Faith Healing Kills Again

Wednesday morning marked the beginning of the trial of Shannon and Dale Hickman, who are charged with second-degree manslaughter in the September 2009 death of their newborn son. David Hickman died less than nine hours after being born, of staph pneumonia, pulmonary immaturity, and chorioamnionitis, which affects fetal membranes through a bacterial infection.

The Hickmans belong to the Followers of Christ Church, an Oregon City congregation that believes in faith-healing over medical care. The church has a long history in Oregon of child deaths involving treatable illnesses, which has led to multiple legislative changes eliminating faith-healing as a defense against criminal charges.

In less than three years, four couples, including the Hickmans, have gone to trial for failing to provide adequate medical care to their children. Three of those cases have involved deaths.

Relatives and Origins of Homo Sapiens

Jesus-Dress-Up The Fun Game

Here is some fun kids. You can dress up Jesus on the cross. Hide his naked holiness the fun way. Along the left side there are a bunch of optional clothing. Star Wars, Halloween, Christmas, Lady Gaga, etc. Fun for lots of minutes.

Click Here to Dress up Jesus

Atheist? Which Came First The Chicken Or The Egg?

A muslim yokel thinks he stumped Atheist by posing the question, which came first the chicken or the egg. AtheistExplains give an excellent reply.

Pray For Or Against Me?

Cruel Irony

A Muslim is trying to pray and these god-fearing, Jesus-loving christians are mocking him by putting a coffee cup in front of him where he will bow and throwing coins at his place of worship. The idiot at the end say that Islam is bad because they will kill someone who doesn't believe the way they do. FACE PALM. He doesn't know his christian history. On one level I think this is almost funny. A fairy tale belief mocking a fairy tale belief like two children yelling at each other because one believes in the tooth fairy as real and the other believes santa clause is real. But on another level it just seems ironically cruel.

Imagine

Bonobos Rule Or I Wished They Ruled

Chimp And Human Genomes

What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor

Dear God

Dear God,

hope you got the letter, and...

I pray you can make it better down here.

I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer

but all the people that you made in your image, see

them starving on their feet 'cause they don't get

enough to eat from God, I can't believe in you

Dear God,

sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard

loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears

and all the people that you made in your image, see them fighting

in the street 'cause they can't make opinions meet about God,

I can't believe in you

Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make

mankind after we made you? And the devil too!

Dear God,

don't know if you noticed, but... your name is on

a lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you

should take a look, and all the people that you made in your

image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ain't, and

so do you, dear God, I can't believe in I don't believe in

I won't believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no

devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You're always

letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you

drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it's the same the

whole world 'round. The hurt I see helps to compound that

Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody's unholy hoax,

and if you're up there you'd perceive that my heart's here upon

my sleeve. If there's one thing I don't believe in

it's you....

Yahweh's Morality Allows Everything

Is A God Required For Morality?

Why Would The Devil Punish You, His Home Boy

A Christian Prayer For His Enemies

Sweet Lord Jesus,

I want to pray for those who persecute me, my Lord.

Please, treat their children as you treated those of Egypt, when they upset you!

(Psalm 135:8-9)

Dash their little children against the stones for their fathers iniquity!

(Psalm 137:8-9)

Hit them on the cheek, and smash out their teeth!

(Psalm 3:7)

Make their death and descent into Hell swift and terrible!

(Psalm 55:15)

Scatter their broken bodies over the streets of their evil cities, like Benghazi, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Mecca!

(Psalm 110:6)

Praised be Your Glorious Name™.

Amen.

Landover Baptist

Bird Fishes Like A Human

Jesus With Tats - Christians flipping out

Stephen Sawyer dedicates this painting, "No Appointment Necessary," to "those children of God who do not appear to 'fit in.'"










Christ With a Tattoo


Comment on Christian Post
Jesus wore a tattoo? Then Jesus broke the Law. Then Jesus was a sinner. Then His death means nothing. We are all condemned. Just so Jesus can be cool.

