Category: Religion
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Houston Landscaper and Gardener Garden Guy Inc. with Todd and Sabrina Farber
NYTimes: Last month, a local [Houston] landscaping firm prompted a furor here by telling a gay couple in an e-mail message, “We choose not to work for homosexuals.” In an interview Friday, Sabrina Farber, 34, co-owner of the company with her husband, Todd, 37, said the company had picked up $40,000 in new business in […]
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Why Evangelicals Just Can't Help Themselves
Fantastic cogent comment from Metafilter commenter Pastabagel: How colossally arrogant is it to think that you can be a congressman and hit on underage pages and not think you are going to get busted? How arrogant is it to be the head of the organization that has made ant-gay preaching a foundational principle and then […]
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Ted Haggard, Christian Evangelical Leader, Father of 5 and MegaChurch Millionaire Resigns Over Alleged of Sex with Gay Prostitute
Again – when someone is that obsessed with what you do with your genitals, it usually means that they have problems with what they do with their own. Ted Haggard, one of the most prominent evangelical pastors in the nation, resigned today as president of the National Association of Evangelicals amid allegations that he carried […]
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Nazi Pope Ratburger Moves to Resurrect Latin Mass
Hell yeah. Bring back the Gothic mass that scares the hell out of non-Catholics! Just please ditch the godawful folk-music movement and influence that has killed liturgical music. Pope Benedict XVI is moving to facilitate a more widespread celebration of the pre-Vatican II Mass in Latin. Only a month after the Pope’s decision to create […]
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Divorce Rate Higher for Christians Compared to Other Faith Groups
The couple that doesn’t pray at all together, stays together: With Atheism, women and men are equally responsible for a healthy marriage. There is no room in Atheist ethics for the type of ‘submissive’ nonsense preached by Baptists and other Christian and/or Jewish groups. Atheists reject, and rightly so, the primitive patriarchal attitudes so prevalent […]
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50 Proofs That God is Imaginary
Fifty ways of thinking about the Christian God to include that it is pretty much imaginary. My favorite snippets: Jesus’s Myopia: Jesus, if he actually were God, could have done so much. He could have prevented massive amounts of human suffering with his words and deeds. Instead, he did none of this. Look at who […]
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22 Lessons from Wayne Dyer
Dad is digging the Dyer and found this article from Chris Knight: Dr. Wayne Dyer is a popular motivational speaker and author. His recent books include The Power of Intention, Ten Secrets For Success & Inner Peace, Getting in the Gap and Everyday Wisdom. I’ve been studying Dyer’s principles for the past 22 years and […]
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HOWTO: Build a Cult Through Brainwashing
The Battle for Your Mind: Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today by Dick Sutphen: Conversion is a “nice” word for brainwashing…and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 […]
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Thich Nhat Hanh Washes Dishes
Are you telling me that Thich Nhat Hanh actually does his own dishes? Washing the dishes is at the same time a means and an end that is, not only do we do the dishes in order to have clean dishes, we also do the dishes just to do the dishes, to live fully in […]
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Muslim Women Bring Back Equality from 14 Centuries Ago
People need to know the difference between cultural Islam — which most of the time does not really represent the faith — and Islam itself. We always look at Islam as liberating women. Before Islam, they were chattel, bought and sold as slaves and inherited. Islam 1,400 years ago gave women the right to choose […]