May 23, 2012
A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now? | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches

This is a great follow-up about what Harold Camping’s followers are up to these days.

May 17, 2012
The Prayer Connection -- Indiegogo -- Buy prayers for your loved ones.

What a completely despicable scam. The people behind this should be ashamed of themselves.

March 29, 2012
Christian Militia Acquitted of Sedition [LINK]

waskommenmag:

via Aljazeera English

The seven defendants were accused of plotting to kill law enforcement officers as a way to incite a wider rebellion against the US government, but defence lawyers argued that their conversations were protected by free speech rights and were never put into action.”


What? Really.

I guess I’m not surprised. Conspiring to commit acts of terrorism is “protected speech” for white Christians, but will get anyone else shipped off to Guantanamo.

Amurrikkka.

March 20, 2012
"When you think you are better than anybody else — that you are closer to God than other people, and therefore they are inferior to you and subhuman — that leads to conflict and hatred and dissonance among people when we should be working for peace."

President Jimmy Carter

This is basically the thing that I find to be most poisonous about pretty much every evangelical religion ever. All evangelical religions teach that those who are members of their particular sect are special and everyone else is damned. I like Jimmy Carter, but I don’t see how there is really a way to get past this aspect of religion. As soon as you create that sort of in-group/out-group dynamic, I think things get dangerous.

It’s easy to vilify and dehumanize those who don’t believe the same things you do when you honestly and devoutly believe they are going to hell (or whatever other nasty place is reserved for non-believers), and even the kindest, gentlest versions of Christianity and other similar religions have this belief at their core: “We’re saved and everyone else is doomed. We’re good and everyone else is bad or, at the very least, grossly and tragically misguided.” Only universalism really moves past this, and universalism is still generally considered to be heresy—not to mention the fact that, at least in Christianity, universalism is fundamentally un-Biblical.

There just seems to me to be something essentially wrong with any belief system that sets some select group of people above the rest. I don’t see how it can be anything other than intrinsically harmful.

March 18, 2012
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AMMURIKKKA!

USAFish.com - Christian Fish USA Flag - Old Glory for HIS Glory ™

AMMURIKKKA!

December 26, 2011
"Before, what I believed, what Chinese people believe, is that people are innately good,” she said. “I realized that I was sinful. I was lying, not loving. Those are as bad as killing someone. There’s no difference between me and a murderer."

Chinese Atheists Lured to Find Jesus at U.S. Christian Schools - Businessweek

There is so, so much wrong in this article, but this is the part that makes me want to weep.

Christianity is fucking evil.

December 24, 2011

(via cocknbull)

December 19, 2011
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Southern Baptist-owned LifeWay Christian Resources is recalling its pink Bible because it benefited a charity with ties to Planned Parenthood. The “Here’s Hope Breast Cancer Bible” was sold at Walmart stores and other major retailers, with a dollar per copy going to the Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

LifeWay decided to recall the Bible after receiving complaints that some of the breast cancer charity’s local affiliates donated funds to Planned Parenthood. Thomas Rainer, president of LifeWay, called the project a mistake.

“Though we have assurances that Komen’s funds are used only for breast cancer screening and awareness, it is not in keeping with LifeWay’s core values to have even an indirect relationship with Planned Parenthood,” Rainer said in a statement.

"

LifeWay’s pink Bibles scrapped | The Tennessean | tennessean.com

Stay classy, Christians.

December 10, 2011
"The rapes of children are a horrible tragedy. The scandal is the fact that the Catholic Church hid the rapes, and protected the child-raping priests from discovery and prosecution: lying to law enforcement, concealing evidence, paying off witnesses, moving child-raping priests from diocese to diocese so they could rape a whole new batch of children in a place where they wouldn’t be suspected. The scandal is the fact that it wasn’t just a few individuals in the ranks who protected and enabled the child-raping priests: it was large numbers of Church officials, including high-ranking officials, acting as a cold-blooded matter of Church policy. The scandal is the fact that the Church treated their own stability and reputation as a higher priority than, for fuck’s sake, children not being raped."

— Greta Christina (via shitigotbanned)

(Source: freethoughtblogs.com, via cocknbull)

November 17, 2011
Food request for Rev. Schuller’s wife sparks outrage | schullers, meals, church - News - The Orange County Register

According to longtime member Jim McDonald, an email was sent out by administrators to Bible study groups as well as church elders, asking that meals for the reverend’s wife be dropped off at the cathedral’s Tower of Hope where the Schullers’ limo drivers will be waiting to pick them up at the designated time.

Member Bob Canfield says he was outraged when he got the message.

“These are millionaires who have limos and chauffeurs,” he said. “Why in God’s name would they want the congregants to deliver meals? It’s ludicrous.”

The email states that the Schullers do not want get-well cards sent because they would like to “keep her situation under the radar.”

“However, they would appreciate meals over the next three to four weeks,” the email states. “They are to be sent to the church in order to be transported to Arvella. The limo drivers could pick up the dinners or meet in the Tower Lobby around 4:30 p.m.”

The message also requests that the meals be low in sodium and include items such as fruit, meats, soup and egg dishes such as quiches.

That’s not all!

Canfield said he and other members of the congregation are upset the request came at a time when their church is in bankruptcy and information coming out through court documents has suggested that the Schullers took nearly $10 million from the church’s endowment funds.

“They’ve completely depleted the church’s funds,” he said. “But they have shown that they have absolutely no remorse for what they’ve done. They’re still being chauffeured around in limos. We, the congregants, have nothing.”

Stay classy, Schullers.

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