All Posts Tagged With: "Religion"
Glenn Beck, Cult Leader
The leaders of cults tend to be charismatic individuals who brainwash their followers. They do this by isolating them from their friends and family so that the members are dependent on the cult leader for their world view. They also make distinctions between “us” and “them,” with “us” as the good guys and [...]
10Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
Lions and Tigers and… Witches? Oh My.
So much for those Libertarian values. Bob Barr, Libertarian extraordinaire, is worried about things that go bump in the night.
The US Air Force, at no less a prestigious location than the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, has taken the notion of religious tolerance to a new level, in creating an outdoor worship area for pagans. [...]
For Your Amusement – If You Have A Sense Of Humor
This made me laugh.
And before someone has a fit, let me say… Yeah, I know I’m burning and I’m A-Okay with that.
12Feb2010 | pandora | 9 comments | Continued
Just For Fun
In Brit Hume’s latest attempt to justify his proselytizing, replace the word Christian with Muslim and Jesus Christ with Allah.
And my sense of that Tiger is that he needs something that Christianity, especially provides and gives and offers and that is redemption and forgiveness and I was really meaning to say in those comments yesterday [...]
FOX News Has Reached Televangelist Status
Not that anyone with a brain didn’t see this coming.
Via Balloon Juice:
Brit Hume had some advice for Tiger Woods during this week’s “Fox News Sunday.” Woods will recover as a golfer, Hume says, but it remains to be seen whether he will recover as a person.
“He’s said to be a Buddhist,” Hume said. “I don’t [...]
Wait… I Thought That Christians Were Under Attack
We get wacky visitors here all the time talking about how Christmas is under fire, or that liberals are trying to take God out of everything… Then this.
North Carolina’s constitution is clear: politicians who deny the existence of God are barred from holding office.
Opponents of Cecil Bothwell are seizing on that law to argue he [...]
Lieberman Literally In Bed With Drug/Insurance Lobby
Geez, you’d think that the Main Stream Media might have discovered that Pious Joe’s equally-pious wife has returned to her roots–as a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical and health care industries with conservative lobbying shop Hill & Knowlton, which also numbers AIG among its clients. She had previously worked for APCO Associates, a lobbying shop that [...]
28Oct2009 | El Somnambulo | 8 comments | Continued
Burning Books For Halloween, Now That’s Scary
Via Raw Story:
A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a “Halloween book burning” to purge the area of “Satan’s” works, which include all non-King James versions of the Bible, popular books by many religious authors and even country music.
The local news video is priceless.
Now, granted, this church, only has 14 members, but there’s something [...]
Religious Consistency
RSmitty brought this email to my attention, and while I don’t agree with all of it (especially the single mother nonsense) it is a refreshing read. Hmmm… wonder when this letter will be posted at Delaware Politics? Surely, they would embrace this philosophy with open arms.
16Jul2009 | pandora | 37 comments | Continued
Don’t Know Much About History
Stories like this make me angry. Is our goal really to become the dumbest country on the planet? Perhaps we should rethink the Texas secession thing… especially given their influence over the textbook market.
The Texas Board of Education, which recently approved new science standards that made room for creationist critiques of evolution, is revising the [...]
It Would Be Like Putting Me In Charge Of The NRA
Meet Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s possible choice to head the state’s Board of education – Cynthia Dunbar.
[...] In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” She endorses a belief system that requires “any person desiring [...]
Put Your Religion Where Your Mouth (And Wallet) Is
As an agnostic, I find the Right’s view of Christianity self-serving and convenient. So let’s play What Would Jesus Do? For specifics, let’s pretend that Jesus sets up shop in Delaware.
1. Where would Jesus live?
2. What school would Jesus teach at?
3. Would Jesus support welfare (You know, caring for the poor)?
4. Would Jesus support National [...]
Miss California: Just a Good Wholesome Christian with a Boob Job
Yep, suhprize, suhprize, Miss Holier Than Thou will be an introducer tonight on the Dove Gospel Music Awards show.
