In July of 2013, Salt Lake City photographer Katrina Barker Anderson launched Mormon Women Bare, a website featuring nude portraits of Mormon women. Anderson, who has a degree in broadcast journalism from Brigham Young University, spoke to me recently about the project. Readmore.[...]
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The Protection Racket: The Jews of Palestine
The Protection Racket and the History of Palestine (based in part on an essay by Ezequiel Doiny ) Since the expulsion of the crusaders by Saladin, liberated Palestine has lived under the rule of Muslims and one form or another of Islamic law, the sharia. For Jews living in Palestine, includ[...]
November 19th, 2015 - 3:57 pm § in Religion
Field guide to terrorists (how to tell a terrorist from a refugee)
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November 16th, 2015 - 1:09 pm § in Religion
Video: 6 million years of human evolution in 60 seconds
This … … has brought us to this! https://youtu.be/qjnm3V0xYjI B-b-b-b-but how can this be? The earth is only 6,000 years old! and God made Adam and Eve (not Steve!) in 1 day! [...]
What ISIS has …
… and what it wants: “Following takfiri doctrine, the Islamic State is committed to purifying the world by killing vast numbers of people.” Including, probably, you and me. Read the story here.[...]
Meet the guy behind the anti-Starbucks tirade
His name is Joshua Feuerstein. He lists his occupations as “evangelist” and “social media personality.” His prior claim to fame is harassing a bakery for refusing to fill a fake order for an anti-LGBT cake. His actual occupation is spoiled brat from wealthy family of hospita[...]
November 11th, 2015 - 9:46 pm § in Religion
Bigoted Utah judge takes foster baby away from married lesbian couple
“They said Judge Johansen cited research that children do better when they are raised by heterosexual couples. Hoagland believes the judge actually imposed his religious beliefs.” A controversial Utah judge already facing a formal complaint for making a mother punish her daughter by cutt[...]
SUNDAY REVELATION: Founding Fathers: What Would Patrick Henry Have Thought About Seattle?
A general toleration of Religion appears to me the best means of peopling our country… The free exercise of religion hath stocked the Northern part of the continent with inhabitants; and altho’ Europe hath in great measure adopted a more moderate policy, yet the profession of Protestantism is ex[...]
GOP presidential candidates flock to gathering that makes KKK look benign
From Raw Story: “Republican presidential candidates seem to be competing over who will denounce the (nonexistent) persecution of Christians in America the loudest, with Mike Huckabee decrying the supposed “criminalization of Christianity” and Ted Cruz lambasting the “atheist Taliban” a[...]
HAPPY HANUKKAH: HISTORY OF THE GOD JESUS
Hmmmm … no Jewish deities in that list? Why is the list so important at Hanukkah time? After 2000 years of forced conversion, burning our books, and burning us at the stake …. Christians want to tell us he was a Jew and is OUR messiah? The worst of this is when we celebrate Hanukkah a[...]