Christian Objective/Subjective Morality

Resistance Is Futile

He ends with "You get what you focus on"

The Pope Has The Power

Bible Science - The Earth Gets Frustrated

Appears science is mistaken about the recent earthquake in Virginia. Thank the Lard we have the Jacobs to explain this to us.

The earth will respond to the actions of men. So keep it in your pants boys.

God doesn't want to punish us. He doesn't like it anymore than we do.




Romans 8:22

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Isaiah 24:17-21

Terror and pit and snare await you, O people of the earth.
Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit;
whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare.
The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.
The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken.
The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again.
In that day the LORD will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below.

So let me get this straight if I have a lustful thought somewhere a teutonic plate will suddenly shift.... That seems a testable theory.

Michele Bachmann: Who Likes **WET** People?

My source for this reported that Bachmann had said wet not white.
There was some editing, the original was "Who likes wet people? Because we have the god of the wind and the rain, don't we?" The second sentence was edited out, but the first sentence was unaltered.


Here is the full video - Still nutty which we have come to love about Ms Bachmann.



Is here voice grating or what? Like how no one is listening on stage and the audience is talking. Her bible story telling is quite boring or is it the story is just so boring. ZZZZZZZ

Christian Door to Door

Double click on the picture for readability.

I Liked To Talk To You About Jesus

Killing of Bin Laden And Christians

A Church Sign I Can Finally Get Behind

This is a first for me. For years I have ridden around on my motorcycle in the country aimlessly enjoying the scenery. Then I see small churches with stupid signs and invariably it pisses me off until today. Here is a sign I can get behind. Anytime you can put a brain in the mix with church I am all for it. Hmmmm...thought about it and I will pass.

Banana Man Counter Argument

You all have heard Ray Comfort's argument to get you to say you are a sinner. He always asks it smugly like he invented some brilliance. Here is a review.

HIS SET UP

Have you ever stolen anything? What do you call a person who steals things? A thief.

Have you ever lied? What do you call a person who lies? A liar.

Have you ever lusted after another person? Jesus says you are an adulterer because you have lust in your heart.

Have you ever used God's name in vain? What do you call a person who takes God's name in vain? A blasphemer?

HIS CONCLUSION

By your own admission you are a lying, blaspheming, adulterous thief.

I have my own questions

Does the Bible say God lied?

1 Kings 22:19-22 - God plots murder by lying

Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the host of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?’

“One suggested this, and another that. Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.’ “‘By what means?’ the LORD asked. “‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said. “‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’

2 Thessalonians 2:11 - God lies to entrap people so he can condemn them

For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Matthew 24:33-35 - Jesus lies about when he will return

Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Does the Bible say God ever killed anyone?

Genesis 6:7-8 - God kills all living things in the Flood

The LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Exodus 12:29-30 - God kills all of Egypt's firstborn

At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

Isaiah 13:15-18 - God foretells he will cause women to be raped and innocent children to be killed

Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives ravished. See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold. Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants nor will they look with compassion on children

Did God ever commit adultery?

Luke 1:26-27, 34-35 - God impregnates a woman betrothed a Joseph

In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

"How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

Did God ever dishonor his mother?

Matthew 12:46-50

While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”

He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

ALTERNATIVE CONCLUSIONS

• Then by God's own admission he is a sinner.
• Then why would I want a lying, disrespectful, adulterous murderer to save me?
• Then who will save this lying, disrespectful, adulterous, murderous sinning god?

Hurrah For Science - My First Earthquake

I felt my first earthquake today. I live near DC and was born here decades ago. After it finished I called my wife and she felt it at her work as well. Someone mentioned the epicenter was near Mineral, VA where my mother lives and by then the lines were jammed up. Eventually she called me seeing I had tried to call her. I just felt my building shake but she had a lot of stuff fall off the walls and out of the cabinets. Fortunately her brother was there and is helping in the clean up.

Earthquake at 1:51pm EST

Earthquake at 2:46pm EST


When it first started to happen I thought someone with a heavy footstep was walking by, then I thought someone must be pushing a cart, then I stood up and we all were looking around watching the lights overhead shake. Then all the chatter began.

