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A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew, were walking in the desert...

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:44:41 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: This is funny.

Clip Source: video.stumbleupon.com

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A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew....

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, religion, superstition, theology, muslim, christian, jews

Torture Chambers - The Christianising of Europe

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:50:44 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: The Pope, leading the way of torture, and the history of Christianity. Will people ever get a clue?

Clip Source: www.jesusneverexisted.com

Torture Chambers

' For 1500 hundred years, the Christian Church systematically operated torture chambers throughout Europe. Torture was the rule, not the exception. Next to the Bible, the most influential and venerated book in Christian history was the Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches), which was a step-by-step tutorial in how to torture "witches' and "sorcerers".

"All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices."

--Pope Alexander IV (1254-61)
(Directory for the Inquisitors p. 135)

Iron Spider:

The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.

Slow Burn

A 16th century device to lift the victim in and out of the fire, roasting him alive slowly instead of burning him all at once.

Tags: bible, christianity, faith, god, moral values, religion, superstition, theology, torture

Another Story of Religious Child Abuse

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:01:23 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: More bone headed tales of misguided cult followers believing muttering pleas to their invisible friend will magically cure disease. Unfortunately, in this case, the recipient of the "prayer treatment" died for no reason. And because of religious brainwashing the 16 year old agreed to this non-treatment. Sad indeed.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Teenager from faith-healing family dies in Oregon

GLADSTONE, Ore. - Authorities say a teenager from a faith-healing family died from an illness that could have been easily treated, just a few months after a toddler cousin of his died in a case that has led to criminal charges.

Tuesday's death of 16-year-old Neil Beagley, however, may not be a crime because Oregon law allows minors 14 and older to decide for themselves whether to accept medical treatment.

Nelson said a catheter would have saved the boy's life. If the condition had been dealt with earlier, a urologist could easily have removed the blockage and avoided the kidney damage that came with the repeated illnesses, Nelson said.

Benton said a board member of the Followers of Christ church contacted the authorities after Beagley died at his family's home. The teen had been sick about a week, and church members and his family had gathered to pray Sunday when his condition worsened, Benton said.

Tags: religion, prayer, cult, science, superstition

Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:03:56 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Daniel Dennett and Lord Winston -- public debate.

Clip Source: richarddawkins.net

Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Prof Daniel Dennett and Lord Winston present their arguments ahead of tonight's public debate

Yes, says Prof Daniel Dennett

No, says Lord Winston

If religion isn't the greatest threat to rationality and scientific progress, what is? Perhaps alcohol, or television, or addictive video games.

People are revered for their capacity to live in a dream world, to shield their minds from factual knowledge and make the major decisions of their lives by consulting voices in their heads that they call forth by rituals designed to intoxicate them.

"You cannot lose by professing belief in God - if He does not exist you lose nothing, and if He does exist, you will be rewarded in the afterlife." Dennett argues that it is better to live as if there is no God, attempting to make the world a rational and better place.

The debate on religion versus science will take place tonight at the British Council.

Tags: bible, christian, church, faith, religion, daniel dennett, lord winston

Would you kill your own son -- to save others?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:43:39 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Would you save your own son if it meant killing others?

Clip Source: video.stumbleupon.com

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Tags: religion, faith, bible, nick gisburne, atonement, jesus

Instructions for Life

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:21:05 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: I like this man.

Clip Source: www.karinya.com

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE

1 Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2 When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3 Follow the three Rs:

Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.

4 Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5 Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

7 When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

11 Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

15 Be gentle with the earth.

16 Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

17 Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18 Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19 Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Tags: life

Pulitzer Prize Photo of Horror

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:38:28 GMT

clipped by: Cielerella
clipper's remarks: Kevin Carter took this photo of a starving baby stalked by a vulture, then walked away. 3 months later he committed suicide, as well he should have for being such a HORRIBLE HUMAN BEING.

Clip Source: farm1.static.flickr.com

Tags: photography, death, horror, human rights, hunger

Pastor's Review of Iron Man -- from Landover Baptist Church

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:00:24 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Just keeping you posted on the True Christian (tm) fundamentalists.

Clip Source: www.landoverbaptist.org

Pastor's Review of Iron Man:

The first thing you have to understand about the movie, "Iron Man," is that it is based on a super hero comic book series. For those of you who are not aware, super hero comic books are cartoon-style magazines read by effeminate young boys who don't play sports. I'm going to put it bluntly - and ladies, close your ears now, or ask your husband later - comic book readers are given toward a lifestyle of masturbation directed toward men wearing leotards. Thankfully, in a civilized society, these little perverts are not able to fulfill their disgusting fantasies in our school gymnasiums unless, of course, they are attending school in England, where boys learn to prance about like homosexuals in the first grade! In God's Country, America, if a sissy hankers toward a mastrabatorial fantasy in the school gym, God willing, there will be a True Christian™ jock, on hand to beat the devil out of them.

