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After Football Coach Leads Team in Prayer, School Employee Laments Proselytizing in District. “Predatory” Illegal Christian Recruiting Program Uncovered at Many Virginia Public Schools. It’s Hard to Teach Kids About Religion When Their Parents Can’t Handle Different Beliefs. The Old Testament’s made-up camels are a problem for Zionism. There are 21 references to camels in the first books of the Bible, and now we know they are all made up.
Some of them are quite startlingly verisimilitudinous, such as the story of Abraham’s servant finding a wife for Isaac in Genesis 24: “Then the servant left, taking with him 10 of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim and made his way to the town of Nahor. He made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was towards evening, the time the women go out to draw water.” Winfield (Alabama) City Council Declares God “Owner” of the City. Right-wing Christians’ hostility to science destroys lives.
When a pilot program in Colorado offered teens state-of-the-art long acting contraceptives—IUD’s and implants—teen births plummeted by 40%, along with a drop in abortions.
The program saved the state 42.5 million dollars in a single year, over five times what it cost. A Busy Week for Religious Freedom Bills in the States. American Christian Homeschoolers Sell Daughter to Perspective Husband for $25,000; Gave Discount Because She was Sexually Abused. At 20 years old, a young woman was slated to be sold into marriage to man twice her age.
For $25,000, in installments no less, her perspective groom was able to buy her. It would’ve been more, except that she had been sexually abused as a young child. As a result, her future husband got a “discount” as it were. Why We Must Offend Religion More. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com “Yes, it is freedom of speech, but,” said Inna Shevchenko, the 24-year-old leader of the topless, fiercely atheist activist group Femen in France.
On Feb. 14 she was addressing the conference on art, blasphemy and freedom of expression held at the Krudttønden, a café and cultural center in Copenhagen. She continued. Where the Bible Really Stands on Slavery. Should a person be able to own another person?
Today Christians uniformly say no, and many would like to believe that has always been the case. But history tells a different story, one in which Christians have struggled to give a clear answer when confronted with questions about human trafficking and human rights. Had the Bible been edited differently, Christendom might have achieved moral clarity on this issue sooner. As is, the Bible contains very mixed messages, which means that biblical authority could be invoked on either side of the question, leaving Christian beliefs about slavery vulnerable for centuries to prevailing cultural, political, and economic currents.
Workplace Worship?: New Seminary Course Could Be Master Class In Religious Discrimination. The Supreme Court in June handed down its verdict in Hobby Lobby v.
Burwell, and, just as we feared, that ruling’s reverberations continue to be felt as the Religious Right adopts the cause of corporate religion. Why the Term 'Biblical Marriage' Is Misleading. October 28, 2014 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. In light of the recent resignations of two North Carolina magistrates, explained by their religious convictions that same-sex marriage is a sin or desecrates the "holy institution established by God Himself," I would like to offer a few points of clarification to the overall discourse. First, the kinds of relationships that qualify for marriage in the Bible, and thus could count as "biblical marriage," represent quite a striking range of options. Mithraism - Dress Rehearsal for Christianity. Man Made God. Man Made God Barbara Walker, Foreword by D.M. Murdock 378 pages | 6 x 9 | 120 illustrations | ISBN-13 978-0-9799631-4-8 | $21.95 Now 10% off with a free bonus article by Barbara Walker. How Patriarchal, Christian Backlash Politics Have Only Become More Vicious. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/spirit of america October 28, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.
The Arrogance of Evangelism. It makes sense to me why an evangelical Christian would evangelize to close friends or family members who did not share his or her beliefs. This could be seen as a way of trying to bring the friends or family members closer, strengthening their relationship through this aspect of a shared worldview. – Top Ten Thomas Jefferson Quotes On Religious Freedom. Today is Independence Day, a day in which we reflect on the bravery of Will Smith and Randy Quaid, engage in sodium nitrate vertical distribution, and blow off major appendages.
