Godbags
Continuing the conversation on Islam
A couple of weeks ago I posted this link to Apostate’s compelling essay, Why Honor Killings Are A Religious Issue. In light of the New Yorker discussion of the extent to which Islamophobia is racist, sassysenora posed the following question: i agree completely that attacks on Muslims are more than simple racial bigotry. the bigotry [...]
A post you need to read (and that has nothing to do with Hillary or Obama)
From Apostate: Why Honor Killings Are A Religious Issue. I’ve been a feminist all my life, and the plight of women under Islam has long been a focus of my involvement. I just want to say here that I underline and endorse and recommend every line of Apostate’s post. To my mind one of the [...]
Here’s an idea: let’s stop calling it “faith”
The blogosphere is picking up on a story that started coming in over the wires last week: religious vigilantes in Basra have murdered at least 40 women in the past year for various infractions of Islamic law. Typically the victim’s body is mutilated and dumped with a note pinned to it explaining whatever monumental death-worthy [...]
The teddy bear of doom
The Satanic plush toy and its evil paymaster. Goddamnit. By now you’ve probably heard about Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher in Sudan who’s facing up to 40 lashes for allowing her class of 7-year-olds to name a teddy bear Mohammed. I’ve been hoping this idiocy would evaporate quickly and Ms. Gibbons would be released, but [...]
Do you know that Jesus loves you?
Well, do ya, punk? via Coturnix.
Larry Craig should have thought of this
The Vatican has suspended a senior official who was caught on videotape propositioning a young man. Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, a capo ufficio, or section head, at the Vatican ministry responsible for the clergy, insisted yesterday he was not gay. He said he had posed as a homosexual to research a plot by satanists. Every time [...]
A Catholic columnist answers the jail-time question
Matt Abbott in Catholic Online: That said, I do believe, in some cases, the abortion-seeking woman is indeed the perpetrator. She knows very well what she’s doing. She’s not coerced by anyone. Perhaps she’s even going against the wishes of her loved ones. This is the woman who should be treated as a criminal – [...]
The Power of Misdirection, or what Sai Baba has to do with an ESP test
I’ve been reading about Sai Baba, an Indian conjuror who has spent the past 60-some years persuading people that he is God Incarnate. He does this, first of all, by saying he’s God Incarnate, which right there is a startlingly effective technique, as the global history of religion amply demonstrates. But his second trick is [...]
Christian Cat Fud
If you know anything at all about rapture Christians, you probably know that they want all the Jews to return to Israel so the End Times will come, when Jeebus will rapture up the Christians and then slaughter the Jews. This story is old, but I just now came across it. It’s about a couple [...]
The Joshua Project: Bringing God’s message of male supremacy to every corner of the globe
A Qiang woman. Jeebus wants to turn that smile upside down! The goose-stepping Christofascists are still at it. In a world where women are struggling for basic human rights, in a world where the few remaining matrilineal societies are fighting a rearguard action to maintain their values, what are the Christian missionaries doing? You guessed [...]
