Posts Tagged ‘bible’
Religious folk shouldn’t be filled with so much hate
A waitress with a pro-LGBTQ tattoo received this note from a customer. I realize I am a reluctant atheist, but in my lifetime, I have read the Bible from cover to cover three times (which is more than many ardently religious people), so I am familiar with the teachings of Jesus. And yes, while it…
Read MoreMy children’s personal ten commandments are beautiful, heart wrenching, and completely applicable.
My kids were studying the Ten Commandments at Hebrew School this week. As part of the lesson, they were then asked to come up with some commandments of their own. My daughter’s commandments are beautiful. Much better than the Bible’s ten commandments, which waste the first three on God’s obsession with being the best and…
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Protip: If you’re using The Bible to justify your opposition to same sex marriage, don’t forget to stone to death any woman engaging in premarital sex. And not just your garden-variety stoning, either. You must gather all the people of the town at the doorstep of the woman’s father and kill her there. God is…
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Protip: If you’re using The Bible to justify your opposition to gay marriage, don’t forget to treat all adulterers EXACTLY the same way. God makes it abundantly clear that both are equally bad. And if you’re really being literal about your Biblical reading, please remember that you must execute anyone who has cheated on his…
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Protip: If you’re using The Bible to justify your opposition to gay marriage, please don’t forget to stone your local Starbucks barista to death on the Sabbath, too! Numbers 15: 32-36
Read MoreRose City Park Church: The sign is real, and the message is fantastic, despite my suggestions for revision.
I assumed that this sign was a fake when I saw it, but no. It’s real. It’s also both shocking and refreshing. As a person who would like to believe in God and an afterlife but has been unable to do so, a logical, sensible, rational message like this makes religion seem so much more…
Read MoreIf you want to deny homosexuals the same rights as heterosexuals, you are evil.
After reading about the doctor who refused to treat a six day-old baby because the parents were lesbians, my first thought, which I tweeted alongside a link to the piece from Slate, was this: Evil scumbag. And so I starting thinking: Do I really believe that? Are the bigots who deny or wish to deny…
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