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So you think christianity is crazy?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:47:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Give the Quaran and Islam a try... Kafir girl reads and comments on the book so you don't have too!

She also adds some family "insights" to keep things moving... Funny stuff (it so many people didn't take this crap seriously)

Clip Source: kafirgirl.wordpress.com

Hadith are the everyday practices and traditions from Mohammed’s life, which were transmitted orally and written down much later. Boy, that sounds reputable, doesn’t it? They cover everything from dream interpretation to gardening to dinner table etiquette. I’ve met some Muslims who take hadith very seriously, and others who think hadith are total bullshit. Most of all, though, I’ve met Muslims who cherry pick the best advice and ignore the shit that makes Mohammed look like batshitass crazy.

My family falls into that last category for the most part, but my grandmother was all about the hadith. Or at least the hadith as she knew them. It drove me nuts when she would chastise my left-handed cousin with, “The prophet says you should never eat with your left hand!” Why not, grandma? “It’s the hand of the devil!” Well, fuck. All this time I thought it belonged to me. There were many hadith she would pull out of her ass, but this one was her absolute favorite.

Tags: islam, craziness

Christians & Muslims beleive god wants you to marry only virgins...

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:43:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Or you have to at least believe he USED to require it... cuz there are many passages in the old testament that indicate you should stone your wife if you find out she's not a virgin on her wedding night...

I guess god changes his morality based on the age however - since we're not supposed to do this anymore right?

Clip Source: dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com

The annulment of a young Muslim couple’s marriage because the bride was not a virgin has caused anger in France, prompting President Sarkozy’s party to call for a change in the law.

The case, which had previously gone unreported, involved an engineer in his 30s, named as Mr X, who married Ms Y, a student nurse in her 20s, in 2006. The wedding night party was still under way at the family’s home in Roubaix when the groom came down from the bedroom complaining that his bride was not a virgin. He could not display the blood-stained sheet that is traditionally exhibited as proof of the bride’s “purity”.

Is there something about bloody sheets in the Quran? No, for shit like that you have to go to the Bible.

Tags: religion, islam, christianity, insanity

Devolution...

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:40:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The ability of mankind to cling to ancient myths when they can't fully grasp science is astounding...

Clip Source: fogghorn.blogspot.com

You would think I wouldn't have to beat this subject to death, but here we go again. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, said to be on the short list for running mate with the idiot McCain, wants his kids to be exposed to the "best science" because he's a "Christian" and to be politically correct according to Christian politics, that means ancient and resoundingly debunked legends handed down from illiterate goatherds on the edges of civilization. Jindal insists that the denial of all observed facts packaged as Intelligent Design is a "legitimate scientific discipline." It's not. It's none of those three things, but perhaps it makes Bobby Jindal just dishonest enough to appeal to American voters.

Tags: evolution, culture, religion

Twain on the heavenly father...

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:59:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From a blog... some thoughts on god as father...

Clip Source: www.blogger.com

The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them. Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind. -- Mark Twain

Tags: religion, twain, god, cruelty

State religion...

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:15:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Why is the state authorizing a sectarian license plate?

I hope the Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Atheists all protest this one and take the state to court.

Legislatures have more important stuff to do than this...

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Yesterday, South Carolina became the first state to offer its drivers vanity license plates featuring a cross over a stained-glass windows and the words “I Believe.” While most of the other 200 specialty plates cost around $70 — with proceeds going to the sponsoring organization — the “I Believe” plates will cost only $4 to $6, “just enough to reimburse the state for the cost to produce the plate.” Dr. T. Jeremey Gunn, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, said the plates might be unconstitutional:

The whole issue here is that people are trying to get the state to endorse their religion, and that’s wrong. It’s almost as if there’s insufficient support, and they have to go to the state to get it.

Both the ACLU and the American Jewish Congress are considering challenging the plates in court.

Tags: religion

Biblical nonsense...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:18:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More from the wests favorite story-teller.. Jehovah!

Clip Source: dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com

Sanctity and the government...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:57:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The blogger is right on point regarding the CA ruling allowing same sex marriages...

Clip Source: fogghorn.blogspot.com

"Many people are concerned that we need more conservatives in government so that we won't have judges who decide this way" was nearly the entirety of the commentary, the balance was the observation that it was the Constitution (hence not the judges) that stood in the way of preserving the "sanctity" of marriage. Regardless of the now apparently reduced sanctity of my own marriage, I continued to wait for my dear wife to have her X-ray with undiminished dedication.

Sanctity, of course is indeed a subject that our Federal Constitution excludes from the business of government. Establishing religious rules or laws based on religious rules is specifically forbidden and not applying any laws in a discriminatory fashion, whether based on religious taboos or not, has long been established in the law. What does CNN mean to imply here: that we should get rid of that nasty secular Democracy thing so we can all be holy? What else can we infer?

Tags: gay marriage, politics, stupidity

Bigotry alive and well...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:28:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In case you thought it was on the way out...

And guess what? You just need to look to the bible-belt to find the largest percentages of bigots in the country. In 1998 S. Carolina had about 38% of voters still in favor of miscegenation laws.

Amazing...

