I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.
This is one of the most breathtakingly offensive and reality-denying political ads I’ve seen from an American politician. It suggests that Christians are somehow persecuted, rather than the dominant religious and political force in the country. It suggests that gay people serving the nation that has long denied them full citizenship are something other than selfless heroes. And it states outright that children can’t “openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school”—both of which are blatant lies, unless something significant has changed without me hearing about it in the last six years. No, teachers can’t lead children in prayer—you may recall the establishment of religion clause, Governor Perry—but that didn’t stop a group of Christian students from gathering around the flagpole of my high school to pray several times a week.
Rick Perry is the same presidential candidate who yesterday said that improving the lives of gay individuals abroad was “not in America’s interests” and suggested that not being killed or imprisoned in nations like Uganda is a “special right”.
I’d really like to hear Rick Perry explain why it’s okay to burn over a trillion dollars to kill brown people overseas, ostensibly to prevent them from killing people, but it’s not okay to make American aid to foreign countries conditional on those countries not killing or imprisoning their own citizens based on sexual orientation.
Somehow I doubt Jesus would agree with Governor Perry’s priorities.
“Religious heritage”???
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Pilgrim Fathers came to ‘The New World’ because of religious persecution and the wish for religious freedom.
Furthermore I think someone should slap him with the First Amendment until he understands it — and not only the parts regarding religious freedom, but also those on freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and interference with the right to peaceably assemble.
One last thing: Could this man be kindly reeducated on one of the pillars of modern democracy? It’s called ‘The Separation of State and Church’.
A quick quote from Thomas Jefferson:
“… I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”
If this guy gets elected president he might put the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades to shame. I’m German—brought-up strictly catholic, turned agnostic—and I cannot do anything against scum like him, but crap like this video makes my blood boil.
This is one of my main problems with the catholic church and one of the reasons I left.
Mrs Blaspheming Bitch: Atheism is not a belief or a value system.
It is not moral or immoral. Atheism is a rejection of belief in a deity, only. It says nothing at all about the beliefs a person does hold or his/her ethics, morals, or values. If you are a Christian, then you do not believe in Krishna, Allah, Mithras, the Guatemalan Corn god, or Poseidon, the god of the sea. You do not fear these gods because you believe they do not exist. As a Christian, you hold a belief in one God; however, you are an atheist with respect to all other gods. (In the 1st and 2nd centuries, Christians who did not worship the Emperor as God were called atheists by the Romans.) We atheists reject all the gods, just like Christians, but will go one more, rejecting the Christian god as well. That is all atheism is.
I’m stealing this argument.
Only last year I discovered that I had completely lost any connection to the church and organised religion as a whole. I wouldn’t describe myself as an atheist — the term agnostic doesn’t fit either — but this ‘definition’ is something I can stand behind.
Hypocrisy all around.
If you’re a Christian who supports killing your enemies and torture, you have to come up with a new name for yourself…..I’m not even judging you. I’m just saying, logically, if you ignore every single thing Jesus commanded you to do, you’re not a Christian. You’re just auditing.
- Bill Maher (via sirmitchell)
Great quote.
This is awesome. Humanity at its best.
I hope actions like this will have a lasting impact on the religious situation in Egypt.
This is exactly what religion should achieve in my opinion; unquestioning, unwavering respect and acceptance of other people and their beliefs.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish (Muslim), appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion.
Christine O’Donnell Finally Discovers Constitution’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Part
Load the video at 7:00. If you’re not mentally screaming in horror within thirty seconds, there’s something wrong with you.
Christine O’Donnell, the Republican nominee for Senator of Delaware, doesn’t know what the First Amendment says.
We have a lot of idiots in politics over here in Germany, but Christine O’Donnell is a whole different level of nut-job.
I was already screaming in agony during the first minute when she stated that Creationism should be put on a level with the Theory of Evolution.
Incredible.
Fuck Yeah, he does!