My first feeling was how cool. I understand what is going on. I live on the Blue Ridge mountains so I know plates are pushing together here. I felt I was experiencing science in motion if you will. It wasn't until I checked that my wife, kids, grandkid and mother were OK that it hit I never thought of a imaginary god causing it to punish anyone. We know where they can happen and there ain't a god with a grudge out there trying to punish anyone.

Hurrah for science that gave me a real explanation for what goes on in life.

No Hole In My Head

Malvina Reynolds (August 23, 1900 – March 17, 1978) was an American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, best known for her song writing. Great song with good humor that women are people too. The Bible of course teaches they are property.

Everybody thinks my head's full of nothin,
Wants to put his special stuff in,
Fill the space with candy wrappers,
Keep out sex and revolution,
But there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

They call me a dupe of this and the other,
Call me a puppet on a string, they,
They don't know my head's full of me
And that I have my own special thing,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

I have lived since early childhood
Figuring out what's going on, I,
I know what hurts, I know what's easy,
When to stand and when to run,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

So please stop shouting in my ear, there's
Something I want to listen to, there's
A kind of birdsong up somewhere, there's
Feet walking the way I mean to go,
And there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

Everybody thinks my head's full of nothin,
Wants to put his special stuff in,
Fill the space with candy wrappers,
Keep out sex and revolution,
But there's no hole in my head.
Too bad.

Creationist Visit To The Doctor

Yahweh Or No Way

The Colbert Report
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Rick Perry: Ask Him Why He Doesn't Believe In Science

How come Rick Perry isn't smart enough to figure out science is right?

Thing Called Love

John Hiatt (born August 20, 1952, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for eleven Grammy Awards and has been awarded a variety of other distinctions in the music industry. He excels at song writing and what a wonderful voice.



Don't have to humble yourself to me
I ain't your judge or your king
And baby, you know you ain't no Queen of Sheba
And we may not even have our dignity, no
This could be just a prideful thing
But baby, we can choose you know,
We ain't no amoebas
But

[Chorus:]
Are you ready for this thing called love
Don't come from you and me,
It comes from up above
I ain't no porcupine, take off your kid gloves
Are you ready for this thing called love

And you ain't some icon carved out of soap
Sent down here to clean up my reputation
And baby, I ain't your prince charming
Now we can live in fear, or act out of hope
For some kind of peaceful situation
Baby, don't know why the cry of love is so alarming
But

[Chorus]

The ugly ducklings don't turn into swans
And glide off down the lake
Whether your sunglasses are off or on
You only see the world you make

Before the laws of God and the laws of man
I take you for my wife, yeah
To love, honour, cherish and obey,
Now, I didn't have no plans to live
This kind of life, no
It just worked out that way
And

[Chorus 2x]

Just a crazy little thing called love
Its justs a crazy little thing called love

Just Say No

DNA - evidence for creationism?

Just A Matter Of Faith - Elvis, Yahweh, etc

I Am His Favorite

Bad Idea T-shirts

How We Came To Believe

Deliver Me

Sarah Brightman (born 14 August 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She began her career as a member of the dance troupes Pan's People and Hot Gossip and released several disco singles as a solo performer. In 1981, she made her musical theatre debut in Cats and met composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whom she married. She went on to star in several Broadway musicals including The Phantom of the Opera, where she played the role of Christine Daaé.

After retiring from the stage and divorcing Lloyd Webber, Brightman resumed her music career with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson, this time as a classical artist. She is among the most prominent performers in the genre, with worldwide sales of more than 30 million albums and over 2 million DVDs. The Recording Industry Association of America has named her the best-selling female classical artist of the twenty-first century in the United States.

Does The Creationist Fossil Record Exist

At talking origins there is the post that describes what the fossil record should look like if the world was created. No wonder the original paleontologists were confused by what they actually found.

Here's what the fossil record should look like if Biblical creationism were true.

1. In the very lowest strata we should see no fossils at all. This is because, according to the Bible, all life originally existed in the Garden of Eden and nothing died there.

