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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: religion
Looks Like All “Compassionate” Conservatives “Do” God
Tony Blair former Labour Prime Minister of the UK, – he who famously got on with Bill Clinton and even more infamously got on with George Bush – was a Labour Prime Minister. Under the influence of his chief political … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Non-Christians Can Get Out
Via JoeMyGod: on Sunday night, Rick Santorum was introduced at an event in Louisiana by Baptist pastor Dennis Terry, who wants all the non-Christians to “get out” of the United States. Presumably, that would mean putting them all in concentration … Continue reading
What Religious Freedom Is Not
Many moons ago, when I “were a lass” (as they say in the North of England from whence a great many of my ancestors came), I learned that our country was founded on the basis of religious freedom. I had … Continue reading
Politics and Religion Are Not Supposed to Mix
Let me repeat that title: Politics and religion are not supposed to mix. That’s the basis on which our country was founded. Quite simply, that’s what separation of Church and State is all about. In the UK, where I live, … Continue reading
Greydon Square, “Myth”
Born Eddie Collins, Greydon Square is an openly-atheist hip hop artist and Iraq veteran. I’ve enjoyed his jams over the years, as few rappers are willing to riff on intellectual subjects like Pascal’s Wager. With a new album coming out … Continue reading
The Cognitive God of Identity
Forty studies in twenty countries find that religion is a universal phenomenon: This project does not set out to prove god or gods exist. Just because we find it easier to think in a particular way does not mean that … Continue reading
Atheist Affirmations: Time to Grow Up
From Glen Corvus Good evening, faithful! I hope the Lord’s Day finds you happy, well-fed and blissfully ignorant of the horrible realities that currently plague our blessed world. For in these troubling times, it has never been more important for … Continue reading
Society Is Like A Shark…
By Marc Mitchell There’s an old joke. Two elderly ladies are at a religious service in the Catskills. And one of them says to the other, “You know, the sermon here is so terrible.” And the other says, “I know. … Continue reading
Debaters Of The Lost Causes
Right wing religious politics have damaged the Christian brand with a new generation. Emphasis mine: 65 percent of 1,200 surveyed rarely or never pray with others, and almost 38 percent never pray by themselves; 65 percent of those surveyed said … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Jesus Burns
By Captain Cool Aid So Touchdown Jesus, also known as Butter Jesus, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Any fundies out there want to explain how this isn’t the wrath of God? The bible and the ten … Continue reading
Morning Notice
Sarkozy’s right-wing government tried immigrant hysteria as a foundation for local elections. It’s not working on the French: Polls showed that a majority of people initially supported having the discussion about national identity. But those numbers quickly reversed themselves as … Continue reading
