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Associated Press:
FRANKFORT, Kentucky - A group of atheists filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to remove part of a state anti-terrorism law that requires Kentucky’s Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge it can’t keep the state safe without God’s help.
What the fuck? This is so patentently offensive as to be beyond imaginination. And, if you can’t [...]

Sorry, alter ego, but uh, I can’t not say something about this.  The Rt. Rev. Patrick O’Donoghue, the Bishop of Lancaster and the man charged with reversing the decline in attendance at Catholic Mass in the UK, is blaming many, if not most, of society’s ills on… you guessed it: education. Now here’s a guy who [...]

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock [...]

Kansas minister Mark Holick, being interviewed by CNN’s Rick Sanchez about the sign he put up stating “American we have a Muslim President / This is sin against the Lord”:
Well, my goal is to tell people about the truth, uh, that I believe the truth of the Bible states…
Ay, there’s the rub. Again we see, [...]

Associated Press:
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.
From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged [...]

The Onion (hey, come on, it is “America’s finest news source”):
The Supreme Court’s latest decision comes on the heels of last month’s 6-3 ruling to abolish the pursuit of happiness from the three inalienable rights guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence.
Damn!

In honor of my good friend, who occasionally comments on this blog as “thecodepounders alter ego”, here’s a little diddy from Dennis Miller (The Raw Feed, HBO 2003):
I was raised Catholic — I went to confession the other day, I said ‘you first’.

I get so fucking furious every time some freedom-bashing pinhead tries to make the argument that if the rest of us don’t abandon our freedoms and conform ourselves to the pinhead’s personal belief system, then we are trampling or endangering or disrespecting the pinhead’s “religious freedom”. This time it’s the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops:
BALTIMORE — [...]

For crying out loud! Jerusalem, of all places, appears to have just elected a secular mayor!
JERUSALEM - A secular businessman appeared to have won an election for mayor of Jerusalem Tuesday against a powerful ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader in a race that again exposed the deep divide between religious and secular Israelis.
You’d think that in America, [...]

vjack writing at Atheist Revolution, Anti-Atheist Bigotry as a Political Tactic:
We are at an important crossroads. Do we keep our heads down and hope nobody finds out what we really think, or are we willing to take what will surely be a risky stand? As much as I have struggled with my own misgivings around [...]