2. In the next levels of strata, we should see a fairly constant rate of fossils or a gradually growing rate of fossils. This would reflect the time after the Fall as life progressed all over the Earth. These strata should have fossils of all types of organisms, both bacteria and larger more complex organisms because all of them coexisted. We should see more mobile species such as horses at the bottom of the fossil record throughout most of the world because those species would be able to migrate to places far away from the Garden of Eden more quickly than less mobile species. In fact we should be able to use this layer of strata to help discover the location of the Garden of Eden. The closer that any particular rocks are to the original location of the Garden of Eden, the earlier fossils should appear. (It should take species longer to get far away from the Garden and die than it should be for species to die close to the Garden.)

3. At some point as we move up through the strata we should see a sudden massive intrusion of fossils. This would represent the 40 days and 40 nights of the flood. This layer should also include archaeological artifacts such as tools because humans existed and would not have escaped with their tools. This should be present because of the large number of organisms (nearly every living creature on Earth) that died suddenly under conditions ideal for fossilization. (A flood is the very best environment for preserving fossils.) We should be able to show that all of these fossils are in the same strata all over the world.

4. Immediately above this sudden intrusion of fossils, we should see a thin layer of marine fossils. This would represent the year when, according to the Bible, the Earth was covered with water. This layer of fossils should be present everywhere since the flood was global in nature.

5. As we move up beyond this point in the strata, we should see a fossil gap; the size of the gap should vary depending on the geographical distance that a particular rock formation is from Mount Ararat - the final resting place of the Ark according to the Bible. As was the case immediately after the Fall, it would take some time for slow moving organisms to get very far away from where the Ark came to rest.

6. This pattern should exist all over the World.

In fact, of course, it exists nowhere on Earth.

Creationism --> totally falsified by the fossil record.

The Danger Of A Single Story

We always need guard against seeing the world from one view point. This is one of the dangers of religion.

Christian Hypocrisy - I Respect Them But Will Do As I Please

You know she would be pissed if a Muslim lead the prayer to Allah, or a Hindu to Vishnu.

Matt 6:5-6

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Godless & Free

Did Noah Get A Tax Break To Build The Ark?

Watch the full episode. See more Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

Christianity Is Just Another Religion

Evolution & Intelligent Design

Ken Miller chews up the Discovery Institute dope, David K. DeWolf.

Noah's Ark - Logistics - Part 2

Noah's Ark - Logistics - Part 1

If Science Worked Like Religion

Why Does Evolution Matter Now?

Intelligent Design - Adam & Eve

God's Priorities - What They Tell Us

If I Could Make A Deal With God

Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush; 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.

She is one of my all time favorite composer/singers. Incredibly creative.

52% Approval Rating For God

The Public Policy Polling company asked a few god related questions in recent poll.

Q7 If God exists, do you approve or disapprove of its performance?

Approve .......................................................... 52%

Disapprove...................................................... 9%

Not sure .......................................................... 40%

Q8 If God exists, do you approve or disapprove of its handling of natural disasters?

Approve .......................................................... 50%

Disapprove...................................................... 13%

Not sure .......................................................... 37%

Q9 If God exists, do you approve or disapprove of its handling of animals?

Approve .......................................................... 56%

Disapprove...................................................... 11%

Not sure .......................................................... 33%

Q10 If God exists, do you approve or disapprove of its handling of creating the universe?

Approve .......................................................... 71%

Disapprove...................................................... 5%

Not sure .......................................................... 24%

Look at all them cowards who are not sure. The religious nuts certainly have put the fear of the big imaginary sky daddy into people. All you have to do is believe to avoid frying for all eternity. How crazy is that? Just some silly consent is all that is required, nothing else. This god certainly has some big and odd ego.

Another odd thing is more women give god a favorable vote than men. How does that misogynous god do it?

Best Prayer Ever

Nascar July 23, 2011 invocation prayer by Pastor Joe Nelms

Lisa Helms - Am sure she was thrilled to be apart of this public prayer. If the Oscars are any indication, he just have screwed up with her and he was hoping this would make her happy with him again. Guys can be so dopey some times.

