Ebon Musings: Choking on the Camel. Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists and Anger. I want to talk about atheists and anger. This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry. But I think it's important. One of the most common criticisms lobbed at the newly-vocal atheist community is, "Why do you have to be so angry? " So I want to talk about: 1. Why atheists are angry; 2. And 3. So let's start with why we're angry. I'm angry that according to a recent Gallup poll, only 45 percent of Americans would vote for an atheist for President. I'm angry that atheist conventions have to have extra security, including hand-held metal detectors and bag searches, because of fatwas and death threats.
I'm angry that it took until 1961 for atheists to be guaranteed the right to serve on juries, testify in court, or hold public office in every state in the country. I'm angry about what happened to Galileo. Carol Roper: Sick and Tired of God Stuff - An Open Letter to Theists. Is America a Christian Nation? | Alabama Atheist. God is an Epic Troll: The Best of the Advice God Meme | Ranker - A World of Lists. 16 Reasons Why God Never Received Tenure at the University. Science vs. Intelligent Design. 159.png (PNG Image, 700x311 pixels) Unreasonable Faith: A reasonable blog on atheism, religion, science, and skepticism. VOA | Muslims Save Jews in Untold WWll Story | Arts & Culture. An untold story of the Nazi Holocaust is on display at a Jewish temple in St. Louis, Missouri. It's a photography exhibit, featuring portraits of elderly Albanian Muslims - men and women who helped save nearly 2,000 Jews who fled to Albania during World War II.
Untold story "Who ever heard of Muslims saving Jews? ," asks photographer Norman Gershman. Basri Hasani sheltered his next-door neighbor and best friend, Moshe Rubenovic, who fought the Nazis throughout Albania and Kosovo. For the past six years, Gershman, a fine art photographer whose work is typically displayed in museums, traveled throughout Albania and Kosovo. In one photograph, a man stands with three Jewish prayer books that a family left behind after the war.
"I'll never forget this - when we were at this guy's home and he was looking at us sort of like angrily and he said 'What are you doing here? '" Word of honor The Albanians have a word for this: Besa. "There were about 7,200 Jews living in that area. Interfaith dialogue. The Christian Nation Myth. Farrell Till Whenever the Supreme Court makes a decision that in any way restricts the intrusion of religion into the affairs of government, a flood of editorials, articles, and letters protesting the ruling is sure to appear in the newspapers.
Many protesters decry these decisions on the grounds that they conflict with the wishes and intents of the "founding fathers. " Such a view of American history is completely contrary to known facts. The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of the American Revolution. These beliefs were forcefully articulated by Thomas Paine in Age of Reason, a book that so outraged his contemporaries that he died rejected and despised by the nation that had once revered him as "the father of the American Revolution. " After Jefferson became president, he did not compromise his beliefs. Friendly Atheist » Faith in a Box. Bill Maher Discusses Religious Fanatics - a News & Politics video. 15 Awful Examples of Christian Propaganda | As with any religion, Christianity has its fair share of extremists and misguided followers.
As evidence of this claim, here are 15 ridiculous (and funny) examples of bad Christian propaganda: Throughout the 1970s, Archie and the gang were provided to Spire Christian Comics to deliver a series of overtly Christian morals. Learn more about Archie Christian Comics here. (source) Here’s another non-Archie Spire Christian Comic. The author of this book uses rather dubious statistics to try and convince the reader that homosexuals are serial killers. Here’s a coloring book that teaches intolerance of other religions.
I don’t really get the relationships between Hitler and pre-marriage sex, but if the poster says it, then it must be true! Now I can’t listen to rock and roll? This looks like an accurate depiction. From the Author of, “If God Loves Me, Why Can’t I Get My Locker Open?” Note that Jesus shreds without shoes. And if it’s not, well, then this one certainly is. Uhhhh. Richard T. Hughes: The Christian Right in Context, Part 1: The Long View. Thirty-five years ago, in a time that seems like ancient history to most young people today, the eminent social critic Robert N. Bellah wrote a book that illumines the current American crisis with devastating precision. I do not use the phrase, "American crisis," casually. All Americans, whether on the right, the left or in between, understand that the nation is now in a crisis of significant proportions.
But most Americans fail to grasp how deeply that crisis runs. Liberals and conservatives alike seem to think that the core of the American crisis stems from a flagging economy and the threat from Islamic terrorists. But the American crisis runs much deeper than that. Ultimately, the crisis is a religious one, and that is the point that Bellah's book, The Broken Covenant, helps us to see. And precisely in that claim we find the seeds of the current American crisis. In this four-part series, we will ask who built that foundation and why. The Religious Dimensions of the American Crisis.
Christians! How Do You Live With The Glaring Contradictions and Hypocrisy? Modern American evangelical Christianity is rife with glaring inconsistencies and brimming with hypocrisy, on virtually every issue, from the death penalty, to its stand on Homosexuality, to the right to life, to support for Israel. How exactly does a modern Christian, professing rationality come to grips with these inconsistencies and contradictions? This article is certainly not meant as an exhaustive study - its brevity alone reveals that - but rather an aid to discussion. I really want to know. I really want to know how a group that decries human pride and professes humbleness in the face of their almighty can not admit to any weaknesses or wrongdoing in the temporal sense.
I really want to know how it is that a group professing belief in an afterlife far better than our own miserable existence would fight tooth and nail to keep the terminally ill alive against their wills? There are so many other inconsistencies - this tiny article but scratches the surface. 10 Reasons Why Christianity Is Wrong. 10. It is Absurd: This may seem like I am re-stating what this list sets out to show.
However, this is misleading. When someone comes to us with an extravagant claim the most common reason we may discount the claim is because, to put it curtly, we find it absurd. The reason why the majority of people don't believe in Scientology, reincarnation, Mormonism, Greek Gods, etc. is not because they have extensively researched the historicity and veracity of the claims, it is because they don't believe such things happen in the world. In other words, common sense tells us that when someone claims the absurd almost anything is more likely to be the case (i.e. they are lying, they are delusional, they are relying on misinformation) than for the absurdity to be real. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
As we've seen the Bible is often contradictory and the Gospels are not historically accurate. The evangelists poured through the Old Testament and found "prophecies" that predicted Jesus' life.