Top Fifty Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms

Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Top Fifty Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms

1. Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers

2. Honk If Your Religious Beliefs Make You An Asshole

3. Intelligent Design Makes My Monkey Cry

4. Too Stupid to Understand Science? Try Religion.

5. There’s A REASON Why Atheists Don’t Fly Planes Into Buildings

My favorite is #32

32. If God Wanted People to Believe in Him, Then Why Did He Invent Logic?

Bonus Points that he’s also a Pastor

Southwest Missouri mayor charged in Internet child sex sting
ASSOCIATED PRESS
01/14/2008

DIAMOND, Mo. — A small-town mayor is in jail in Newton County on four counts of soliciting sex over the Internet from a police detective posing as a 13-year-old girl.

Police said 62-year-old Allen Kauffman was arrested Friday and remains in jail on $50,000 bond.

Kauffman is the mayor of Collins, a town of about 200 people in St. Clair County about 50 miles northwest of Springfield.

Police said Kauffman was arrested after an investigation by police in Diamond in Newton County.

Court records show Kauffman did not have an attorney as of Monday morning. A phone message left at his home was not immediately returned.

Diamond police said Kauffman is married and serves as a pastor of the Temple Lot Church in Collins.

Holy Crow – Top 100 Fundamentalist Christian Chatroom Statements

There were way too many to choose a favorite to quote here, but I did so enjoy this one.

FSTDT Top 100

How can anyone beleive we evolved from monkeys heres a few questions for people who beleive that

1.If we did evolve from monkeys then how come babies arent born monkeys

2.Even Darwin said his theories were wrong before he died so why do you still believe them

3.do you really not believe the bible it says we were created in seven days not millions of years

4.how come we cant speak monkey

Just for a fact ape like creatures are monkeys Just in case certain people get on this thread

coolstylinstud, Christian Forums [Comments (126)] [2005-Jul-03]

But then again I really loved this one too:

No, everyone is born Christian. Only later in life do people choose to stray from Jesus and worship satan instead. Atheists have the greatest “cover” of all, they insist they believe in no god yet most polls done and the latest research indicates that they are actually a different sect of Muslims.

Trinidad and Tobago, CARM [Comments (260)] [2006-Oct-01]

It’s my abortion too! *pout*

It’s my abortion too

“We had abortions,” one of the men — who was responsible for four pregnancies that ended in abortion — is quoted as saying. “I’ve had abortions.”

That man — Mark B. Morrow — is a Christian counselor who recently spoke at a conference in San Francisco that was supposedly the first national conference on men and abortion. It featured, among other things, personal testimony from men who claimed that their lovers’ abortions left them scarred. Some became depressed; others nursed their sorrow with alcohol, or had obsessive dreams about their imaginary relationships with children who were never born. Looking back over their lives and the abortions, these men feel a sense of regret so profound, they say, that they’ve decided to join the fight against abortion, using not violence but, as the article puts it, “the power of men’s tears.”

Here’s a clue, Mark.

Stop. Getting. Women. Pregnant.

I know that by the holy power of abstinence-only education you’re probably not sure exactly how you’re getting them pregnant or if there are any ways to stop it, but trust me, it’s within your control. Visit plannedparenthood.org or teenwire.com, they can tell you all about how to overcome the (male) pain of abortion by the offbeat & wacky method of not getting anyone pregnant in the first place.

Especially 4 times. Sure, the first one is a freebie, but four? That’s just sloppy.

Evolution vs creation row ends in stabbing

Evolution vs creation row ends in stabbing | The Australian

“A FRUIT-picking trip to southern New South Wales ended in the death of a Scottish backpacker who became embroiled in a bizarre row about creationism and evolution.”

Hrmmm. Five years for stabbing a scientist to death because they didn’t believe your magical guy in the sky created the earth. Given the quote below, I do have to wonder if the stabber and the judge went to the same church or something.

“The offender is a person of good character and the offence is a complete aberration.”

executive summery summary of the article: (bolding mine) Continue reading »

I am so sick of this ‘Ron Paul’ bullshit

So, the best argument that you can make for him is that he has…nothing to show for himself? Let me clue you in – in the Real World, where the rest of us have to live, spending 20 years doing nothing but criticizing other people while they do things you “don’t believe in” has a consequence. And unless you work for the DMV that consequence is “fired”.

It’s not enough to sit on your moral high-horse, never taking any kind of positive action to affect change or learning how to garner support for your ideas. “Uselessness” is not a positive character trait, no matter how many sweet little Chinese tales you trot out. Continue reading »

Here’s a Disturbing Sentiment for You

Church sign I see on my way to work:

Gifts are placed under a tree.

