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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 . . .
9/11 Memorial Service to be Secular, Bloomberg Announces
Mayor Bloomberg has made a wise choice in keeping this government-sponsored event secular. A time of healing is not enhanced by introducing division . . . This isn’t new, it’s a continuation of a multi-year policy of focusing the memorial on the families, not on providing a soapbox for clergy to pontificate . They each already have a place where they can do that . . . [Tea Party Nation] want[s] to destroy America and turn it into a Christian theocracy, populated only by Christians — you know, “real” Americans. Read more . . .
Quote: Paula Kirby
Paula Kirby, a former Christian, is a writer, consultant and project manager,
specializing in freethinking and secular organizations. She lives in Scotland.
Religion claims to set its followers free, while all the time holding them in thrall and insisting they kiss the hand of their jailer. There can be no true freedom so long as religion still keeps the human mind in shackles.
Evolution Threatens Christianity
Paula Kirby, a former Christian, is a writer, consultant and project manager,
specializing in freethinking and secular organizations. She lives in Scotland.
So-called “reality TV” has done the world a grave disservice. I don’t just mean because the vast majority of such programs are mind-numbingly tedious, but because they have given people the idea that reality is something that can be decided by popular vote . . . In the real world, facts are stubborn beasts. They are supremely unmoved by whether we like them or not . . . And it is the same with evolution. Evolution is a simple fact. Read more . . .
Church Billboard Actually Contains an Atheistic Message
Not only are they telling us that god doesn’t exist (in a large font, no less), they’re also telling us to be skeptical of what we hear!
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Anti-Gay Groups Rally To Defend Anti-Gay ‘Charity’ Group
A campaign spearheaded by LGBT rights and women’s rights groups Change.org and AllOut.org, encouraging companies to drop their ties to the Christian Give Back Group (formerly the Christian Values Network), unsurprisingly has the Religious Right up in arms. The CGBG was founded by Stephen Baldwin (Alec Baldwin’s brother) and Michael Lohan (Lindsay Lohan’s father), with Mike Huckabee acting as its spokesman. Read more . . .
