Yes, folks, these are the people who actually vote: �Every pregnancy is in God�s hands,� Doctor Says

Recently, while doing an ultrasound, Reisig found the baby to be abnormal. She referred the patient to a specialist, who told her the baby was incompatible with life and she needed to have an abortion.

�I told her she didn�t have to make that decision,� Reisig said.

�The baby could survive, and it was in God�s hands.�

Reisig said she didn�t have a strong feeling that the patient was listening.

The panicked woman had already scheduled an abortion, but the baby had already died.

�Like I told her, God will take care of it,� Reisig said.

Yes! See? God takes care of everything!

Yes, because, when you put it that way, xians really don’t seem to be those completely fucked-up dysfunctional masochistic weirdos: Gospel Commentary: Suffer with Joy

Yeah, some more of those “studies” we all know and enjoy: Profs Study Race, Religion. But this part cracked me up:

When questioned about what religious or nonreligious group doesn�t share their vision of American society, survey participants indicated that atheists � with 54 percent � provided the greatest threat, Hartmann said. Survey participants said Muslims create the second-highest threat.

Yeah, really nice phrasing for that question…

I found this to be rather surprising: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case of Banned Prayers at Military School

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will not consider reinstating mealtime prayers at a state-funded military college, turning aside an appeal from Virginia officials who wanted to preserve the tradition.

Justice Antonin Scalia blasted his colleagues for refusing to hear the case, arguing that it raised important church-state and other questions. Leaving those issues unresolved is unfair to Virginia Military Institute, Scalia wrote in a dissent joined by fellow conservative Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

Shit, I guess I’m liking this Court more and more (Scalia aside), especially when you juxtapose this action with what happened in Locke v. Davey. So, where do I send the apple pie?

WASHINGTON (AP) — An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey’s Mount Ararat where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah’s Ark.

A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey’s tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government, said Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock- The Trinity Corporation.

Future expeditions will hunt for leprechauns, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy.

In a totally unrelated story, “Jesus box” found to be hoax. Coincidence? YOU decide.

I’ve decided to drop the weekly scripture. It was fun, but it’s becoming a burden, and keeps me from putting the time into more posting topical stuff. Hope we’ve all learned a thing or two about the “good” book, and no doubt I’ll mine it for stuff now and again in the future. Now, back to your regularly scheduled rants.

Oh, one more thing: Time for a real domain. I’m not moving the site, but I thought I’d give it a real domain of its own rather than the current subdomain god.ozrock.net. (although that address will continue to work in the future). I’m sort of leaning toward gods4suckers.net, but I’ll toss it open for suggestions. Comments or input, anybody?

Check out the Spiritual Inspiration Page The fact that they even call it that cracks me up. Some highlights:

These things are up to us to change, if we can, and to accept if we cannot.[...] But you are suffering, not because you have done anything wrong, but just because that is the way this world is. It started out as paradise, you will remember, but our ancestors ruined it for all of us.[...] The more we suffer and still continue to have faith in God and talk to Him and do His will, the greater will be our reward in heaven.[...] Prayer is not the mindless recitation of formula prayers written by other people.[...] Maybe we need the pain and the shock to bring us to Him. When we coast along and life is easy, we figure hey, who needs Him?[...] We can only conclude that this is the way it has to be: perhaps we would not know what joy is if we could not compare it to times of sorrow, or know what pleasure is without pain.

…and so on.

And here’s another laugh if you have nothing better to do: Rapture Ready

Freudians should go to town with God’s fixation on things inside the pants. We’ve had some talk about penises; today, we come at things from, um, another angle. In 1 Samuel 5:2-7, we’re told about when the Philistines took the ark and brought it to Ashdod and brought it into the house of Dagon (their god); and about exactly how the fist of god came down:

When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him. Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day. But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

So, first God knocked over their idol; then knocked him over and cut his head and hands off. And then, he gave them all hemorrhoids (”emerrods”)! Then they caved; any god that can inflict hemorrhoids, you just don’t want to mess with.