by VorJack
I am a geek.
I sense your incredulity. As evidence, I hold up my screen name. VorJack was the name of my first roleplaying character — in the Marvel Comics Roleplaying game, of all things.
Have I established my bona fides? Let’s move on.
During high school, one of my friends was a fantasy geek. [...]
I’ve pointed out before that the Bible nor the God it portrays is “pro-life,” but the BEattitude has compiled some more verses about the Bible’s stance on killing babies in the womb:
God will punish women by aborting their fetus through a miscarriage.
“Give them, O LORD–what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.” (Hosea [...]
Ty made this comment in On The Consolations of Atheism, but I thought it was so good I wanted to highlight it in a post:
When I believed in an interventionist Christian God, the universe didn’t make any sense at all. I just had to keep telling myself it didn’t make any sense because God’s thoughts [...]
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 4 of the Pillars of Faith series.
The name of this theologian may be unfamiliar, but most men of God are his heirs.
Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, Howard Ahmanson, James Dobson, D. James Kennedy — almost every fundamentalist follows Rousas John Rushdoony, 1916-2001. Newsweek once referred to Rushdoony’s Chalcedon Foundation as the think tank [...]
by Bill Noorlander
I have a confession to make. I went Catholic Mass on Palm Sunday. Lest anyone think the spirit has moved me, I went because I lost a bet with one of my non-believing brethren.
I took my medicine like a man, and dutifully sat through the service. Truthfully, I spent most of the [...]
Another tragedy has happened with a mother killing her son. A Florida woman brought her son to a shooting range, killed him, then killed herself. This is one the notes she left:
I’m sorry to do this in your place of business, but I had to save my son. God made me a queen and I failed. I’m [...]
Many Christians believe the reason there is evil in this world is because of “free will.” God didn’t want things this way — Adam & Eve disobeyed God by eating, and thus got us into the mess we’re in. God created a perfect world, but humanity screwed it up.
That explanation doesn’t make sense to Bart [...]
Fred Winters, the pastor of First Baptist Church of Maryville, IL, was shot to death during a morning service today.
A 27-year-old gunman walked up to the pulpit, exchanged words with the pastor, and fired four shots. The gun jammed after he shot the pastor, so he pulled out a knife — thankfully though, a large [...]
Francesco Orsenigo: Why do people bring things to such extremes? Because it gives us identity, purpose and at the same time... Pray for Obama
rA: Psalm 109:9, Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Pray for Obama
Craig Duckett: Now if Dennet would have said that “God is just a word” that would’ve been another... Meaningless Deepities
BD: http://blog.cafepress.com/2009 /11/20/psalm-1098-update/ Designs are off the website. Huzzah for reasonable people who see the... Pray for Obama
Siberia: Darth Pope wins. 2009 Bad Faith Awards
Offred: I was wondering how long it would be before Daniel or someone posted this, dkos has been having some involved discussions... Pray for Obama
Jerdog: Couldn’t they have at least recycled all that paper? Or will anything tainted with evil 50%... The Book Burning That Wasn’t