Tags: christian, fundamentalism, religion, landover, stupid people, bible, iron man

Ex-Bear Stearns managers arrested for fraud!

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:16:28 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Welcome to un-regulated capitalism.

"Barclays accused Bear Stearns of knowing for months that certain assets in the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Master Fund were worth "far less" than their stated values."

The big shoe to fall... Naked short selling!

Clip Source: phoenix.cox.net

NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- Two former Bear Stearns managers have been arrested, federal authorities said Thursday, becoming the first executives to face criminal charges related to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.

The former executives are suspected of misleading investors about the risky subprime mortgage market, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the outcome of the investigation is pending.

Cioffi, 52, and Tannin, 46, already have been named in lawsuits brought last year by hedge fund investors, including Barclays Bank PLC, who allege they were purposely misled.

Last month, Bear Stearns shareholders approved JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s $2.2 billion buyout at about $10 a share. Back in January 2007, before mortgage defaults began clobbering banks and draining demand from the debt markets, Bear Stearns had traded at $171 a share.

Tags: bear stearns, subprime, financial fraud

Pretty Slick, Huh?

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:06:16 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

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Tags: truth, government, congress

Hawkins -- The End of the World, on Thurs. 6-12-08

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:16:48 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: The end of the world will be on Thursday 6-12-08 says a Christian leader.

Clip Source: www.yesbutnobutyes.com

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Tags: religion, end of times, christian, bible, hawkins

McCain CANNOT Use a COMPUTER !!!!

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:04:17 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Forget Dodo. Think dinosaur.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

McCain Admits He Doesn't Know How To Use A Computer (VIDEO)

This video appears to be from at least six weeks ago, but no one has really commented on...

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Fox News Changes: "Terrorist Fist Jab" Anchor E.D. Hill Loses Her Show, Laura Ingraham In At 5PM

Perhaps feeling the ratings heat, Fox News...

Fox News Calls Michelle "Obama's Baby Mama"... FOX: Producer Used Poor Judgment

UPDATE: Politico Reports that Fox addresses baby mama drama: Producer...

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"Countdown" Beats "O'Reilly Factor" In Ratings Demo For First Time Ever

MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" beat Fox News' "The...

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McCain Iraq Comments: Bringing Troops Home From Iraq "Not Too Important" (VIDEO)

*** UPDATES BELOW *** Sen. John McCain appeared on the...

Jeffrey Feldman Coulter: McCain a "Lickspittle" Unworthy of "Kissing Bush's Behind"

In her newest syndicated column, right-wing...

Tags: mccain, computer, dodo, dinosaur

Thomas Jefferson on Christianity and Religion

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:25:42 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Thoughts of another founding father.

Clip Source: www.nobeliefs.com

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

-Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, April 22, 1786. (on the British regarding America, but quoted here for its universal appeal.)

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.

-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822.

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

Tags: religion, thomas jefferson, politics, atheism, freethought, agnostic, founding father, god, christianity, bible

Quotations by Abraham Lincoln

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:46:02 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: ""In religion, Mr. Lincoln was about of the same opinion as Bob Ingersoll, and there is no account of his ever having changed. He went to church a few times with his family while he was President, but so far as I have been able to find out, he remained an unbeliever. Mr. Lincoln in his younger days wrote a book, in which he endeavored to prove the fallacy of the plan of salvation and the divinity of Christ."

Clip Source: www.positiveatheism.org

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

It is an established maxim and moral that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

When the Know-Nothings get control, it [the Declaration of Independence] will read: "All men are created equal except negroes, foreigners and Catholics."

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Tags: religion, ab lincoln, christianity, atheism, freethought, freedom

so beautiful, I couldn't help it -- Animusic

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:57:40 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: This was clipped probably over a year ago, but I ran into it again and couldn't help but clip it again.

Always brings a smile to my face.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: music, animation, animusic

Clipmarks | AcesLucky's clips

A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew, were walking in the desert...

Torture Chambers - The Christianising of Europe

"All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices."

Iron Spider: The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.

Slow Burn

A 16th century device to lift the victim in and out of the fire, roasting him alive slowly instead of burning him all at once.

Another Story of Religious Child Abuse

Teenager from faith-healing family dies in Oregon

Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Is religion a threat to rationality and science?

Would you kill your own son -- to save others?

Instructions for Life

Pulitzer Prize Photo of Horror

Pastor's Review of Iron Man -- from Landover Baptist Church

Ex-Bear Stearns managers arrested for fraud!

Pretty Slick, Huh?

Hawkins -- The End of the World, on Thurs. 6-12-08

McCain CANNOT Use a COMPUTER !!!!

Thomas Jefferson on Christianity and Religion

Quotations by Abraham Lincoln

so beautiful, I couldn't help it -- Animusic

Iron Spider:

The iron would usually be heated to red-hot and then used to slowly rip the breasts from the body. It would be used for such crimes as heresy, adultery, self-induced abortions, blasphemy and other "hideous" crimes.