A federal court today ordered a Texas public school district not to include prayers in its June 4 commencement ceremony, in response to a lawsuit brought by Americans United for Separation of Church and State...
"The law here is clear: No school-sponsored prayer during commencement," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. "Graduation is an important rite of passage for young people, and all students should feel welcome at it, regardless of what they believe or don’t believe about God."
Chalk one against god in government. Thanks, American United!
Newly-wed Indian brides have been warned to avoid talking on their mobile phones too much to avoid making their husbands jealous.
The warning, from the Punjab State Commission for Women, urges newlyweds 'to focus on their domestic life instead of having long conversations on mobile phones.'
Written in Punjabi and issued in the form of a brochure, the advisory tells young women to be 'very adjustable' concerning their mobile phone use...
What next? How about Facebook, blog, letters, corner store... No advisory, of course, to the imbecile husband who wants to keep his wife in purdah behind the harem door!
Asha says, 'We can't use condoms as a way of preventing AIDS in our community; only abstinence is preached in our mosques. We [Muslims] are so exposed to the AIDS pandemic, especially because we believe in polygamy'.
My advice to Asha: "When it's a choice between condom and religion, remember, condom is pro-life, religion is not. Quit religion."
"It is frightening how quickly citizens are losing the right to challenge unconstitutional religious speech and actions by our government. The courthouse doors are being slammed shut," said FFRF [Freedom From Religion Foundation] co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor.
"Is the 7th Circuit arguing that unless the government is forcing citizens to pray at gunpoint on the National Day of Prayer, there is no violation of the constitutional separation between religion and government?" asked FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.
In honor of our fallen service members, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 11, 1950, as amended (36 U.S.C. 116), has requested the President issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe each Memorial Day as a day of prayer for permanent peace and designating a period on that day when the people of the United States might unite in prayer...
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Memorial Day, May 30, 2011, as a day of prayer for permanent peace, and I designate the hour beginning in each locality at 11:00 a.m. of that day as a time to unite in prayer...
That's a tough call for me. Compassion for the countless lives and limbs lost in conflicts around the world drives me to despair. As an atheist, however, I am skeptical about appealing to the deaf, dead, and the invisible to make permanent peace on earth. In the end, compassion trumped my skepticism, and I allowed myself to pray. Here is my prayer:
Yeh Allah and Oh Ellohim, please calm your warring tribes of Arabs and Jews, and bring an end to this bloody conflict of your making in the Middle East.
Yeh Allah and Oh God, please stop the suicide bombers and the drone attacks that kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, who are just going about their everyday life.
Yeh Allah and Hey Ram, please stop fighting your battles for supremacy with bombs, bullets, and stones. It doesn't matter diddly-squat to the people of Kashmir, which one of you rules over them.
It looks like you and your minions have nothing to do but constantly fight over who the alpha dog... er... god... is. Idle mind, as I say, is god's workshop! Get a life, and:
Stop the torturing and murdering of "child witches" in Africa and elsewhere.
Renounce your preference for male offspring. Millions of girls have gone missing in India due to female infanticide and selective abortions.
Stop mutilating the genitals of children. They are, after all, organs that you allegedly designed for assisting you in creation.
Don't hate women for wanting to be educated, for wanting to be attractive. It's a bad habit that you had imbibed from the day Eve ate an apple from the "Tree of Knowledge".
Don't punish gays and lesbians for flouting the ill-founded commands that you had issued when you knew next to nothing about biology and genetics.
Stop terrorizing humanity with earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, leukemia, AIDS ... According to Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Yehuda Levin, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and other vassals of yours, these are your making...
I could go on and on, but you get the idea. You are not a dork, I hear.
I leave you with this: please, don't get mad and vengeful against your own creations, even if you think they are your enemies. If you can't learn to love your enemies, how on earth can you bring permanent peace?
That's the common refrain whenever a crime against humanity is perpetrated by the religulous. Be it 9/11, George Tiller's murder, or selective abortion of female fetuses. Dig deeper, and you'll find religious motives lurking behind every such act that offends the sensibilities of everyone who is not blinded by god delusion. Take this one, for example:
Taliban kill head of Afghan girls' school | World news | The Guardian: Taliban gunmen have killed the headteacher of a girls' school near the Afghan capital after he ignored warnings to stop teaching girls, government officials have said.
