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PostPosted: 10/24/20 5:13 am • # 151 
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Franklin Graham Loses It After Pope Francis Backs Same-Sex Civil Unions Because Then Jesus Died ‘For Nothing’

Franklin Graham was furious after Pope Francis “legally” called for civil union laws to protect same-sex couples.

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PostPosted: 10/25/20 8:38 am • # 152 
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[b]40% of Americans Believe in Creationism
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Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years. However, more Americans continue to think that ...

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PostPosted: 10/27/20 12:08 pm • # 153 
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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.” ~ Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever


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PostPosted: 10/31/20 6:18 am • # 154 
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Jerry Falwell, Jr. is Suing Liberty U. to Restore a Reputation He Never Had
Get your popcorn ready.


https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/ ... ng-liberty

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PostPosted: 10/31/20 12:40 pm • # 155 
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And that barely scratches the surface ....

https://stupidevilbastard.com/2009/10/k ... halloween/

You have to read that to believe that someone could be that crazy


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PostPosted: 10/31/20 8:39 pm • # 156 
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Is that "God's will ministry" or "God Swill Ministry"? :lol


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PostPosted: 11/01/20 12:00 am • # 157 
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You have to read that to believe that someone could be that crazy

Maybe we should start pushing the idea that the "X" is a fallen cross worshipped by demons and their buddy Lucifer and claim anybody who uses it it is a devil worshipper. That'll keep the crazies out of the voting booths.


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PostPosted: 11/16/20 7:29 am • # 158 
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This from a year ago ....

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Researchers Have Once Again Found a Negative Correlation Between Religion and IQ

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/201 ... on-and-iq/


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PostPosted: 11/23/20 6:50 am • # 159 
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PostPosted: 11/23/20 7:02 am • # 160 
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shiftless2 wrote:
This from a year ago ....

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Researchers Have Once Again Found a Negative Correlation Between Religion and IQ

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/201 ... on-and-iq/


the University of Chicago Center for Religious Studies does an international survey where they place various nations on a scale of belief. when you correlate their findings against test scores in Science, there is an inverse correlation between "religiosity" (belief in known superstitions) and scientific knowledge.

not quite the same thing, but very similar.


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PostPosted: 11/25/20 6:34 am • # 161 
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation applauds the New York Attorney General’s Office announcement today that it has filed a lawsuit against the Buffalo Diocese over failure to report more than two dozen priests credibly accused of sexual assault. The lawsuit alleges that the church failed to report, supervise or monitor those predator priests.

This is only one of the eight dioceses currently under investigation for these crimes since 2018.

“It’s past time for our secular government to go after these religious criminals by holding their enablers accountable,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “Our government has let the Catholic Church ‘police’ itself, held the church above the law, and the results have been horrific.”

FFRF applauds the prospect of justice for the countless survivors of institutional sexual abuse by the Catholic Church, and deplores its despicable record of protecting abusers and the church’s reputation at the expense of the vulnerable minors preyed upon by church officials. FFRF commends the attorney general’s willingness to stand up to this formidable, litigious defendant and encourages similar suits be brought against the other seven dioceses under investigation, and then in other states.

The lawsuit alleges that the Buffalo Diocese allowed one priest to continue ministering to children even after eight credible accusations of sexual assault of young girls. In other instances, the church allegedly classified abusers as retired, or on sabbatical or medical leave, rather than disclosing that they had been removed from ministry because they are habitual sexual predators.

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PostPosted: 11/26/20 3:14 pm • # 162 
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I see the U.S.C.C. (United States Conservative Court) has decided preachers' rights to keep the money flowing in is more important than people lives.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronaviru ... -due-to-co


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PostPosted: 12/16/20 11:29 am • # 163 
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"Why bother with new textbooks or computers when Jesus will magically fix everything?"

SC District Now Owes Atheist Group $187,000 After Losing Graduation Prayer Fight


https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/202 ... yer-fight/


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PostPosted: 02/21/21 5:04 pm • # 164 
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Ken Ham: The Perseverance Rover’s Budget Should Have Been Spent on Creationism
BY HEMANT MEHTA

It was absolutely incredible to watch the landing of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover last week. The possibilities of what we may learn from the technology that’s now up there will enrich our understanding of the cosmos for generations to come.

