My atheist brothers and sisters, I have seen the light. At last I understand the true threat. And I need your help.
Last week in South Carolina, former House Speaker and current GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich laid into the media for its ugly inclination against Christians. Continue reading “Announcing: Save The Christians!™”
From Crommunist: THIS is worth reading:
This first video always brings me to tears. The second one, made for the film “Freedom Writers,” is just fun. Continue reading “Remembering MLK”
Generally, I’ve kept my mouth shut about Israel. Honestly, I haven’t taken the time to really delve into the country’s history, or its politics. My hands-off-ness grows out of that – I know I’m not well-enough informed to hold strong opinions about it all. I’m sure there are some larger issues I don’t understand.
Still, there have been news stories over the years that have sometimes made it difficult for me to feel friendly toward the country.
Mostly, I like the joke I heard years ago, that the world would be better off if we’d given the Jews a homeland in New Jersey rather than the middle East. Continue reading “Israeli Women: Accomplished … and Unclean”
Today Daniel Fincke of Camels With Hammers introduced me to Reap Paden, of ReapSowRadio and The Angry Atheist. With about 15 minutes advanced notice, I was suddenly on the air being interviewed.
If you listen past my uhs and y’knows, we have a fairly wide-ranging and — I think — interesting discussion. Reap’s a good interviewer, and someone I’m glad I’ve met at last. I enjoyed the experience so much, it felt like we talked for only about 15 minutes.
Worth a listen:
Stay til the bar scene. God, I love British humor.
John Loftus, of Debunking Christianity, writes:
I want to briefly make the case that there is no atheist community. There are only atheist communities. There is likewise no atheist movement. There is only an atheist momentum. Atheists do not even share the same goals.
It’s a sound point, and I agree with several of his arguments, at least in the sense I believe he’s aiming. But it isn’t the only point, I don’t think. It will take me a bit to explain why: Continue reading “Answering John Loftus: Is There an Atheist Community?”
A Facebook friend posted a link to this Slate article Free Willy: Should prison inmates have the right to masturbate?
I clicked over to it because it sounded funny. Not only did it turn out to be interesting, it touches on (you see what I did there?) a real point of human rights.
While you might think of masturbation as a sort of last refuge for the incarcerated—a truly inalienable freedom, given the happy proximity of the sex organs—that is not the case. In fact, a number of state prisons regard jerking off as a rule infraction.
The fight against the practice apparently has a long history: Continue reading “… When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
The Christian Coalition of America is
… conducting a nationwide survey of America’s politically active Christians so we can show the politicians and the media exactly where we stand on critical issues.
[ In case you have trouble connecting, the URL is http://cc.org/webform/2012_american_values_survey ]
[ Also, see Afternote 2/Warning at the end of this post. ]
And they want to make sure your voice is included.
I say we pitch in. After all, it doesn’t say only Christians, and nobody else.
And it’s not like the questions are politically loaded or anything. They’re all open, honest, think-your-own-well-informed-thoughts-and-answer-according-to-your-independent-conscience questions. No, really. Continue reading “Help Me Pharyngulate (wait, can I say that?) This Poll”
