This Is Priceless

Gee, I Wonder What Religion This Is

A 49-year-old was killed by police after trying to exorcise his granddaughter.

"A bed had been pushed up against the door; the officers pushed it open a few inches and saw Marquez choking his bloodied granddaughter, who was crying in pain and gasping, Tranter said.

A bloody, naked 19-year-old woman who police later determined to be Marquez’s daughter and the girl’s mother was in the room, chanting 'something that was religious in nature,' Tranter said."

Are All Fundies Anti-Palestinian?

This interesting article in the New York Times says that there is a significant chunk of evangelicals who are in support of a Palestinian state. It says that there are lefty elements within evangelicalism that are going against what I thought was the status quo for Bible Bangers.

"In the last year and half, liberal and moderate evangelicals have initiated two other efforts that demonstrated fissures in the evangelical movement. Last year, they parted with the conservative flank by campaigning against climate change and global warming. This year, they denounced the use of torture in the fight against terrorism."

This differs from the other evangelicals who support Israel unconditionally because the Bible tells them to and because they believe that Israel's expanse into the West Bank is necessary for Christ's return. Basically they support Israel so Jesus can come back and send all the Jews who live there to hell.

It's good to know that there are alternative voices among American hardcore Christians, but they are far from the loudest voices. There are still plenty of evangelicals who say that, “Bible-believing evangelicals will scoff at that message [that a Palestinian state is a good thing]."

There are still plenty of Christians who argue that, “The Palestinian people have never owned the land of Israel, never existed as an autonomous society." Because, of course, if a community of people that has cultivated a section of land for over a thousand years is not "an autonomous society," it should have no right to live there.

More Evidence That Christian Theocrats Exist in the West

This is from Fundies Say the Darndest Things.

"The most godly version of goverment is monoacry, god never institutes a democracy, and a woman is not to have authority over a man."

Lunatic Retards 4 Brownback

In one of the Republican debates, someone asked which of the candidates did not believe in evolution. One of the guys who raised his hand was Sam Brownback. But if you think he's crazy, you should check out his supporters.

When Will People Learn?

Looks like some guy from John McCain's presidential campaign office has been up to some naughty business.

"State Rep. Bob Allen (R), a foe of LGBT rights in Florida, is charged with offering the cop $20 for oral sex in a washroom at Veteran's Memorial Park in Titusville."

As Jon Stewart once said, how many of these anti-gay guys have to get busted in gay sex scandals before people realize that they're all gay!?

Auster Knows All That Is or Is Not Possible

Crazy Larry Auster is at it again. After reading an article that speculated on what life expectancies might be fifty years from now, Auster dismisses any possibility that we would live much longer than we currently do. Why? Because we'll never have the technology? Because it isn't scientifically possible?

No, because, "a species does not create its own nature, its nature is given to it by something beyond itself, by that from which all being comes, with some species given a larger portion of being, some less. The notion that human life could be extended, not merely by a few tens of years, but by thousands of years, is a fantasy born of the rejection of transcendence, and the resulting desire to make man into his own god."

So apparently we can never control our own biology because only god can do that. I only hope Auster lives long enough to see how stupid his beliefs are.

Slippery Logic

I've never liked slippery slope arguments, and here's why:


Inevitably some lunatic will say something retarded like installing faucets for cab drivers is only a few steps away from holocaust denial.

Unhinged indeed.

Hirsi Ali, the Right's New Hero

There are no Christians who want the bible to replace the constitution in any Western society? Is she blind!?

"Democracy is evil and contrary to God's law."
-Kent Hovind, anti-evolution propagandist

"I think democracy is the greatest system on earth, but that's it, it's just on earth and ultimately designed to destroy itself, because we have to give everyone equal freedom and ultimately that's going to destroy us. A perfect world is not going to be perfect until Jesus is truly lord."
-Becky Fischer, the chick who runs the Jesus Camp

She says that Islam calls for the murder of gays and adulterers and that "all this is in the Qur'an." Horseshit. None of it is in the Qur'an. The death penalty for adulterers was added later by Umar ibn al-Khattāb, one of Muhammed's followers. According to Reza Aslan, "the stoning to death of adulterers, a punishment which has absolutely no foundation whatsoever in the Quran but which Umar justified by claiming it had originally been part of the Revelation and had somehow been left out of the authorized text." [emphasis mine]

Umar was a notorious misogynist who was even forbidden to marry the sister of one of Muhammed's wives, because of how he was known to treat women. People who believe that adultery is punishable by death according to the Quran, be they Muslims themselves or some ignorant Westerners who want to make Islam look evil, have been lied to.

For someone who was raised a Muslim, she doesn't seem to know much about Islam. It's scary to think how many Muslims have the same perception of Islam as she does.

America Only

Conservatives scoff whenever someone points out that if the US doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions or some other international agreement, then nobody else will, then they get all pissy when that's exactly what happens.

Several months ago, the US pulled out of an arms limitation agreement that was standing in their way of building their star wars missile defense program. Yesterday Russia said fine, if the US going to take the arms limitation agreement seriously, then we won't either. They were subject to an agreement that said they could only deploy so many tanks, ships, troops, etcetera, but that agreement has officially gone out the window.

According to the New York Times, "White House officials expressed immediate disappointment after the announcement from Moscow, but pledged to continue to meet with their Russian counterparts to resolve the dispute." Yes, they must have been so disappointed that the arms limitation treaties that they shit all over are no longer being taken seriously.

Christians Are Wonderful People

Leave Little Gore Alone

If you haven't heard, Al Gore's son, Al Gore III has been charged with the possession of marijuana and the fingers are wagging at him and the former Vice President. He's been in trouble for weed before, but hasn't given it up, apparently. This is the first I've heard of the kid, and although he's kinda weird looking, I feel sorry for him.

I'd have a lot more respect for the guy, however, if instead of "getting treatment" for his marijuana use (did he ever suck dick for marijuana?) he had said, "Yeah, I smoke weed. It's none of your business and it shouldn't be illegal, so fuck off."

Then he'd be my hero.

Holy Shit, I Agree with Ann Coulter

She was on Bill O'Reilly a while back and she said, "Hey, if you want to stop illegal immigration, allow them to sue for minimum wage benefits." Wow. This would really put a dent in the exploitation. Even if it didn't stop illegal immigration (it probably wouldn't stop it altogether) it would reduce the worst effects of it.