Painting by a detainee.
Entries from September 2006
September 19, 2006
Jesus Camp Training Child Religious Warriors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UWIb4FwHPg
Is this child abuse? Is this scary? Click link and watch.
September 15, 2006
Pope Angers Muslims
This week the Pope quoted a 14th Century Byzantine emperor as saying, “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
September 14, 2006
Awakening…?
President Bush said yesterday (9.12.06) that he senses a “Third Awakening” of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation’s struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as “a confrontation between good and evil.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091201594_pf.html
September 11, 2006
9.11.01 – 9.11.06
I do not bless countries, governments or wars. - God
Respectfully remembering Americans who died on the day that religious war came to the U.S.
September 10, 2006
”Dinosaurs were big lizards who lived with Adam and Eve”
PENSACOLA – The hand-painted sign outside the parking lot promised a Darwin-free dinosaur encounter: “Where Dinosaurs and the Bible meet!”
Inside Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park that sits behind a string of car dealerships on a busy commercial strip in Pensacola, a group of 50 home-schooled children romped in the muggy afternoon heat.
”Dinosaurs were [...]
September 10, 2006
Religious Police Ban Cats and Dogs
Saudi Arabia’s religious police, the Muttawa, are normally tasked with chiding women to cover themselves and ensuring men attend mosque. Now they are turning to a new target: cats and dogs. They have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets, seen as a sign of Western influence.
The prohibition on dogs is unsurprising, since [...]
September 9, 2006
Mass hysteria in children after snake killed
9.8.06, (Reuters)
KATHMANDU – Dozens of children have fainted, apparently because of mass hysteria, after school authorities in Nepal killed a snake, considered as sacred by many Hindus, witnesses said on Thursday.
At least 67 students, aged between nine and 16 years, have had fainting fits since Tuesday in the mainly Hindu country, they said.
“Children suddenly scream, [...]
September 8, 2006
Attention Godless Sodomites
From the Fire and Brimstone Desk: Westboro Baptist Church Pastor Fred “Kooky” Phelps, also known as the man who single-handedly keeps the “God Hates Fags” sign industry in business, has set his sites on hellbound Jon Stewart and “hooligan sidekick” Stephen Colbert for their little Emmy skit.
Phelps gets the ball rolling in his latest video [...]
September 8, 2006
New Holy Inquisition Declared in Moscow to Fight Against Madonna Show
MosNews, 4.9.06
Orthodox and patriotic forces are meeting at Pushkin Square in downtown Moscow in a demonstration against Madonna’s forthcoming Moscow show.
Full Story: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/09/04/nomadonna.shtml
Note the “forces.”
September 5, 2006
Not Gunna Debate No Mo’
“There’s been a long series of Republican infighting over issues that do not affect people’s daily lives,” Parkinson explains. “I’m 49. I got tired of fighting about whether Charles Darwin was right when I was 14 or 15. I’m not spending the rest of my life on that issue.”
Parkinson, the chairman of the Kansas Republican [...]
September 3, 2006
Russia’s Problems w/Religion in Schools
August 31, 2006
Schools Told to Give Orthodox Lessons, by Anastasiya Lebedev, The Moscow Times
Compulsory courses on Orthodox Christian culture will be part of the curriculum in public schools in several regions of the country this school year, which begins Friday.
In response, the Council of Muftis of Russia announced it would push the government to expand [...]
