The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

This explains a lot:

God’s Law is the Only Law

Labels: Bachmann, GOP, Politics, religion, Republicans

posted by Stash @ 10:05 AM

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posted by Stash @ 8:50 PM

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Satan Responds to Pat Robertson

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I'm all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I'm no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished. Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth -- glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven't you seen "Crossroads"? Or "Damn Yankees"? If I had a thing going with Haiti, there'd be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox -- that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it -- I'm just saying: Not how I roll. You're doing great work, Pat, and I don't want to clip your wings -- just, come on, you're making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That's working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.

Best, Satan

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

A shout out to Lily Coyle

Labels: hypocrites, Pat Robertson, religion

posted by Stash @ 12:56 PM

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Merry Christmas from The Whirlpool

Labels: Christmas, Humor, Music, religion, YouTube

posted by Stash @ 11:09 AM

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Break Time!

Found on Crooks and Liars

Labels: Christianity, Christmas, Music, Pagan, religion, YouTube

posted by Stash @ 8:04 AM

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Religous nutbars try to keep atheist off Council

Labels: Constitution, Politics, religion

posted by Stash @ 9:45 PM

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Labels: Atheism, Christianity, Humor, Muslim, religion

posted by Stash @ 11:34 PM

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Kirk "the Boy Toy" Cameron at it again

Labels: Creation Science, evolution, religion, YouTube

posted by Stash @ 3:10 PM

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Ensign... Sanford... who else is in The Family?

The Washington D.C cult group exposed.
Read a brief excerpt of "The Family" printed in Mother Jones.



*Named in just this 3 page excerpt - Current and/or former followers of The Family:

Senator Sam Brownback (R., Kansas)
Representative Joe Pitts (R., Pennsylvania)
Senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina
Senator Carl Curtis of Nebraska
Pete Domenici of New Mexico
Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa)
James Inhofe (R., Oklahoma)
Tom Coburn (R., Oklahoma)
John Thune (R., South Dakota)
Mike Enzi (R., Wyoming)
John Ensign
Bill Nelson of Florida
Mark Pryor of Arkansas
Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Virginia)
Rep. Zach Wamp (R., Tennessee)
Rep. Mike McIntyre, a North Carolina Democrat
Herman Talmadge of Georgia
Absalom Willis Robertson of Virginia—Pat Robertson's father—
Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense,
William Rehnquis, Supreme Court Justice
Charles W. Colson
Doug Coe
Dennis Bakke, former CEO of AES
Rep. Joe Pitts
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Senator David Durenberger
James Watt, Reagan's anti-environmental secretary of the interior

***UPDATE 7/17/09
Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS) Rachel Maddow's story

Labels: Chip Pickering, Gov. Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Rachel Maddow, religion, Republicans, Scandal, The Family

posted by Stash @ 12:34 AM

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Religion as News

A couple weeks ago, John Stewart pulled back the curtain on the wizards of the Ozians at the cable business channels revealing, to mix the metaphore, that the emperors had no clothes.     “They were part of the broken system,” commented Cank Uygur, “There was no journalism going on at CNBC.” 

Last Saturday, in our own little corner of the world, The Daily World proved that “no journalism going on” is not unique to the big city folks.  On the back page of the main section of the paper, in a spot where one usually finds state-wide or national news, The Daily World ran a story with the headline, “It’s Lent - - So What?  So What, indeed!, under the byline Faces of Faith, Dale McQueen.  To the left of the McQueen piece the paper printed information from the stock market from Friday and to the right a story headlined, “Suspect had a knife at police station,” from Perugia, Italy. 

Now, the last time I checked, a story about how “we prepare our hearts, minds and souls for the sacred observances of Christ’s death on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter,” did not qualify as news.  Since when does a celebration of belief in a deity, concocted in the Bronze age, that arose out of primitive ignorance and superstition, qualify as news?  The only thing crazier than the belief itself, is, as Dennis Rahkonen wrote recently, “to believe said deity created us, governs our affairs, and deserves our blind obedience.” 

A quick glance at the most recent studies about religious belief in the United States should give the editor at The Daily World pause the next time he wants to publish this religious opinion as news.  

According to the latest research, you are “certainly friends with at least one atheist, agnostic, nonbeliever, skeptic, or unaffiliated humanist, whether you know it or not.  Your friend certainly endures prejudice and unequal treatment, whether you know it or not.  And your friend is roughly as decent, good, loyal, honest, courageous, and generous as your other friends, and you know it.”  In Grays Harbor County 30 percent of us are atheists, agnostics unbelievers, people who don’t care or want to know, undecided or just plain have no opinion.  That amounts to a significant number of people. 

To have our local newspaper print religious propaganda masquerading as news is insult added to injury.  “Those who get along without God are noy lynched or stoned in this country,” David Swanson wrote recently, “but neither do they have equal rights or acceptance.  They encounter prejudice and cruelty on a personal level often.”  We saw our taxes used to establish an office in the Bush White House pushing religious-based initiatives and now President Obama has not only continued that unconstitutional program, he has enlarged it.  All around the country we see “religious based, pseudo-science imposed” on children in schools.  While there are, according to Swanson, “probably 20 atheists in Congress,” only one member has the courage to admit his position.  I’m convinced that President Obama is an atheist but he made a pragmatic political calculation, years ago, recognizing that no open atheist could be elected to office, to find himself the most politically advantageous church and join it.  Unfortunately that decision later came back to bite him when the remarkable Reverend Wright became a political liability. 

