Quote Of The Day - We Were Warned Edition

May 6th, 2012

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"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. 

Frankly, these people frighten me. 

Politics and governing demand compromise. 

But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
-- Sen. Barry Goldwater reading the Tea leaves quite some time ago.

The GOP's Ala Carte Religious War

Feb 12th, 2012

Juan Cole takes aim at the hypocrisy of the GOP's Dominionist darlings:

"The right wing Republican politicians who have been denouncing the requirement that female employees have access to birth control as part of their health benefits as an attack on religious freedom completely ignore the church teachings they don’t agree with. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are both Catholics, and wear their faith on their sleeves, but they are hypocritical in picking and choosing when they wish to listen to the bishops."

By ignoring the Catholic Church's opposition to pre-emptive war and the death penalty as well as their support for expansion of welfare programs and organized labor - all argued in the name of theological duty - the candidates have demonstrated a conveniently narrow interest in "protecting" religion in public life.

Worth 1,000 Words

Sept 13th, 2011

Closed Mind Vs Open Mind

Aug 31st, 2011

Here's an interesting virtual exchange. It is a sort of "what if?" As in, what if born-again, bible-thumper Stephen Baldwin were to debate Richard Dawkins? I do think it's important to note for my readers that I am actually a person of faith. I am also not an idiot. Science exists. Sorry.

Quote Of The Day

June 30th, 2011

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."
-- Thomas Jefferson