Showing posts with label Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Church. Show all posts

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Pastor Wants Atheist Registry to Track Atheists like Sex Offenders

Pastor Wants Atheist Registry to Track Atheists like Sex Offenders: "“No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” – Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson and his idealism be damned. What internet pastor Mike Stahl wants is an “atheist registry” to keep track of these dangerous elements in our society, like people who don’t believe in god, or any gods. This is a story right out of Nazi Germany. What’s next? Will we have our children “outing” us as atheists and pagans and heretics, and turning us over to the fundamentalist morality police to be conveniently culled from the herd?

Now as a disclaimer, I’m no atheist myself. I’m a polytheist. I should make that plain at the outset. But I don’t lose any sleep over people believing or not believing in my gods. I take Thomas Jefferson’s attitude toward the whole belief thing: “it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” Live and let live. I really don’t care what other people believe unless they try to force their belief or non-belief on me. Then we have a problem....."

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
~Sinclair Lewis

Friday, July 29, 2011

Rick Warren Derides The Tax Paying Poor As His Church Pays No Taxes

Rick Warren Derides The Tax Paying Poor As His Church Pays No Taxes: "The nation’s tax system offers many benefits to every citizen and none is more important than a sense of contributing to America’s greatness that is shared by ever person who is not a 10-year-old child who is unable to work or purchase anything with their own funds. Although taxpayer dollars fund the military, police and fire protection, roads, bridges, and myriad other government provided benefits, the sentiment of investing in America should help bring people together with a sense of mutual participation in maintaining a great nation. Ever since the rise of the teabagger movement, there has been a fallacy that half of Americans do not pay any taxes and it has led teabags and their ultra-conservative brethren to decry the lack of involvement by the poor in having any value to America. Last Monday, a super-wealthy Christian preacher joined teabaggers in criticizing poor people, seniors, and many lower-middle class Americans for advocating raising taxes on the top 2% of Americans who continue receiving tax cuts regardless that the country’s economic status is less than wonderful..."

To have a 'man of God' say something like this pisses me right the fuck off. What a hypocrite. Warren, I suggest that you go read Matthew 25. I'm also glad I've never read your book A Purpose Driven Life. Especially since it was written by a filthy hypocrite like you. >:(