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Comment by The Secular One on December 2, 2009 at 11:06am

Oh, wow. Rick Warren: enemy of logic and reason. Contradictory things are both true! Awesome! That must be the reason that priests rape children. The voice of the Catholic PAC says "stay celibate" but the voice in their heads says "diddle little kids" and they just assume both are God. Hence they diddle little kids but still claim celibacy! It all makes sense now!

Comment by Eli on December 2, 2009 at 11:05am

Wow, just.... man, let me say he's started off with "Stupid", let's see just how far down the rabbit hole he goes.

Comment by Wes on December 1, 2009 at 11:55pm

Oh...oh shit...my left side is numb. Rick Warren finally gave me a rage stroke.

http://twitter.com/RickWarren/status/6225705072

Comment by Wes on November 30, 2009 at 9:44pm

I don't know if you all are Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal fans or not, but this is a hilarious video concerning creationism. There's even a Ray Comfort reference!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlqDu2cDT0A

Comment by The Secular One on November 29, 2009 at 10:47pm

There, I voted in the Podcast thingy, get off my back! =P

Comment by Wes on November 29, 2009 at 6:34pm

Currently listening to episode 36, wherein you discuss the court decision on that dumb fuckin' Homeland Security office here in Kentucky from earlier in the year.

While I always cringe whenever I hear my fair state maligned, I have to admit that describing Kentucky as "the gut that hangs over the Bible Belt" as pretty goddam accurate. Not to mention hilarious.

Comment by Wes on November 24, 2009 at 7:14pm

So, I just finished episode 14: Hate-Free Atheism. I have to admit that I am indeed a snarky douche and would love to play tit-for-tat games with those "God Speaks" billboards. If I had the money I'd put this up on the side of the highway in 30 foot high letters:

"Claim to speak for god? It's not your mouth you're talkin' out of."

Too much or too subtle?

Comment by Judith McLean on November 24, 2009 at 11:47am

One more point. Extended families -- relatives and in-laws -- used to be the social security and health care of early times. A marriage was a union planned for the security it brought the bride's or groom's family. I believe that's why arranged marriages were so important, and romantic marriages were excoriated.

Comment by Eli on November 24, 2009 at 10:52am

Allow me to place a lightly longer view on religious sexuality, it's true that "productive sex" was a goal of several religions, especially the middle eastern religions that have grown to so much prominence today. Taking a longer view than Jacqueline, there is not so much the question of the creation of a lower working class, but of survival against a hostile environment, the history of that region is ridden with strife. One might think that this might lead to more promiscuous sexual behavior, but remember that while adults were an asset to these early tribes, children were a burden, so enforcing responsibility and the seeing through that these children grew up with the knowledge and skills to be productive to the tribe was of equal importance. These practices may have been kept to the dogmatic core because later rulers who adopted these religions found them useful but it is far from the original intent. One must take the evolutionary and historical critical view of these dogmatic teachings for them to make some level of sense.

Comment by Phil Weadick on November 24, 2009 at 9:03am

Guess I'll have to do it

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