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In the name of love and compassion, it’s amazing the kind of damage religious parents can do to an innocent child.
When the underlying cruelty is brought to light, it’s really very difficult to see how the Bible can be used as a moral compass by anyone.
Get off our country.
Republican Sharron Angle says her campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada is “a calling” from God and that her faith is helping her endure a fiercely competitive race in which Democrats have depicted her as a conservative extremist.
“When you have God in your life … he directs your path,” Angle told the Christian Broadcasting Network in an interview posted on its website Wednesday.
Asked why she entered the race, Angle said “the reason is a calling.”
“When God calls you he also equips you and He doesn’t just say, ‘Well today you’re going to run against Harry Reid,’” the tea party favorite said.
In the Bible “Moses has his preparatory time. Paul had his preparatory time. Even Jesus had his preparatory time,” the former legislator said, citing her years in public office as her preparation for the race.
“God knew all of this in advance,” Angle added. “I don’t know what’s coming up tomorrow but I do know that He is there. He saw it and that He has provided a way of escape and a way for me to endure.”
In a wide-ranging interview, Angle said her media appearances are guided by the need to raise money for her campaign and she defended an overhaul of her campaign website in which many of her earlier positions on Social Security and other issues were rewritten, condensed or deleted.
Angle, a Southern Baptist, has called herself a faith-based politician who prays daily. Among her positions, she opposes abortion in all circumstances, including rape and incest.
More at RGJ.com. Excuse me while I go vomit.
"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."
— Robert Green Ingersoll
How is this at all unlike eating a chocolate electric chair or torture table?
Check out Sam Harris and Michael Shermer as they unfathomably put up with Deepak Chopra’s nonsense…
Penny Arcade! - The God Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob
Heck, I don’t even need a video game to do that.
(via Atheist Media Blog)
Oh boy, Fox News. A commenter on Atheist Media Blog makes a fun observation in noting that Fox’s analysis is more of a “How can we make this illegal?” stance than a report on its own.
I realize there’s opposition on both sides to Smut for Smut. Even atheists argue against the idea both from feminist and humanist standpoints, in opposition to the objectification of women that pornography promotes.
Personally, I’m a fan of Smut for Smut. I see very few ways to garnish this much attention to the immoral (by today’s societal standards) items in the bible without being at least mildly offensive. Regardless of what Fox News presents from the religious side, the campaign has people talking, which is exactly what it was intended to do.
"Children are your responsibility, not your personal sheet of blank paper. They aren’t there for you to scribble on, crumple up, and throw away if you don’t like them. Isn’t it weird how the religious wackjobs can howl about how a fetus is a human being that must be granted the privilege of existence, but once it pops out, it reverts to being a possession, a thing that mommy and daddy can do with as they please?"
— PZ Myers, Pharyngula, Jan. 8, 2010
