OK, when I was a li'l kid, going to church felt like a sentence to me... but this is beyond crazy and obviously unconstitutional: Story: Serve Time In Jail...Or In Church?
Pointed to here.
Wow. How do they even think they can get away with this??
UPDATE: Apparently the ACLU is already moving on this.

Ohhhhh, losing George Carlin. Wow, this hurts.

At least I did actually get to see him once; it was fantastic, of course!

A fab quote spotted else-LJ:
"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," ( Read more... )

In a recent post on useless_facts it was mentioned that: There is a Christian patron saint of the television. Her name's Saint Clare of Assisi.

Saint Blaise is the patron saint of choking people.

(spelling fix added by me)
Of course Saint Blaise is really "the saint of People who are choking or have an illness of the throat." (as one commenter pointed outI ( Read more... )

Found this while browsing The Daily Kos on the subject of Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Has this irony struck anyone but me?
The main resistance to embryonic stem cell research is coming from Conservative Christians.
Christianity is a religion based on a deity that sacrifices his son for the good of mankind.
Wow, that's just so perfect!   ( ( Read more... )

Saw this post on yesthattom's LJ. Had to help spread it....
Brad has the right idea! Major retail chains Target, Wal-Mart and others announced today they will end the so-called war on white people that had resulted in most stores posting signs welcoming “shoppers” or “customers” instead of “white patrons”, even though white people represented a ( Read more... )

X-Posted from a post by hostirad in the atheism community (with my own comments at the end): An interesting article by Salman Rushdie
The article begins: "Not believing in God is no excuse for being virulently anti-religious or naïvely pro-science," says Dylan Evans, a professor of robotics at the University of West England in Bristol.
Evans has written an ( Read more... )

Don't click on the following unless you really wanna read my story. It was inspired by a comment I made elsewhere on LJ: ( Why I rejected Christianity and other God(s) and became an Athiest and Secular Humanist )