Doesn't this prayer really show how real these guys think this shit is? It is such a goof. He forgot to thank god for fast food which I would say he enjoys.

My hot wife and I were at a restaurant this past weekend. A middle age man was there with his pre-teen daughter where he was corrupting her in the ways of the magical sky daddy. When their food came he bowed his head, she followed. He prayed loud enough for us to hear. He quickly got over the thanks for the food part and then went into the longest plead for him & his to be blest. He even asked for his business to be blest. I am sure Jeebus was getting it all down quickly and was gonna get right on it. Never mind young children who were dying from starvation and malaria at the same time.

Matthew 6:5

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.

Michele Bachmann For President

My God Has A Hammer

Dad, Why Did God Make People?

Atheism Has Led To Evil

Jesus For Profit

Sad but true

Christians Love Not To Know

The last guy nails it. Arguments from ignorance is the best evidence for a god and I would say Christians crave ignorance. The less you know the easier it is to believe. They love not to know to allude to a great Chris Rock bit. Irreducible Complexity. Tide goes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication - You can't explain that. To Christians the brain is like the appendix. It has no apparent use and when it flares up it is best to get it removed as soon as possible, everlasting life is as stake.

Is it just me or doesn't the guy on the receipt look more like Mohammed?

How delighted they are that they had an "unexplainable" miracle happen. Aren't they special? The power of God is strong at Walmart. The guy claims he wants to know how it happened, but I am sure he is confident no one will step up to investigate because well what would be the point? He would deny whatever was found.

Ignorance is bliss. They have made up their mind, they don't want to be confused with the facts.

God versus $20

Fairy Tale Creatures In the Bible

Fire breathing dragon, a leviathan - Job 41; Is 14:29

Unicorns - Isaiah 34:7, Ps 22:21, Deu 33:17, Ps 78:69, Ps 29:6

Talking Donkey - Numbers 22

Talking Snake - Genesis 3

The Future In Teaching Creationism In School

Create Earth ....

Wonder why the Bible never referred to the Americas? Hmmm......

Proof God Does Not Exist Theodicy Argument

TGBaker on the Rational Readers Squad website has put together a logic proof for the non-existence of God. It is really good.

1) There is a possible world of only well-being (p).

2) A capable limitless good being (x) knowing of this world (p) would actualize (necessarily) it over possible worlds with evil and suffering (q).

3)x necessarily would not allow q

4)p-->; not q

5) It is possible that god is x

6)q -->; not p

7) Our world=q therefore not p

8)not p

9)not p--->;not x

10)not x

11)god= not x

Problem with Religion: Divergence

Science's strength: Convergence

If It Looks Like A Man, Walks Like A Man

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Outsider's Test of Faith

The presuppositionalist argues Scripture cannot be judged since it is the judge of all things. We are born in sin and God choose us and never the other way around. You have to be an insider. If he doesn't pick you too bad for you. You cannot understand. You mind is useless to understand.

We are all atheist, we just reject one more god than you do.

Examine your own faith with the same level of skepticism you use when examining the other faiths you reject

God's Design

Bible Blunders-Does Jesus Know His Bible?

Super Evolution Taught By Creationist

Proof For Allah - Snowflakes

Muslims make as much sense as Christians.

Christian Morality

Why Don't Bees Go To Heaven?

Another song Godless & Free

The Great Jesus Swindle

Professional Creationist Liars

Bible Blunders-How Did Peter Find Out?

Founding Father Quotes On Christianity

Thomas Jefferson - reason over religion

Letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.

In a 1787 letter to his nephew and ward, Peter Carr, while at school, Jefferson offered the following advice:

Fix Reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than of blindfolded fear. ... Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it end in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others which it will procure for you. -- (Jefferson's Works, Vol. ii., p. 217)

In his 1787 Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson stated:

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth... Our sister states of Pennsylvania and New York, however, have long subsisted without any establishment at all. The experiment was new and doubtful when they made it. It has answered beyond conception. They flourish infinitely. Religion is well supported; of various kinds, indeed, but all good enough; all sufficient to preserve peace and order: or if a sect arises, whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play, and reasons and laughs it out of doors, without suffering the state to be troubled with it. They do not hang more malefactors than we do. They are not more disturbed with religious dissensions. On the contrary, their harmony is unparalleled, and can be ascribed to nothing but their unbounded tolerance, because there is no other circumstance in which they differ from every nation on earth. They have made the happy discovery, that the way to silence religious disputes, is to take no notice of them. Let us too give this experiment fair play, and get rid, while we may, of those tyrannical laws.

