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Last month a judge ruled that religious pamphlets could be distributed in a school district in Orange County, Florida, according to Raw Story. In the wake of this ruling, the Satanic Temple is handing out its own religious literature to Orange County schools: “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities.”

Last month a judge ruled that religious pamphlets could be distributed in a school district in Orange County, Florida, according to Raw Story. In the wake of this ruling, the Satanic Temple is handing out its own religious literature to Orange County schools: “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities.”

Intellectualism invites the constant assessment of the “correctness” of a person's belief system. That's dangerous ground for a fundamentalist Christian. When you confront them on a particular belief you are not only confronting them on an idea that they have held to more rigidly for a longer time than most other folks but you are confronting the very core of who they understand themselves to be. For them, it is on those core beliefs upon which their salvation hangs in the balance, at least in part. Questioning it doesn't just question the thought but, for them, it puts into question a lifetime of holding on tightly to that thought.

In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.

In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal. Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.

That is not a healthy thing for children, it's not a healthy thing for society ... Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life ... There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there's another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there's all sorts of ways that people suffer and it's not just tangible, it's also intangible and we have to consider both.

"By the way, I didn't want to single out just the cracker, so I nailed it to a few ripped-out pages from the Qur'an and The God Delusion. They are just paper. Nothing must be held sacred. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your lord, you are not disciples of any charismatic prophet. You are all human beings who must make your way through your life by thinking and learning, and you have the job of advancing humanity's knowledge by winnowing out the errors of past generations and finding deeper understanding of reality. You will not find wisdom in rituals and sacraments and dogma, which build only self-satisfied ignorance, but you can find truth by looking at your world with fresh eyes and a questioning mind."

"Shrill Bible-thumpers boycott 'The Golden Compass'; world's children grin devilishly"

"This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry."

"The founders were not anti-religion. ... But they wanted faith to be one thread in the country’s tapestry, not the whole tapestry."

"Clearly, I saw now that belief in God, no matter how grounded, requires at some point a leap of faith. Either you have the gift of faith or you don't." I guess 'gift' is one way to describe it.

"The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called Reverend."

"If you’re going to blaspheme, do it properly! This “I deny the Holy Spirit” stuff is for pansies."

"The atheist may find himself in hell for his disbelief, but at least he is not a traitor. Until God accepts that religion is His responsibility and can provide some real proof and guidance as to His plan, He is completely unworthy of our worship."

"last time i checked, presents weren't a reward for believing in god."

"It is a movement built on the growing personal and economic despair of tens of millions of Americans, who watched helplessly as their communities were plunged into poverty by the flight of manufacturing jobs, their families and neighborhoods torn apart b

This store kinda squicks me out - there's one at the Valley Fair mall in San Jose, unironically near Hot Topic and Torrid. "C28 is a Christian store chain, offering an alternative to the mainstream mall stores."

"You have to seel everything you own to inherit eternal life!" "Seriously, I thought that was metaphorical."

"There’s a bunch more about smashin’ babies and starting wars and a lot of plagues and an army of 200 million angels which killed a third of the world’s population."

"I deny the Holy Spirit."

Is there a word in German for that squicked out feeling I get when I see an awkward Christian repurposing of something from pop culture?

"Sam Harris and Dennis Prager inaugurate Jewcy’s “Big Question” series by arguing this very question."

"I would never have expected my host family to welcome me at the airport, wielding a Bible, and saying, 'Child, our Lord sent you half-way around the world to bring you to us.'"

"So thanks Dr. Science, for driving a nice little wedge between these people and their nasty little judgemental causes and ripping away their thinly-veiled morality facade (oops, did I say veiled?) I don't like abortions either. Nobody does. I wish they c

"It's always such an honor to be hated by people who believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old, was conjured into existence in six days, and that not believing their god appeared on Earth, like Zeus before Leda, means your non-existent soul will bur

Of course she'd find a receptive audience at a gun show.

"Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and that the separation of church and state is a "lie we have been told" to keep religious people out of politics."

"That's the result of a new survey of people's attitudes toward evolution. Notice where the United States lies: nearly dead last. We beat Turkey."

"One asks if religious visions are better off kept as a personal thing, or at least confined to a small group — otherwise the death and destruction sown by and in the name of religions more or less balances out their moral and personal virtues (which ar

"What is it with these right-wing Christians? Faced with a choice between sex and death, they choose death every time."

"The most important difference between evolutionists and creationists, Prof Jones concluded, is that scientists are always prepared to say, "I don't know"."

""I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy," she said"

"Worse than you may imagine"

"A functioning democracy requires its citizens to have some connection to reality."

"Recently I asked the believers among you to explain why you believe in your own prophet but not the other guy's prophet."

"He even ruffled a few religious feathers along the way."

"I moved here to get away from people like you."

"Scaring children into believing God. From Dawkins Doc. Root of all evil"

"an effort they say they hope will hasten the End Time"

"Instead of a soldier shooting evil Nazis with machine guns, you're Noah lobbing sleep-inducing berries at unruly goats on the Ark. Yes, really."

"Imagine that you live in a world where 90% of the people around you sincerely believe in something that appears to you to be downright whacky, if perhaps relatively pleasant on the surface in many respects."

"You can check the facts and see who's right, but Rob Boston went after John Gibson and Gary McCaleb of the Alliance Defense Fund, by calling the war on Christmas a lie."

'Seriously – are you kidding me with this “There’s a war on Christmas” bullshit?'

I'm tempted to say: Let them have their State of Jesus, if they'll leave everyone else alone.

"Anti-evolutionists claim that the site breaches the American constitution on the separation of church and state because it links to religious organisations which believe faith can be reconciled with Darwin's theory of evolution, reported the website Insi

"And He's not going to create a Universe based on rational laws, then not want us to practice our rationality."

"ID says we shouldn't bother ourselves with resolving scientific inconsistencies or untangling puzzles. We should recognize that what God really wants is for us just to stop learning."

Creationists who show up at museums just to argue are assholes.

"Think Differently | Think Biblically" We are all individuals! (crowd: Yes, we are all individuals!)

"One consequence was that the wealthy parasites known as the American Right, desperate to find a convincing argument against communism, seized on religion. Up to that point, the American Government had been devoutly secular, as specified by the Constituti

"How did a worldview short on empathy and imagination and that prioritizes property over people become identified with the faith of Jesus champion of empathy and unconditional love, of envisioning God's kingdom, and above all, of people over earthly poss

D'oht, I've been HAD. False: "Good satire neatly straddles the divide between the believable and the incredible, and the Dateline Hollywood article quoted above achieved that balance so well that many readers mistook it for a straight news article."

"America is waiting for her to apologize for the death and destruction that her sexual deviance has brought onto this great nation."

"If intelligent design were a scientific idea whose time had come, young scientists would be dashing around their labs, vying to win the Nobel Prizes that surely are in store for anybody who can overturn any significant proposition of contemporary evoluti

"Did you know that Pat Robertson can leg-press 2000 pounds! How does he do it?"

"Now we know why Robertson and his allies want the Ten Commandments posted everywhere imaginible. They have so much trouble memorizing them!"

"They discriminate, exclude and belittle. They make a virtue of closed-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot." Amen.

"In order to live in this science-dominated world, you have to be able to discriminate between science and non-science ... They want to rewrite the rules of science."

"DID EARLY CHRISTIANS USE HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS? ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE."