Commentary, news, and rants on the evils and stupidity of belief in the big invisible daddy in the sky. Illuminating and watchdogging the widespread attempts to institutionalize the theocratic rule of the US. Making fun of believers everywhere.
Sometimes, you just gotta poke fun for the joy of it:
Show and Tell Music is “a site that serves as sort of an orphanage for thrift store music and album cover art”. It’s got lots of fun and yuks, and even some strange MP3s as well, but best of all are the galleries of strange cover art from Christian albums. Check them out here, here, here, and here.
Hard not to like “Mr. Bat Sings” and “Never Be Afraid” shown here. (Found via Boing-Boing.)
Excellent piece commenting on Just-Ass Scalia’s dissenting opinion in the case where the 10 C’s were kicked out of the courthouse by Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment and Director of The Information Society Project at Yale Law School: “Justice Scalia Puts His Cards on the Table“. Read it; here are a couple of the key quotes from Scalia’s opinion:
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our Nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities [does he mean, Deists, like many of the Framers?-- ed.] just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists…. The three most popular religions in the United States, Christianity, Judaism and Islam– which combined account for 97.7% of all believers…. are monotheistic … [and] believe that the Ten Commandments were given by God to Moses… Publicly honoring the Ten Commandments is thus indistinguishable, insofar as discriminating against other religions is concerned, from publicly honoring God. ..they cannot reasonably be understood as a government endorsement of a religious viewpoint…
As Balkin comments about this:
And there you have it. If you aren’t a monotheist who believes in a personal God, the government may disregard you. You don’t count. We won’t persecute you, of course, that would violate the Free Exercise of Religion. But we can disregard you. You are insignificant. You are not us.
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The Supremes perform a completely absurdist balancing act on the 10 Commandments case as one of the their final acts of the term (Split rulings on Ten Commandments displays: Courthouse exhibits crossed line, but outdoor tablet OK). In a pair of 5-4 decisions, with O’Connor the swing vote in both, they’ve ruled that the 10 C’s can be OK on government properties, but they can’t be inside courtrooms, because, you know, that’s going too far.
You want unprincipled tension? In the courthouse case, Souter writes for the good guys (who get the majority on this one by the grace of Sandy’s whim) that “the touchstone for our analysis is the principle that the First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion… When the government acts with the ostensible and predominant purpose of advancing religion, it violates the central Establishment clause value of official religious neutrality”. I love him.
But in the State Capitol Case (where the Theocratic Bloc wins, again by Sandy blowing in the wind), half-dead theocrat Rehnquist writes that “Of course, the Ten Commandments are religious — they were so viewed at their inception and so remain. The monument therefore has religious significance… [but] Simply having religious content or promoting a message consistent with a religious doctrine does not run afoul of the Establishment clause.”
Fucking assholes. The good guys are hanging on by a thread here. We’re now depending when obvious, explicit and admitted promotion of religion goes “a little too far”.
UPDATE: Sorry, the first news I saw incorrectly reported the vote; as a commenter noted, Breyer actually swung to the dark side in the Texas case — which is, frankly, a bit odd in my view. Sorry, Sandy! I still love you! (OK, not really; but she got this one right.) Still, a fragile and absurd balancing act, with the majority opinions almost directly contradicting each other.
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Very decent piece in the current issue of The Nation about the bigoted flap (mentioned by Bob earlier here) over the vocal atheist becoming the chair of sociology at Brooklyn College: Brooklyn Prof in Godless Shocker
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I’m sure you’ve all heard about Timothy Shortell fiasco. Really brings me back to Russell. If you want to read what he wrote, go here. An excerpt:
On a personal level, religiosity is merely annoying—like bad taste. This immaturity represents a significant social problem, however, because religious adherents fail to recognize their limitations. So, in the name of their faith, these moral retards are running around pointing fingers and doing real harm to others. One only has to read the newspaper to see the results of their handiwork. They discriminate, exclude and belittle. They make a virtue of closed-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot.American Christians like to think that religious violence is a problem only for other faiths. In the heart of every Christian, though, is a tiny voice preaching self-righteousness, paranoia and hatred. Christians claim that theirs is a faith based on love, but they’ll just as soon kill you. For your own good, of course. Those who believe that they are acting out the divine plan are the most dangerous sort in the contemporary world. Make no mistake.
So, like, what’s the problem?
