This is the REAL last Calvin and Hobbes. Anyone passing anything else around (especially some bullshit about Calvin doing his homework) is spreading an internet rumor and a stain on a great artist.
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Showing the harm of religious beliefs
Every CEO of Ford, Nissan, BMW, and General Motors, every President of Chrysler and Fiat and Renault, every chairman of Volkswagen, every president and chairman of Toyota, every president and CEO of Honda and Mazda, every president of Hyundai…etc…ever. (h/t @marcatracy)
100% men: Great feminist blog about organizations run entirely by men.
National Organization for Marriage: It's "Absurd" To Let The States Decide On Marriage Equality For Themselves (audio) →
From the April 9 edition of Lutheran Public Radio’s Issues, Etc.
It's pretty well-known that Jesus was a big supporter of the OT. Just because he didn't outright say "RAPE IS OKAY" in the NT doesn't mean he "didn't support rape". People like to pick and choose what to believe from the bible so that they can create their own perfect version of Jesus. Lolololol
Exactly! And if Jesus never made a big issue about rape, intellectually honest Christians have to come to one of two conclusions. 1) Jesus’s values were not only inconsistent with mine, but mine are, in fact, superior. or 2) Rape isn’t really such a big problem because if it was, Jesus would have made a big deal of it.
You know, people twist themselves into a pretzel to defend Jesus’s omissions, but they don’t even dream of addressing aspects of his character that don’t make sense to them. What about throwing out the money lenders? How many people claim to love Jesus and the Bible, but own a credit card or have a bank account or a mortgage or a student loan? All these people are supporting the same money lenders. Why don’t they make a big fucking deal out of it? I’ll tell you why, or rather, you’ll tell us why:
People like to pick and choose what to believe from the bible so that they can create their own perfect version of Jesus.
Saxton, a junior studying classics and religious studies, said his sermon was meant to convey that “if you dress like a whore, act like a whore, you’re probably going to get raped.”
“I think that girls that dress and act like it,” Saxton said, “they should realize that they do have partial responsibility, because I believe that they’re pretty much asking for it.” (via Arizona Daily Wildcat: ‘You Deserve Rape’ sign causes controversy on UA campus)
Is there a better visual for the rape culture that this dude with his sign? (Kudos to the guys behind him. And thank goodness.).
holy shit the blackeye this guy deserves.
I think that dude fucking deserves an uppercut or two because I’m pretty sure he has partial responsibility for being a stupid asshole and he’s asking for it
I agree that he only bears partial responsibility because part of his worldview is tainted by religious faith, so Christianity in general shares the blame.
Uh no, Christianity does not share the blame. Jesus never said that it was okay to rape people, I don’t know what bible you’re reading bro, but it ain’t the holy one. Nobody deserves to be raped, no matter what they’re wearing or acting like. I find it really disgusting that some Christians and Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc. believe it’s a woman’s fault if she’s raped. Also people who have different or no religious belief’s still blame the victim. It’s not okay and it’s something we as a whole society need to work on. We need to start teaching our children that it is not okay to rape and it is not something that will be tolerated, it doesn’t matter how a man or woman acts or is dressed or whatever, rape is never okay and should never be tolerated under any circumstance. And most importantly, it is never the victim’s fault.
There’s a ton of rape in the Bible. Here are three of my favorite examples:
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife. (Deuteronomy 22:23-24)
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera’s spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil. (Judges 5:30)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11)
Classy shit, Yahweh!
I never said there wasn’t rape in the Bible but you should probably take a non-biased class on the Old Testament to try to better understand the culture of the day during the Mosaic Age.
Uh, don’t assume you know anything about me. I took lots of classes biased in favor of Christianity, in other words Sunday school, as well as “non-biased” academic classes. Plus I pretty much school people on the Bible all day every day, so that’s a sort of class.
I said Jesus Christ never said it was okay to go rape someone.
So, unless Jesus says something is OK, we should just assume it’s not? Jesus never said it was OK to bake vegetables into a crust, should I assume my sweet potato pie is a sin?
I could not find a single thing in the New Testament that ever said raping someone was okay.
I could not find a single thing in the New Testament that explicitly does away with the entire Old Testament. I notice they still sell them as one unit. Not that it would matter. There’s enough vague nonsense throughout both to make an objective interpretation completely impossible.
Jesus preached and practiced love. But this isn’t about religion.
Of course it is, this guy is a preacher, this is part of his sermon.
This picture is about rape culture and victim blaming and how messed up our society is and I think that’s what we should be focusing on.
