Here is a lovely little article that punches a nice, clean hole in the Ten-Commandments-is-the-basis-of-American-democracy. The underlined comment of Jefferson at the end is especially nice.
Link: http://gods4suckers.net/archives/2008/08/03/shattering-of-the-tablets-of-myth/
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The party starts around 3:00. Ignoramus Rex!!! HA!
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BaGHKe5oi0
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My wonderful friends at the Tabernacle Baptist Church put a lovely thought on their sign out by the road (2008-07-01). This one reads: If the brave never left home, there would be no land of the free. This is a touching sentiment in these needlessly hawkish times and I am sure that these words give some solace to people who have had, still have, and have lost loved ones and friends in the armed forces.
However, this pandering makes me sick. Here's why.
1) You might want to come in and pray for the well-being of the country and its service personnel--and we will pass the plate.
2) You might want to come in and pray for any loved ones and friends who are called to duty--and we will pass the plate.
3) While they are away, we will be here for you to offer comfort during this trying ordeal--and we will pass the plate.
4) When your loved ones or friends come home safe and well - or even if they are missing a few body parts - come in for a few rounds of prayers of thanksgiving for their return--and we will pass the plate.
5) If, sadly, Jebus had planned for them to be killed because he does not like them, you or just for the hell of it, come in for prayers of mourning--and we will pass the plate.
6) Don't forget us when it is time to stick the corpse in the ground. We have ample group facilities to host services for the loved one. We won't pass the plate but there will be a fee.
(I think that six is enough.)
Ignoring the contemporary setting in which this thought was given, let us examine the fallacy of its message. America became the land of the free when the Declaration of Independence was signed (and we will ignore the fact that not every humanoid was free with its signing). No one had to leave to do that. It was done here. Then came the war for independence, which was fought here to preserve our assertion of independence. Some battles were fought in Canada so that might constitute going elsewhere but really now...it's North America.
The message certainly seems to tie into the concept of punishing terrorism that wants to destroy our way of life. I like that because it reminds me of another group who punished a terrorist that threatened their way of life. That group was the Romans and they fixed their little problem about...oh...two thousand years ago.
Suggested reading: The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity
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Source: http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/news/release/2008/0805.asp
The heady brain trust that is The Parents' Television Council today released a report lambasting the volume of sex on television. They cite a number of shows (that I do not watch) as being not only full of innuendo but with situations that promote casual sex and affairs over marital sex. Somehow, I think that they would still have blood in their stool if the shows only had marital sex.
What these people fail to grasp is sex is a part of everyday life, whether you are a finch in a tree, an indian in a South American rainforest, an atheist, or one of the PTC's board members. Religion does not have a control on sex. Animals have been doing it for millions of years without the concept of marriage and civilized pagans were making the beast with two backs for a good four millennia B.C.E. (Yes, I know that the designation Before Christian Era is the new anthropological middle finger to uppity Xians).
Sex is not going to go away. It is here to stay until the last human in the universe expires. However, because Xianity has never grasped the concept of logic, I'll give you a hand and it won't cost you a single lap dance. This one is free of charge. PTC's slogan is: because our children are watching. Yes they are. Try watching it with them. If you don't like it, change the channel or do the intelligent thing and talk to them about in instead of withholding information as you have been brainwashed to do.
What's that? You can't discuss it because they won't understand? Too bad that you have stupid children. On the bright side, they are more than qualified for a theological job.
Link to the report: http://parentstv.org/PTC/news/release/2008/0805.asp
(I advise not reading it on the toilet in the morning or you might fall off and hurt yourself laughing.)
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Inspired by: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=201220
This very amusing little ditty is supposed to bring right-minded, decent folk to a frenzy by explaining how Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl is just another successful facet of the popular media's Turn-Everyone-Homo Program.
Let's clarify one thing right now. There is absolutely nothing wrong with two hot chicks making out. Plus, it has the added benefit of preventing pregnancy for the participants and any fortunate observers. No unwanted pregnancy equals no abortion so see it for the positive that it is.
