Day: January 9, 2014

The Devil Made Them Do It!

Yep, I am staying on the religion thingy for today….enjoy for it may be a long time before I do any other posts on the subject…..

As I have said many times I do not care what a person believes or chooses to worship……that is a decision between the person and their God or lack there of……there are batshit crazies in all religions….I mean look at the “Christina” group Westboro Baptist Church….worthless individuals from the get go…..and then there are those crazies that handle snakes to prove their devotion…sorry but if God demands that he can kiss my butt…..basically there are crazies and SOBs in every religion.  I read an interesting piece the other day……now I gotta hear what my readers think of this situation…..

A Ten Commandments monument has stood outside Oklahoma’s Capitol building since 2012, and a New York-based group would like to see it joined by another statue, so that “people of all ages may sit on the lap of Satan.” That’s right: The Satanic Temple yesterday formally submitted its application to the panel that oversees the Capitol grounds, and that application includes an artist’s rendering, reports the AP. The group is proposing a 7-foot statue of Baphomet, a horned goat-headed figure sitting on a pentagram-adorned throne with two smiling children next to him, which it believes will “serve as a beacon calling for compassion and empathy among all living creatures,” Raw Story reports. “By accepting our offer, the good people of Oklahoma City will have the opportunity to show that they espouse the basic freedoms spelled out in the Constitution,” the crowdfunding campaign reads. So could the statue—which doubles as a chair—really happen? Oklahoma late last month enacted a temporary ban on new monuments outside the Capitol building, but a rep for the group maintains it entered its submission before the ban was filed, so it should still count, reports the Verge. As for funding, more than $17,000 has been raised for the project on Indiegogo as of this writing, with 11 days left to reach the group’s $20,000 goal. Oklahoma’s is not the first Ten Commandments monument to inspire protest.

I know what the gut reaction from the faithful will be…it is all too predictable….but if you will think about it….let me have your reaction to the situation, please.

The Dangers of Religious Instruction in Public Schools | Religion & Politics

Religion is one of those subjects that it does not pay to debate…..because too many can not look at it from a neutral position…..

As far as schools…..I am against it if it is mandatory…..that becomes indoctrination…..but since this is an emotional issue few see it that way….and that is their goal.

The Dangers of Religious Instruction in Public Schools | Religion & Politics.

Is That An Oxymoron?

Continuing my day of religious stuff…..I read one article that made me ask the typical….WTF?

Let me give you a short synopsis before I go into my rant……

Atheist-church leaders in New York have bitterly broken away from their central church in London, creating what may be the first schism in modern organized atheism, CNN reports. Late last year, Lee Moore and two other members of The Sunday Assembly’s franchise in New York broke off and created the Godless Revival. Moore alleges that Sanderson Jones, co-founder of The Sunday Assembly in London, wanted the New York group to “boycott the word atheism” and have no “speakers from the atheist community.” Jones also wanted members to meet in a church-like setting rather than a Manhattan dive bar. Jones called the schism “very sad,” but said he hoped “there will soon be communities for every different type of atheist, agnostic and humanist.” The breakup highlights just how diverse atheist churches are, from warm-and-fuzzy groups that experience wonderment at the universe to hardcore atheists who gather in a bar. The Assembly’s Los Angeles chapter has moved toward so-called “big tent” atheism, to include various humanists and freethinkers—and why not? A Pew poll says 20% of Americans have no religious affiliation but don’t consider themselves atheists. So does this divisiveness mean it’s better to keep atheist churches local and unorganized? “Actually,” says Moore, “we do have expansion aims.”

Now you read it and you saw what I saw…an Atheist Church….go back….an atheist church?  Screw the argument they are having within it….it is an ATHEIST CHURCH!

Did I miss something in my religious indoctrination?

Atheist?  Atheism is not a belief system nor is it a religion. While there are some religions that are atheistic (certain sects of Buddhism, for example), that does not mean that atheism is a religion. Two commonly used retorts to the nonsense that atheism is a religion are: 1) If atheism is a religion then bald is a hair color, and 2) If atheism is a religion then health is a disease. A new one introduced in 2012 by Bill Maher is, “If atheism is a religion, then abstinence is a sexual position.”

I’m still working on the church part………I am by NO means an expert on the subject of atheism…..but it does not seem to fit in the same sentence…..Atheist Church…..I am open to an explanation if someone has a good one……let it fly!

It still fits in there with ‘military intelligence’, ‘jumbo shrimp’ and ‘the immortal dead’……stil,l sounds like an oxymoron.

Birth Control In The Biblical Sense

I will break protocol today and post on religion….I do not debate or post on religion because it is an emotional issue that people can only think with their heart…..am I religious?  I guess…I have my beliefs and they are just that….MY BELIEFS!  And you have yours and personally I do not care what you believe.

In recent days I have read a couple of articles dealing with religion that I thought worthy of my attention and think that my readers may appreciate them….

There is a massive debate, if we can call it that, going on in this country about abortion and birth control….some say that birth control is immoral and we know what they say about abortions now don’t we?

It seems that there is a reference in the Bible on birth control….or shall we call it contraception?

(Newser) – If there’s one thing we’ve learned from all the controversy surrounding ObamaCare, it’s that the Bible is against birth control—right? Actually, not so much, writes Elissa Strauss in Salon. In truth, the Bible makes “both direct references and thinly veiled allusions to women using contraception.” Consider Esther, who became queen after marrying the Persian King Ahasuerus and ended up saving the Jews from a plot to have them killed. She, and all of the king’s potential wives, were required to anoint themselves with myrrh oil for a year. That’s a long time if it was just being used as a beauty treatment, but it was also used as an abortifacient and contraceptive at the time, suggesting its use may have “allowed Esther, who wielded power through her beauty and ability to seduce, to take control of her reproductive system.”

Similarly, the “long, sexy, romantic poem” contained in the Song of Songs makes many references to gardens, which some have argued could be a reference to myrrh and other plants that were used as contraceptives. It certainly seems the couple in the song is having sex for enjoyment, rather than to “be fruitful and multiply,” Strauss points out. Then there’s the ritual described in Numbers, in which a man is allowed to administer an abortifacient concoction to his wife if he suspects she’s been unfaithful. Even the story of Onan, who was punished for “spilling his seed on the ground,” is misinterpreted—God was angry he didn’t carry out his duty to his brother’s widow, not that he wasted his sperm, according to many biblical commentators. Strauss’ full column is worth a read.

Okay, if one is the religious sort I amy sure this will get their attention and invoke their ire…..