Scott M

This is a woman who has written a book claiming that there should be a "religious litmus test" for public office (utterly ignoring the Constitution), while simultaneously claiming that public education of any kind is somehow "unconstitutional". This is a woman whose personal website is a tragedy of grammar and spelling. What could anyone be thinking that this anti-education, anti-science nutcase should be considered for a post on the Board of Education?

...because an SUV filled with homophobic morons assumed they were gay. Want to bet that the attackers consider themselves "good Christian folk"?

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view/20...

Is this or is this not precisely where institutionalized homophobia leads? Now they're beating up anyone who dares to walk to close to one another!

...that conservatives are not represented by the lunacy on Conservapedia? That conservatives have not been completely taken over by the Creationist, anti-science, holier-than-thou crowd?

A pair or parents let their 11 year old child die because they believed that prayer would help her more than medicine. The child suffered from diabetes and was easily treatable. Even when she fell into a coma her parents refused to go to a hospital...they e-mailed their Pentecostal chruch and were advised to keep praying!

Anyone care to defend these people?

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=744614

The press release from the church is even more jaw-dropping: http://www.americaslastdays.com/?page=pressrelease

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm

The case of Fawza Falih:

She has been condemned to death. By beheading.

She has been beaten to the point of hospitalization during her incarceration.

The authorities have a signed confession, which she has not had read to her.

She didn't read what she signed, either, because she's illiterate.

She and her representatives were not allowed to attend much of the trial.

And the crime for which she is to be executed? Witchcraft. She is accused of casting a spell that caused a man to become impotent, and threatening to cause people to be possessed by dogs.

This is in Saudi Arabia. Our ally.

Just how "Christian" is this nonsense?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/4/181427/745

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/10/giving_...

http://www.gameology.org/blog/left_behind_games_in...

http://www.publictheologian.com/blog/_archives/200...

http://gamepolitics.com/2007/10/05/left-behind-gam...

From the article:

In a speech at the convention, Larsen told those gathered that illegal immigrants “hate American people” and “are determined to destroy this country, and there is nothing they won’t do.”

"Illegal aliens are in control of the media, and working in tandem with Democrats, are trying to “destroy Christian America” and replace it with “a godless new world order — and that is not extremism, that is fact,” Larsen said. […]

Republican officials then allowed speakers to defend and refute the resolution. One speaker, who was identified as “Joe,” said illegal immigrants were Marxist and under the influence of the devil. Another, who declined to give her name to the Daily Herald, said illegal immigrants should not be allowed because “they are not going to become Republicans….”

Wow.

The US is in worse shape than I'd ever imagined.

As many have heard by now, a gunman of unknown motive went through Virginia Tech University and shot as many as 50 people...and they are counting as many as 30 (!) or more dead.

Can we, for a few moments at least, put aside our philosophical differences and offer our sympathy to the victims and their families?

http://biblenews1.com/planets/red_planet/redplanet...

Just when religious pseudo-science couldn't get any worse. Theists, atheists, I'm looking for comments on this. Please tell me I'm not alone in thinking that this guy is way round the bend.

A viewer wrote in to ask Pat Robertson a question

"Why [do] evangelical Christians tell non-Christians that Jesus (God) is the only way to Heaven? Those who are Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, etc. already know and have a relationship with God. Why is this? It seems disrespectful."

Robertson replied that it is not at all disrespectful because all other religions really just worship "demonic powers."

"No. They don't have a relationship. There is the god of the Bible, who is Jehovah. When you see L-O-R-D in caps, that is the name. It's not Allah, it's not Brahma, it's not Shiva, it's not Vishnu, it's not Buddha. It is Jehovah God. They don't have a relationship with him. He is the God of all Gods. These others are mostly demonic powers. Sure they're demons. There are many demons in the world."

'Demonic powers"? Good grief, Pat, who still believes in demons anymore? Is this what Christians really think about other religions of the world? Of all the conceited arrogance...

One member of her family came up to the grieving mother and told her that the reason her son died was because she had taken up "those Satanic matrial arts". Fortunately for the speaker, the mom was too stunned to deliver the proper response. (I had to be held back though.) I later overheard the same person claim that martial atrists as part of their training get possessed by demon familiars.

So I guess my questions are: Is there no limit to stupidity? What is it about religion that turns the rational mind off? Why is Xenophobia somehow an acceptable practice among the religious?

Particularly when it comes to political ambitions, obedience to a particular code of behavior, or judging other people? I have yet to hear a preacher talk about something that God supposedly wants that doesn't reflect their personal politics. I don't think it's God talking to them at all (though I'm sure they might think so). I think they are proclaiming their agendas as synonymous to Gods', and I think they are using their position of leadership for their own ends. That goes for everyone from the Pope to Falwell to Graham tp Popoff.

I've asked this question before, but it was very late at night and I got few answers. I'm trying again with a much busier board.

Particularly when it comes to political ambitions, obedience to a particular code of behavior, or judging other people? I have yet to hear a preacher talk about something that God supposedly wants that doesn't reflect their personal politics. I don't think it's God talking to them at all (though I'm sure they might think so). I think they are proclaiming their agendas as synonymous to Gods', and I think they are using their position of leadership for their own ends. That goes for everyone from the Pope to Falwell to Graham tp Popoff.

Particularly when it comes to political ambitions, obedience to a particular code of behavior, or judging other people? I have yet to hear a preacher talk about something that God supposedly wants that doesn't reflect their personal politics. I don't think it's God talking to them at all (though I'm sure they might think so). I think they are proclaiming their agendas as synonymous to Gods', and I think they are using their position of leadership for their own ends. That goes for everyone from the Pope to Falwell to Graham tp Popoff.