Andymatic

Category: Religion

  • George Bush and 50 Cent: Hip Hop Reflects Culture

    Poet Saul Williams writes an open letter to Oprah: Hip Hop is simply a reflection of the society that birthed it. Our love affair with gangsterism and the denigration of women is not rooted in Hip Hop; rather it is rooted in the very core of our personal faith and religions. The gangsters that rule […]

  • Gov't Study: Abstinence Programs Don't Work

    This is my surprised face: The major findings were that the abstinence programs they studied had no correlation with a decreased level of sexual activity in the population of teens they surveyed. Interestingly, one of the programs they studied was a voluntary after school program consisting of daily 2.5 hour sessions with enrollment beginning at […]

  • No Sh_t, Shylock: Anti-Semitism Goes Mainstream Again

    As I’ve said before, I’ve never really understood anti-semitism, I can’t pick a Jewish person out of a line-up. I do know that when we had to do East Coast accents and scenes from Neil Simon in acting class my Jewish acting teacher said I’d make such a perfect little mensch. I know that you’re […]

  • Chicago Archidocese to Abuse Vicims: Stop Suing Us

    The Chicago archdiocese is trying to stop a measure designed to help victims of childhood sexual abuse. The bill allows abuse victims to sue those who harmed them — even decades after the fact. Protests from church leaders prompted state lawmakers to gut the measure, and now legislators are now working on a compromise bill.

  • Book Banned Over Use of the Word ‘Scrotum'

    Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stupider: …”The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he […]

  • Ted Haggard: 100% Heterosexual

    Right.

  • How Mel Gibson Became Anti-Semitic

    Mel Gibson has his own traditionalist house of worship near Los Angeles — a church, funded entirely by him, that is not recognized by the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese. It is unclear what is said in the hallowed halls of the Holy Family Chapel, since, unlike virtually all other Catholic churches, it is closed […]

  • AP/AOL Poll: 35% Predict Draft, 25% Predict Christ in 2007

    35 percent predict the military draft will be reinstated. 25 percent anticipate the second coming of Jesus Christ. Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster. These are among Americans’ grim predictions for the United States in 2007.  

  • Hava Nagila Hoedown

    Did anybody else see the evangelicals celebrating Judaism (Christians wearing yamulkas excited about the rapture/restoration) with a Hava Nagila hoedown? I swear they sung it alternating with lyrics of Like a chicken in a bread pan, pickin up dough Even had the devil sayin ‘ "Go, Man, Go !"

  • Quiverfull Movement Reminds Us Women Are Baby Factories for Jeebus

    (via Feministing) Quiverfull parents try to have upwards of six children. They home-school their families, attend fundamentalist churches and follow biblical guidelines of male headship–"Father knows best"–and female submissiveness. They refuse any attempt to regulate pregnancy. Yes, ladies your womb is a weapon! I wonder what Nancy Pelosi is wearing today…