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Category Archives: Fundamentalism
Daily Hilarity: Fake Ad For “Burn A Quran Day”
September 8, 2010 – 11:46 pmDC Douglas captures the common denominator between religiously inspired book burning and professional wrestling/monster rally aesthetics: By DC Douglas, via Boing Boing and thanks to Eric. Your Thoughts?
True Religion?
August 17, 2010 – 8:46 pmMany a religious person defending her own religious beliefs will argue that a given politically, morally, or intellectually unflattering interpretation of her faith is simply not a true representation of her faith. While the question of who has the right or the adequate means to decisively determine with any rational clarity which competing interpretation of any [...]
On God Warriors
July 18, 2010 – 2:25 pmAt first I thought this was funny, figured it might make a good “Sundaily Hilarity”, but the longer I watched and the more I saw the pain this woman was causing her children and the obvious pain she was in herself, the clearer it became that there is nothing funny about this at all. Clearly [...]
“Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” Advocates Under Threat
July 13, 2010 – 12:41 pmThe New York Daily News reports: A CHARISMATIC terror leader linked to the botched Times Square car bomb has placed the Seattle cartoonist who launched “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day” on an execution hit list. Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki – the radical who has also been cited as inspiring the Fort Hood, Tex., massacre and the [...]
Do You Like Anti-Catholicism Mixed In With Your End Times Delusions?
July 8, 2010 – 1:42 pmIf so, the new Jack Chick tract on the end times will really hit the spot! (If you’ve ever just wondered what it would be like if Glenn Beck wrote a Jack Chick tract, this seems the closest approximation.) H/T: Secular Outpost. Your Thoughts?
Threatened With Death Penalty, Maldivian Skeptic Of Islam Recants
July 3, 2010 – 9:53 pmA while back I highlighted the story of a Maldivian man who was attacked by a crowd for expressing his lack of belief in Islam during the Q&A session by a the visiting Indian scholar Dr. Zakir Naik. Maldives is a state where it is illegal to not believe. Now, via Atheist Media Blog, here’s video [...]
A Dictatorship Of Relativism?
July 3, 2010 – 9:20 pmBBC Radio 4 analyzes the pope’s catchphrase, “a dictatorship of relativism”, used for describing the secular West. Here’s the program description: The idea that no one has a monopoly on the truth seems to be fixed in the modern Western psyche. But it’s an idea that is under attack. Pope Benedict claims that we are [...]
Penn Jillette Again On The Difference Between Muslims And Christians In Taking Criticism
June 29, 2010 – 11:48 amI already highlighted Penn Jillette’s Vanity Fair interview in which he praised Christians for being better at taking criticism than Muslims, but this quote from his new Las Vegas Weekly interview, which I found via Boing Boing and Reddit, conveys his feelings as much as his thoughts, and those feelings are both depressing on the one [...]
Contortions Of Catholic Philosophy: Eve Tushnet Argues Gay Sex Is Not OK But Sex Changes Are
June 28, 2010 – 2:20 pmTushnet’s moral choice for herself and for other gays is celibacy or gender reassignment. Of course for some people, specifically some of the transgendered, a sex change is entirely appropriate and preferable to gay sex because from a gender(rather than a sex) perspective, those who are pre-op transgendered and are attracted to members of their [...]
Workshop To Teach Public School Teachers How To Proselytize In School
June 20, 2010 – 7:40 amBecause no legal or moral principles matter more to some fundamentalists than their drive to evangelize: “Every day, 55 million American children and their teachers show up for school. For the nearly 90% who attend a public school, the ACLU and other anti-Christian organizations have systematically stripped almost every vestige of Christianity from their schools. [...]
Church "Adopts" A Public School With Aims Of Converting Students And Their Families
June 15, 2010 – 9:11 amCompletely devoid of any principled conscience that would object to mixing church and state, a principal and a church partner to proselytize a public school, using a budget crisis as an excuse: When his budget for pencils, paper, and other essential supplies was cut by a third this school year, the principal of Combee Elementary [...]
What is fundamentalism?
June 11, 2010 – 10:00 amA couple of days ago, I saw Dan’s post of a Ayaan Hirsi Ali video, in which she was explaining that the willingness of fundamentalists to kill people cannot be only blamed on their destitute situation (for two reasons: 1. not all of the fundamentalists who become terrorists are poor, 2. not all poor people [...]
Family Research Council Lobbied Congress NOT To Denounce Uganda Bill
June 10, 2010 – 9:36 amEnraging: Your Thoughts?
Theocratic "Dominionist" Janet Porter Goes Down Swinging
June 9, 2010 – 3:03 amJanet Porter recently lost her radio program for her increasingly dominionist theology, which aims to further politicize Christianity and Christianize the United States government. It was Christians who opposed her and then Christians who fired her. In a new article comparing secularists to Nazis, she argues that her Christian enemies who oppose dominionism are the [...]
The Right To Apostasy
June 8, 2010 – 3:40 pmFormer Muslims United claim the right to apostasy for American Muslims is in danger: FMU has asked me to note two corrections that need to be made in the article below: Wafa Sultan is the president of Former Muslims United. The right of apostasy pledge was sent to 111 Muslim leaders, not groups. In the fall [...]
"I Prefer John Locke To Jesus Christ, I Prefer John Stuart Mill To Jesus Christ…I Prefer Jon Stewart To Jesus Christ"
June 2, 2010 – 12:46 pmIf you missed Ayaan Hirsi Ali on The Colbert Report last night, make time to watch it now: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Ayaan Hirsi Ali www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News And in either case I also recommend from March 15, 2007, in which he hardly knows [...]
Cynically Insane Demagogue Gives Commencement Speech
May 30, 2010 – 1:48 pmHere is Glenn Beck at Liberty University from May 15: Your Thoughts?
What Do Wheaton Students Learn About Evolution?
May 27, 2010 – 1:21 pmJason Rosenhouse reads from the Jeffery Sheler’s 2006 book about Wheaton College, Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America: “We do believe that God created the universe, and that Adam and Eve were the first humans,” [Dorothy Chappell, dean of natural and social sciences] said. “But we are agnostic as to how God did it.” In practical terms, [...]
Mikey Weinstein: Saving The U.S. Military From God
May 27, 2010 – 1:14 pmForeign Policy has a profile of Mikey Weinstein who tirelessly works to combat the efforts of fundamentalist Christians to co-opt the U.S. military for purposes of religious recruitment and religious crusades: Michael L. “Mikey” Weinstein shares his hate mail with both friends and strangers the way elderly people show off photos of their grandkids. He [...]
Are Noble Lies “Blasphemous”?
May 23, 2010 – 5:05 pmRenegade Roman Catholic Andrew Sullivan is harsh with his condemnation of those who think we should “insincerely support religious faith because it is good for others or for society is”, calling this a “profound blasphemy” and cynical, and saying he respects us atheists and agnostics who outright reject faith more than both those noble lie [...]
Sundaily Hilarity: Bill Maher On Alabama Gubernatorial Candidates’ Competition Over Who’s More Proudly Ignorant
May 23, 2010 – 8:26 amGreat stuff: Y0ur Thoughts?
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