With Zero Jobs Bills Passed by the US House, John Boehner’s GOP Wastes Time on Anti-Abortion Bill With No Chance of Becoming Law

holygoddamnshitballs:

It may pass the House, but that’s as far as this waste of time will get. The bill bans abortions after 20 weeks.

The legislation expected to pass the Republican-controlled House as early as Tuesday has no chance of becoming law in the near future: The Democratic-led Senate will ignore it and the White House has issued a veto threat. But the measure gives social conservatives a rare chance to promote their anti-abortion agenda and lays the groundwork for what could be a future challenge to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that confirmed a woman’s right to late-term abortions…

Some 11 state legislatures have passed similar measures. Several have been challenged in court and a federal court last month struck down a slightly different Arizona law that banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Anti-abortion groups said the time frame in the House bill and other state laws, which ban abortion 20 weeks after conception, is equal to 22 weeks of pregnancy.

The sponsors of the bill, named the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, also cited evidence – which opponents say is disputed – that fetuses can feel pain after five months.

“Jobs continue to be our number one concern,” says House Speaker John Boehner, and yet his party is focused on contentious social issues that have no chance of becoming law.

Religious ceremonies are pretty malleable when money is involved: Israeli ministers prefer foie gras to animal rights. →

Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said the changes were necessary to prevent economic damage that could result from broken trade agreements and to avoid retaliatory bans on kosher slaughter in Europe on grounds that such slaughter is cruel to animals.

Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity →

becomingcatholic:

When a Christian foundation interviewed college nonbelievers about how and why they left religion, surprising themes emerged.

This is a great article on young atheists and what made them turn away from the faith. My experience with lapsed Catholics (both those who have become protestants as well as those who are now atheists) bear this out.

The conclusion of the article? If you want to reach atheists, be a saint.

To repeat my earlier comment on this bullshit article:

Fuck this ad hom bullshit. This whole story, which was written by a biased thoughtless numbskull, seeks to frame atheism as an individual’s problem with some church or set of religious ceremonies. The subtext, of course, is that they’re atheists because they want to be atheists. Like it’s cool to be part of the “new atheism” movement (if you can even stomach that fucking term.) That if only church were more engaging these kids would reveal that truly, in their heart of hearts, they believe in some god. He even subheads a section: “The Decision to embrace unbelief was often an emotional one.”

What a steaming load of pandering, dismissive, thought-terminating, condescending bullshit.

First of all, it’s not a decision to believe or not believe something. If that were the case, of course, you could decide to believe you were telepathic and you could have communicated this story to the whole planet without having to publish it (saving us all a lot of grief). You could have chosen to believe you can fly. Yet, you published this harmful bullshit where everyone could see it because you don’t believe you can communicate telepathically and you don’t walk off the Empire State Building because you don’t just believe you can fly. Not believing in your ability to fly isn’t the result of some low self-esteem or traumatic childhood, it’s based on what you know about the natural world. Not believing in gods isn’t based on being bored at church and your fucking single, pathetic anecdote doesn’t help your argument. Not believing in gods is based on the same observation and knowledge of the natural world.

LOOK: Can You Decipher This Girl's NSFW Yearbook Message? →

Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can’t you see… the hidden message in this girl’s yearbook quote? You may need a periodic table.

Ha!

"Faith is the surrender of the mind": Atheism →

limited-probabilities:

luminosusdomina:

The believe that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for once again, no reason whatsoever, into…

Nothing like typing out well-known memes word-for-word (except spelled wrong) as if they’re your own work to show everyone your absolute refusal to think.

Christian school discriminates against homosexual, demands their money back. →

My wife, Danielle Powell, was kicked out of Grace University because she is gay. As if that’s not bad enough, now the school is forcing her to pay back her scholarship money, because they say she wasn’t “moral” enough to deserve that scholarship.

There’s your Christianity right there, America.

leftistnaija:

goodreasonnews:

classicrocklegends:

Why do most atheists feel the need to constantly talk about the fact that they are atheist and challenge other people’s religious beliefs? Who the fuck cares? Live and let live.

How does it feel to be a fucking doormat?

How are nonvocal atheists doormats?

They’re not, and that’s not what I’m saying. People trying to silence those who dissent from popular opinion, people who think that confronting oppression is ‘rude,’ they’re fucking doormats and they’re trying to make doormats out of other people.

And I hate this thought-terminating nonsense about ‘live and let live.’ It assumes that every party is on equal moral ground when, in fact, one is actively trying to dominate all culture everywhere through threat, manipulation and intimidation and the other is just trying have a conversation about why it’s fucking wrong.

classicrocklegends:

Why do most atheists feel the need to constantly talk about the fact that they are atheist and challenge other people’s religious beliefs? Who the fuck cares? Live and let live.

How does it feel to be a fucking doormat?