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January 13, 2009
It looks like the atheist bus ad campaign in Barcelona will be getting a new, theistic friend soon. The group E-Christians wants to throw their hat (ads) into the ring and is trying to raise the money to buy space on Barcelona buses. E-Christians says they “like the idea of putting the debate on God in the public square, and in this sense we want to make our own contribution.” They have not yet revealed what the planned signs are going to say. We suspect they might go with the traditional shame/piety-inducing standby “god watches you masturbate”.
[Catholic News Agency]
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January 7, 2009
 The First Congregational United Church of Ashland, Oregon is taking a stand against the homophobic machine. Okay, they’re not really abandoning the Bible - but they are refusing to participate in the hetero-normative system of marriage until LGBTQ couples have equal marriage rights. Rev. Pam Sheppard says:
“I’ve been for civil rights for gay and lesbian people for a long, long time, but I never thought, ’I’m helping the discrimination every time I sign a license.’… Every time I sign a license, it’s like I’m saying, ’OK,’ but it’s not OK.”
No, it’s not ok. Boycotting marriage is a great way to take a stand against homophobia, and since you’re not getting married you can actually enjoy your life.
[Stopping The Hate]
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January 5, 2009
 A federal district judge in New York has ruled that a woman can’t claim a religious exemption in her monkey meat smuggling case. Mamie Manneh was caught attempting to smuggle endangered monkey meat into the United States and has claimed that the arrest is an attack on her religious liberty to eat tasty monkey meat; Manneh Belongs to a sect of Christianity that eats monkeys for spiritual reasons.
The judge, however, did not rule that she could not kill, transport and eat our fuzzy little cousins, only that she had to apply for permits to bring her novel Eucharist substitute into the United States. The ruling only called into question the manner in which Manneh transported the monkey meat - it did not curtail her religious practice. Manneh faces up to five years in prison, which would be in additional sentence to the time she is already serving for attempting to run over a woman she thought was getting it on with her husband.
The judge’s lack of respect for her faith is appalling! Doesn’t he know that the bible teaches us to hunt monkeys to the brink of extinction, illegally smuggle their carcasses across the Atlantic ocean without regard to the laws ,and consume their flesh in memory of Jesus Christ?
[The Daily Telegraph]
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December 18, 2008
 There’s been allot of talk lately about how church attendance will boom in the recession. The New York Times ran a story about how “bad times” are boosting church-going. Since then, preachers have been chomping at the bit to get their share of the church boom and their recession pandering has been top notch: In Detroit, one church put 3 SUVs on the altar and lobbied for the auto bailout, whole new ministries are being designed to proselytize to all the new needy people, and some folks are even talking about the recession being the catalyst for a whole new Christian revival.
It’s too bad for them that reality is putting the breaks on their enthusiasm. A new Gallup poll shows that weekly church attendance has not changed at all since the recession started. The poll shows that in March of this year 43% of Americans attended services at least once a week. In December, there has been a statistically insignificant drop to 42%. Since 2001, the weekly attendance figure has fluctuated between a high of 47% and a low of 38% - this isn’t a banner year for church attendance by any stretch of the imagination. There are, however, some studies out there showing that church giving is taking a hit during the recession.
Keep praying for ‘god’s bailout’ guys; maybe it’ll start raining wealth out of rainbows or something. Until then? Welcome to the recession, it looks like you’re stuck in it just like the rest of us.
[Gallup]
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December 11, 2008
Today A federal judge has ruled that South Carolina may not issue Christian license plates featuring a cross, the words “I Believe”, and Jesus smiting all gays, everywhere.
So you would think if they are going to offer Christian license plates they would be open to offering plates that represent other faiths, right? Nope! Even legislators in favor of the Christian plates said they absolutely would not be in favor for plates representing other religions:
Americans United also pointed out that some legislators openly admitted that they would not vote for similar plates for minority faiths.
Asked by a reporter if he would support a license plate for Islam, Rep. Bill Sandifer replied, “Absolutely and positively no…. I would not because of my personal belief, and because I believe that wouldn’t be the wish of the majority of the constituency in this house district.”
