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How Much Money Could the Department of Defense Save if it Stopped Trying to Save Souls?
. . . [G]iven all the current brouhaha over what should be cut from the federal budget, people might be interested to see some of examples of how the DoD is spending countless millions of taxpayer dollars every year to Christianize the military . . . [T]he rampant promotion of evangelical Christianity under the guise of Spiritual Fitness is going on in all branches of the military . . . Evangelizing the children of service members is one of the largest areas of spending . . . One of the reasons given by Cadence for the success of its “Strategic Ministry” is: “Deployment and possibly deadly combat are ever-present possibilities. They are shaken. Shaken people are usually more ready to hear about God than those who are at ease, making them more responsive to the gospel.” Read more . . .
PZ Myers, “Rats Emboldened by Rick Perry”
So Bryan Fischer came out swinging like a lunkhead, and now Ann Coulter scurries out to try and get in a sucker punch. Neither are very effective. Read more . . .
Letter: Get Government Out of Religion
. . . No one wants to stop people from praying to whichever God they choose whenever they choose. The complaint arises when government sponsors a particular religion and therefore imposes it on those who reject it. Read more . . .
Catholic Terrorist Arrested in Spain
A Mexican student was arrested in Madrid on Tuesday after posting his intention to attack anti-papal protestors with toxic gases, including sarin, on the internet . . . A staunch Catholic, the man said that he could not allow protests against the pope . . . So it’s secularists and atheists who are “militant” and “fundamentalist,” but they are the ones targeted for terrorist attacks and police brutality. You don’t see any atheists trying to launch poison gas attacks on Catholic events. You don’t see atheist police bashing Catholic heads at World Youth Day.
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Making Creationism Extinct: New Film Explores Dangers Of Anti-Evolutionism
Americans United opposes creationism in public school science classes because it is based on a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible . . . A new documentary with the provocative title “No Dinosaurs in Heaven” explores these issues . . . ‘No Dinosaurs in Heaven’ intelligently argues that public education must steadfastly resist the encroachment of religion in the form of creationism, and that science literacy is essential to a healthy democracy.” Read more . . .
A Spiritually Transformed Military with Ambassadors for Christ in Uniform
Throughout the U.S. military, with chapters on virtually every military installation worldwide, lurks an organization of over 15,500 fundamentalist Christian military officers who think their real duty is not to protect and defend the Constitution, but to raise up “a spiritually transformed military, with ambassadors for Christ in uniform, empowered by the Holy Spirit.” These officers belong to an organization called the Officers’ Christian Fellowship (OCF), and range in rank from future officers in ROTC and at the U.S. military’s service academies to generals and admirals. Read more . . .
Robertson: “What In Heaven’s Name Is A Dominionist?”
Christian conservatives in America are not more militant than ever. Pat Robertson, a Christian minister, ran for president in 1988. Robertson was, actually, a dominionist. “There will never be world peace until God’s house and God’s people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world,” he wrote. Read more . . .
Rick Perry To Spend The Weekend With A Pseudo-Historian, A Christocrat, And God’s Sugar Daddy
David Barton is already well-known to readers of this blog – he’s the Religious Right’s favorite pseudo-historian. . . Rick Scarborough is a self-proclaimed “Christocrat . . . ” [Jim] Leininger has been called “God’s Sugar Daddy . . . ” We can now add these activists to the ever-growing list of extremist Religious Right activists with whom Rick Perry is associating himself. Read more . . .
Missouri School District Reconsiders Vonnegut Book Ban
You may recall that back on July 25, board members ceded to a complaint from a town resident (who didn’t even have children in the district!) that Vonnegut’s book and a second volume, Twenty Boy Summerby Sarah Ockler, were contrary to the Bible’s teaching and should be removed . . . Perhaps now the board will see that making decisions based on one resident’s interpretation of the Bible is simply not the way a public school should handle things. Read more . . .
Always Question Authority 