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BRITISH POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “This isn’t Game of Thrones!” / Jonathan Pie ☮
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Category Archives: Religion
WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN HYPOCRICY: “Trans Porn is Most Popular in Anti-Trans States” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
In April, Mic reported on a surprising (but really not that surprising) trend: In the nation’s most homophobic states, gay porn tends to be a hit. Now, a Broadly exclusive echoes what must be a similarly furtive masturbatory pattern in those parts of the country most actively opposed to equal rights for transgender individuals: Anti-trans states just love trans porn — go figure.
CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION COMPLEX: “The American Christian Victim Complex” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Many, many Christians believe they are subject to religious discrimination in the United States. A new report from the Public Religion Research Institute and Brookings offers evidence: Almost half of Americans say discrimination against Christians is as big of a problem as discrimination against other groups, including blacks and minorities. Three-quarters of Republicans and Trump supporters said this, and so did nearly eight out of 10 white evangelical Protestants. Of the latter group, six in 10 believe that although America once was a Christian nation, it is no longer—a huge jump from 2012.
RATIONALITY: “Lawrence Krauss vs. Islamic Apologist – ‘Islam is Nonsense!'” / Lawrence Krauss ☮
CHRISTIAN IDIOCY: “Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty Proves Jesus is Gawd” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
The Western Conservative Summit is the gift that keeps on giving, if by “gift” you mean open running sores of derp.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES: “What is Ritual?” / ReligionForBreakfast / Andrew Henry ☮
“Ritual.” We all think we know what it means…right? Ritual, though, is a lot more complicated than you think.
WORLD RELIGION – CHRISTIANITY: “Jesus was a Buddhist Monk” / BBC Documentary / National Buddhist Authority Srilanka ☮
CATHOLIC BIGOTRY: “Catholic League President Compares Gay Marriage to Orlando Terrorist” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Catholic League President Bill Donohue, who has been a crusader against LGBT rights, insisted on Tuesday that Pope Francis’ call for Christians to apologize to gay people did not apply to him.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: “California City Council Will No Longer Consider Giving $2.5 Million Grant to Catholic High School” / Friendly Atheist / Hemant Mehta☮
If that sounds like a complete violation of church/state separation, you’d be correct. Mater Dei High School can pay for its own renovations; the taxpayers shouldn’t be funding them.
And that’s what the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Legal Fellow Ryan Jayne said in a letter to the Council a couple of weeks ago.
We are writing to object to the proposed grant to Mater Dei because distributing public money to a private religious school violates both the Federal Constitution and the California state constitution.
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from supporting religious activities with public funds… The city of Santa Ana violates this principle when it funds the expansion of a private parochial school.
The letter worked. The City Council informed Jayne recently that the agenda item to give the money to the Catholic school has been removed from consideration.
FFRF is elated at the city’s about-face.
“We were dismayed that Santa Ana was possibly going to channel millions of taxpayer dollars to a sectarian religious entity,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “We’re glad that it saw the light.”
That’s $2.5 million that the city can now use for public institutions, just as it should be.
h/t: Friendly Atheist
DEEP-SEATED CATHOLIC BIGOTRY: “Bill Donohue Refuses to Apologize to LGBT People” ☮
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