Jesus Kicked Out of School

Bad news. Those poor, poor discriminated-against Christians, with nowhere else to hold services, may be forced out into the cold streets of New York.

Supreme Court nixes use of NYC public schools for services; 60 churches could be homeless by Feb. 12 

The case, Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York, has been churning through the courts for 16 years.

“We’re extremely disappointed,” said Jack Roberts, co-pastor of Bronx Household of Faith, an evangelical church which has been meeting at Public School 15 for the past nine years.

“I see it as having a chilling effect on religious freedom in our country.”

Exactly. A chilling effect. Literally. Nice Christians will be begging for crumbs on the sidewalks, rubbing their hands together over makeshift fires burning in oil drums, sleeping in cardboard boxes set up on ventilator grates.

I just don’t know what they’ll do. Unless it’s meet in the “approximately 2000 churches and 4000 informal places of worship such as community halls and homes,” or possibly the world’s largest world’s largest cathedral, the Episcopal Church of St. John the Divine.

For comparison, one unverified datum suggests there are only 174 Starbucks coffee shops in the entire city.

But still.

How sad.

Killing Atheists and Jews … Oh, Wait

This is really a cautionary tale for bloggers and blog readers, about checking your sources, starting with the dates.

I came across a link to a story on ParentDish, about a Left Behind video game, based on the Rapture novels of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. ParentDish reported the game involved Christian militia that slaughtered Jews and atheists on the streets of New York. Continue reading “Killing Atheists and Jews … Oh, Wait”

Short Stack #5

We live in a lesser age. My proof for this is the fact that you can no longer see sword-fights in public like you once could. I long for that bygone era when you could swing on a chandelier into the center of a group of royalist thugs, fight your way clear with a nimble blade while making joking comments about your opponents’ foppish dress and churlish table manners, and then leap onto a black horse and gallop away. Man, those were the days. Continue reading “Short Stack #5”

Two Perfect Xmas Gifts, or I Promise I Don’t Own Stock

Not really all that atheism-related, here’s an idea I thought I’d toss at you:

We’re coming up on Krismas (named after that fictional character Kris Kringle, you understand), and I know some of us will be banging around in our heads trying to figure out what to get certain people on our lists.

I say there are two perfect gifts. Perfect in the sense that they’re always appreciated, no matter who the recipient is. Continue reading “Two Perfect Xmas Gifts, or I Promise I Don’t Own Stock”