Favorite lines
1. Now, I'm no legalistic.
An incomplete sentence for an incomplete thought. I suspect that the word moron is missing.
2. How long will all these media moguls be allowed to sit around board room tables and make decisions that alter the healthy development of our nation's kids?
They are not and it is not their job. You don't like the culture, don't have kids. Maybe then Christianity can go the way of the Shakers.
3. Oh, by the way, Katy Perry's real name is Katy Hudson. You might remember her from the 2001 album bearing her name on Red Hill records; it was a Christian album.
I guess that she wanted to make a few bucks instead of pandering to a bunch of troglodytes living in the Dark Ages.
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As I was walking in from the parking lot this morning, I pass by two theo-faction centers. The great thing about them is that they will be knocked down in a handful of years down the road to make way for the growth of the university, i.e., progress.
I propose that the university can make some money by selling swings of a wrecking ball at $500 or $1000 a piece. It can work like the spring break promotional that they do every year about drinking and driving where for one dollar, you can have three swings of a sledgehammer on a wrecked car. I suspect that there be will less building than people so that is why it is wonderful that there are two buildings to destroy.
Of course, the churches with which they are affiliated were against moving but, like the Vatican, they finally came around and it did not take four centuries.
We want to be in the central area of campus, they whine.
Tough! You need a place to meet, meet at a temple. That somehow seems appropriate. Frankly, religious groups do not belong on a university campus out of principal.
But the monks preserved Western knowledge during the Dark Ages.
No, the Arabs and Moors did. Western monks did have some of the material but they did not share it, they did not work to expand on it, and the only thing that they used it for was to practice their penmanship.
Frankly, they should have been burned alive for crimes against humanity.
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Highlights:
1) In this demonstration, a person is represented by a pickle. "Boy, he sure is an ugly pickle...but that pickle looks a lot like all the other pickles in here (ugly)."
2) "I bet they taste about the same, too." - Once more, the cannibalistic nature of the Jebus cult is exposed.
3) This pickle is like a person without Jebus. How do we change that? Impale it on two forks (forks?!? who uses forks? Perhaps you should say pitchforks), one in its head and one in it butt, and run a lethal power through it.
4) Look what happens! See how the power of Jebus makes the pickle-person boil alive from the inside! Look at that steam! Yessirree! That pickle looks a lot different now, as would anyone who was glowing in the dark because of an electric current.
5) The pickle is making a difference in the world around it. It is giving off a light that other people can see. So unless you can glow in the dark and electrocute people with a mere touch, you don't have the Jebus.
6) The most insulting statement is when Grandpa Bozo says that by becoming a xian, people are able to make a difference in the world. I would suspect that more people who are not xians have made more significant contributions of a greater quantity and quality than the whole of xianity, pagan and others impeded by theology. What are some of those differences made by xians? Suppression and destruction of knowledge. I think that I am feeling a warm glow inside, too, but I suspect that it is anger.
7) After the lethal power is removed, that pickle looks just like any other pickle...well, except for the corporal trauma from the impalement.
8) If we reapply the power..."funny things start to take place." Look at the steam and bodily fluid gushing out of it.
9) Most importantly, "don't try this at home." If you try to fill yourself with Jebus's power, you might burn down the house or kill yourself. On second thought, Please, try it.
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Say it, Brother Pat!
Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GXzladhscMQ
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http://www.buytalkingjesus.com/
Wait a minute. Isn't this an idol? Uh oh.
Wait a minute. Jebus is the son of Gawd. Gawd said, "thou shalt have no other gods before me." Uh oh. Does that mean that anyone who worships Jebus is being naughty?
Where is the black Jebus? Where is the hispanic Jebus who speaks spanish? Where is the Eastern Orthodox Jebus? Where is the Jebus who speaks Aramaic? Where is the Jebus who speaks ancient Greek? Does this Jebus have a penis? Does this Jebus tell children "not to have sex but your mommy and daddy will burn in Hell because they did?"
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