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mikesova: (via savagemike) hahaha.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:51:11 -0500

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hahaha.

betterversionofme: notentirely: inothernews: Front cover,...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:46:08 -0500

notentirely:

inothernews:

Front cover, Bangor (Maine) Daily News, Wednesday, November 4, 2009.

There are people who celebrate keeping people who love each other apart. There are people who make it their pathetic life’s work to keep two people who belong together from not being together. There are people who revel in not letting others be genuinely happy, and making them feel like second-rate citizens in their own country, for the want of “preserving tradition.”

These people are assholes.

peterwknox: Seconded.

Thirded.

Fourthed.

Fifthed.

Islamic countries push a global 'blasphemy' law

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:24:33 -0400

Islamic countries push a global 'blasphemy' law:

atheistramblings:

The Organization of the Islamic Council (which is made up of representatives from 57 countries) wants to make the enforcement of blasphemy laws legally binding via an international convention or treaty. This would require signatories to limit religiously offensive language or speech. The OIC wants “legal prohibition of publication of material that negatively stereotypes, insults or uses offensive language” on issues regarded by religious followers as “sacred or inherent to their dignity as human beings”.

So you wouldn’t be able to discuss evolution, history prior to 6,000 years ago, women’s rights, or the pros and cons of beer volcanoes and stripper factories vs a large number of virgins in the after life.

Fuck no!!! Freedom of speech now, freedom of speech forever. Good thing we have a secular constitution in the USA that guarantees such rights.

retropolitics: LIFE: Female science teacher pointing to...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:37:00 -0400

retropolitics:

LIFE: Female science teacher pointing to blackboard w. quote fr. Genesis 1:12 opposite quote fr. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution while expunging the minds of her students of any idea that man could have evolved fr. primates, in science lab at Bob Jones Univ. Location: Greenville, SC, US. Date taken: 1948 Photographer: Francis Miller (via)

Because having a white lab coat, a scientist does not make….

Science will beat pseudoscience every time.-Christopher Hitchens

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:04:37 -0400

Science will beat pseudoscience every time.
-Christopher Hitchens

azspot: David Fitzsimmons

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:13:19 -0400

azspot:

David Fitzsimmons

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:56:55 -0400

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

crowth: Sen. Franken Questions an Arbitration Lawyer about...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:42:26 -0400

crowth:

Sen. Franken Questions an Arbitration Lawyer about Binding Arbitration (via Glinner:Daily Kos:SenatorFranken)

Republicans for Rape.Really!!!

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:17:40 -0400

Republicans for Rape.
Really!!!

Republicans in Congress (via robtish)

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:25:01 -0400

Republicans in Congress (via robtish)

Letter to Grandma...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:47:39 -0400

Letter to Grandma...:

friendlyatheist:

Epic Win!!!

Posted the above to facebook. I got the following reply from a college friend:

“Yes, evolution is a theory.”, page 6. At the end of the day you still need faith no matter what you believe.

Funny how from the whole page the evolution is a theory sentence is the only thing that was read (obviously ignoring the context). Here is my reply, which is nothing more than what followed the previous quotation of page 6.

Yes, a theory. Just like gravity, heliocentrism or the idea that germs cause many diseases (pathogenic theory).

“Faith” is an unnecessary concept in science (and in reality). Science has something better called evidence, which is superior in every way to “faith”.

It is definitely easier to interpret words based on cultural, superstitious or uninformed biases than actually trying to understand what is actually being said. How sad…

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:11:48 -0400

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Banning Abortion Does Not Reduce Abortions | Unreasonable Faith

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:04:32 -0400

Banning Abortion Does Not Reduce Abortions | Unreasonable Faith:

The Guttmacher Institute’s survey found abortion occurs at roughly equal rates in regions where it is legal and regions where it is highly restricted. It did note that improved access to contraception had cut the overall abortion rate over the last decade. But unsafe abortions, primarily illegal, have remained almost static…. Every year, an estimated 70,000 women die as a result of unsafe abortion – leaving nearly a quarter of a million children without a mother – and 5m develop complications.

Penal Substitiutonary Attonement Model

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:08:43 -0400

Penal Substitiutonary Attonement Model:

If I owed someone $100 trillion and President Obama and Speaker Peolosi decided that the US Taxpayers should cover that debt for me :), and then I went back to the person to whom I owed the debt, after Obama paid them, and said: “Will you please forgive me this huge debt of $100 trillion because there is no way I can pay it?” How do you think the person would respond? I think he would say: “There is nothing to forgive, someone else has already paid it for you.” That is how I am looking at this matter and what I mean when I say that PST eliminates the need for forgiveness.