Stephan A. Hoeller, scholar of gnosticism, lectures on Atheism as perceived from a Gnostic point of view.
GNOSTICISM: “The Battle About God: The Gnostic Perspective on Modern Atheism” / The Modern Hermeticist / Stephan A. Hoeller ☮
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Category Archives: Antitheism
CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION COMPLEX: “Righteous Defiance in Mississippi” / VICE News ☮
A Mississippi law that protects individuals, businesses, and even government employees who refuse to provide services for gay weddings will go into effect July 1.
The controversial legislation is one example of a spate of so-called “Religious Freedom” laws that carve out legal protections for people who object to gay marriage on religious grounds. The Mississippi law covers a range of professions who don’t want to provide their services to members of the LGBT community, from therapists, to adoption services, and wedding DJs.
Critics of the law say it discriminates against an LGBT minority in an overwhelmingly Christian state. But supporters argue the law is necessary to protect Christians from a rising tide of anti-Christian discrimination and a growing cultural hostility across the United States to personal religious beliefs.
GNOSTICISM: “Secret Quest: The Path of the Christian Gnostics / Wisdom of the Gnostic Gospels” ☮
THEOCRATIC FASCISM: “The Religious Right” / Full Frontal With Samantha Bee ☮
Full Frontal goes deep inside the weirdest anti-abortion art film you’ve never seen.
CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “Transgender Rights Will Lead to ‘Civil War'” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
“Trunews” host Rick Wiles lit into the Obama administration (or, as he calls it, “the Command Center of the Obama homosexual revolution”) on Monday over its letter on facility access for transgender students in public schools.
CHRISTIAN IGNORAMOUS: “Creationist Ken Ham Attacks the ‘Blind Faith’ of Atheists” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
If you’ve been following the career of creationist guru Ken Ham, you know that he likes to engage in a lot of projection. In particular, he likes to claim that people who look at the world through the lens of science and empiricism are the real religious fanatics who can’t handle the truth that people used to ride around on dinosaurs when God created the Earth 6,000 years ago.
CHRISTIAN MALEVOLENCE: “Man Attempts Suicide After ‘Faith-Based’ Program Replaces Meds With Prayer” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Alex Jacobsen, 26, was suffering from mental exhaustion and anxiety. He hadn’t slept for days despite being in a faith-based treatment program. He felt hopeless and when he spotted a box knife he grabbed it and held it against his neck pressing harder as it cut through his skin.
HYPOCRITIC CHRISTIAN PEDOPHILIA PROJECTION: “Anti-Gay Pastor Arrested for Child Porn” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Katie Halper, and Jimmy Dore ☮
An anti-gay pastor in Arkansas is in a lot of trouble. He has been arrested on 70 counts of child porn.
“Meet Dave Reynolds. He’s the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing or viewing child pornography.
He’s also vehemently anti-gay.
The 40-year-old pastor, who has preached that marriage is between a man and a woman and that all homosexual activity is a sin, was arrested this week after police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a social media account in Sherwood was storing pages and pages (and pages and pages) of images of kiddy porn.
The account allegedly belonged to Reynolds.
In March, Reynolds informed elders at Cornerstone Bible Fellowship that he was under investigation for child porn possession. When they asked if he had engaged in viewing the material, Reynolds told them he had “not knowingly done so.”
BIGOTED CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE: “Obama’s Two Faces on ‘Religious Liberty'” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
The Obama administration has roundly criticized states such as North Carolina and Mississippi for passing laws that allow discrimination in the name of religious freedom. But at the same time, the administration has left in place a 2007 memo from the Bush White House that allows religious charities with federal contracts to discriminate in hiring for federally funded programs.
ABRAHAMIC RELIGION: “Islamophobic” / DarkMatter2525
Fear of Islam is not irrational. Fear of some Muslims can be irrational, of course, but as a religion, ideology, and political system, Islam can be horrific and extremely oppressive and thus warrants fear and resistance.
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