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A Chaplain and an Atheist Go to War - Wall Street JournalSANGIN, Afghanistan—They say there are no atheists in foxholes. There's one on the front lines here, though, and the chaplain isn't thrilled about it. Navy Chaplain Terry Moran is steeped in the Bible ...
3 September 2010 | 10:22 pm
Ann Coulter calls Obama an atheist - RIGHTPUNDITS.COM... defend him from this absurd accusation ... an atheist on her blog at Townhall.com. She goes on to address Obama’s membership for 20 years in the Trinity United Church run by the flamboyant Jeremiah Wright.
2 September 2010 | 6:55 pm
Atheist doctors hasten patient deaths - Financial ExpressUpdated: Friday, Aug 27, 2010 at 0850 hrs IST London: Doctors who are atheist or agnostic are twice as likely to make decisions that could end the lives of their terminally ill patients, compared to doctors who are very ...
27 August 2010 | 12:04 am
Atheist doctors 'more likely to hasten death' - UtvTerminally-ill patients would be well advised to find out the religious beliefs of their doctor, according to research showing the effect of faith on a doctor's willingness to make decisions that could hasten death ...
26 August 2010 | 12:44 pm
An Atheist Running for Congress - DAILY KOSArticle VI of the Constitution states that "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." My name is Wynne LeGrow. I am the Democratic ...
18 August 2010 | 7:13 pm
31 August 2010 | 2:14 am
I pulled this title directly from a post at Rightly Concerned, a blog published by the American Fundie Association. I’m so glad there is an organization that officially decrees what religion people are allowed to be.
I wonder if there is an application form I have to fill out? Maybe it’s like Candid Camera. All I have to do is go about my normal day, and sometime, somewhere, when I least expect it, Alan Fundie jumps out and says “Smile! You’re a Muslim!”
The article is written by some guy named Bryan Fischer. Let’s have a look:
Someone who calls himself a “Christian” must, at a bare minimum, have some allegiance to the teachings of Christ.
I agree completely. For example, let’s consider the matter of medical waste. What if that waste could be used to find cures for painful, debilitating, or terminal diseases? It would be immoral to insist on throwing that material away, wouldn’t it? Somebody who advocated allowing millions of people to suffer instead of trying to cure their affliction could not possibly be a Christian.
I just knocked the ground out from under Bryan Fischer. The rest of his article is completely discredited on this fact alone. Let’s skim through the rest of it, though, just to see what his point was.
He said something, in his own autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, that makes it impossible for us to think of him as a Christian. He may call himself one, but just because I call myself a 1963 Jaguar XKE doesn’t make me a car.
Or just because you call yourself intelligent…
In a telling excerpt from his memoir, he writes about being asked by his daughter a question regarding what happens when we die.
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Here, in our pseudo-Christian president’s own words, is his answer to the question of the ages: “I wondered whether I should have told her the truth, that I wasn’t sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure of where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang.”
OK, Fischer, what’s your problem with that answer?
This is an answer that no Christian could possibly give.
Because it’s honest?
It’s an answer that could only be given by someone who does not believe in Christ, his mission, and his teaching. It’s an answer an agnostic could give, an answer an atheist could give, or an answer a spiritual inquirer could give.
Actually, atheists don’t believe in souls, so no, they couldn’t give that answer either. If Christians and atheists are incapable of giving that answer, then Christians and atheists must believe the same thing. Atheists don’t believe in God, so ergo, ipso facto, Q.E.D., Christians don’t believe in God!
It’s even an answer a Muslim could give since a Muslim can’t know he’s going to paradise unless he blows up some infidels.
Likewise, some Christians can’t know unless they shoot an abortion doctor.
Now we can’t be sure exactly what Mr. Obama meant when he confessed ignorance regarding “what existed before the Big Bang,” but the Scripture leaves no doubt on that score: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”(Genesis 1:1).
That same book tells us that the Earth is flat and that day and night existed before the sun was created. Are you sure you want to be using that as a reference?
Is President Obama a Christian? Nope.
If Bryan Fischer is a typical member of that club, I can only hope that Obama isn’t a Christian.
26 August 2010 | 11:17 amI’ve been blogging about fundies for over four years. Haven’t I grown bored of it yet?
Why, no. Just when I think I’ve seen all the weirdness the fundies can create, something like this comes along.