Freedom in America is and has been under assault for quite some time by right-wing ideologues. The Woman's Bible Index. Sacred Texts Women Bible The Woman's Bible, written by famous 19th Century feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a "Revising Committee", is one of the first attempts by women to evaluate the Judeo-Christian legacy and its impact on women through history.
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Christmas and Jesus? Debunking, Paganism, & Conflicts Continue. Photo-Nativity Catholic Church. How I Left the Quiverfull Movement and Other Stories About the Loss of Faith. David Barton: ‘I Don’t Need Religion or a Bible’ to Oppose Marriage Equality… Just Phony Stats! A Short Film About Giving Up Faith and Gaining Even More. “The Myth of Persecution”: Early Christians weren’t persecuted. Jesus as a reincarnation of Mithra. Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids? 20 Vile Quotes Against Women By Religious Leaders From St. Augustine to Pat Robertson. October 13, 2014 | Flood Stories from Around the World. Evangelicals admit the Sodom story has nothing to do with homosexuality. All About Horus: An Egyptian Copy of Christ? Response to Zeitgeist movie. Before the Ten Commandments: The 42 Commandments of the Goddess Ma’at. Code of Hammurabi. Free Thinkers of the World. Addicting Info – 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Easter (But Really Should)
Celebrating Easter? Which Contradicting Biblical Account of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection Are You Going to Pick? Why Do I have to pay a Televangelist to Pray for Me? A New Look at an Old Christian Myth. Seeking hard evidence for the similarity of the Horus and Jesus myths. Jimmy Carter: Religion is the Cause of Horrific Abuse of Girls and Women All Over the World. No Longer Quivering — 'Gospel of Jesus' Wife' Papyrus Is Ancient, Not Fake, Scientists And Scholars Say. 10 Things Traditional Christians Got Terribly Wrong. Former fundamentalist 'debunks' Bible. An Incredible Interactive Chart of Biblical Contradictions. Pagan Roots? 5 Surprising Facts About Christmas.
Asherah and the God of the Early Israelites. Beyond ALL Religion. Addicting Info – 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Easter (But Really Should) Bishop Spong: Hell isn’t Real, Grow Up Instead of Being Born Again. Jesus Didn’t Walk on Water. Meet Osiris, The Other Resurrected Savior. Women And Religion: Sexism In The Christian Tradition, By Barbara G. Walker, Freethought Today Jan/Feb 1998. Americans United. Rightfromwrongjpg. Maat. Isis Goddess. Knowinggod. Valuefromreligion. Pocket : A New Look at an Old Christian Myth. Osiris & Christianity - The Christian Adoption of Egyptian Iconography, Symbolism, and Myth. Religious Beliefs, Emotional Problems Linked In Provocative New Study.
What the Bible Says Versus What Republicans Wish it Said. Debunking Christianity: According to Restaurant Workers, After Church Christians are the Worst to Serve. New Study Finds That Divorce Rates Are Higher in Counties with a Greater Concentration of Conservative Christians. New Study Finds That Divorce Rates Are Higher in Counties with a Greater Concentration of Conservative Christians. Why Do the South (and Megachurch Land) Embrace the GOP? Marriage: A Government Label, Not A Religious Institution. Shape-Shifting Jesus Described in Ancient Egyptian Text. The Catholic Irish Babies Scandal: It Gets Much Worse. Patriarchy and Religion: Built to Oppress Women.
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The Bible – The False Premise of American Theocracy. The Bible – The False Premise of American Theocracy. When God Is Not Enough: Religious States Have Highest Rates of Anti-Depressant Use. Why Don't Christians Who Take the Bible Literally Also Think the Earth Is Flat? What the Bible Says Versus What Republicans Wish it Said. Davidcross. Abstinenceonlystates. Kingjamesbible. Catholicbirthcontrol. – 35 Founding Father Quotes Conservative Christians Will Hate. – Top Ten Thomas Jefferson Quotes On Religious Freedom. Mithaism. Lies In The Name Of God. Home - Freedom From Religion Foundation. Flood Stories from Around the World.
'Gospel of Jesus' Wife' Papyrus Is Ancient, Not Fake, Scientists And Scholars Say.