Posted on June 18, 2008 by Dan (Fitness)
The group Pharmacists for Life International wants to control wombs. They stand against personal freedom in the name of utter nonsense. As always, the surprise comes when you consider that these folks are allowed to operate at all. Refusing to sell contraceptives to women is by any practical measure as prejudicial as refusing to serve [...]
Filed under: Politics, Religion | Tagged: Catholics, Condoms, Contraception, Feminism, Freedom, Fundamentalists, human rights, Kuhar, Liberty, Pharmacies, Pharmacists For Life, Politics, Psychosis, Religion, The Pill | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 12, 2008 by Dan (Fitness)
When Obama distanced himself, John McCain has closed the distance between himself and theocratic preachers with radical agendas. Via Elizabeth:
With all of this coverage of Rev. Wright, why is it we never hear about John McCain’s fraternization with the radical preachers John Hagee and Rod Parsley? Hagee made headlines in 2005 for saying that Hurricane [...]
Filed under: Politics, Religion | Tagged: Bigotry, Christianists, Christianity, Fundamentalists, Hagee, Hate, McCain, Media, Parsley, Politics, Republicans | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 12, 2008 by Dan (Fitness)
Sometimes people are abominably silly:
A Christian group called “The Resistance,†having solved all other God-related problems in the world, has turned its considerable ire toward Starbucks, which recently re-introduced its original logo from 1971 as part of an attempt to …. well, I don’t know what, really. I assume it’s to make people nostalgic when [...]
Filed under: Religion | Tagged: Christianists, Fundamentalists, Humor, Religion, Starbucks, The Resistance | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 29, 2008 by Dan (Fitness)
This is incredibly fucked, but it is a topic of some interest for me, and one I plan on revisiting. As Amanda notes, this stuff is “fucking frightening”. Matt Taibi writes in Rolling Stone about his experiences at a three day intensive convert-a-thon. He starts things off by discussing the contrast between the soon-to-be-converted and [...]
Filed under: Politics, Religion | Tagged: Christian Zionism, Christianists, Conservatives, Cults, Demons, Faith, Free Speech, Fundamentalists, Hagee, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Rationality, Reason, Religion, Republicans, Rolling Stone, Texas | 5 Comments »
Posted on April 29, 2008 by Dan (Fitness)
This is just too much awesome to pass up. Probably a parody site, but well worth tackling seriously. Frank (Ignorant Christian) writes:
I’ve been thinking for a long time why liberals don’t beleve in God. Here’s what I learnt:
This is going to be extra special, so I’m going to go through point by point.
They [...]
Filed under: Politics, Religion | Tagged: Atheism, Christianity, Conservatives, Fundamentalists, Humor, Liberals, Logic, Politics, Religion | 2 Comments »