Way to be bigoted dicks you guys. I don’t think the 10 Muslims in South Carolina even want those Islamic license plates, because they enjoy their car windows whole and intact, I am sure. Rest easy; the battle is over now and all the people of South Carolina will simply have to reconcile with that whole separation of Church and State thing. Hey, there are still bumper stickers and dashboard trinkets if they want to pimp their ride for Jesus.
[Americans United]
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 The school choir at Arthur Bugler County Junior School in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex was not allowed to sing at a local Winter Festival because their carols were deemed too religious and did not match the inclusive theme of the Winter (read: not Christmas) Festival. Now people are all pissed off and ranting about the ’secular war on Christmas’ (which we totally won this time):
Chairman of the Prayer Book Society Prudence Dailey has hit out at the organizers of ‘winter festivals’ up and down the country, saying their political correctness threatens Christmas.
‘These “politically correct winter festivals” seek to make Christmas part of a “multi-faith” mix and hark back to pagan winter solstice observance.’
Um, you caught us? Oh no - not tolerance and inclusiveness, you monsters!
Instead Irish children entertained the crowd by dancing and eating potatoes, only to later be consumed themselves by the startving people of their homeland.
[Daily Mail Online]
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 Apparently some Christian blogger saw the movie “Lars and the Real Girl” and was inspired. In the movie, a town outcast buys a blowup doll and parades her around town while under the delusion she is his real, live girlfriend. The entire town feeds into this fantasy by going along with it (because that sounds healthy, right?). To blogger Mary Hulst, this sounds like the happiest town on earth:
We [Christians] are so conditioned in most churches to hide our crazy.
Once you stop snickering, consider this: Mary believes in the true spirit of Evangelism - letting your freak flag fly and pushing your crazy onto everyone else!
Don’t you sometimes want to walk into worship unshowered and unshaven, pushing your “doll in a wheelchair” and just have people love you right there in the moment?
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December 9, 2008
By now you have all read about the Atheist bus ad campaign going on. Now Christians have decided that they will be silenced and oppressed no longer and have responded with their own bus ad campaign:
Besides prompting hundreds of complaints, the ads have led two religious groups to launch their own campaigns, which will begin appearing next week.
One ad by Pennsylvania Friends of Christ reads “Believe in God. Christ is Christmas for goodness sake.” It will be displayed on 10 Metrobuses for four weeks.
Another ad by the Center for Family Development asks “Why Believe? Because I created you and I love you, for goodness’ sake.” That ad will appear for four weeks inside 200 buses.
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 In Amsterdam wicked men are lashing out at the very soul of Christendom! These vandals are unlike any we’ve seen before; they aren’t ruining Christmas by slaughtering all the children of Bethlehem or by putting up blasphemous signs in state capitols - this time they’re acting just like Christians and appropriating a holiday for their own deviant purpose.
ProGay - a Dutch LGBTQ activist group - is planning the first ever “Pink Christmas” event. In addition to unleashing a horde of godless sodomites on the vile streets of Amsterdam, the festival will display a nativity scene which displays two sets of parents for baby Jesus. One couple is a pair of Joesephs doing the Adam and Steve thing, the other is a set of married Marys. ProGay Chairman Frank van Dalen says that he wants his sinful buttbuddy pals to have an opportunity to participate in public religious events, like Christmas. For the LGBTQ community, van Dalen says, “Right now [the holidays], there’s not much to do.” Maybe there isn’t much to do if you’re a hedonistic muff-muncher, but idle hands are the devil’s playthings, so the righteous always find something to do - and this season it’s keeping gays down.
[San Francisco Chronicle via WorldNet Daily]
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December 8, 2008
 A new poll shows that 34% of Britons believe in the virgin birth. This number seems staggering - until you dig up a few other statistics. Let’s take a look at what else Britons believe in:
- 21% believe in monsters
- 61% believe in aliens
- 52% believe in ghosts
- 40% believe the Apollo moon landing was a hoax
By comparison, 66% of British believing the “virgin” Mary was either made up or a slutty mcslutserson from slutsville is a pretty sweet victory for reason. This becomes even more apparent when you look at a similar poll done in America done in 2003. If you are any sort of a reasonable person, prepare for an instant aneurysm from the blatant insanity of the findings:
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