In an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, he wrote:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

Notes on Virginia, 1782

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

To Benjamin Waterhouse in 1811, Jefferson referred to the Revelation of St. John as "the ravings of a maniac"

Letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Letter to Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826 (in the last letter he penned)

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Let Freedom Ring

The Lord Is My Shepherd

Shout Out To My Sheeples

To Serve Man

Atheist Barbie

The Evolution Of God

Rapture Debbie Harry Style

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer–songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the New Wave band Blondie. My wife and I went to see her in a local club a number of years ago. As Shirley Manson of Garbage said of her she is really an approachable and genuine person. She was sitting at one of the tables in the club and we talk to her as if we were talking to a friend.

She is known mostly by more famous songs, but I like Rapture. She chose to rap on it which was pretty novel at the time.

I Am Not Closed-Minded I Am Just A Christian

Hearing Voices - Jesus Is That You?

Atheism Sees More

Bible Blunders-Who Is John The Baptist?

Godless & Free or God & Fear

Preserving The Sanctity Of Marriage

It Is Islam, That Is The Problem

U.S. Alpha Females And Evolution

Miss California won, a self-identified science geek. Cool.

A few make some sense, but not the majority. It is telling what state they represent. But after hearing the representative from my state I need to move. Well, maybe it is better I stay for some balance otherwise this state will fall off the edge of the earth.

It is a tough decision to teach evolution?
It should be an elective?

Each side should be taught? Only evolution has one side. Creationism has lots of sides. Let's teach them all. But really evolution belongs in a science class. Creationism belongs in an ancient literature or ancient history class. And you can go any weekend to a church and find out even within the Judeo-Christian church all the sides they have even on the same frickin' book.

Creation from chaos

Enûma Eliš

Greek cosmogonical myth

Jamshid creation account

Kumulipo

Mandé creation myth

Pangu

Raven in Creation

Sumerian creation myth

Tungusic creation myth

Unkulunkulu

Väinämöinen

Viracocha

Earth diver

Ainu creation myth

Cherokee creation myth

Väinämöinen

Yoruba creation myth

Emergence

Hopi creation

Maya creation of the world myth

Diné Bahaneʼ (Navajo)

Zuni creation myth

Ex nihilo

Debate between sheep and grain

Barton cylinder

Ancient Egyptian creation myths

Genesis creation narrative

Islamic mythology#Islamic creation belief

Kabezya-Mpungu

Māori myths

Mbombo

Ngai

Popol Vuh

Rangi and Papa

World Parent

Coatlicue

Enûma Eliš

Greek cosmogonical myth

Heliopolis creation myth

Hiranyagarbha creation

Kumulipo

Rangi and Papa

Völuspá

What is that feeling called where you want to burst out loud and the same time you want to throw your computer against the wall?

Intelligent Design - NOT

Islamic Cultural terrorism

Teach The Controversy

God Tries To Fix A Flaw In His Design

Every Knee Will Bow To Me

Bible Flowchart

Definition of Theology

An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.

- H. L. Mencken

Damaged Brain Can Fully Function After Death

Excellent point by Sam Harris on how damaged brains lose functionality but somehow when completely damaged by death it works just fine. Our thoughts and feelings are said by the religious to be our spirit/soul. Science shows that is connected to the function of the brain. Strong argument for me against life after death.

Also why do those people who "come back from death" only see white lights and happiness and there is not even one of them that comes back after seeing the devil, fire and brimstone? If you were heaven bound why would you come back? If you were hell bound why wouldn't you come back? It is silly. I think the brain is no longer feeling the pain of the human body if you are that close to death and it simply feels better.

A Fine Tuned Universe