Tag Archives: Christianity

Fox News reporter Todd Starnes knows fucking well that ZERO states have criminal penalties for violating public accommodation laws. At most, a company that refuses gay customers faces a fine and ultimately the loss of its business license should it refuse to pay that fine. And that’s just in the parts of the country that include sexual orientation in public …

Pink News reports: Minister for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo, made the comments in an interview today, following the announcement that President Yoweri Museveni would sign the law earlier this week. “We are tolerant. That’s what we are saying: we are not slaughtering them,” he said in the video posted to the Independent’s website. Of the estimated half a million …

Continuing his crackdown on all civil liberties, today Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill that makes it a criminal offense to possess pornography and for women to dress in a manner that “excites sexual cravings” in men. The signing, which was was announced by Minister for Ethics & Integrity Simon Lokodo [photo], effectively means that most foreign television shows …

Episode 14 in a monthly series.

Over at Alternet, Richard Schiffman reminds us of a project to re-translate the bible that is now in its fourth year. Liberal bias in the media pales in comparison to what you’ll find in your standard-issue Bibles, according to Conservapedia.com, a kind of Wikipedia for the religious right. The King James Bible, not to mention more recent translations like the …

Because circumcision. Or something. This is the guy who two weeks ago declared that the Torah commands that all homosexuals be stoned to death.

Episode 13 in a monthly series.

Things are so bad for the people of North Korea that the usually hyper-secretive government recently openly begged for food assistance from Mongolia. There are even multiple reports about cannibalism.  Therefore a group of American evangelicals have been using hydrogen balloons to float food parcels over the border. Oh, wait. I lost my mind for second there. They’re floating BIBLES …

Whoa.

Eleventh in a monthly series.

The “Jesus never existed” folks might find this interesting. Atwill asserts that Christianity did not really begin as a religion, but a sophisticated government project, a kind of propaganda exercise used to pacify the subjects of the Roman Empire. “Jewish sects in Palestine at the time, who were waiting for a prophesied warrior Messiah, were a constant source of violent …

A hook-up website for Christian swingers launched last month and the outrage is in full, uh, swing on right wing sites. From Charisma: You can find adulterous, immoral hookups on ChristianSwingers.com for free, but if you want to actually hook up, you’ll have to pay this digital pimp a fee—and that’s not where the depravity ends. The site also arranges …

Ninth in a monthly series.

The American Jesus writes: When my friend first showed me the website for The Great Cross Alliance I thought it was a parody. I mean, seriously, if someone showed you this picture and said a 3,000 ft long, nearly 2,000 ft wide, and almost 200 ft high cross was going to be built in the middle of the Nevada desert …

In spite of the above overall result of a just-released study, Christian sites are expressing their usual concerns over this: In Europe, Latin America, and Northern America Christianity is declining as a percentage of the population. Latin American Christians, however, represent an increasing share of the global Christian population, up from 22.0% in 1970 to 23.5% by 2020, and Evangelical …

Seventh in a monthly series.

Public Policy Polling reports: The only high profile Republican initiative we polled that has much traction with voters is the one to make Christianity the official state religion. 42% support that to 45% who are opposed and while much of that support is because a majority of Republicans favor it (53/33) it actually has 41% support from Democrats too, much …

Therefore if the nation accepts same-sex marriage, “judgement will come” and God will totally smite the fuck out of everybody, not just them there hummersheckshuls.

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