Religious Pro-Tip: You are NOT being oppressed when: you are not allowed to force others to pray you are not allowed to make others be silent in order to make […]
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Tag: Religion and Spirituality
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace. – Voltaire
Cancel Culture: A Brief History
Social Conservatives in the 1920s: CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL!!! Social Conservatives in the 1930s: CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL!!! Social Conservatives in the 1940s: CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL!!! Social Conservatives in the 1950s: CANCEL […]
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Things I learned from Christian Conservatives Today
So, I’d like to introduce a new and irregular series for your reading pleasure (or sadness, whichever): “Things I learned from Christian Conservatives Today” 1 – Donald Trump will win […]
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Loving the “Sinner” But Hating the “Sin” Isn’t Actually a Thing (and Stuff)
Loving the “Sinner” But Hating the “Sin” Isn’t Actually a Thing (and Stuff) Photo credit: Stuck in Customs via RemodelHunt / CC BY-NC-SA So, after the horrible mass murders […]
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Don’t Be So “Offended” About “Political Correctness”, Mr. Social Conservative Hand-Wringer Guy
New Speak Pro-Tip: When social conservatives whine about everyone being “politically correct“, that is their way of saying they are OFFENDED. You know, that same word – OFFENDED – that […]
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Losing to Hate (or Ignorance and Fear are not Virtues)
Travis Gettys, reporting for Raw Story on, Muslim woman shot at and another nearly run off the road in Tampa after leaving mosques: Someone fired at least one gunshot at […]
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Homophobic Wingnut Says What? (or Don’t Start None, Won’t Be None)
I usually posted the hate mail that I received at The Multiracial Activist. People would lose their shit when they saw their ignorance on full display. I was careful to […]
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Our Peaceful Holy Wars of Empire (or My God Kills Better Than Your God)
Anyone, like your average "Christian Conservative", who wants to have "my religion is better than yours" wars should feel completely free to actually fight themselves, rather than electing proxies (like […]
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Pious Cupcakery (or Why Your Religious Beliefs are Suspect)
It is always fascinating how so many of the people who are intolerant of same sex marriage because it violates their "religion", expect everyone else to bend over backwards to […]
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Under the Cassock
Under the Cassock May 13, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—The sex scandal of the Rev. Alberto Cutie, a Catholic priest well-known throughout the Spanish-speaking world who was photographed frolicking with a woman […]
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