Crap. The Oregon shooter was reportedly looking for Christians. Cue the radical religious right's not shutting up about their martyrdom until forever. :/

Pope Francis sort of kind of looks like/reminds me of my dad. WEIRD.

I have to say my first thought this morning upon hearing that Ratzinger is retiring as pope was less than charitable. Since it seems to me that the appointment of the pope would be "guided by the hand of God," as it were, if Ratzinger is now quitting, it just reinforces my feeling that Ratzinger has always believed he knows better than God.

You know, there's regular porn. (Aw yeah ( Read more... )

What's that quote about the audacity of using Jesus to promote an anti-healthcare, fellow man-hating, woman-disrespecting, anti-poor agenda?

If Moses had the internet, the Exodus would have looked just a wee bit different (and it would have been HILARIOUS)...

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Always fun to run into rampant homophobia at work. You know, if you go to a workshop about LGBT issues, they're going to talk about gay stuff, so why are you so upset about it?

And this is why I love geeks:

Westboro Baptist Church meets Comic-Con counter protestersOh, the comedic carnage! Bender's "Kill All Humans" sign, a Starfleet officer's "God Hates Jedi" sign, "Superman Died For Our Sins," "Odin Is God," it just goes on and on. Hilarious! And HUGE props to my geeky community for being so amazingly queer friendly ( Read more... )

So the radical right is irked because a federal court has ruled that the National Day of Prayer, being potentially interpreted as a state-sanctioned endorsement of religion, is unconstitutional. Of course, no one is stopping them from having as many private prayer events as they please, but they're having none of it ( Read more... )

History Revised, Teachers Sacked: The Book Wars in Texas and Beyond -- Politics Daily

"In a matter of days last week in Austin, the majority of the 15-member board, insisting they were only trying to offset liberal bias in textbooks, questioned Darwin's theory of evolution and the constitutional principle of separation of church and state; debated ( Read more... )