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In 1967, 17 Southern states (all the former slave states plus Oklahoma) still enforced laws prohibiting marriage between whites and non-whites. Maryland repealed its law in response to the start of the proceedings at the Supreme Court. After the ruling of the Supreme Court, the remaining laws were no longer in effect. Nonetheless, it took South Carolina until 1998 and Alabama until 2000 to officially amend their states' constitutions to remove language prohibiting miscegenation. In the respective referendums, 62% of voters in South Carolina and 59% of voters in Alabama voted to remove these laws.^[17]

Tags: bigotry, marriage

Those Damn Activist Judges...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:20:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Thwarting the will of the people of Virginia... What can honest, god fearing folks do?

Sound familiar?

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Loving v. Virginia

In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving had married in Washington, D.C. to evade Virginia's anti-miscegenation law (the Racial Integrity Act). Having returned to Virginia, they were arrested in their bedroom for living together as an interracial couple. The judge suspended their sentence on the condition that the Lovings would leave Virginia and not return for 25 years. In 1963, the Lovings, who had moved to Washington, D.C, decided to appeal this judgment. In 1965, Virginia trial court Judge Leon Bazile, who heard their original case, refused to reconsider his decision. Instead, he defended racial segregation, writing:

Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.^[16]

Tags: marriage, equal rights, bigotry

A dead issue...

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:47:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The statistics have been clearly showing that younger folks (rightly) don't consider gay relationships and issue...

It may not happen this year or in the next few, but in a decade or so this issue will completely go away -- just as interracial marriage, the idea of "separate but equal (segregation) and other forms of bigotry did.

Clip Source: www.azcentral.com

But these poll findings "suggest caution" to conservative activists who think this will mobilize voters, he says. "People were warned, with lots of overheated rhetoric, about the consequences of gay marriage in Massachusetts. They didn't see it affect their own lives. Now, most people have let loose a collective yawn about the issue."

Poll findings:

A majority of respondents at every level of education and income say same-sex marriage is "strictly private." This was true:

• In every region: East (71 percent), West (64 percent), Midwest (63 percent) and South (56 percent).

• Among all age except "65 and older": 18 to 29 (79 percent), 30 to 49 (65 percent), 50 to 64 percent (62 percent) and 65 and older (44 percent).

Tags: gay marriage

Majority seems to get it...

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:43:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: While I'm sure this is just 'one result' it would seem the tide is turning: people are realizing that private decisions -- like a person's choice of a mate -- should be respected by government.

Clip Source: www.azcentral.com

Six in ten Americans say the government should not regulate whether gays and lesbians can wed the persons they choose, a new survey finds.

As same-sex couples start lining up to get marriage licenses in California on June 17, the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found 63 percent of adults say same-sex marriage is "strictly a private decision" between two people.

That the government has the right "to prohibit or allow" such marriages was stated by 33 percent, and 4 percent had no opinion.

Tags: gay marriage

Clarifications on Eisteins view on the god of the bible.

Fri, 16 May 2008 19:33:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Many think him a believer... A recently released letter spells out his beliefs in no uncertain terms...

Clip Source: dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com

What did Albert Einstein think about the Bible? Well, here's what he said a year before he died.

The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.

Tags: religion

Vactican craziness

Fri, 16 May 2008 19:08:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In an ever more idiotic attempt to reconcile religion with science we hear how the Vatican is prepp'ng the flock for the eventual discover of extraterrestrial life forms ... You can't make this stuff up in Hollywood

Clip Source: www.mentalfloss.com

For the first time ever, Vatican astronomers have admitted the possibility — even the probability — of intelligent life on other planets.

He compares the potential multiplicity of life forms in the universe to that here on Earth, and goes on to speculate that such alien life forms could even be “free from Original Sin … [remaining] in full friendship with their creator.”

Tags: religion, crazy, extraterrestrials

They got it right...

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:54:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It is often up to the courts to enforce freedoms that a bigoted public would rather restrict (vis a vi - interracial marriage, segregation, etc.)

Clip Source: www.au.org

In a May 15 decision, the court majority held that the state constitution mandates that same-sex couples have the same right to the benefits of civil marriage as opposite-sex couples.

The justices made clear, however, that the ruling applies only to civil marriages. Religious communities remain free to marry same-sex couples or not, in keeping with their theology.

Said the court, “[A]ffording same-sex couples the opportunity to obtain the designation of marriage will not impinge upon the religious freedom of any religious organization, official, or any other person; no religion will be required to change its religious policies or practices with regard to same-sex couples, and no religious officiant will be required to solemnize a marriage in contravention of his or her religious beliefs.”

Tags: religion, government, gay

Jim Castelli

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:57:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A US Journalist... on religion in the public square.

Clip Source: www.positiveatheism.org

Religion is bad for American politics when it undermines the civil religion: when it speaks of political matters with the certitude of faith in a pluralistic society in which faith cannot be used as a political standard; when it treats opponents as agents of Satan; when it weakens a sense of national community; when it violates the precept of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom which formed the basis for the First Amendment -- the precept that any American should no more be treated any differently than any other American on the basis of his or her opinions about religion than on the basis of his or her opinions on literature or geometry.