Religion is like having a classroom where the teacher never shows up.
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February 25, 2013
August 23, 2012
As his wife slept, he fumbled through the darkness for his laptop. After a few quick searches with the terms “pastor” and “atheist,” he discovered that a cottage industry of atheist outreach groups had grown up in the past few years. Within days, he joined an online network called the Clergy Project, created for clerics who no longer believe in God and want to communicate anonymously through a secure Web site.
DeWitt began e-mailing with dozens of fellow apostates every day and eventually joined another new network called Recovering From Religion, intended to help people extricate themselves from evangelical Christianity. Atheists, he discovered, were starting to reach out to one another not just in the urban North but also in states across the South and West, in the kinds of places DeWitt had spent much of his career as a traveling preacher. After a few months he took to the road again, this time as the newest of a new breed of celebrity, the atheist convert. They have their own apostles (Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens) and their own language, a glossary borrowed from Alcoholics Anonymous, the Bible and gay liberation (you always “come out” of the atheist closet).
Clergy Project is getting some mainstream press.
Three cheers for the Clergy Project!
July 9, 2012
I just killed my whole family, so it seems it’s turn for yours. Oh - and the kids, DELICIOUS!
Yeah, but you can only kill you whole family once. What are we supposed to do after that?
My WHOLE family? Do you know how much Irish/Italian Catholics can breed?!
I really don’t like to multitask, so I’ll do the killing first, clean up, then sit you down and talk to you about atheism over a wee cuppa.
(via stfuconservatives)
July 9, 2012
June 13, 2012
76 things banned in Leviticus
Here’s chapter and verse on a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death.
1. Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)
2. Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)
3. Eating fat (3:17)
4. Eating blood (3:17)
5. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1)
6. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1)
7. Touching an unclean animal (5:2)
8. Carelessly making an oath (5:4)
9. Deceiving a neighbour about something trusted to them (6:2)
10. Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3)
11. Bringing unauthorised fire before God (10:1)
12. Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)
13. Tearing your clothes (10:6)
14. Drinking alcohol in holy places (10:9)
15. Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (11:4-7)
16. Touching the carcass of any of the above (11:8)
17. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)
18. Eating – or touching the carcass of - eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19)
19. Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22)
20. Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (11:27)
21. Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon (11:29)
22. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42)
23. Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)
24. Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5)
25. Having sex with your mother (18:7)
26. Having sex with your father’s wife (18:8)
27. Having sex with your sister (18:9)
28. Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)
29. Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)
30. Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)
31. Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)
32. Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)
33. Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)
34. Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (18:17)
35. Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)
36. Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)
37. Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)
38. Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21)
39. Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)
40. Having sex with an animal (18:23)
41. Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4)
42. Reaping to the very edges of a field (19:9)
43. Picking up grapes that have fallen in your vineyard (19:10)
44. Stealing (19:11)
45. Lying (19:11)
46. Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12)
47. Defrauding your neighbour (19:13)
48. Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (19:13)
49. Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)
50. Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15)
51. Spreading slander (19:16)
52. Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life (19:16)
53. Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)
54. Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)
55. Cross-breeding animals (19:19)
56. Planting different seeds in the same field (19:19)
57. Sleeping with another man’s slave (19:20)
58. Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)
59. Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)
60. Trimming your beard (19:27)
61. Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)
62. Getting tattoos (19:28)
63. Making your daughter prostitute herself (19:29)
64. Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31)
65. Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)
66. Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born” (19:33-34)
67. Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36)
68. Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9)
69. Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest (21:7,13)
70. Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest (21:11)
71. Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28)
72. Working on the Sabbath (23:3)
73. Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)
74. Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22)
75. Selling land permanently (25:23)
76. Selling an Israelite as a slave (25:42)
Hey Rabbi friends, why do girls make you more ‘unclean’ than boys?
23. Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)
24. Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5)
(Source: leviticusbans)
June 6, 2012
I’m happy to announce that I am participating in Secular Student Alliance week! Lots of fantastic bloggers from over at Freethought Blogs will be hosting crazy amounts of blogging to raise money for the Secular Student Alliance to help them finish up their match with Jeff Hawkins and Janet Strauss (which you can read about here). However, rather than doing crazy amounts of blogging, I am participating in a way that I am actually good at - yes, I will be CROCHETING ridiculous amounts the next ten days!
What does this mean exactly? Well, for every item I make over the next ten days, I will be posting it on ebay as an auction for you to bid on. All the proceeds will go to the Secular Student Alliance, which is ABSOLUTELY my favorite secular organization (Camp Quest is also up there, don’t worry)!
Starting today, I have posted a handmade-by-crochet Flying Spaghetti Monster. The auction for this particular item will last TEN DAYS (which is how long SSAweek lasts). I will post a new item every day and the length of the auction will decrease for the new item as well. That means the item I post on Day 3 will last 7 days, the item on Day 5 will last 5 days, and so on and so forth. That means I should have an official tally of how much is raised through these items by the time SSA week ends. :)
If you have any atheist-themed items you have in mind that I could crochet, let me know! I have a few, but I might need some inspiration. I will also be posting a few other blog posts about my experience with the SSA and why I think they’re such a great organization. If you just want to make a donation to the Secular Student Alliance, you can do that here.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster, in particular, is dear to my heart, as I am a leader of the Pastafarians at the University of South Carolina, which is an affiliate of the Secular Student Alliance. I have spent the past three years actively involved in the organization and I couldn’t imagine my college years without it. I also crocheted six or so FSMs last summer for the bloggers for Camp Quest (as pictured above at the Secular Student Alliance conference last year), so you could be owning something that very few people out there own - and they’re REALLY COOL PEOPLE.
For my first auction as part of SSA week, you can go here and start bidding NOW on that cute Flying Spaghetti Monster! If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
DO EEET.
May 7, 2012
That may be one of the creepiest part of the whole posthumous baptism. The idea that some Mormon can try to make Anne Frank a celestial wife. At least perhaps they believe they can.
April 6, 2012
"I notice your little faceless ‘icon’ is perfect! It matches your lack of soul."
— Cillab2, in a tumblr comment
(Source: godlessgirl)
March 21, 2012
Why birth control? Why abortions? Why now?
It may be a stupid question, but why are the myriad anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-woman bills coming up and being passed right now? I realize this is nothing new to legislation and debate, but the sheer quantity of these actions against women feels suddenly oppressive, staggering, and overwhelming.
Our rights as women with the abilities to reason and choose are being chipped away at all sides by brute force. It all feels like an orchestrated effort to put us in a cage and breed us like the chattel they think we are.
November 18, 2011
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