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Test yourself! Three of the seven following sites are parodies, while the others are serious attempts at religious expression. Good luck choosing which are which! Landover Baptist Church 4 Step Proof for God of the Bible OBJECTIVE: Ministries Rapture Ready Time Cube Chick Tract – The Last Generation True Christian Church of Christ
Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. What’s the point? 1. Evangelicals are constantly mischaracterizing non-theists. We need to listen and [...]
This is just brilliant. Some questions are less well-thought out than others (it’ll make you look uninformed to ask them), while others adeptly point out how ridiculous it is. 1. Explain why your god’s only son had to die so we can go to magic happy land when we croak. 4. Explain why your sect (whether [...]
Susan Hutchison, closet Republican and official loony bin resident, has officially filed to run for King County Executive. Here’s her campaign website. Remember Erica C. Barnett’s piece on Hutchison? In case you need a refresher: But don’t let Hutchison’s nonpartisan pretenses fool you. She’s a partisan Republican with a long history of working for and [...]
Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. The circles I run in include a fair number of recovering fundies — people [...]
Anyone use them? We do, and yesterday, we noticed that ServiceMaster’s Corporate Objectives contain this nifty little clause: Highlighting is mine. PDF of this document available on ServiceMaster’s website. Here’s another bit from ServiceMaster’s corporate site. Anyone know of an alternative secular home warranty company? No. I didn’t think so. Grumble.
HorsesAss comes through with a good one. And I think this guy is THE BEST. This afternoon Barbara from Sammamish mass emailed state legislators, citing a number of Biblical passages, and urging them to “Say NO to same sex marriage” or “be judged for all eternity.” And to his credit, Rep. Geoff Simpson (D-Covington) was [...]
On Sunday in front of the state capitol in Olympia, Rep. Jim Dunn said, “It is time to chase out of the house of God all the unbelievers and evildoers.” Write to Rep. Dunn to tell him that the capitol is not the house of God, and that Atheists are not “evildoers.”