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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

Support the troops...

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:24:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...Mr. President... and Mr. McCain... put your money where your braggadocio is...

Will it cost? Sure .. .but expenses at in-state "state" schools aren't outrageous.

And even if it is expensive -- 36 months active duty should be enough to earn any enlisted man a college degree: it helps them, and helps the country (which is sorely short of educated people...) Helping an entire generation get an education is a good thing: probably one of the best ways the government can spend its money ... and which group could be more deserving?

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Webb is not suggesting that the government pay for everyone in the military to go to private college. He would more than double the GI Bill benefit for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, offering a living stipend of about $1,000 depending on where the veteran lives, and pay the equivalent in tuition of the most expensive state school in the veteran's home state.

Tags: veterans, gi bill, war

Baptists on the decline...

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:00:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: could it be...

...that people are waking up to the fact that religion is based on superstition and the desire of one group of people to control others?

When you can say "god wants you to do this" -- and you believe in god -- it makes it easy.

Clip Source: www.azcentral.com

But with membership slightly down last year, and flat for the past five, Southern Baptists face a growing anxiety about their future as they gather for their annual meeting Tuesday in Indianapolis.

"We have peaked," Southern Baptist statistician Ed Stetzer wrote in an online commentary on the latest statistics from 2007. "For now, Southern Baptists are a denomination in decline."

Tags: religion

Clinton - stay away...

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:08:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No matter if it's justified -- too many people seem to have a virulent dislike of Hillary... it would be best for the country if she didn't get put in the VP slot...

Clip Source: ap.google.com

Lots of Democrats love Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yet plenty of Republicans, conservatives and all-important independents can't stand her, suggesting possible pitfalls for Barack Obama should he make her his vice presidential running mate.

The intense dislike for Clinton suggests that besides support from women and others she could bring to the ticket, she might make it harder for Obama to win over some independents, a pivotal swing group in the November election against Republican John McCain. It also means she might push some Republicans and conservatives to vote against the Democrats — or donate money to the GOP — who might otherwise lack motivation to do so because of tepid feelings toward McCain.

Tags: politics, hillary, election, obama

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

People in need of education...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:31:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Seems like a lot of people who comment on an issue I raised don't know what "begging the question" means... They simply assume the desired outcome (e.g. - marriage is a religious institution and given to a man and a woman) and say "I defined my term -- you are wrong"... How silly can you get...

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

begging the question has traditionally described a type of logical fallacy (also called petitio principii) in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in one of the premises.

Tags: argument, religion, logic

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

Dr. Dawkins on the universe...

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:34:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A great talk on the state of our knowledge about the universe... Check out the video on the link.

Clip Source: www.ted.com

Talks Richard Dawkins: The universe is queerer than we can suppose

Tags: science

I hope so...

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:14:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If even a small percentage of republicans go for Obama -- it'll be a landslide.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

This is a great day for those of us who have been fighting for Senator Obama! I'm a good example of why he'll win in November. I'm the least typical Obama supporter. And there are many more like me.

I cut my political teeth in the seventies through the early eighties as an organizer in the antiabortion religious right. I'm a fifty-five year old white man who has been a conservative most of my life. I've been a Republican activist who campaigned for McCain in 2000. I'm a big fan of the military. My son served in the Marines. If Obama can reach me he can reach anyone.

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

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

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