OH MY FUCKING GOD, HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, HOW FUCKING STUPID IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE?! THE POPE HAS NOT - AND I QUOTE - “PRESSED THE RESET BOTTOM ON LGBT ISSUES”. I REPEAT: HE HAS NOT “PRESSED THE RESET BOTTOM”. HIS POSITION IS NOT NEW - IT’S NOT 'HOMOSEXUALITY’, PER SE, THE CHURCH HAS AN ISSUE WITH, IT’S ACTING ON THE SAME SEX ATTRACTION AND NOT ( Read more... )

Jacques Berlinerblau: The Secular Centre, Episode 3: Secularism and atheism are not synonyms:
To coincide with the publication of his new book How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom (Houghton-Mifflin) we areposting a series of short films and blog posts by Jacques Berlinerblau, one of the most perceptive commentators on America’s ( Read more... )

I'm seriously getting tired of pictures like ( this )

From Google translate with some edits by me of this Danish article at Kristelig Dagblad:
Copying movies and music can be a religious act. In Sweden The Church of Kopimism have been recognized by the state as religionIf you copy music or illegally downloading movies from the Internet, it is perhaps a religious act ( Read more... )

Note: all articles are in Danish. If you wish to read them in English, you can copy the link into Google Translate and normally get an okay translation out of it or you can ask me to translate it. Most of the articles though are just my sources for the claims I'm coming with and don't really say that much of importance. If I come with a claim I don ( Read more... )

The harassment of religion grows globally
Google Translate of Danish article by Kristelig Dagblad

It notes the independent American forskningsinsitut Pew Forum report "Rising Restrictions on religion" (Growing restrictions on religion). Ifølge Pew Forum er problemet vokset betydeligt mellem 2006 og 2009. According to the Pew Forum, the problem has ( Read more... )

I'm an Atheist. As probably most of you know, I have had my fair share of issues with religions, especially Christianity, and how powerful it is in our society. I love the idea behind and the reason for the existence of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. That being said, there are certain things that crosses the line for me. This week an ( Read more... )

“By not allowing same-sex couples to wed, there is a direct attack on the Qur’an’s message that each person has a mate who is their ‘comfort and their cloak’”
- Imam Daayiee Abdullah

To the Danes: on Saturday an exhibition about queer ethnic minorities in DK by Sabaah is ending. It sounds like a really good exhibition, so if anyone wanna join me ( Read more... )

Found through themadpoker; this is a very good response to that "Burn a Koran Day"-crap.

( Our Response to 'Burn a Koran Day' )

I am so fucking tired of people refering to "the pagan religion". What pagan religion are they talking about? That new age stuff, where people mix and match like it's a shopping mall? And sometimes make up new stuff 'cause "they think it sounds right"? Or one of the many, many non-Christian and non-Jewish religions* that have existed in the history ( Read more... )