UPDATE: Not like there was any doubt, but the Texas State Board of Education approved the changes to the social studies and history curriculum we listed here last week. Who needs facts when there’s ideology? [MSNBC]
Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
Posted in Education, Lawmaking, Religion, Texas, Wingnuts, tagged Education, laws, racism, Religion, revisionist history, Science, Texas on 05/25/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Religious Leaders Forcing Senegalese Children To Beg In Streets For…God
Posted in Religion, The End of the World, World News, tagged atheism for the win!, jesus h. christ, Religion, Senegal, slavery on 04/16/2010 | Leave a Comment »
A report released by Human Rights Watch yesterday reveals that at least 50,000 children in Senegal are forced to beg on the streets by the assholes who are supposed to be their religious leaders. Parents send their children to various religious schools for instruction in the Koran. Instead, some leaders exploit the children for their [...]
France to Partially Ban Burqas
Posted in Lawmaking, Politicking, World News, tagged burqas, France, laws, Muslims, Religion, sexism, women's rights on 01/26/2010 | 1 Comment »
Under proposals from a cross-party Parliamentary Commission in France today, Muslim women face a ban on full veils on French transport and in other public services by the end of this year. MPs predicted that a law outlawing burqas or other face covering in state services could very well pass into law within months in [...]
Conservative Artist Jon McNaughton Paints The Best ‘Art Thing’ Since Forever: It’s The Sistine Chapel Times Infinity!
Posted in The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged Art, atheism for the win!, Jon McNaughton, Religion, who knew Jesus spoke English?! Whattaguy! on 10/06/2009 | 1 Comment »
WHO KNEW? Oh well look-y here at Jesus, minutes after he finished writing The Constitution, for 9/11, during the Vietnam War on Drugs, or whenever. He is very shiny, because that’s just how he rolls, bitch. Oh and look who else just cold-stopped by?? There’s Thomas Jefferson, who thought he wrote the Constitution, before realizing, [...]
Conservatives Will Attempt To Re-write, Or ‘Conservatize’ The Bible, Because It’s Too Liberal (Gay)
Posted in Atheism, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged atheism for the win!, conservatards, Religion, rewriting the bible fer dummies, the Bible on 10/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to avid CTJ reader LustyMcButterPants for alerting us to the hip new thing in Conservatism – rewriting the Bible to remove any trace of liberal bias! (It’s about goddamn time.) Well, what’s on the docket Conservative Bible Project, you ask? How’s about some sexy extracts from their list of ten, yes?? (Courtesy of HuffPo.) [...]
George W. Bush An Actual Insane Person; Attempted To Coerce Jacques Chirac Into Helping Him Bomb Iraq in 2003 By Mentioning Fictional Bible Demons Gog and Magog
Posted in Atheism, Books, Politicking, Religion, Terrorisms, The End of the World, War, Wingnuts, World News, tagged ...craaaaazzzy..., fancy book learnin', France, George W. Bush, Jacques Chirac, politics, Religion, Terrorisms, the Bible, the Bush legacy, War on 08/06/2009 | 2 Comments »
WHAT THE FUCK WAS PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY FROM 2000 TO 2008? EH, HERE’S YOUR LEAD: “Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.” FINE BY ME. Now, as we all strongly consider [...]
Today’s Headlines: 98 Percent Of Humanity Is Miserable, Rotting Trash
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, Politicking, The End of the World, War, tagged Africa, AIDS, American hypocrisy, Amnesty International, corrupt politicians, Health, human rights, ignorant media, laws, politics, Religion, Sarah Palin, Saudi Arabia, The Catholic Church, torture on 07/22/2009 | Leave a Comment »
• Amnesty International accused Saudi Arabia today of using its campaign against terrorism as a facade for “a sustained assault on human rights.” Its report states thousands of people have been arrested and detain in virtual secrecy, while others have been killed in uncertain circumstances, following Saudi Arabia’s numerous counterterrorism measures since 9/11 which, combined [...]