Tikki

He's 12 now & doesn't take any of that shit. Last year it came down to a teacher getting suspended for attempting to publicly shame him after he called her out on her nonsense.

Therefore the glorification of ignorance (euphemistically called FAITH) as the greatest human virtue is a defensive ploy designed to disempower the masses. Critical thinking that incites questions is the most dangerous enemy threatening the purveyors of ignorance for it is through the glorification ignorance that the spiritual preachers scare off the questions to which they have no honest answers.
Hence ignorance to the people surrenders power to the priesthood and the state..

policies they must see are failing..Desperate people will turn to religion more readily that contented people.

Or the new lack of buffer zones at abortion providers and how the religious lunatics will be all up in patient's faces.

SCOTUS gave us that one too.

and your boss's religion will now become YOUR religion.

.... with their proselytizing. It drives more people away than it attracts. I just wish they would go back to church. I think the religious group doing this the most are the Protestant Evangelicals. When they come knocking at my door, I let them go on a minute, then I kindly tell them I am Catholic. They smile and back away from my door like I am the devil himself.

With the Internet, more and more people are comparing notes (especially younger ones) and coming to the conclusion that the religion that gets shoved down our throats daily in this country is man-made nonsense.

that gets repeated over and over, ad infinitum. If we allow it to dominate and become the only message people receive, it will be accepted by default. We have to be out there with an opposing view, just as loud as they are.

... no one likes to have religion shoved down their throats. If I am out and about and someone comes up to me and starts it, I look them straight in the eye and tell them I am not interested, thank you! I find it offensive. I think religion is personal and frankly none of anyone's business but my own.

As the late great George Carlin would say they made the whole fucking thing up. The last thing that the powers that be want is a well informed populace capable of critical thinking. They hide behind Christianity and will continue to do so because it's an easy way to control people and keep them in line.

It's all about fear and being able to dominate those same fearful people for their own nefarious means.

Booby, as he is sometimes called, thinks that it is his right to inflict his
religious beliefs on others.

And, if you refuse to let him do this, then he claims his "religious freedom" has
been violated.

He has complained about the "War on Christmas" and the "War on Religion".

He believes there is also a "War on Gun Rights" and I suspect a "War on Oil".

Soon, I expect he will propose going back into Iraq for a third time and he will
complain that there is a "War on War".

For more of his antics see http://stuartsdesk.com/Oldies_But_Goodies.html

I repeat--the church of their choice.

Fight Back.

...cheapens the actual sacrifice countless humans have made through the centuries to believe as they choose.

When British Christians got on a persecution kick former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told them;

It always comes from the same band of Republican bastards who tout "freedom" with the absolute intention of turning America into their own chosen template - handled by a fist that can only be equated with Joseph Stalin. And, just like Stalin, propagate allegence to the power, lie about how everyone is treated and paid equally while the elite make off with the blood and sweat of the hard working citizenry.

My church is affiliated with the fastest-growing Baptist denomination in the USA, the American Baptist Convention, a progressive Baptist denomination.

My own church has grown in size, due in no small measure to the influx of fellow Christians who have grown weary of the evangelical 'dominionists'. We preach humility, charity, mercy, understanding, forgiveness, service to our fellow man and a strict separation of church and state.

I have had it with their Religishit already!

And as soon as they are called on it, they scream that they are being persecuted. Lately they scream that they are being persecuted by the big bad black tyrannical president.

I'm sick of the bitching and moaning the religious reich has been doing these days. They love to get their noses in our business but as soon as we shine the light back on them, they scream "whaaaaa".

My invisible sky wizard is more powerful than your invisible sky wizard (or lack thereof).

stupid fucks running around saying my god is the true god and if you dont do what i say my god wants you to do, etc

tomorrow when the 5 criminals on the SC decide hobby lobby wrongly, it is going to get worse

stupid fucking religion