And here to complain about all that is Creationist Ken Ham, who cannot believe we’re wasting any money on frivolous things like learning and exploration.

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PostPosted: 02/22/21 4:15 pm • # 165 
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These tv evangelists are terrified the Mars gadget will actually find some sign of ancient, nascent or existing life. It would blow their whole spiel out of the water. They would have to invent a whole new explanation for Genesis. Maybe they could call Mars collateral damage or God's spare parts depot or something.


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PostPosted: 02/22/21 7:59 pm • # 166 
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The evangelical right spent years (decades) insisting that the earth is unique. There are no planets around other stars. When we found planets around other stars they insisted that they couldn't harbor life. When we found planets in their sun's Goldilocks zone they then insisted that they couldn't harbor intelligent life. And then they moved on to insist that if there are aliens they're all going to hell anyways.

https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.co ... ens-again/

https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.co ... no-aliens/

https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.co ... g-to-hell/


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PostPosted: 02/23/21 1:51 pm • # 167 
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Let's just hope that when aliens first come to Earth the first person they meet isn't Ham. It would not go well:

Alien: We are from the planet Zog and we come in peace.

Ham: You're going to Hell!

Alien: Let me rephrase my first introduction.


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PostPosted: 04/16/21 4:58 pm • # 168 
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Liberty University just sued Jerry Falwell Jr for $10 million

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/202 ... 0-million/


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PostPosted: 04/16/21 5:22 pm • # 169 
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Well, I guess we'll find out who Jesus loves best now.


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PostPosted: 04/16/21 5:49 pm • # 170 
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jimwilliam wrote:
Well, I guess we'll find out who Jesus loves best now.

Why do you ask? Obviously it was the poolboy.


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PostPosted: 04/26/21 5:40 am • # 171 
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From 2019

Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?
“Not religious” has become a specific American identity—one that distinguishes secular, liberal whites from the conservative, evangelical right.


The idea of American exceptionalism has become so dubious that much of its modern usage is merely sarcastic. But when it comes to religion, Americans really are exceptional. No rich country prays nearly as much as the U.S, and no country that prays as much as the U.S. is nearly as rich.

America’s unique synthesis of wealth and worship has puzzled international observers and foiled their grandest theories of a global secular takeover. In the late 19th century, an array of celebrity philosophers—the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud—proclaimed the death of God, and predicted that atheism would follow scientific discovery and modernity in the West, sure as smoke follows fire.

Stubbornly pious Americans threw a wrench in the secularization thesis. Deep into the 20th century, more than nine in 10 Americans said they believed in God and belonged to an organized religion, with the great majority of them calling themselves Christian. That number held steady—through the sexual-revolution ’60s, through the rootless and anxious ’70s, and through the “greed is good” ’80s.

But in the early 1990s, the historical tether between American identity and faith snapped. Religious non-affiliation in the U.S. started to rise—and rise, and rise. By the early 2000s, the share of Americans who said they didn’t associate with any established religion (also known as “nones”) had doubled. By the 2010s, this grab bag of atheists, agnostics, and spiritual dabblers had ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... us/598843/

BTW, if anything the Atlantic article seriously understates the percentage of population that are non-believers

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/ ... s-how-many


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PostPosted: 04/26/21 8:07 am • # 172 
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IMO, the "moral majority" movement was the beginning of the end.


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PostPosted: 04/26/21 9:51 pm • # 173 
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If practicing religion is the great indicator of wealth I guess it explains the gold plated Mercedes running around in Arab countries. And here I thought it was oil just like I thought American profiteering off the World Wars explained it's wealth.


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PostPosted: 04/26/21 11:27 pm • # 174 
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wealth and prosperity are generally inversely related to "religiosity".

it's true. look it up.


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PostPosted: 05/03/21 9:07 am • # 175 
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Unhinged GOP lawmaker arrested after trying to be a substitute teacher. He terrified the students.
He allegedly kicked a student's groin, asked teens about their masturbation habits, and ranted about a foster child that he claims attempted suicide because of lesbian parents.


https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/05/unh ... -students/


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