Christianity is complicit in that rape culture and is the mother of all victim blaming ideologies.
I think it’s pretty screwed up that the media felt bad that the rapists of the Steubenville Rape Cases were going to jail and showed no remorse for the REAL victim, don’t you agree?
Uh, wait, what are you talking about now, a different thing? OK, yes, I agree
List of people claimed to be Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
One of my favorite Wikipedia pages. What makes people who believe Jesus is/was real based on faith not believe these people?
Saxton, a junior studying classics and religious studies, said his sermon was meant to convey that “if you dress like a whore, act like a whore, you’re probably going to get raped.”
“I think that girls that dress and act like it,” Saxton said, “they should realize that they do have partial responsibility, because I believe that they’re pretty much asking for it.” (via Arizona Daily Wildcat: ‘You Deserve Rape’ sign causes controversy on UA campus)
Is there a better visual for the rape culture that this dude with his sign? (Kudos to the guys behind him. And thank goodness.).
holy shit the blackeye this guy deserves.
I think that dude fucking deserves an uppercut or two because I’m pretty sure he has partial responsibility for being a stupid asshole and he’s asking for it
I agree that he only bears partial responsibility because part of his worldview is tainted by religious faith, so Christianity in general shares the blame.
Uh no, Christianity does not share the blame. Jesus never said that it was okay to rape people, I don’t know what bible you’re reading bro, but it ain’t the holy one. Nobody deserves to be raped, no matter what they’re wearing or acting like. I find it really disgusting that some Christians and Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc. believe it’s a woman’s fault if she’s raped. Also people who have different or no religious belief’s still blame the victim. It’s not okay and it’s something we as a whole society need to work on. We need to start teaching our children that it is not okay to rape and it is not something that will be tolerated, it doesn’t matter how a man or woman acts or is dressed or whatever, rape is never okay and should never be tolerated under any circumstance. And most importantly, it is never the victim’s fault.
There’s a ton of rape in the Bible. Here are three of my favorite examples:
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife. (Deuteronomy 22:23-24)
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera’s spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil. (Judges 5:30)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11)
Classy shit, Yahweh!
The Secret Autobiography of Tom Cruise: His Movies →
The parallels between Scientologist dogma and Oblivion’s plot are not exact, but it’s not hard to see how a person drawn to the one could be drawn to the other. Religions, like movies, are based in narratives, and they similarly seek to give structure to the inchoate stuff of life. And, in many ways, Oblivion is simply the most concrete example of a theme that stretches back through Cruise’s entire filmography, in which knowing oneself and being known by others is not only profoundly difficult, but also frequently dangerous.
Slate asks a fascinating question: Do Tom Cruise’s movies reveal something about his personality?
Parenting
Those who know me know I don’t like my parents all that much because of the restrictions they place on me. I understand if some people think this is just a teen being angst-y.
But I’m going to quote one of the Christian magazines my family received yesterday. (This is from the “Parents’ Corner” section of “Answers in Genesis” if anybody is wondering.
“Some [children and teens] are falling into the fire and must be helped. “Save others, snatching them out of the fire” (Jude 23a, NASB)Until some kids are eighteen, you have the opportunity to place as many restraints and reminders in their paths as you can. They may hate you for it at the time, but they will thank you later. Don’t be afraid to lovingly limit their entertainment, filter twit computers, or question the foolishness of their friends. Our fear of God and our love for our kids should motivate us to rescue them from even the possibility of God’s judgement.”
I’m going to let you dwell on the first part of that paragraph. “Until kids are eighteen, you have the opportunity to put as many restraints on them […] as you can.”What’s the consensus on that statement? Im a little freaked out by what my parents are reading. Should I be “filtering” their media or “question the foolishness” of their sources of advice?
This is what I mean when I talk about how these religious groups like Ken Ham’s Tax Dodgers and Focused on YOUR Family teach people to abuse their children.
Baby girl sacrificed on bonfire after sect leader says tot is the Antichrist, Chile cops say →
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean police on Thursday arrested four people accused of burning a baby alive in a ritual because the leader of the sect believed that the end of the world was near and that the child was the Antichrist. The 3-day-old baby was taken to a hill in the town of &
Here’s how religious beliefs cause harm. If he were right, that the child really was a demon from another dimension bent on leading humanity into destruction, the moral thing to do would probably be to kill it, right? Belief should be based on evidence. Evidence for the existence of demons or anti-Christs or Christs and whether or not this baby was involved require better knowledge than “I just believe it.” However, religion, all religion, teaches us to believe that way, without evidence. That’s faith. This is faith.
