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POPSThe Golden Rule and the Separation of Church and State by Rev. Michael Helms, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Moultrie, Georgia. In Franklin County, Idaho, the Mormon population is 91.5 percent. In Utah County, Utah, it is 88.1 percent. If your job transferred you to one of these counties and you sent your child to a public school, would you object if the teacher began class by reading from the Book of Mormon each day? Well, obviously not if you are Mormon. If you are of any other religion or none at all, chances are good you would object.
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POPSThe new atheist nightmare is now a pickle Move over banana... This video fails on so many levels, but I do hope this encourages xtians to stick a fork in themselves and put it in a power outlet. It put jesus in the pickle, it can work for you too! hahahahahahahahahahahah
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POPSCulpable Ignorance It takes less arrogance to say that we have a variety of important issues – from the future collapse of social security, to global warming, to a struggling economy, to poor education, and to simply add, "I don’t know which one is the most important, which is why I want somebody with sufficient breadth of knowledge to deal with all of them."
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POPSTranscript of the Pope's Homily at World Youth Day For some reason I decided to come out of clipmarks retirement with this clip. It just made me chuckle. "It starts off a little clumsy, but it makes as much sense as anything I've ever heard uttered by a clergyman by the end."
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POPSMitt Romney Under God ... the hypocrisy of his call for tolerance is likely only to be noticed by those secularists and non-theists who are targeted by his intolerance. To many of us, it will be clear that Romney’s position on religious bigotry is a lot like his position on abortion rights, stem cell research, and gay rights: it’s determined by political expedience. Romney opposes bigotry in self-defense, not in defense of others, which is to say that he does not really oppose it at all .
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POPSHoly Nonsense - Romney's worthless speech. Romney drones on about a barely relevant moment of emotion in 1774 and comes up with the glib slogan that "freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom." Any fool can think of an example where freedom exists without religion—and even more easily of an instance where religion exists without (or in negation of) freedom.
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POPSQuestions for Mitt Romney. Are there other positions that you believe atheists are not qualified to hold. For example, can an atheist be a good governor? Senator? Teacher? Parent? What is the limit to what an atheist is qualified to do? If you had a daughter, and her boyfriend – let us say, a black man – asked for permission to marry your daughter – what would you say? What if he was an atheist? The best one can hope for here is that Romney will do a better job of recognizing the bigotry of his statements than the audience he is trying to impress and be put in the uncomfortable position of trying to give an answer that is not blatantly bigoted without losing a substantial portion of his blatantly bigoted base.
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POPSRemove Religious References from Pledge of Allegiance and National Currency I don’t see why oral arguments should take that long. Clearly, “with liberty and justice for all” was made a part of the Pledge to promote liberty and justice for all and to denigrate tyranny and injustice, right? Right. Clearly, the word ‘indivisible’ was put into the Pledge to promote Union and to discourage rebellion, right? Of course. Right. Clearly, then, the words ‘under God’ exist to promote belief in God and to denigrate and discourage those who do not believe in God, right? Okay, then, we’re done here. On to the next case. You’re honor, the motto says, “In God We Trust.” Right? Obviously. Well then. If “We” trust in God, then who are “They”? Who is being told that they do not belong? Who is being cast out of the group called “We?” Thank you for your time
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POPSSend a Mohammad Bear to the Embassy of Sudan The Embassy of Sudan is, I'm sure, going through some rough times right now. Perhaps sending them a Teddy Bear - the symbol of Peace and Love - might help you can send a Teddy Bear to: Embassy of Sudan 2210 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC 20008 Tel-(202) 338-8565 Fax-(202) 667-2406 http://sudanembassy.com/
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POPSMoral (ir)Responsibility The link to the letter is pretty good stuff. I always thought it was odd that christians would be against doing anything about "global climate change" (true or not). I thought it had something to do with Revelations and that they see global warming as a precursor to the return of little baby jesus. But now we see that the real reason is it will divert resources away from the inquisition of homosexuals.
