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Say What Now of the Day: Under fire this week from gay rights activists for a Sunday sermon in which he encouraged parents in his congregation to assault their kids if they showed signs of being gay, North Carolina pastor Sean Harris now claims he only was trying to be funny:
The second you see your son dropping that limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch.
Harris, who was preaching about gay marriage ahead of the state’s upcoming vote on Amendment One, defended his support of the legislation, if not his poor choice of words. “What I do stand by is that the word of God makes it clear that effeminate behavior is ungodly,” Harris said. “I’m not going to compromise on that.”
[theweek]
FUCK THIS SHIT
Today is the National Day Of Prayer and the National Day Of Reason. Rep. Pete Stark, the only openly atheist member of Congress, issued a proclamation on the House floor in recognition of the latter.
The National Day of Reason celebrates the application of reason and the positive impact it has had on humanity. It is also an opportunity to reaffirm the Constitutional separation of religion and government. Our nation faces many problems—bringing our troops home from Afghanistan, creating jobs, educating our children, and protecting our safety net from irresponsible cuts. We will solve these issues through the application of reason. We must also protect women’s reproductive choices, the integrity of scientific research, and our public education system from those who would hide behind religious dogma to undermine them.via Joe.My.God.
Happy National Day of Reason!
ihateallyourgods:unintelligentatheist:
I’m glad someone finally fixed that ”pray away the gay” bullshit.Gay Away The Pray! Sounds simple enough.
viewparadise:sarcasticfina:wholove:
A graphical representation of the contradictions in the bible. Each red line links 2 contradicting statements.
WILL ALWAYS REBLOG.
WOAH
nonplussedbyreligion:nakedpastor:
“i think i’m gay” (cartoon by nakedpastor)
The religious stand by the belief that God created us all, knowing the days of our lives before we were born. Am I really to believe and understand that a just and loving God, knowing the pain they would face from others, allows people to be born gay? I’ve heard many arguments and sermons on the matter, yet no one has answered this question.
I’ve been told that homosexuality is a choice, to which I call bullshit. No one chooses to suffer, lose their family, job, the respect of society, or even their life. As a Christian I was expected to accept that homosexuality was a sin because the Bible says it was, but we all know there are many things in the Old and New Testaments that are also sinful, yet Christians do them everyday. So why is this sin so much greater?
Jesus if he existed, knew all the days of our lives before we were born, yet this “sinful” sexual orientation exists; it even pre-dates him. He was however mute on the issue, leaving it wide open for his followers to speak on his behalf from the dawn of Christianity to now. These man made religions are so full of the ideas of men, not gods, yet they persist.
Seven Reasons Why I Don’t Believe In Hell
I find that people are utterly puzzled when I tell them I don’t believe in hell, and over the past few weeks it has become increasingly evident to me that I need to flesh out my position on this topic. So if you’ll indulge me for a few minutes, I’d like to lay out the information I learned which caused me to abandon my former belief in a fiery afterlife.
nonplussedbyreligion:nakedpastor:
“Hell for Sex” (Cartoon by nakedpastor)
I remember in bible college having to sit through a series of sermons on sexuality. We were taught all about the sins of unmarried sex, masturbation and oral sex. There was even some theologizing about sex positions, including the sin of the woman being on top… a submission issue. All participating in these activities were going to hell.
I remember friends of mine… boyfriend and girlfriend… feeling so guilty after making out in a car that they confessed their sin to the dean of students. We never saw them again. They were kicked out.
My girlfriend and I, now my wife, confessed nothing.
I think the two in this cartoon must have heard those sermons.
I remember sitting through a series on love, marriage, and sex. It was important to add marriage because sex did not exist outside of marriage for this pastor. A direct quote from one of his sermons that I’ve never forgotten, “What is done in the marital bed is a beautiful, wonderful extension of your sexual obedience to God. What is done outside of the marital bed is only sin. Even if you use pretty words like ‘making love’ it is still an act of sin.”
Me and my boyfriend at the time had conflicting schedules and rarely got to attend church together, but our church had podcasts so we listened to this sermon together. The timing was perfect because we heard this shortly before we left religion. We examined our sex life, realized that we were perfectly fine and disregarded the crap we heard. As an unmarried adult Christian who lived with my partner, I often struggled with the hypocrisy, but neither of us were willing to enter into a marriage simply to have people at church stop looking at us with judging eyes, nor were we going to give up sex for obvious reasons. Our ‘sin’ was out in the open; theirs not so much. So had we stayed in religion we were probably going to burn, but what a wonderful way to go out :)
~ Kim
