In the aftermath of the death of John Chau, a Christian missionary who tried to invade the Andaman Islands, two things have struck me. The first is the number of Black friends on Facebook who insist that Chau, despite his slanted eyes and Chinese last name was “white.” From the stories[...]
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THE HUBRIS OF “GOD TOLD ME” OR “GOD WANTS ME”
If your religion fails to accomplish your goals, it is not that your religion has failed you. It is that you have failed your religion. I happened to see something regarding the Florida Senate election of 2018. Governor Rick Scott is trying to unseat incumbent Senator Bill Nelson. He apparently said[...]
April 8th, 2018 - 1:55 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Himmler on God
“I have never tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are” “So you believe in a God ?” – “Yes, I believe in a Lord God.” […][...]
March 28th, 2018 - 1:46 am § in Misc.
The Powers of the ACLU
Phelan Moonsong, a pagan priest in Maine was originally denied the right but successfully fought to gain the same recognition as other religions. “I was eventually called up and the clerk asked me if my horns were implanted and I told her they are not,” he explained to The Wild Hunt. The clerk o[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: When was the garden of Eden?
BEFORE EVE THERE WAS ADAM AND EDEN. When did the Deity create Man? A new study indicates that the guy scientists call “Y-chromosomal Adam,” or “Genetic Adam,” walked the Earth around 209,000 years ago. The finding contradicts biblical literalists claim that the creation w[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Humanity Legislates Separation from God
The separation of church and state is one of the cornerstones of America’s foundation. Conservative Christian fundamentalists have sought to crush this cornerstone in the hopes of establishing Christianity as the state religion, an action that would threaten the rest of the foundation that makes u[...]
December 17th, 2017 - 1:24 am § in America
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: E.T … THE SEQUEL
E.T. Went Home to Hell, The Sequel Ken Ham, director of Kentucky’s Creation Museum, has announced that 20th Century Fox and the Creation Museum will produce a sequel to E.T. Mr. Ham explained that the movie glorified the innocence of an alien without explaining the alien’s final fate. [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: In the modern age, revelations can come as videos.
God spews: This revelation first appeared as a 1950 short story “To Serve Man“, written by Damon Knight. The video of the revelation appeared as a 1962 episode of the television series The Twilight Zone where the actor addresses the viewing audience at the episode’s end, speaki[...]