It's really tragic that religious groups in this country make it so politically suicidal for Americans to come forward and admit that they don't believe in a higher power. As a result we get almost every politician feeling like they have to pander to church-goers just so they don't get shouted down by the [...]
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According to Webster’s Dictionary: Main Entry: Sem·ite Pronunciation: ‘se-”mIt, especially British ‘sE-”mIt Function: noun Etymology: French sémite, from Semitic Shem, from Late Latin, from Greek SEm, from Hebrew ShEm 1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs b : [...] Pat Robertson has been talking about the revelations that god has been giving him again. This time on his 700 club show. Evidently the big guy told him that storms and a possible tsunami will lash American cosatlines this year! It took a revelation from god to figure this out?! Give me a break. [...] In the Washington Post yesterday they had an article about the State Dept’s annual report on religious liberty. In the piece secretary of state Condi Rice is quoted as saying: “The United States has stood for the values of human decency, of a government that respects the religious freedoms of its people, that respects [...] Cam has an interesting discussion started over here about The Miers nomination, a George Will column and absolutists. Tweet There is a great post over on SIVACRACY.NET this morning. This is exactly what I believe in and have written about previously Don’t click this link if you have no sense of humor about religion, e.g. if you don’t find this funny: “As an atheist you have a number of rights and responsibilities. These [...] Alessandro Camon wrote an excellent essay on Salon.com this week about how the republican party and the religiious right in the United States have hijacked Jesus Christ. Even if you are not a Christian it is truly appalling how shrub and his cronies have abuse and twisted the words in the bible to their [...] A new study published in the Journal of Religion and Society shows that religion is not necessary for a moral, healthy society. In fact, all the evidence seems to point to a direct relationship between how religious a society is and rates of violent crime, abortion, early mortality, std rates and teen pregnancy. People [...] I was listening to a podcast of Radio Open Source (Christopher Lydon’s new public radio show) today where they were talking about intelligent design and evolution. While listening to this I remembered something that I have thought about on numerous occasions before. One of the arguments I keep hearing from religious “conservatives” about morals [...] I was listening to a podcast of Radio Open Source (Christopher Lydon’s new public radio show) today where they were talking about intelligent design and evolution. While listening to this I remembered something that I have thought about on numerous occasions before. One of the arguments I keep hearing from religious “conservatives” about morals [...] |
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