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POPSGod's Customer Care Center Mechanical disasters (transportation accidents, machinery, construction collapses etc. Any disaster victim should register at the disaster desk at level 43 Building 95. After registration proceed to the examination laboratories at Level 24 Building 8. After this you’ll receive a letter which will tell you when to attend a general liability hearing in Building G87 block 4b. The process could take up to 9 months. Natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, tsunamis (NEW!), famine) Any natural disaster victim should register at the disaster desk at level 43 Building 95. After registration proceed to the disaster scene investigation room at Level 28 Building 24. Please proceed in groups to speed up the process. Bad luck disasters Any bad luck disaster victim should register at the disaster desk at level 43 Building 95. After registration proceed to the comedy theatre at Level 39 Building 12. Step in line and wait your turn.
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POPSTaking Bible Stories Literally Suggested Bible stories for the next Barna survey I wonder what the result would be if the Bible stories were selected at random. What would happen, for example, if the following six stories were selected? God kills every Egyptian firstborn baby. Exodus 12:29-30 God sends fiery serpents to bite and kill his people (for complaining). Numbers 21:5-6 Moses commands his soldiers to kill every boy, woman, and female child (except for the virgins). Numbers 31:14-18 God orders the Israelites to kill every Amalekite man, woman, and child. 1 Samuel 15:2-3 David buys a wife with 200 Philistine foreskins. 1 Samuel 18:25-27 God kills husband and wife for not giving all their money to Peter. Acts 5:1-10 Would people believe in the literal truth of these stories? Would they still "believe that their personal trust" in the biblical God was "warranted" by them? Barna should do a survey to find out. (I'll bet the believers would drop from two thirds to two p
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POPSHow to Believe in God in Six Easy Steps - Sam Harris Reason is a compulsion, not a choice. Just as one cannot intentionally startle oneself, one cannot knowingly believe a proposition on bad evidence. To believe a proposition, we must also believe that we believe it because it is true. While lapses in rationality can often be detected in retrospect, they always occur in the dark, outside of consciousness. In every present moment, a belief entails the concurrent conviction that we are not just fooling ourselves. Faith enables a person to fool himself into thinking that he is maintaining his standards of reasonableness, while forsaking them. There is a powerful incentive to not notice that one is engaged in this subterfuge, of course, because to notice it is to fail at it. ...every religion has created a black market for irrationality, where people of like minds can trade transparently bad reasons in support of their religious beliefs, without the threat of criticism.
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POPSReasons to Kill And if the answer is, "Oh, but the people that I kill when I appeal to scripture are only those who deserve death," my response will still be, "Don't you think that those others say the same thing?"
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POPSIgnorance-only Sex Education It is strange that there's this whole suite of positions that would seem to be unrelated, but almost always seem to be adopted wholesale. If you know someone is against evolution, you can pretty much predict their positions on abortion, stem cells, the death penalty, education, GW Bush, and homosexuality. I wonder what common force ties all those disparate ideas together? - PZ
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POPSThe ATM in the Church Lobby Can someone come up with a "priceless" commercial for this? Salvation on Sunday - $100 Hookers and drugs on Monday thru Saturday - 1,000 Not being responsible for the bill after the Rapture - Priceless
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POPSNut Job of the Week - The Secret Two Australian TV comedians from “The Chaser’s War on Everything” TV program put the principles of new-age phenomena “The Secret” to the test. The result is hilarious. I can’t believe they trashed a perfectly good car for this skit!
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POPSChurches ad hoc: a divine comedy - A Photo Essay Edited 8/6/07 - see comments below A collection of photos taken by Herman Krieger. Churches ad hoc was introduced on the Internet in 1996. Since then, references to it have appeared in a large number of Christian, as well as atheist, web sites. Each group seems to find a reflection of their own views in the captioned photographs. Excerpts from the series have appeared in places as diverse as the Internet edition of The New York Times, a Methodist church calendar, a rock band cassette cover, the religion pages of the Stockholm Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, and a Cornell Law School poster for a national conference on The Consitution and Religion: Theory and Practice. I take photographs to amuse myself as well as the occasional spectator. Exhibiting photographs for mutual pleasure is similar to a comedian telling jokes to an appreciative audience. But comedy is more serious than photography.
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