And yet she’s wearing a cross which represents one of the oldest manifestations of the patriarchy.
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Showing the harm of religious beliefs
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OK, it’s time to put this fucking thing to rest. I’m sure we’ve all seen meme of a “beggar” and his various bowls, each marked with a religion floating around lately. I FUCKING HATE THIS.
You might think I’d like it. But I hate it more than anything ever. And this “updated” version of it, really illustrates why.
It’s bullshit. First off, I’m not convinced this guy is a beggar, I suspect this whole thing is a set up. Either way, if it’s supposed to be some social experiment, it fails to account for so many things. Where is this guy? How many Jews even live in his area or walked by him? They’re like 2% of the American population. What constitutes generosity? What if the amount in the Jewish bowl was 100% of what one person who put it there had in his or her pocket and the money in the atheist bowl was 5% of the amount of 100 atheists that walked by?
Obviously, this isn’t science, but there’s something much worse. This does exactly what I hate so much about religion, it divides people into camps, tribes, and weighs them against each other. Fuck this guy, whether he’s a real beggar or not, fuck this meme and fuck whoever the fuck added this “aren’t the Jews cheap” addition to it. Fuck it all.
Fired lesbian teacher fights to get job at Catholic high school back →
A diocese in Ohio is under siege — receiving numerous threatening calls as well as heated online criticism — and a veteran teacher is out of a job because of publicly revealing a lesbian relationship in violation of the Catholic school’s morality code.
But the firing has raised a fervent debate over tolerance both online and in the Columbus, Ohio, community where the incident took place.
Physical education teacher Carla Hale, 57, was fired in March after her name appeared in her mother’s obituary, which also noted Hale’s longtime lesbian partner.
Hale was summoned to a meeting with school administrators after she returned from her mother’s funeral.
At the meeting, she received a copy of her mother’s obituary that she and her brother had written. In addition, administrators gave Hale an anonymous letter from a parent calling the presence of a lesbian teacher at the school disgrace.
Search warrants executed at Narconon drug rehab clinic →
Search warrants were executed Friday by the Gwinnett County district attorney
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?
Here’s the difference between me and Ann Coulter, besides the undeniable fact that I’m way better looking than this creepy fire-eyed walking corpse: I think Muslims shouldn’t be immune to criticism of their religious beliefs, but that they still ought to be treated equally by society. There’s nothing wrong with me criticizing Islamic tradition within the context of my larger criticisms of “traditions” and “religion” in general. And there’s a difference too between what’s going on here, which is online, blogging in a community designed for discussions and sharing ideas, and harassing a person in public. I’d never stop a Muslim on the street and assert a debate onto them, but you can’t come to my blog and call me a bigot just because I’ve identified ways in which your religion is oppressing you. You can’t make assumptions about atheists and not expect me to jump up and correct you, but it’s always only conversation and it’s never more than that.
What Coulter is calling for here, and what secretly lies in the hearts of all right-wing neo-con fuckheads like her, is fascism. It’s a racist fascism: Nationalism, and for that, I have no tolerance. I’m not even comfortable with the idea that if Tsarnaev’s wife “knew” something than she should face legal punishment. The guy was clearly violent and an extremist, who knows what threat this woman was living under?
I guess the point I’m getting at is: Fuck Ann Coulter and all you dumb motherfuckers on the right who back her fascism nationalism.
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3D printed fucking ear created with live fucking cells: The stunning fucking research has the potential to fucking help children with fucking microtia.
File under: Things science can do that no god seems to be able to.
Translation: Fashion: Those who suffer from weak self-steam and lack of beliefs try to make themselves more appealing to others with fashion so they can hide their weaknesses.
Collection of Hijab Propaganda in Iran - Imgur
Typical Christian Conservative scumbag uses Jesus to oppress women →
We talked last week about Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signing sweeping legislation on Friday, restricting reproductive rights in the state. It’s one of the more aggressive efforts we’ve seen — the measure, among other things, declares that life begins “at fertilization,”and requires medical professionals to provide bogus information about a non-existent connection between abortion and breast cancer.What I did not know is that the Republican governor, while putting his signature on the bill, wrote something else on the page.
An Associated Press photograph taken before the signing shows a page of notes about the bill on Brownback’s desk that included a handwritten message at the top: “JESUS + Mary.” Further down the page were typewritten notes spelling out Brownback’s belief that the bill would create “a culture of life.”
Brownback’s office didn’t respond immediately to requests Friday afternoon for additional information about the notes.
A lot of you may have been hearing about the Olympic Park Bombings lately
I thought I might take this opportunity to explain the 1996 bombing in Atlanta to younger readers who may not be familiar. The story goes like this: Richard Jewell was a police officer, but on this day he was working for a private security firm. He discovered the bomb. He alerted the police. He personally escorted people to safety. There’s no telling how many lives he saved. Two were killed. When the police were investigating, they naturally had to consider him a suspect like they would consider anyone in his position a a suspect. However, it somehow leaked that the FBI were investigating him. It was routine, but that wasn’t noted in the media reports, which indicted this guy immediately although no official charges were brought. His name remains synonymous with the incident to this day.
MEANWHILE, the actual bomber, Eric Rudolph, a right-wing white-nationalist, Christian fundamentalist who ranted about hating abortion and homosexuals and socialism and even John Lennon, would go on to murder many more, bombing two abortion clinics and a lesbian bar. He’s been lauded as a hero in the Christian terror/anti-abortion movement. He’s serving 4 consecutive life sentences.
Richard Jewell was honored by the city of Atlanta in 2006, a year after Rudolph plead guilty. Jewell died the next year of heart disease at age 44.