What's the motive for this murder? Territorial ambition? Politics? Grievance against oppression and discrimination? No, it's simply because their vengeful god had commanded them to kill anyone who disobeyed him.
You may say that it's not in their book, which is the word of god. They must have misinterpreted the word of god. God never said that girls should not be educated. God never said that abortion providers should be killed. God never preferred male offspring over female offspring.
Of course not, god would never say that. In fact, god never says anything. Because, god doesn't exist. It's always someone said that god said that, and therefore, ...
Top ten reasons why you must believe that the world, and perhaps the universe, will come to an end on December 21, 2012:
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The 5,125 year long calender of the Mayans will end precisely at 11:11 AM on 21st December 2012, the winter solstice of the year. The timestamps in all the databases will be reset to 0000-00-00 00:00:00.00000, causing Google to crash permanently.
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When you are in the market for doomsday predictions, remember, it's alignment, alignment, alignment! This time, the earth will be at its center and the sun will be aligned at the top of the string of planets. At the rear end of the alignment will be a black hole in the exact center of the Milky Way. And, therefore...
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"King of terror shall come from the sky. He will bring to life the King of Mongols. The Huge dog will howl at night, when the great pontiff will change lands." - Nostradamus, of course.
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In a repeat of 9792 BC, Venus moving in retrograde of the Orion constellation will cause the sun to rise to a new horizon, making way for two sunsets and two sunrises. Understandably, this will drive Osiris, the resident god of Orion, crazy.
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Antichrist will gain domination over the world, in league with the false messiah. There will be blood and...Armageddon. Why 12-21-12? Because, 12-21-12 = 9-11-01 + 3-10-11!
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According to the most recent batch of Sumerian tablets — on sale for $19.99 at Dept. 13, P.O. Box 666, Nippur, Sumer — the Anunnaki [aka Nephilim], filled with remorse for genetically engineering us, will crash their plant Niburu into the Earth.
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According to the "Brahma-Vaivarta Purana", Krishna has promised Ganga that she would be allowed to end her hellish sojourn through India, and return to Shiva's head on 12-21-12. Insane with jealousy, Durga will annihilate the universe, sparing only Kolkotta.
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The Mormons have built an underground city to escape the apocalyptic events that they believe will happen in 2012. Everybody knows that the Mormons are never wrong.
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Physicists will successfully extract Godparticle in CERN's Large Hadron Collider by the end of 2012. Enraged by this new kid on the block, Abraham, Allah, Thor, Vishnu, Yhwh, and Zeus will join forces to destroy the world.
Precisely at 11:11 AM, on 12-21-12, when the sun aligns itself with the Tropic of Capricorn, I will forget to wash my hands after using the restroom at the SFO Airport, setting off a pandemic with the superbug, NDM-1.
Want to survive 12-21-12? Buy one of those zillions of survival kits available here, breakup with your atheist boyfriend or girlfriend, kiss the Pope's ass hand, blow up a few infidels, drink Ganga water, or start eating broccoli. Whatever you do, don't forget to wash your hands after using the restroom!
Breaking News
Pleased with the bump in his poll numbers after his recent proclamation of the National Day of Prayer, thanks to the religulous voters, President Obama will soon announce 12-21-12 as the National Doomsday.
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In 2009, he launched Eternal Earth-Bound Pets USA. Bart guarantees that if or when the Rapture comes he or one of his 44 contractors in 26 states will drive to your home within 24 hours, collect your dog, cat, bird, rabbit or small caged mammal, and adopt it. (Rapture rescue services for horses, camels, llamas and donkeys are limited to New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho and Montana.)
The cost is $135, plus $20 per additional animal. Payable upfront, of course, and good for 10 years.The heavenly destination Each additional pet of yours will be taken care of $20.
“Right now, we have over 250 clients,” said Bart, 62 ...
Only 250 clients, and that too at such a ridiculously low price? Oh, come on, Mr. Bart, you must be kidding. You have a potential market that runs into billions. Churches, mosques, and temples have been collecting hundred, thousand, even million, times that amount from the religulous to reserve their spots in the heaven. I strongly recommend that you hire a top notch consultant — at the risk of being immodest, me — to rework your marketing strategy.
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