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Pastor Worley has plan to get rid of ‘lesbians and queers’
First it was Pastor Sean Harris in Fayetteville, NC. Now, not to be outdone, it’s Pastor Charles Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, NC. At least Worley isn’t telling parishioners to beat the gay out of their kids. Nope, he wants to put all gays and lesbians in compounds behind electrified fences … Continue reading
Pastor Sean Harris can’t unring that bell
I mentioned the other day that I was becoming impatient and intolerant. So you can imagine how apoplectic I became after learning what Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, told his congregation recently: So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and … Continue reading
Politics and intelligent design in education
If you’re interested in the issue of evolution vs. creation (aka intelligent design) and its place in our schools, check out Amy Greene’s op-ed piece from yesterday’s New York Times: God and Man in Tennessee. It explains eloquently why a Christian in Tennessee is opposed to the teaching of creation in her schools. I hope … Continue reading
Caution: Higher education at work
In today’s New York Times there’s a wonderful editorial by Frank Bruni entitled “A Catholic Classmate Rethinks His Religion.” Don’t be put off by the title; it’s not some treatise on Catholicism. Instead, it touches on stereotypes, homosexuality, religion, bigotry, abortion, medical ethics, and the value of higher education. That’s a pretty broad brush for … Continue reading
YouTube bans ‘religiously offensive’ material
This video comes via I Want Ice Water and The Thinking Atheist. And as someone who has expressed concern about censorship on the Internet, I felt obliged to post it. Particularly because objections to acts of censorship sometimes are themselves censored. Apparently YouTube has decided to take down certain videos because certain religious figures found … Continue reading
The religious rape of American women
Catholic men of America — and all conservatives who support them — you’re not going to win this debate. You are not going to deprive American women of the benefits of 21st Century science, medicine, and law. You are not going to inject your archaic religious beliefs into American jurisprudence and drag women back into … Continue reading
Semantics in religion and law
I’m still scratching my head over the furor with Pres. Obama and the Catholic Church about providing contraception for employees. As I understand it, the edict from Washington originally said all Catholic institutions had to cover/pay for/provide contraception for female employees. Church leaders and others had a fit about Obama’s “war on religion.” Obama came … Continue reading
Santorum: Raped? Pregnant? It’s a gift
Just when I thought GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum couldn’t impress me as any more extreme, I saw this video on the Huffington Post. His idea of right to life includes not aborting a baby resulting from rape. Not even if the pregnant woman were his daughter. The woman must “make the best out of … Continue reading
So that’s how it is
I just saw a teaser on TV for Oprah Winfrey’s “Next Chapter” show on Sunday. It was evangelist Joel Osteen saying something like (paraphrasing): “I can’t be helpful to people if I’m all poor and depressed myself.” Finally. The rationale of one getting rich off religion. I’ve always wondered how people like that justify getting … Continue reading
Dissing the bard
Well, I’m a little late to the barbecue, but I just learned that on New Year’s Eve, Cee Lo Green sang John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Only thing is, he changed the words. He changed “Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion too” to “Nothing to kill or die for / And all religion … Continue reading
There’s child abuse and then there’s … child abuse
This evening Anderson Cooper aired an interview with Michael Pearl, co-author of To Train Up a Child. And again, just as every other time I’ve seen Pearl on TV, I wanted to reach through the screen and throttle him. Pearl and his wife Debi advocate the physical punishment of kids. Of course, they don’t call … Continue reading
Missed it again
Hey, I just found out I missed another Harold S. Camping Judgment Day yesterday. Or maybe I just got left behind. If you’re here reading this, you must have missed it, too. Or else we both got left behind. Oh well, better luck next time.
Atheist by default
Over on Sean Hannity’s blog there’s a thread entitled “Anybody else here a reluctant atheist?” Someone calling himself Poptart posted the following, which happens to explain my own thinking rather well: I didn’t choose to be an atheist, because I am without belief by default. I don’t “choose” my beliefs. My beliefs evolve from a … Continue reading
One of these things is not like the others …
I just came across this statement in a Wikipedia entry describing the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators: “Religious beliefs vary as well including, but not limited to, Christians, Jews, Muslims and atheists.” Why are atheists included in the list? Atheism is not a religious belief; it is the absence of religious belief. Perhaps the author was … Continue reading
Michelangelo’s David: Which side is the right side?
You never know what you’ll stumble across on the Internet. For me this evening it was the discovery of a fascinating article on Michelangelo’s David. In the opinion of the author, J. Huston McCulloch, the David is not properly oriented in Florence’s Galleria dell’Academia. The view we see most often, shown here, is not the … Continue reading
Dominionism and the presidency
Dominionism. Ever heard of it? I hadn’t until today, when CNN’s Jack Cafferty did a piece on it. His question was, “How much does it worry you if both Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry have ties to Dominionism?” I didn’t know if I was worried or not; I didn’t know what the heck he was … Continue reading
Marriage: yours, mine, and theirs
On CNN’s “State of the Union” this morning, Candy Crowley pressed GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty on the issue of same-sex marriage. She was polite and respectful, but insistent. The governor was equally pleasant, but utterly unconvincing. Crowley asked several times, in several different ways, “how does same-sex marriage harm traditional marriage?” The question was … Continue reading
NBC and its ‘godless’ U.S. Open
Had I watched the U.S. Open over the weekend, I might have seen the little patriotic montage that NBC ran. But I doubt I would have noticed what seems to have upset a lot of people — the scenes were pieced together in a way that skipped the phrase “under God” when the Pledge of … Continue reading
So maybe it’s Judgment Day after all
I knew I shouldn’t have been snickering about Judgment Day. It’s not even 6 pm yet in the Mountain Time zone (although it is on the East Coast), and so far I have on my hands a dying refrigerator (funny how a lot of those fridge sales end today …), a kitchen sink sprayer that … Continue reading
Call me daft; I’m not into Judgment Day
What are your plans for Saturday? You know, May 21. Judgment Day. The Rapture. As predicted by Harold Camping, a California-based Christian radio broadcaster. Of course, he’s 89 years old now, so maybe this is more hope than prediction. There’s been some interest here in Colorado, partly because Camping was born here and partly because … Continue reading
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