Don’t Like The Verdicts? Demand New Judges!
Here’s yet another example of Christian bellyaching and demands for special treatment when things don’t go their way.
The fact that those demands for special treatment once again revolve around their alleged “right” to discriminate against gays and others is just more crap icing on the cake….
Church Leaders Head For Showdown With Top Judges Over Bias [...]
Christian Sado-Masochism
It’s an old story, of course. From Christians allegedly being thrown to the lions in ancient Rome to the innumerable depictions of martyred saints being tortured and killed in a wildly perverted assortment of ways right on down to Mother Teresa’s defense of pain as a good thing, Mel Gibson’s blood-soaked snuff film, The Passion [...]
More Examples Of How Christians Spend Their Time
To recap: Churches and members of the clergy get tax breaks that many other organizations and people don’t. When challenged about this, many Christians will claim that their churches and clergy are performing valuable social services that justify these tax breaks. As I’ve pointed out many, many times in the past, however, those social services [...]
Another Christian Charity Scandal
To briefly review:
Christian apologists often attempt to present their religion as some sort of huge social service or public works project devoted to selflessly helping the world’s neediest people with nary a negative side effect.
Researchers like Mark Chaves, however, have found that only a very small amount of the money donated to churches (less than [...]
Does God Hate Catholics?
It’s a question I’ve asked before (perhaps most notably here).
I’ve also asked slightly different versions of the same question before (perhaps most notably here and here).
I have yet to receive a good answer from a Catholic or any other variety of Christian.
Instead, events this year have only further sharpened my questions.
Consider:
Archbishop Of Port-au-Prince Monsignor Serge [...]
Christian Love & Compassion Strike Again!
Church Deacon Accused Of Pulling Knife Out, Threatening Fellow Deacon (WTKR-TV3; Feb 10)
NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia: NewsChannel 3 has uncovered an arrest warrant accusing a church deacon of raising a knife against a fellow church member.
Deacon Hurley Jones of Wesley Grove United Church of Christ is accused of pulling a knife out and threatening another deacon.
Deacon [...]
Should Gays Be Executed Or Merely Jailed?
Apparently that’s something of a hot question now among some Christians.
You know – the people who are allegedly so much more loving and compassionate than us cold, hateful atheists.
Here are a few of the details:
Don’t Kill U.S. Gays, Lock Them Up: Family Groups (Cathy Lynn Grossman/Faith & Reason/USA Today; Feb 8)
Focus on the Family, [...]
Staying Pure for Daddy
You are a typical American teenage girl and your Dad is a conservative Christian who believes that pre-marital sex is a sin and a disgrace before God. Maybe you buy into your Dad’s prudish morality or maybe you are just too young to really understand or care. Either way, how would feel about pledging your [...]
Jesus Guns
Because nothing says “Jesus loves you!” quite like making someone’s head disappear in a cloud of pink mist….
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes (Joseph Rhee, Tahman Bradley, and Brian Ross/ABC News/Nightline; Jan 18)
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided [...]
Haiti: Another Christian Response
Earthquake Survivors Get Solar-Powered Bibles (The Australian; Jan 19)
As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a US faith-based group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need.
Not just any Bible.
These are solar-powered audible Bibles that can broadcast the holy scriptures in [...]
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