Even those 'other' people

 

From books to pork

The 10 most challenged books of 2013.

Sticking with XP..  if you care.

Jesus's wife.

Super rats?

Showtime's climate change scientist:

An evangelical Christian, married to a pastor, living in conservative West Texas, and widely regarded as a top-notch climate scientist, Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is a rare breed on paper — in person, she’s even rarer. Deftly moving between topics like science, religion, and gender with equal parts insight and levity, Hayhoe is an unassuming force of nature.

Rabid Christianists trying to get rid of no-fault divorce.  As if making it harder to divorce will make marriages better....

What democracy?

We're number one!

How safe will our pork be if the Chinese are in charge of production?  Here are the companies that Smithfield owns:

The acquisitions have caused concern among regulators in the United States regarding the company's control of the food supply. After Smithfield's purchase of Murphy Family Farms, the Agriculture Department described it as "absurdly big."[6] As of 2006 four companies – Smithfield, Tyson, Swift & Company, and Cargill – were responsible for the production of 70 percent of pork in the United States.[14] 

The company had 46,050 employees in the United States, Mexico and Europe as of 2012, and an annual revenue of $13 billion. It raises 15.8 million pigs a year, producing 3.8 billion pounds of fresh pork and 2.7 billion pounds of packaged meat, sold as 50 brands of pork products and 200 gourmet foods.[15] Along with specialty brands such as Paula Deen Collection, and international brands such as Weight Watchers, the company's 12 core brands are Armour, Carando, Cook's Ham, Curly's Foods, Eckrich, Farmland, Gwaltney, Healthy Ones, John Morrell, Kretschmar, Margherita, and Smithfield.[16] The company also operates The Genuine Smithfield Ham Shoppe and a restaurant, Taste of Smithfield, both in Smithfield, Virginia.[17]

Merry Christmas

Jesus.

Exactly.

Now THIS is a protest sign

That makes you think!

Exactly which church?

I'll make sure never to go there...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.

Really?

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Or maybe:

But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

I wonder what Jesus' opinion of torture was? You know... waterboarding, sleep deprivation, being crucified....

Who would Jesus waterboard?

A reminder of the teachings of Jesus to those who are mainly interested in Old Testament smiting.

Finally a clear view of what Christianists think

When they think of liberals. We need apparently to repent of our 'selfish and narcissistic' lives as we get blamed for causing our own breast cancer by having multiple and carefree abortions.

What the hell is a selfish and narcissistic life? One who loves children who are here and recognizes the needs of the living sadly and necessarily overrides the functions of the womb? One who is comfortable with their sexuality and recognizes love comes in a multitude of forms? One who thinks of others and how to help? One who respects the planet and its future and does not look forward to the world ending in an horrific division of them and us? One who recognizes the rule of law is to protect individuals not corporations? That torture debases us along with destroying others? That the phrase God is Love includes everyone without exceptions?

I really don't think Jesus would recognize these people .

Are you a Pythonist?

You may take offense to this film! (Via whig at cannablog):

Can Democrats survive religion?

Or has the world forgotten that Jesus was the ultimate liberal?

Sinfonian at Blast Off!:
"I have not found anything in the Bible to dissuade me from my opinion that if Jesus returned today, He would be a liberal. The evangelical positions against things like abortion and gay marriage purport to come from a literal interpretation of the Bible - but it is a highly selective interpretation as well. I find evangelical positions hypocritical because they don't interpret the entire Bible literally; for example, I don't hear a lot of advocacy for stoning prostitutes or sacrificing animals, yet those customs are Biblically advocated as well.

The Jesus about whom I learned, and for many years worshipped, was compassionate, loved everyone, and took special interest in what we today call the underprivileged. Yet, the conservatism of today has distorted those positions to the point where evangelical Christians, who should support aid to the needy among us, vote for (and, in many cases, elect) candidates who want to reduce social services and promote big business.

In short, it's not the concept of Christianity itself - that is, the belief in God and in Jesus Christ as His manifestation on Earth - that has turned me off so much as the rank hypocrisy of its most vocal adherents. When the idea of "becoming a Christian" or "accepting Christ as your savior" was presented to me, as a 16-year-old back in 1982, I understood it as a choice that was left up to me - I retained the autonomy to make that decision for myself. What would Jesus do? I believe He would maintain the same basic stance I understood when I became a Christian almost a quarter century ago: human beings have a free will, and their choice to follow Him or not has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone else but themselves."