,...
Posted on September 3, 2008 7:20 AM • 216 Comments
Unfortunately, it's at a student's expense. While the University of Central Florida administration cleared him of all wrong-doing, the student-run senate impeached Webster Cook and removed him from office. Donohue may gloat a little bit, but isn't it rather cheesy...
Posted on September 2, 2008 8:05 PM • 61 Comments
Why? Because that is the day of the Pulpit Initiative, when brave and idiotic right wing preachers will defy the IRS and lose their tax exemptions. The Pulpit Initiative Reclaiming pastors' constitutional right to speak Truth from the pulpit...
Posted on September 2, 2008 8:26 AM • 61 Comments
Whenever you hear someone defend an action with the excuse that “it is our custom,” “it is traditional,” “we've always done it that way,” “it is written so in our sacred texts,” or variants thereof, slap ’em down and spit...
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Posted on August 31, 2008 10:52 AM • 166 Comments
Integrity Bank in Georgia decided to build their business model on Christian principles. Integrity's employees regularly prayed before meetings or in branch lobbies with customers, while the bank gave 10 percent of its net income to charities."We felt if we...
Posted on August 30, 2008 11:17 AM • 67 Comments
An elementary school in Missouri has been allowing the Gideons to distribute bibles to students on their lunch hour. It's crazy stupid, a clear violation of the separation of church and state (not that fundie churches care about that anymore)....
Posted on August 25, 2008 11:36 AM • 105 Comments
I just received this email from some communications group trying to publicize the virtues of the Democratic Party. It had the opposite effect on me — I am appalled. It's the usual Democratic strategic inanity of pushing to ape the...
Posted on August 22, 2008 11:22 AM • 232 Comments
In the reality based community, when you've got a problem, you call an expert with some skills and training to deal with it. In the rest of the world, you call a priest to blame evil spirits and do nothing...
Posted on August 20, 2008 6:55 AM • 336 Comments
Although I was actually in Guayaquil the day before brave heroes despoiled another cracker&hellip: In response to criticisms by the nation's Catholic bishops regarding pro-abortion and anti-family language in Ecuador's new proposed Constitution, a group of people entered a chapel...
Posted on August 18, 2008 5:39 PM • 98 Comments
I've been gone for 11 days now, and I'm not having a happy re-entry. Trying to get out of Quito this morning was a nightmare — we were up at 3:30am to catch a 4:00am shuttle to the airport for...
Posted on August 18, 2008 2:27 PM • 68 Comments
LisaJ here again. Wow. Now here's a story that just disturbed me to no end. Little Javon Thompson's mother, 21 year old Ria Ramkissoon, became a Christian at a young age, but when her local pastor disappointed her by pleading...
Posted on August 17, 2008 4:26 PM • 96 Comments
Johann Hari had a great piece in the Independent this week (with follow-up blog posts here and here) about increasing scrutiny of religion in general, and of Islam in particular. An author named Sherry Jones has written a book, called...
Posted on August 16, 2008 11:52 AM • 316 Comments
Monday morning, PST: time for some science with a side of controversy, Danio-style There's a Department of Health and Human Services document circulating that's got the pro-choice lobby up in arms. Afarensis and The Questionable Authority weighed in on the...
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Posted on August 11, 2008 12:42 PM • 196 Comments
Sastra here. I'm about halfway through, and really enjoying, Robert Price's new book, Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms. Bob Price has an interesting background: he started out as a roaring Pentacostal Minister, gradually grew into a high-end...
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Posted on August 10, 2008 1:43 PM • 168 Comments
