Two pieces of news have cheered me enormously tonight, so I wanted to share.

First, Westboro Baptist Church pushed Anonymous too far, and Anon took them down. And this, happily, is no hoax. (If the Church website is too slow to load, here's a screencap.

Second, two German lawyers have brought criminal charges against the Pope at the International ( Read more... )

Some links, all of which relate to privilege, and the latter two relate to racism:

Spot the Persecution! Many Christians are complaining about being persecuted for their religious beliefs. Are you? Take this handy quiz to find out. For each of the following, select the answer that is NOT an example of religious persecution ( Read more... )

Somebody on dark_christian posted a link to a call for action from a whackjob fundie group in Australia. What made me choke on my water and nearly spray my keyboard was this bit (which is, of course, being reported as truth):

A month ago I was with my wife and two other ladies in the car, including one who was formerly a witch but now a full on born-again ( Read more... )

A blog entry from a woman who quit the fundamentalist Christian "Quiverfull" movement after having seven children. An excerpt: In the patriarchal world which I will no longer take part of, the Commanding Officers (the men) are forever waging war against the world and the devil. Wives and children are useful as foot soldiers and arrows in this daily ( Read more... )

[warning: sexual abuse, possible triggers]

So in Brazil, a six-year-old girl gets raped by her stepfather (who is also raping her physically disabled older sister). This continues for three years, until she gets pregnant with twins. When her mother helps her obtain an abortion, she and her mother are excommunicated from the Catholic Church. When ( Read more... )

Written by transformergeek and posted in the atheism community:

So I decided to join the KKK...Sure, I don't agree with their notion of white pride. And I don't believe in their desire to cut off all American foreign aid, nor their desire to outlaw homosexuality, nor their anti-abortion stance. I think their plans for creating a Christian nation are horrible and ( Read more... )

I made a comment yesterday to the effect of "[person] isn't stupid enough to be religious" and this apparently caused some hackle-raising, which makes sense because I didn't go into any detail as to why I would associate stupidity and religion. So I probably should ( Read more... )