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POPSA Sad Situation Members of a Mormon cult in Missouri are charged with various sexual crimes. The short clip doesn't address the question of how much their religious dogma was involved in these crimes. Yet a pattern of child sexual abuse is all too often associated with various cults within the religious community.
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POPSContrast - Press Release vs Actual News This is a press release. A careful reading shows the lengths the publishers will go to increase sales. It clearly frames the "authors" (quotes are for ridicule) as somehow victims of the angry hordes of evil atheists gathering outside the town's walls waving pitchforks and torches. This approach probably will be successful. It plays right into the Religious Rights perceptions of persecution and prejudice.
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POPSThis Probably Frightens Theists A basic tenant of proselytizing is to nab them when they are young. In that way, your particular doctrine has more of a chance to "stick". How much more generous and respectful to allow a child to discover the vast variety of ideas and learn the best methods to use to make sense of them and when they are mature enough to come to a conclusion the mindset is truly theirs. Yet caution is needed. Children should also be taught to be able to discern truth from lies, reality from fairy tales, and propaganda from reality. Not an east job.
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POPSTrue Wisdom That's it! The next time I take a leak I'll remind myself that I'm a truly godly man. And we wonder about the intelligence coming from this segment of the population. This revelation of pissing position is sure to seal the deal that America is truly a Christian Nation©.
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POPSBegone Heathens!!! From the comments: "Quick question. Does "any form of mysticism are represented" mean Christianity too? Because one definition of mysticism, from wiki, is "(from the Greek μυστικός, mystikos, an initiate of a mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with, identity with, or conscious awareness of an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, instinct or insight." If it doesn't include Christianity, does that mean that symbolically eating the flesh and drinking the blood of your God, lighting candles, praying to dead people, chanting, performing hour or two hour long ceremonies lead by a man or woman dressed in funny robes, forming small groups to discuss sacred texts, believing that the dead will rise, marking your forehead with ash and speaking in tongues is ok, else you are wiccan?"
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POPSGod Did It! (cont) "In December 2005, federal Judge John E. Jones III ruled that ID must meet the same fate that creationism met in 1987 when the Supreme Court ruled religious doctrines can't be promoted in secular institutions because they violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Judge Jones wrote in his decision regarding a policy of the Dover, Pennsylvania, school district that added ID to the school's biology program: The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy. It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy...."
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POPS"Calm Down Little Lady" (cont) "Meteor Blades writes at Daily Kos about the passage of the Stupak-Pitts coat-hanger amendment: "Irrational." "Hypersensitive." "Overreacting." "Hysterical." Women recognize these words all too well. They're put-downs many of them have had thrown at them all their lives anytime they raise issues about their treatment in relationships, school, the workplace or society at large. These words and others of similar ilk have found their way into diaries and comments here at Daily Kos yesterday and today around the abomination known as the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. Calm down, little lady, is the tone. Get real. Be adults. Doncha know how politics really works?"
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POPSTheists to the Resue (Cont.) Ah, I see. I had no idea how different the government of the UK was from the government of the US. Here, honesty and generosity aren't exactly common currency in government, or at least are in conflict. I suppose one could argue that Washington has been very generous to defense contractors, but they aren't very forthright about it. I suppose there are principles of solidarity at work, with our most religious party, the Republicans, being monolithic in their opposition to equality, social support, and science, and Democrats straining to achieve some kind of unity — maybe they'd benefit from religious rigidity, too. I suppose if the UK government did model their political system after the Muslims and Christians, they could end up with a nice, pretty political system like ours, with Republicans and Democrats.
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POPSYawn - Dinesh's Same Tired Dogma This guy never adds anything new to the conversation. The same tired arguments, over and over again. For those of you unfamiliar with this defender of the faith, he is a frequent columnist on the World Net Daily. The WND is notorious for such rational positions as backing the Birthers, Creationists, and Christian Nationalists. Dinesh's mainstays are straw men, claiming atheists are a dangerous "movement", and bashing liberals. One could compare him to Glenn Beck without a TV show.
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POPSTheocrat of the Day We are all influenced by our culture, heritage, and family. It is the lens through which we see the world. Also, we are each individuals, capable of reaching decisions on our own. It seems strange that this representative of the people of Pennsylvania needs to ask permission from the Catholic Church before he votes.
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POPSAnswers in Genesis Reveals the Way Hodge contines: "If we love God, we should obey Him (John 14:15). To love God first means to obey Him first--before looking at our neighbor. So, is the greater good trusting God when He says not to lie or trusting in our fallible, sinful minds about the uncertain future? Consider this carefully. In the situation of a Nazi beating on the door, we have assumed a lie would save a life, but really we don't know. So, one would be opting to lie and disobey God without the certainty of saving a life--keeping in mind that all are ultimately condemned to die physically. Besides, whether one lied or not may not have stopped the Nazi solders from searching the house anyway." I certainly wouldn't have thought of it in that way. You learn something new everyday.
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POPSI Wonder If He Attended? Bruce goes on in his diatribe to quote mine after accusing atheist of this same activity. Well, what can you expect. He is the president of the Discovery Institute, that bastion of creation...er, Intelligent Design.
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POPSAnd he ends with Pascal's Wager I run into people like this quite frequently. They're not necessarily bad people, except for their bigotry and prejudice. Yet I'm continually amazed at the breadth of their ignorance.
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POPSCooking for Dorks I like to cook and I'm a dork. That's why I clipped this teaser from the site. You'll need to go to the site to find out the methodology used. I particularly liked the way they used grids to show both ingredients and procedures in one place. Check out the site! And Bon Appetit.
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POPSTongue in Cheek Guide to Battle Science Relying on the general public's lack of scientific knowledge these tactics are routinely employed to rile up the masses against issues that certain groups oppose on ideological grounds.
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POPSCreationists in the News Again creationists are trying to push their cuddly "god done it" view on the young. As far as the claim of ridicule aimed towards students who try to advance their mythology driven explanation for evolution I think we need to keep in mind the present day persecution complex that many Christians today profess. Any criticism of their precious religion is seen as ridicule.
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POPSIf Men Got Pregnant? The "Pro Life" agenda scores a point for the "Pro Lifers". Women lose. If men got pregnant this would never be an issue. If men got pregnant abortion would be cheap or free.
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POPSIdiots in the News I thought the "birther movement" was a dead horse to most sane people. Well, it just goes to show you that insanity/stupidity is alive and well in good ole Georgia.
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POPSGod Told Me To! A Massachusetts bigot gets fired. Good for him. And thank you Faux News for being far and balanced in your news story. As they say, actions have repercussions.
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POPSD'Souza's Normal BS Dinesh D'Souza, widely known for his hopelessly weak proslytizing on the World Net Daily site is seen in this clip interacting with that expert on science and medicine, Greta Van Susteren! They fit well together. Another good reason to avoid the Fox Noise Channel. The interesting thing is that the more we hear from D'Souza the more bizarre he becomes. He does appeal to the Ultra Right though.
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POPSMaine Puritans Deny Rights The Religious Right is alive and well in Maine. At least for 53% of the population. Distaste for anyone who doesn't share their sexual inclinations combined with a healthy dose of religiously fueled hate mongering have combined to deny rights to the LBGT community in Maine. Congratulations citizens of Maine. You've won in your quest to deny basic rights to a sizable portion of your population and should be proud that you've turned them into second class citizens.
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POPSDown Under Bigotry At first I thought this must be a parody piece but then I read that it was written by the vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University. A simple substitution of just about any minority in the place of atheists reveals the blatant prejudice and bigotry shown by this fine Christian.
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