The word came into use in bibles in 1946!!! Prior to that, it referred to child molestersThis blog post is by "Ed Oxford ... a gay Christian, a graduate of Talbot School of Theology, and a researcher in how the Bible has been weaponized against LGBTQ people ( Read more... )

And I put it in quotes because they're the ones who claim the loudest that that is what they are, rather than letting us see it in them for ourselves and to be inspired by it. You know, sort of like how Jesus told his people to behave ( Read more... )

She's the elected county clerk in a Kentucky burg and she's refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples who want to marry. It is the law of the land that they can get married, and she's refusing to do her job. Because Religion. She's not marrying them, she's giving them a license for someone else to marry them. Still, Religion ( Read more... )

"Let me be clear. Americans have freedom of religion -- but not freedom from religion."
-Texas Congressman Sam Johnson, on the Preserve and Protect God in Military Oaths Act, which would require Air Force Academy cadets to say "So help me God"

*sigh* Exactly where in the Constitution does it say you must follow A religion ( Read more... )

"Right now, Jesus himself couldn't be the Speaker and get 218 Republicans behind something."
-Rep. Patrick J. Tiberi

I read an interesting pair of articles on a recent debate between Bill Nye, Science Guy, and the guy who opened the Creationism Museum in Kentucky on evolution versus creationism. The part that I found to be the biggest takeaway ( Read more... )

"You're a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity ( Read more... )

Yesterday I read an article on NPR about a judge in Alabama who was eventually censured for having a sort of display case of the ten commandments in his court room, he finally lost his job. He's now running for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, and is pretty much touting this to appeal to fundamentalist voters ( Read more... )

"I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented. It's a worldview and it's godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they've been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: they don't respect human rights...Columbine, remember ( Read more... )

A paper was presented recently where the author "...read the historical literature and queried religious leaders and other experts about the world's epidemics and the way religions deal with disease. They found that between 800 B.C.E. and 200 B.C.E., cities flourished, deadly plagues arose capable of killing off up to two-thirds of a population, ( Read more... )

"The rapture definitely took place, but there just wasn't a soul worth saving so it went unnoticed. The world will still end in October, as planned."
- Harold Camping

Hum. So the prophet who correctly calculated the date and time of the rapture wasn't worthy? I can hardly wait until October, or until the lawsuits against him start.