Since, as Frank Rich pointed out in the New York Times, the almighty has fallen significantly - - organized religion being “in a dead heat with banks and financial institutions on the confidence scale,” I’d like to make a suggestion to The Daily World:  keep you religion page if you must but please, please don’t try to pass off any more religious stories as news.  It really turns off those of us who do not hold religious views and also read your paper. 

Labels: Atheism, Frank Rich, religion, The Daily World

posted by Gary Murrell's What's Left @ 4:00 PM

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Just another crazy day in Religiousland!

Official newspaper: Church 'cannot approve' of the film
By Eric J. Lyman

ROME -- The Vatican could be gearing up for an official call for a boycott of "Angels & Demons," Ron Howard's big-budget follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code."

Avvenire, the Vatican's official newspaper, ran a story in Friday's edition noting that the Church "cannot approve" of such a problematic film. The Turin daily La Stampa, meanwhile, said the Vatican would soon call for a boycott of the film, though the same article also quoted Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, who warned against a "boomerang effect" that could call attention to the film and eventually make it more popular.

The Vatican press office declined comment on the reports when contacted.

Producers requested permission from Church officials to film parts of "Angels & Demons" in the Vatican, but were denied.

Scores of Church officials called for a boycott of "The Da Vinci Code" when it was released in 2006, but the calls had little effect on the popularity of the thriller, which is based on the best-selling novel by Dan Brown. The film earned an estimated $760 million in worldwide boxoffice receipts.

"Angels & Demons" features many of the same characters as "The Da Vinci Code," but the story itself takes place before the events portrayed in the earlier film. The film is set to open worldwide May 15.


*Editor's note*
After all these years, hasn't The Vatican learned this only drives more people to the box office? (See emphasis added above) Dan Brown's book was very good. We can only hope Howard has brought the same amazing skills to the prequel that he did to "The Da Vinci Code".

Labels: Hollywood, religion, Vatican

posted by Stash @ 8:10 AM

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Gervais

Labels: Atheism, religion

posted by Stash @ 1:26 AM

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"I haven't really thought about that."

They protest, yell, scream obscenities to women making their choices, but "haven't thought about" what should/would happen if it were to be illegal.

What else haven't they thought about?

BuzzFlash

Labels: Abortion, religion, Roe v Wade, Women's Rights

posted by Stash @ 7:11 PM

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An ObamaNation... Rick Warren? Really?

President-elect Barack Obama has announced that Rick Warren will be speaking at his Inauguration.

We understand it's Obama's Inaugural. We also understand a plethora of reasons to object to Warren exists.

We only have one. Rick Warren doesn't think an atheist should be President.

Just like the Boy Scouts of America, Rick Warren believes it is appropriate to discriminate against someone because of religion.

Normally, we'd give Obama a pass. His success at breaking barriers and his remarkable win over McSame earn him a honeymoon period. He'll get it on this as well. But, we will refuse to let it go unnoticed.

Rick Warren giving the invocation at the Inaugural is a mistake.

Labels: Atheism, Barack Obama, religion, Rick Warren

posted by Stash @ 10:04 AM

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Christians Call for Newsweek boycott

Lou Engle, of TheCall, and his right-wing Christian followers are calling on Christians to cancel their Newsweek subscriptions because they "got the gay"!

Labels: Gay Rights, Newsweek, religion

posted by Stash @ 4:20 PM

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Proposition 8: The Musical

The artistic community is raising hell about the passage of Proposition 8 in their own special way. Funny or Die has the video.

Good on 'em!

Labels: Gay Rights, Humor, religion

posted by Stash @ 10:15 PM

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Hit 'em when their down!

This is from a policy speech on disabilities by Republican VP Candidate, Sarah Palin:

"Where does a lot of that earmark money end up, anyway? [...] You've heard about, um, these -- some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not!"

Sometimes it's just too easy.

Sarah's son, Track or Twig or Thug or something like that has autism. Fruit fly research lead to the discovery of proteins that aid in the treatment of autism in children.

The irony is staggering. Besides the 6000 year old earth crap, can one even comprehend the blow dealt to science with Palin in the White House?
_________________________
The Dominator!

Labels: Election 2008, religion, Republicans, Sarah Palin

posted by Stash @ 11:12 AM

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Holy warriors

This might make your sphincter pucker.

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posted by Stash @ 7:50 AM

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Food for thought... very fattening!

Labels: Atheism, Carl Sagan, religion

posted by Stash @ 10:01 PM

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John McCain and the Rev. Parsley: Inseparable

But, his Rev. Hagee is even worse!

"I'm honored to have his endorsement."

Labels: Election 2008, John McCain, religion, Republicans, Rod Parsley

posted by Stash @ 4:49 PM

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