JasenComstock: Get off religion's lawn.
Congratulations on figuring out that god isn’t real. After you figure out the Santa thing it just all kind of falls into place doesn’t it? And it’s fun and easy to believe that everyone who practices religion takes it literally, but sadly most…
When a powerful group starts using the teachings of the all-knowing JK Rowling to deny basic human rights for others and reality itself, let me know.
Until then, I call false equivalency.
Earth, to Rubio
“I’m not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that’s a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I’m not a scientist. I don’t think I’m qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to answer that. It’s one of the great mysteries.”
- Marco Rubio, when asked about the age of the Earth.
"Whether you read it online or hold the physical object in your hands, this issue of Newsweek is best viewed as an archaeological artifact that is certain to embarrass us in the eyes of future generations. Its existence surely says more about our time than the editors at the magazine meant to say—for the cover alone reveals the abasement and desperation of our journalism, the intellectual bankruptcy and resultant tenacity of faith-based religion, and our ubiquitous confusion about the nature of scientific authority. The article is the modern equivalent of a 14th-century woodcut depicting the work of alchemists, inquisitors, Crusaders, and fortune-tellers. I hope our descendants understand that at least some of us were blushing."
This Must Be Heaven: Sam Harris (via apoplecticskeptic)(via cocknbull)
"Again, I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against,” he concluded, “but I am saying that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote, because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy."
When does the party in hell start, y’all? I don’t want to miss it.
“I’m not telling you who to vote for. Just threatening you with an eternity of suffering if you vote for the black guy”
Really classy, kiddie-raper. GTFO & STFU
(via apsies)
"What isn’t an act of God? If you believe in God, that’s sort of a definition of him, isn’t it? He does everything. Isn’t that right? Everything is an act of him. He’s all-powerful, he’s everywhere at once, he invented everything—there was nothing before him, he invented time, everything. He is across it all. And he doesn’t miss a trick. He’s not absent-minded. A volcano going off isn’t him going, “Fuck, I’ve left the oven on!” And who are these insurance companies who decide what is and isn’t an act of God? How do they know?"
Ricky Gervais (via cocknbull)
Religious leaders lay on the ground and pray over a bible and a copy of the verdict on President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare overhaul law outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 28, 2012.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama’s healthcare law on Thursday in an election-year triumph for him and fellow Democrats and a stinging setback for Republican opponents of the most sweeping overhaul of the unwieldy U.S. healthcare system in about a half century. [REUTERS/Jason Reed]
Almost as ridic as when Christians were praying at the gold bull statue on Wall St. in 2008.
So they’re praying for more poor people to die?
Remember, kids:
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. ” - The ol’ J.C. himself (Matthew 19:24)
Can you really disprove evolution? Step right up and claim your Prize.
(Source: christgoldman, via intheshadowofyggdrasil)
