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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?

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

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

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

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

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

The Devil's Delusion

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:28:00 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: More from the debates

Better to read the whole review...i could only clip a lil bit.

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/dont-write-off-religion-just-yet/

Clip Source: www.samharris.org

Don’t write off religion just yet

THE DEVIL’S DELUSION

Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions

By David Berlinski

There is actually very little that is new in the so-called new atheism, whose claim to be based on science is as dubious today as it has ever been. A critique of the contemporary assault on religion is therefore much needed, and in The Devil’s Delusion, David Berlinski gives us a polemic that is powerful, erudite and often savagely funny. Berlinski - a mathematician and well-known critic of evolutionary theory, though not a proponent of “intelligent design” - has two targets in his sights: the conventional belief that religious thought is intrinsically superstitious and the materialist philosophy that Dawkins and his fellow “brights” - as members of the atheist community fondly describe themselves - mistakenly identify with science.

Tags: religion, debate, science, reason, www.samharris.org

Islam: A Cover for Crimes Against Humanity

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:14:34 GMT

clipped by: RaiseClip
clipper's remarks: Can anyone imagine some cat up there who was actually in charge and appointed this filthy little slob to be his overseer of the underlings, making sure they all please this psychotic deity? Uhhhmm, me neither. So, sanctioned by this jackass of a god, this bastard rapes and kills for a living. Just another, in the long list of examples of why religion is the worse idea in the history of humanity. Call superman what you like, Allah, Yahweh, Jesus, Yehovah, Whatevah ... just call any of these names and your criminal psychosis becomes licensed.

Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

Iraqi: 'I killed her with a machine gun'

Women bore the brunt of the militias' extremist ideologies. The militants spray-painted threats on walls across Basra, warning women to wear headscarves and not to wear make-up. Women were sometimes executed for the vague charge of doing something "un-Islamic."

Tags: religion, murder

Student Says Death Verdict Followed Torture To Coerce Confession

Tue, 20 May 2008 03:30:14 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: www.rferl.org

An Afghan journalism student sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam has rejected the charges and told an appeals court in Kabul that he was tortured into a confession.

"As a human being, a Muslim, and a descendant of the family of the Prophet Muhammad, I will never allow myself to insult my ancestor or my religion," Kambakhsh told the court, according to RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan. "These are things of which I have been unfairly accused. This accusation is unlawful and I don't know why they did this to me."

The hearing was adjourned until May 25 to allow 24-year-old Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh to consult with an attorney and prepare a written defense.

Kambakhsh was condemned to death by a court in Balkh Province in January at a summary trial for blasphemy at which he had no legal representation.

Kambakhsh supporters protest in Kabul after his death sentence was announced in January

Tags: afghanistan, blasphemy, muslims

ACLU Membership Doubled -- thanks to Bush presidency

Wed, 14 May 2008 20:58:40 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky

Clip Source: www.sltrib.com

ACLU says membership has doubled -- thanks to Bush presidency

Surveillance. Rendition. Torture.
By many measures, the Bush administration has been bad for civil liberties.
Yet the past seven years have been particularly good for the American Civil Liberties Union. National membership in the organization, which fights for freedom of speech and religion, equal protection, due process and privacy, has doubled since Bush took office in 2001 - an extraordinary spurt of growth for the 88-year-old institution.

From Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo Bay and from wiretapping to waterboarding, Eyers said Americans of many political persuasions were becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the Bush administration's policies.

She noted that although many think of the organization as aligned with the political left, it is officially nonpartisan.

Tags: bush, aclu, civil rights, civil liberties

Religious Psychosis

Sat, 10 May 2008 16:18:37 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Another story concerning people who have plunged down the religious rabbit hole.

Clip Source: www.madison.com

Two charged after deputy finds dead woman

Two people have been arrested after a Juneau County sheriff's deputy found one of them and her two children living in a home with the body of a 90-year-old woman decomposing on the bathroom toilet.

He said investigators are trying to determine if the other two were defrauding Middlesworth and that future charges against the two are "a very real possibility." He said there is evidence that the woman was providing financial support to the church and to Lewis and her family.

Lewis told the deputy that "God told her Alvina would come back to life if she prayed hard enough." Bushey told the deputy that "Lewis was obedient and served the Lord just as she should."

The 12-year-old boy later told investigators that after Middlesworth died, Bushey told him her appearance "was the result of demons attempting to make it appear that Alvina would not come back to life."

Tags: religion, insanity, bizarre, fundamentalists

Thomas Jefferson - Establishments of Religion Undermine Rights

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:26:19 GMT

clipped by: deezplace
clipper's remarks: Religion has a lot to answer for.

Clip Source: etext.virginia.edu

"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800.

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes." --Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1813. ME 14:21

"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 to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119

"The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:98

Tags: religion, rights, liberty, jefferson

God's Plan

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:12:28 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Miracles and mysterious ways.

Clip Source: www.atheist-community.org

Tags: humor, faith healing, medicine, prayer, religion

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

Why True Christians Shouldn't Care About the Environment

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:02:12 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Accepting the Bible without excuses for what it says. They are not hypocrites; they are not liars. They believe it's true, and takes it at its word.

Clip Source: www.landoverbaptist.org

Anyone who has read the Bible and believes every word will agree that worrying about our environment and trying to conserve energy (among other things) is an act of defiance against the Living God. Friends, the Lord will take care of everything. God made the Earth and the Heavens and if He wants to destroy it all, He will! In fact, one of the things that makes folks True Christians™ in the first place is that we are PRAYING for the destruction of this planet. You see, God actually wants us to use up all the resources, because when everything is gone, it will signal the return of sweet Jesus to come kill all the Muslims, Catholics, Mormons, Hindus and Tree-Hugger-know-it-alls.

The sissy Christians who pick and choose whatever Bible verse they like to fit their latest agenda will burn in Hell and give off just as pleasing a scent to the nostrils of the Lord as any hell bound, America hating Muslim will.

Why True Christians Shouldn't Care About the Environment

Tags: church, bible, christian, faith, religion, environment