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Republicans don’t read The Bible

Last month, the Republican Congress sought to repeal ObamaCare, slash Medicaid, and strip more than 35 million Americans of their vital healthcare. They came one vote away from achieving that goal.    This week they are at it again. A new, even more draconian bill is being considered in the Senate that would once again strip…

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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…

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My 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 gay marriage, please don’t forget to declare your disobedient, stubborn, and/or rebellious son a “drunkard and a glutton” and have him stoned to death for his behavior.  Deuteronomy 21:18-21

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Serious question: Why isn’t religious hypocrisy used more often against the opponents to same sex marriage?

For the last couple months, I’ve been writing the occasional post – titled #Biblebuffet – indicating the hypocrisy of people who oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons. If you use The Bible to oppose same sex marriage, don’t forget to execute adulterers, people who work on Sundays, and any woman engaging in premarital sex.…

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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

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Rose 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…

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It’s a shame when people pose as Christians and give Jesus a bad name.

A Walkerton, Indiana, pizza shop is the state’s first business to declare it will not service gay weddings after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was signed into law last week. “If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no,” Memories Pizza’s Crystal O’Connor…

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