Category Archives: Religion

Chutzpah!

The classic example of chutzpah, the Yiddish word for brazen gall, is that of a man who, after being convicted for killing both his parents, throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he’s an orphan. … Continue reading

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Children’s Books for Homophobes

Wow.  This is what the Christian Right reads to their children at night, apparently, to make sure that they don’t turn out to be queer.  Right here we have the entire text of a darling little book called “Alfie’s Home,” … Continue reading

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God Hates Fags — Even the Dead Ones.

For the ultimate in Christian love and compassion we hie ourselves down to the great state of Texas.  Arlington, specifically.  The local megachurch, High Point Church, run by the Reverend Gary Simons.  When Cecil Sinclair, a Gulf War veteran and … Continue reading

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Laugh or Cry, Your Choice

Fundies Say the Darndest Things is a great site that shows what happens when you combine ignorant superstition, fear of your genitals, and a minimal familiarity with basic rules of grammar and spelling with a keyboard and an internet connection. … Continue reading

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Yes, Virginia, Perversion and Christmas Do Mix

After Ted Haggard, and now this guy, it’s starting to seem positively de rigeur for Christian homophobes to have a nice, dark closet that they can hide in. And why not? Have you seen the way these people raise their … Continue reading

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Fear and Loathing and Fucking

No matter how cynical I get, no matter how many nauseating things that I see perpetrated in the name of morality and decency, it seems that there’s always some fucktard out there whose mission in life is to show me … Continue reading

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Jesus loves you…

but He absolutely adores atheists. Why? Because they're the only people who don't ask Him to take sides in a war, particularly a war based on religious beliefs. Do you want to know who is His favorite atheist? Sam Harris, … Continue reading

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Guest Post: On September 11, almost one hundred fifty years ago

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> "…And the first thing a principle does—if it really is a principle—is to kill somebody."                                                      From Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers In his post Welcome … Continue reading

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Welcome to the Dungeon

What happens when you're a sex worker awaiting a new client, and two gay-looking guys with bibles show up to save your soul?  Mistress Matisse describes it for you: And then as my eyes adjusted from the relative dimness of … Continue reading

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The Real Face of The Christian Right….

As captured by watertiger, at Dependable Renegade. This is really all you need to know about Christian Fundamentalists to be very, very frightened by the idea that these people have political power: the idea that the end of the world … Continue reading

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