The greatest gift hung from a tree.

Happy Holidays!

It’s both disturbingly, creepily cheery and factually incorrect in that way that church signs get off on being.

According to myth, Jesus hung on a cross made from wood which was once a tree, yes. But unless we can say that my computer is now sitting on a tree, as do all my books, then it’s really a stretch to make this particular analogy. Is all I am saying.

Wish I had more time and energy to comment.

I read these books a few years ago and loved them, in part for the anti-religious wisdom the children in them evince. The movies can’t live up to that, I don’t know if I will bother to see them.

Post is good – go read it.

Comment is free: Golden delusions

Atheists and those of a religious bent can live and socialise together quite happily – we’re lucky enough to live in a liberal and tolerant society. This does not mean we should pretend there are no ideological differences between us. Christianity and atheism cannot both be right. If the former is correct, atheists are doomed to hell; if the atheists are on the money, Christians are allowing an aeons-old lie to restrict their freedoms and choices in their one shot at life. The stakes are high.

Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes

Saudi punishes gang rape victim with 200 lashes
Nov 15 10:51 AM US/Eastern

A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms — was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for “being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape,” the Arab News reported.

But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia’s Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.

Covering Religion May Be Harmful to Your Faith

Burnout on the God beat – second top religion writer calls it quits – FaithWorld

November 15th, 2007, filed by Tom Heneghan

Covering religion may be harmful to your faith. Two leading religion journalists — one in Britain, one in the United States — have quit the beat in recent months, saying they had acquired such a close look at such scandalous behaviour by Christians that they lost their faith and had to leave. Continue reading »

Anti-Choice Agenda Check!

OK, it’s amazing how warm and fuzzy this dead couple with the dead “unborn baby” are made to seem in this article – now that a drunk driver took them out. Had they been alive any article about them might have focused on how this 30-year-old statutory rapist guy impregnated his 18-year-old, high-school dropout girlfriend and didn’t marry her. But now that they’re all dead, it’s just warm fuzzy baby clothes stories and “Oh The Humanity!” of her “unborn baby” aka 2nd trimester fetus. Someone’s anti-choice agenda is showing…

Alleged drunken driver kills couple, unborn baby

By Leah Thorsen
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/14/2007

GRANITE CITY — A young couple killed by an alleged drunk driver as they walked on a Granite City street had been expecting their first child and had chosen the baby’s name, a family member said Tuesday.

Mary Drayton, 18, was six months pregnant, authorities said. She was walking with her boyfriend, Jerimiah Phelps, the baby’s father, on Monday night in the 3100 block of Missouri Avenue when they were struck by a car. They were on their way to a friend’s house.

Bolding mine:

Phelps, a 30-year-old construction worker, had moved in with the Drayton family in Granite City about 10 days before the fatal crash, she said. They had been dating on and off for about two years.

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St. Louis Leads Nation in 2 STD Infection Rates

Whooo! We’re #1!

City leads nation in 2 STD infection rates

By Blythe Bernhard
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/13/2007

St. Louis leads the country in infection rates for two of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, according to an annual report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The city has been plagued with high rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea for years. Last year, nearly 7,500 new cases of the diseases were reported.

But this will fix it:

The city’s health department held a task force meeting today to address the issue.

Doctors Fight No-Abortion Policy

The Associated Press: Doctors Fight No-Abortion Policy

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Two weeks after Olga Reyes danced at her wedding, her bloated and disfigured body was laid to rest in an open coffin — the victim, her husband and some experts say, of Nicaragua’s new no-exceptions ban on abortion.

Reyes, a 22-year-old law student, suffered an ectopic pregnancy. The fetus develops outside the uterus, cannot survive and causes bleeding that endangers the mother. But doctors seemed afraid to treat her because of the anti-abortion law, said husband Agustin Perez. By the time they took action, it was too late.

Funny if you’re not religious

All others click at your own risk :-p

irReligion.org » Intelligent Design Venn Diagram

One for the DUH! files

Report: Abstinence not curbing teen sex – Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of millions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies.

“At present there does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex, hastens the return to abstinence or reduces the number of sexual partners” among teenagers, the study concluded.

Although I have to make a comment for clarity’s sake – if actual abstinence was happening it would indeed be curbing teen sex. Abstinence curbs any sex, really. Severely. So obviously this crap headline should read “Abstinence-only education not curbing teen sex” However that doesn’t mean it’s not also cross-posted with the “ya think?” tag.