What’s truly inexplicable is comments for this video have been turned off. I wonder why that could be?
22 August 2010 | 1:13 pmI’ve been sitting on this video for a while. I wanted to write more about the lunatic behind it, but I just don’t have the time these days. If you go to the video’s YouTube page and follow some of the links, you’ll see what I mean.
So, umm, I guess by drinking Pepsi we’re helping to bring on Armageddon?
13 August 2010 | 3:38 am
I’m not an expert on economics, but I think I know enough about it to be able to come to reasonably-informed opinions on the issues.
I’ve been warning about the national debt to anybody who would listen since the late ’70s. You can’t run on deficit spending forever, yet that’s what we we’ve been doing.
That course was heading us to eventual disaster, but then GW Bush was installed as president by the Supreme Court and pretty much sealed our fate. Bush massively ratcheted up the already obscenely high national debt. His cronies (e.g., Haliburton, Blackwater, Goldman Sachs) looted the public treasury. He got us into two protracted, unfunded wars. His policies destroyed our manufacturing base, shipped many of our jobs overseas, and damaged the economy in numerous other ways.
Given our massive debt, enormous budget deficits, gargantuan military, and runaway spending that neither party is willing to curtail, it looks to me that a crash is inevitable. I hope I’m wrong. I tend to be a fatalist about life in general, so that might be coloring my assessment of things.
David Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s former budget director, is making the rounds these days warning of the bleak days ahead. He wrote an op-ed at the New York Times titled “Four Deformations of the Apocalypse”. Here are some excerpts of what he says:
[T]he new policy doctrines have caused four great deformations of the national economy, and modern Republicans have turned a blind eye to each one.
The first of these started when the Nixon administration defaulted on American obligations under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement to balance our accounts with the world. Now, since we have lived beyond our means as a nation for nearly 40 years, our cumulative current-account deficit — the combined shortfall on our trade in goods, services and income — has reached nearly $8 trillion. That’s borrowed prosperity on an epic scale.
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When the dollar was tied to fixed exchange rates, politicians were willing to administer the needed castor oil, because the alternative was to make up for the trade shortfall by paying out reserves, and this would cause immediate economic pain — from high interest rates, for example. But now there is no discipline, only global monetary chaos as foreign central banks run their own printing presses at ever faster speeds to sop up the tidal wave of dollars coming from the Federal Reserve.
The second unhappy change in the American economy has been the extraordinary growth of our public debt.… This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party’s embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don’t matter if they result from tax cuts.
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The third ominous change in the American economy has been the vast, unproductive expansion of our financial sector. Here, Republicans have been oblivious to the grave danger of flooding financial markets with freely printed money and, at the same time, removing traditional restrictions on leverage and speculation.
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The fourth destructive change has been the hollowing out of the larger American economy. Having lived beyond our means for decades by borrowing heavily from abroad, we have steadily sent jobs and production offshore.
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The day of national reckoning has arrived.… [I]t’s a pity that the modern Republican Party offers the American people an irrelevant platform of recycled Keynesianism when the old approach — balanced budgets, sound money and financial discipline — is needed more than ever.
Stockman was also interviewed on All Things Considered recently. I’ll try to embed the interview below.
Bottom line: We’re undertaxed and overspent and have been so for decades.
3 September 2010 | 6:18 pm
I found this appearance of His Noodliness on a bottle of Chilean wine. Once again our lord blesses us with his infinite wisdom: Pasta goes great with white wine!
-Georg
2 September 2010 | 3:36 am
FSM has appeared in the parking structure at my work. He is apparently a vengeful god, as he is seen hurling one of his meatballs.
-Whistler
30 August 2010 | 11:01 amA church in North Carolina has been receiving a lot of attention over a "Virgin Mary" sighting. In quotes, because it’s clearly the FSM. Take a look:
Here’s an article about it. I particularly liked the quotes…
This was, to me, I feel like, an answer to prayer. I think (God) sent us a miracle.
Feel free to leave comments and set them straight.
26 August 2010 | 8:09 pmHeath Carter of Burnt Wood Studio in Adelaide made this beautiful bronze FSM ring:
Beautiful, and practical, I have to say. Amazing work, Heath.
25 August 2010 | 9:25 am
Zach’s drawing, I love it.
I want to see the FSM being drained in a Colander. Anyone?