And, just like that, the Religious Right has a new cause celebre. “She would’ve won if she hadn’t expressed her honest views.”
Yes, and Miss Mississippi would’ve won if she hadn’t supported cross-burnings. Granted, there is nothing more [...]
Pat Buchanan Ends Up Saying The Pope Is Wrong
Talk about contradicting yourself. Buchanan is a mess by the end of this take-down by Lawrence O’Donnell.
10Apr2009 | pandora | 6 comments | Continued
Newt Gingrich No Longer a Sinner? Just in Time for 2012?
Praise the Lord! It’s a Miracle! Newt Gingrich’s sins have been magically cleansed from his Heavenly record!
How did he do it? He has seen the Light, and given over what passes for his soul to…Catholicism. Seriously. And, (quoting from that leading theologian Gomer Pyle), ‘Suh-prize, Suh-prize’, this conversion just may put him back in the [...]
A Stray Thought
I think anyone who anxiously awaits The Rapture should not serve in public office since they really don’t have any incentive in making a better future. In fact, it could be in their religious interest to make the future worse.
/sorta snark
In God We Trust?
According to a new survey Religious affiliation is on the decline.
So many Americans claim no religion at all (15%, up from 8% in 1990), that this category now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except Catholics and Baptists. In a nation that has long been mostly Christian, “the challenge to Christianity … does not [...]
AOL News Hates Atheists
From that oh-so-illustrious news source, AOL News, comes an article about how “some” African-American Christians are upset at Obama’s inaugural speech reaching out to “non-believers” as well as Hindus, Muslims, etc:
By mentioning, for the first time in an inaugural address, the 16.1 percent of Americans who check “no”’ when asked about religion, Obama turned it [...]
Federal Court Strikes Down Illinois School Prayer “Moment of Silence” Law
Another blow to the school prayer crowd was delivered in federal court yesterday, as the Illinois Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act was ruled unconstitutional by U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman.
The “teacher is required to instruct her pupils, especially in the lower grades, about prayer and its meaning as well as the limitations on [...]
Crazy Like A Fox
The Huffington Post is reporting that President-Elect Obama has invited New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, who is openly gay, to give the invocation at his inauguration. Hmmm… Robinson and Warren. On stage together. Not on stage together… but linked all the same!
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
As If They Aren’t Dumb Enough
Christian Fundamentalists are now calling on their flock to pull their children out of public schools… since education obviously threatens their ideology. Truth is… this call to pull children out of the public education system has nothing to do with education, and everything to do with indoctrination.
4Jan2009 | pandora | 17 comments | Continued
Religion and Politics
Remember the days when one wasn’t supposed to discuss Religion and Politics in polite society? Just like announcing how much you paid for something, it was considered tacky. I sorta miss those days. But, since the 1980s, not only has a person’s spiritual beliefs spilled into every social setting known to man, it has shaped [...]
4Dec2008 | pandora | 52 comments | Continued
Reverend Dobson travels to the future and finds La Cage Aux Folles
Seriously, this guy is obsessed with homosexuals. So much so he jumped in his time machine and reported back on the State of the Nation. (For those of you brave enough the entire 16 page one man play can be found here.) For those of you with weaker stomachs follow me over the [...]
24Oct2008 | pandora | 12 comments | Continued
What Will We Do Without Falwell?
I am so confused. Without Jerry Falwell around, how will I know the real reason that Myanmar and China have both been hit with natural disasters this week. It can’t just be random, can it? I need someone to explain.
13May2008 | liberalgeek | 9 comments | Continued
Dorian Gray Guest Post
This is more essay than blog post but it is a fine analysis, I think. It expounds on a similar point I was making this morning. Adult relationships are very complicated. There is no consistent, homogeneous path or clique or political party we can truly resign ourselves to. Why do we expect this from our [...]
18Mar2008 | Donvictimiti | 1 comment | ContinuedSocial Media
