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Bad Religion, bad bad religion

Frankly I don't know much about Bad Religion, but I stumbled across some lyrics and was delighted to find that I agreed with the sentiments. I've heard before they are an atheist band, but you know how that goes.

NEW DARK AGES by Bad Religion

Yeah can you hear the call in our rambling land susurrations,

That can expand beyond all hope of light and plunge us into unrelenting night

A pall on truth and reason,

It feels like hunting season

So avoid… Continue

Added by Jessicah on July 26, 2008 at 8:46pm — No Comments

Ancient Artifacts Subjected to Sacred Spin

[I first posted this lengthy review on my MySpace blog last year.]

I recently went to see an exhibition billed as "Ancient Treasures of the Holy Land" housed in the Embarcadero Building at Fair Park of Dallas. Fair Park has some fine museums, but the Embarcadero Building isn't one of them; it's just a general-purpose building with lots of space, usually given over to agricultural exhibits during the State Fair of Texas or various attractions during the North Texas IrishFest.… Continue

Added by Wordplayer on July 26, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Whose Service Is This, Again?

I attended a funeral recently for a relative of a friend, and I saw a familiar type of service.

The deceased had lived 84 years, and the only things the minister mentioned about him in this memorial (though they were mentioned repeatedly and with due emphasis on their considerable value) were the facts that he was a serviceman (U.S. Navy, in both WWII and Korea), husband, and father (and grandfather and great-grandfather). That's about it.

Wait, not quite: There was also a… Continue

Added by Wordplayer on July 25, 2008 at 4:58pm — 7 Comments

The utter insanity of Christianity (wow - that rhymes!)

I have been following the comment thread over at http://de-conversion.com/2008/07/22/i-never-wanted-to-be-an-atheist/ - and ran across the following exchange (names have been deleted to protect the guilty):

commenter 1 (a Christian)

Wow, the tone here is so interesting. Such great anger and pompousness, against God himself, even. Hmmm. He is not going to accept any of your excuses on Judgment Day. He is going to show you all of the ways he revealed himself to you quite… Continue

Added by Brad Feaker on July 24, 2008 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Choice & Religion

Free will is completely necessary within religion, with the most heavy emphasis I've experienced being placed upon Christianity. The Christian god is said to have created Adam and Eve, and given them free will. Were they perfect creations of God? No, apparently not. Their intelligence was incredibly limited and God knew that this free will would bring them into pain and sin, yet he gave it to them anyway. He knew what path every single person on earth would take because of his choice. The… Continue

Added by Saint on July 7, 2008 at 3:29pm — 1 Comment

Religion and Football

This post was imported from Livejournal on 2008.07.18

This guy is hilarious. And awesome. Every now and then he strikes a chord with me. I completely relate to this idiocy.

If there's anything I think is nearly as asinine as religion, it's sports fanaticism...

You know, for a long time, I've wanted to write a satire piece on religion and football. I'm from… Continue

Added by Jim Craft on September 12, 2007 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Censorship at Its Finest

This post was imported from Livejournal on 2008.07.18

Kathy Griffin's Acceptance Speech to Be Cut from Emmy's Broadcast

"[A] lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus."

Catholic Bill Donahue complained that her remarks were a "vulgar, in-your-face brand of hate speech."

That's… Continue

Added by Jim Craft on September 11, 2007 at 11:30am — No Comments

It's Over

This post was imported from Livejournal on 2008.07.18

It's official. America is a Theocracy.

Yesterday we lost the right to challenge executive-branch government spending. The Supreme Court ruled that we can't even challenge "faith-based initiatives." For 7 years, our joke of a president has been holding prayer breakfasts, faith-based lunches, and dinners with the leaders of every major denomination of America's Official Religion, Christianity™. The money… Continue

Added by Jim Craft on June 26, 2007 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Pete Stark, I Salute You

This post was imported from Livejournal on 2008.07.18

I don't think many people realize how amazingly important it was that Pete Stark admitted his godlessness. It's a lot like the episode of Ellen when she "came out" on the show. It's completely unprecedented, and it opens the door for other politicians to do the same. There are atheist… Continue

Added by Jim Craft on March 23, 2007 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

This Is Infuriating

This post was imported from Livejournal on 2008.07.17

Today my wife and I went down to the license department at Parkway Place to get new plates. We waited in line for an hour or so, and went to our respective clerks. My clerk asked me if I wanted "the new God Bless America tag" or "the old one?" I said I'd actually rather have the Saturn V tag, which costs $50, but my dad worked on the Saturn V, and the proceeds go to the Saturn V Restoration Project. So I got that one. We… Continue

Added by Jim Craft on March 21, 2007 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

First Post Is a Happy One

This post was imported from Livejournal on 2008.07.17

Oh, happy day. Kansas has officially stopped teaching superstition. I would be more excited except that this should never have been an issue in the FIRST place.

from The Guardian: