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The pastor of a church was reported to have received death threats after a video appeared online yesterday showing a child being cheered on while singing anti-gay lyrics.

The church at which the boy, reported to be three years old, performed was revealed to be the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Greensburg, Indiana.

In the video, the child sings to the congregation: “I know the Bible’s right, somebody’s wrong — Romans 1 and 27, ain’t no homo going to make it to heaven.”

(via Video: Pastor ‘had death threats’ after child’s song about ‘no homos in heaven’ - PinkNews.co.uk)

I can almost hear the Christian Conservative bitching “What’s wrong with that? You can teach your child whatever you want? Freedom of religion this, liberals want to control that yada, yada, yada.” Who the fuck would align themselves with these people?

Source : pinknews.co.uk

Etan Patz case: Will self-admitted killer's prayer group confession hold up? | MinnPost →

So, I’ve been following this Etan Patz killer story pretty closely for the last few days, but today was the first time I saw something relevant to religious beliefs in it.

For those who haven’t been following, Patz is the 6-year-old boy who went missing in 1980 and was famously the first to have his picture on a milk carton.

There’s a lot of weird stuff about this case, including an admitted molester who is serving time for Etan’s disappearance (along with a litany of other abuse crimes). But recently, Pedro Hernandez came forward and said he strangled the boy to death for seemingly no reason (sexual or otherwise).

Now that he’s come forward a buncha folks he’s known have come forward saying something along the lines of “you know, he did mention to me once that he killed a little boy, but I didn’t think anything of it.” Yeah, weird, right?

Anyway, now the man’s own sister says he admitted it in a prayer group. Is a prayer group somehow above the law?

A prayer service is not a confession,” says Ms. McAvoy, who also has her own legal consulting business.

The distinction is important because most states have laws giving priests and penitents confidentiality privileges. “Priests do not have to go to court or testify about confessions,” she says. “Most priests are hesitant about talking about anything said in a confessional.”

In fact, many ministers say that confessions put them in a difficult position. For example, some church insurance policies require ministers to report certain crimes. Hardly any state exempts clergy from reporting a confession about child abuse.

“When someone comes and says they want to confess, I tell them right upfront, I am mandated to turn in crimes,” says the Rev. Jim Barnes, national minister of the Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches in St. Louis.

I’m interested in the idea that when it comes to health care legislation, certain parties are quite rigid about what the government can compel a religious organization to do.

“The Constitution reads ‘no law concerning the establishment of religion!’” They declare.

Do they think that hands-off approach applies when it comes to the murder of a child? Sounds like many of the priests don’t even see it that way, even if they’re pressured by their insurance.

Snake-handling preacher dies from rattlesnake bite in West Virginia →

West Virginia preacher Mark Randall “Mack” Wolford, who believed Christians should handle snakes to test their faith, died after a rattlesnake bit him over the weekend.

Wolford was bitten on the thigh about 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, but he didn’t come to the hospital until 10:30 p.m., a nursing supervisor at Bluefield Regional Medical Center  told the Charleston Daily Mail. The incident occurred during an outdoor service at Panther State Forest, about 80 miles west of Bluefield in southern West Virginia, the paper said.

Headline should read: Snake successfully defends self when mysterious human unnecessarily gropes it.

(via atheistme)

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sernicore:

Nirvana + Futurama =

This is relevant to my interests.

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Partially considering going back in time to have sex with my own grandmother

Such past-nastification would eliminate my delta brain wave making my mind unreadable by mind reading entities and, thereby, the obvious savior of all humanity. Sounds like fun anyway.


Americans politics.

richmaw:

#atheism #thegoddelusion #richarddawkins #book (Taken with instagram)

richmaw:

#atheism #thegoddelusion #richarddawkins #book (Taken with instagram)

(via progressively-liberal)

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leftybegone:

I love the phrase “rapist with AIDS.” There’s something darkly funny about it.

Conservatives; They really are this stupid.

leftybegone:

I love the phrase “rapist with AIDS.” There’s something darkly funny about it.

Conservatives; They really are this stupid.

Source : leftybegone

According to Merriam Webster, all it takes to be racist is to think that there are differences in human capabilities and reasoning skills due to race, and because of such differences, one race is better than another. That being said, of course a POC can be racist, just because the majority of America is white doesn't mean there can't be racism the other way.

Yeah, well, according to Merriam Webster a slap on the face from an infant and a slap on the face from a gorilla are both a slap on the face, but you and I both know one is devastating and one has so little impact it hardly deserves to be called the same thing.