I was perplexed by the Christian ideal of proper marriage, but this video clears it all up.
Betty elucidates the confusing conundrum of proper prayer as well. Holy incantations to imaginary beings were never so simple.
Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
Christian Marriage
Friday, June 5th, 2009Free Speech is Sacred
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Pat Condell has had more than his share of inspiring speeches, but this one is his best so far. This biting commentary is well worth the time.
Kentucky Godland Security
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Back in November of this year, the Lexington Herald-Leader, found at Kentucky.com, printed a short article about Kentucky’s 2006 law establishing the state Office of Homeland Security (OHS). It talked about some controversial language, put in via a floor amendment of the law by state Rep. Tom Riner, D-Louisville, a Southern Baptist minister – which declares the initial duty of the OHS as: “stressing the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth.”
Specifically, Homeland Security is ordered to publicize God’s benevolent protection in its reports, and it must post a plaque at the entrance to the state Emergency Operations Center with an 88-word statement that begins, “The safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God.”
Well, as things often go when religious wackos push their delusional fairy tales on others, some get upset. In this case, it’s those pesky atheists again.
The plaintiffs ask for the homeland security law to be stripped of its references to God. They also ask for monetary damages, claiming to have suffered sleeping disorders and “mental pain and anguish.”
“Plaintiffs also suffer anxiety from the belief that the existence of these unconstitutional laws suggest that their very safety as residents of Kentucky may be in the hands of fanatics, traitors or fools,” according to the suit.
I don’t know about the “mental pain and anguish” part, myself. You have to be pretty weak if you loose sleep because of the workings of a few religious morons – they’re everywhere in this country. I certainly agree with the first part, however, that the language must be stripped from the law, as it violates both the Kentucky and US Constitutions.
At least the Kansas Board of Education doesn’t have to feel so alone anymore in their fight to push unproven crap on the country.
God is Afraid of Billboards
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Those pesky atheists are at it again in Colorado.
COCORE, a Colorado atheist groups is paying for several billboards to be put up around Denver and one in Colorado Springs this year, simply showing a blue sky with a few fluffy clouds, with the caption, “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone,” with a link to their website at the bottom.
Apparently, this has offended several of the Bible banging lunatics in Colorado, including Bob Enyart, a Christian radio host. What genius does Bob have to offer?
“The Bible says that faith is the evidence of things not seen. Evidence. If we ignore the evidence for gravity or the Creator, that’s really dangerous. Income tax doesn’t not exist because somebody doesn’t believe in it. And the same is true with our Creator.”
With such a careful, logical, grammatically profound statement such as this, who wouldn’t believe? Oh, and Bob, that was sarcasm. This is about the most ludicrous, thought bereft statement I’ve heard in some time. Unfounded personal belief, claiming superstitious nonsense, is not evidence of anything but a delusional mind.
I don’t think that I could tally the number of religious billboards I’ve seen in my life. You can’t go five miles in the Bible Belt without seeing one. Furthermore, how can the statement being made on this billboard be considered offensive? If it said “Do you believe in God? You are not alone,” these same Buy-bull pundits would be scrambling all over themselves, gloating over their inspiring, faith filled message.
It seems that above all else, the hypocrisy of religion reigns supreme.
The Devil Made Me Do It!
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I’ve already mentioned the Papal lunacy heating up over exorcisms, but it would appear that Poland is bracing for a demonic invasion, due to the rantings of several professional village idiots.
They even had a convention of village idiots last July, with more than 300 exorcists gathering in Czestochowa, under the fourth International Congress of Exorcists.
Of course there are various recipes for demonic infestation, everything from New Age religions to Internet addiction, or so says Rev. Wieslaw Jankowski, with the Institute for Studies on the Family. One of the worst cases, according to Jankowski, was a woman who asked for a divorce just days after renewing her wedding vows during a marriage counseling session. Oh, the horrors! Only Satan could be responsible for this!
“According to what I could perceive, the devil was present and acting in an obvious way,” he said. “How else can you explain how a wife, in the space of a couple of weeks, could come to hate her own husband, a man who is a good person?”
Maybe because her husband is a worthless prick to her? After all, they were obviously having problems if they were in marriage counseling. Just because someone is forced into renewing their marriage vows for a marriage counseling session, doesn’t mean that there was feeling behind it, nor that there weren’t second thoughts going through her head. If this kind of thing is all these charlatan snake-oil peddlers have to support their loony ideas, then may their god help us all.
Apparently they are “still working” on this poor lass.
Exorcists claim to be careful not to treat those suffering from mental illness, but I think the unfortunate irony of the situation is that no one is being careful to keep those suffering from mental illness from “treating” innocent people.
Papal Possessed Pomposity
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Hide the epileptics and those with Tourette Syndrome, Pope Benedict XVI is on the rampage against Satanism!
According to this Raw Story, Father Gabriele Amorth, senior exorcist of the diocese of Rome, says that Pope is taking the problem of demonic possession very seriously, “setting up exorcism squads to deal with the rampant growth of Satanism.”
Though I haven’t seen any of these modern day witch hunters running around with vials of Holy Water, throwing Eucharist wafers to and fro like a demented Johnny Appleseed to keep the demons at bay, it’s probably just because I avoid wild packs of wandering lunatics as a habit. (I avoided the primary’s yesterday for the same reason.)
Apparently Pope Benedict XVI believes in evil, but cannot believe in evil unless Satan is behind it all. From my perspective, humans are pretty damn good at evil without any pitchfork wielding bogeyman behind the curtains. Perhaps this is how His Holiness is able to reconcile what he was caught up in during WWII with the Hitler Youth? To be fair, he never was a Nazi, but his claims that joining the Hitler Youth was compulsory in 1941 doesn’t match up with the history books. Membership in the Deutsche Jungvolk was compulsory, but he avoid that. Why join the Hitler Youth then? Also, though he deserted the German Army, he didn’t do so until April 1945, when the war was almost over. This guy was the best candidate they had?
In any case, if you’re Catholic and develop a neurological disorder, be prepared to be guided away from professional medical attention at the lieu of medieval ju-ju.
Of course, if you’re Catholic, why the hell are you reading my blog?
