Christianity

Religion: Anachronistic Perhaps, Yet Still Valuable

08.25.2010

Religion might be anachronistic, but studying religion and accepting it as part of society is crucial in understanding human nature, human cultures, and ourselves as self-conscious beings.

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Sarah Palin Tells You How To Live, But Doesn't

01.14.2010

Sarah Palin on Fox News 2010: “There is nothing more important in my life than my relationship with God and my faith and in this past year especially — past year and a half — I have been so driven to my knees to pray for His guidance, for His wisdom, for His grace and [...]

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Huckabee: Broken Record on Same Sex Marriage

11.26.2009

Leave it to potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to repeat old rhetoric in his battle against same-sex marriage. Huckabee panders to the Christian Right and alienates everyone else with his flawed slippery-slope argument that if same-sex marriage were legalized, that just about any form of union would end up being permitted.  Namely, that polygamy [...]

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"God's Mandate" Belongs In Church

10.08.2009

Take a look at this latest ad against gay marriage.  We’ll discuss afterward. Sigh. God’s mandate?  Really?  This is secular law.  It has nothing to do with any one god’s so-called mandate.  What a slap in the face to anyone of any other faith besides Christianity.  How arrogant and insulting.  As tough a pill it [...]

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Gay Marriage Rights are not about Religion

04.16.2009

New York may be the next state in line to allow same-sex marriage.  Gov. David Paterson (D-NY) introduced a bill to follow in the footsteps of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa. Of course, he’s got himself a lot of opposition.  Not surprisingly, this opposition consists of the religious community, particularly from Sen. Ruben Diaz of [...]

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Yeah, Iowa!!!

04.03.2009

I love Iowa.  I loved it when I visited it last month on tour.  And I loved it when I was there last year for my friend’s wedding. And I now I love it because it has – unanimously – become the third state in the union to legalize gay marriage. The Iowa Supreme Court [...]

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AIDS Is Not A Moral Disease

03.17.2009

This is one of the main problems I have with blind religious dogma.  Instead of seeing the AIDS epidemic as what it is – a biological disease – Pope Benedict XVI clouds the issue in morality.  AIDS is not a punishment to gays and those who engage in premarital or extramarital sex so can we [...]

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The Bible: The GOP's Political Handbook

03.13.2009

In case you weren’t aware, the current US political system is split into essentially two major parties (Independent, you’re not quite there yet): the Democrats and the Republicans.  Although, this doesn’t really explain it well enough.  From the Red State point of view the split would look some thing like: the Heathens and the Righteous. [...]

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Overturning Prop 8: A Plea for Love and Tolerance

03.04.2009

California’s Proposition 8 should never have even been a ballot upon which people could vote.  Ideally the majority of Americans would realize that discrimination should be eradicated wherever it rears its ugly head, but come on;  this is the same country where Rush Limbaugh is the figurehead of a political party.  The same country that [...]

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