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Comment by Sentient Biped on December 14, 2012 at 22:38

James, in your apostasy, you forget god's wisdom as well as his wrath.  The more you sin, the larger your prostate grows.  It's kind of like Pinnochio's nose.  It's somewhere in Deuteronomy.  At my current rate of sin, when I'm 70 my prostate will be the size of Rhode Island.  

Comment by James M. Martin on December 14, 2012 at 17:50

Thanks, Loren.  If ID is true, and God is perfect and created us in his image, why do I have a prostate gland that wraps around my urethra and, nearing 70, I have EPS, such that while the gland swells it cuts off my flow.  I go the men's room all day at, about, 45-minute intervals.  What is intelligent about THAT?!  There is no god but Man.

Comment by Loren Miller on December 14, 2012 at 6:24

There are places in the US where that is already happening, Joan.  Witness the reception Bill Nye got in Waco, Texas when he asserted that the moon is not a light source, but reflects light energy from the sun.  There's also the matter of ID / creationism being approved for teaching in Tennessee and Louisiana.

These idiots are convinced that running their country on the bible is the right thing to do, and given enough traction, they will do just that ... and therewith turn the US into another Saudi Arabia.

Comment by Joan Denoo on December 14, 2012 at 1:46

I guess those ideas could spread to this country. If the beauty and intelligence of the Golden Age of Islam could be so terribly annihilated, it could happen any where.
Surely there were protesters when the changes occurred, but religious faith was so strong, it crushed any resistance.

Comment by Sayed Iman Rafizadeh on December 13, 2012 at 15:14

In 21st century, in some parts of the world, particularly in Middle East, Atheists can face execution and imprisonment.

Comment by Sayed Iman Rafizadeh on November 25, 2012 at 14:30

Why apostate?

Apostate: A person who has given up their religion or left a political party. (Cambridge Dictionary)

I have intentionally chosen this name for the group because it is the closest translation for ‘Murtad’ which means ‘anyone who leaves Islam’. Islam estates that Murtads are traitors and they must be killed immediately.  This term (apostate) has been chosen to break the taboo of leaving Islam or any other religions.

Comment by James M. Martin on November 25, 2012 at 8:46

As someone famous once said, I am a protestant, too, in the sense that I protest.

Comment by Joan Denoo on November 24, 2012 at 23:20

James, I, personally am not a recovering catholic, but I do descend  from a mixture of Puritan stock from 1632, Roman Catholic who emigrated about 1900, a Free Methodist, and a Presbyterian. Though my parents were not active church goers, they still held on to the old beliefs about women and children, and the responsibility of man to have control over them. Obedience was a high value, as was very hard work. The net result was the usual dysfunction in families who came through the Great Depression and WW II moving out of the old traditions but not yet ready to take on such heresies as a woman capable of thinking for her own benefit, and that women and children who would not submit to patriarchy were not worth their salt. 

Comment by Loren Miller on November 24, 2012 at 13:57

Brian, your generalization about American women has at least one exception that I know of: my wife.  She has remained as devoted and interested in me while I have been unemployed as I was when I made high-five-figures a year, perhaps more so.  Indeed, I could name several other women I have known whose attitudes are remarkably similar.  If the women you are hanging with are only interested in your wallet, You're Hanging With The WRONG WOMEN!!!

Comment by James M. Martin on November 24, 2012 at 13:12

Oh, lordy, ms Kalliope, that stuff sounds positively medieval.  That is what we are experiencing all over the globe today, a kind of selfish medieval thing; might as well call the New Feudalism.  This is the America envisioned by the 2% who use religious dogma in a Senecan manner (cynical?), proscribing birth control and attacking organizations that further the cause of poor peoples' rights to their own bodies. I feel sorry for women born in such countries: they start at the bottom of the totem pole and are given the freedom to nothing from birth until death.  In such hopelessness, I would take hemlock and be done with it.

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