Tag: Christianists
Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
Mayor Gets All Profane Over Atheists
Take me to f**king court because I don’t care. Minorities are not going to run my city.
— La Vista, Neb., Mayor Douglas Kindig, quoted by the Daily Beast, on atheists questioning his town-sponsored “day of faith.”
Looks like Faith in Satan Doesn’t Count in America
This is a faith-based nation and a faith-based state. I think it is very offensive they would contemplate or even have this kind of conversation.
— Oklahoma state Rep. Earl Sears (R), quoted by Tulsa World, insisting that a Satanist religious group should not be given the same treatment as Christians.
Why Christians Should Leave the Democratic Party
Oh, Oh, oh I do believe it. I said it because I believe that the Democrat party has become an anti-God party, I think it’s an anti-life party, I think it’s an anti-family party. And these are all things I think Christians hold to very dearly.
— Virginia lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson (R), asserting that the Democratic Party is “anti-God” and that Christians should leave it, Salon reports.
Most Americans are (Sigh) Christians
78%
Of American adults identify with some form of the Christian religion in 2011. Less than 2% are Jewish, less than 1% are Muslim, and 15% do not have a religious identity.
Jackasses of Hate
Westboro Baptist Church wants to have them some fun
At the expense of the late Ryan Dunn.
But as they broadcast their hate,
Still, we know their fate —
The jackasses will end up in hell — cooked well-done!
Five Months Off
That Harold Camping’s a son of a gun.
With his Rapture talk he’s having some fun.
Was he wrong? He won’t say,
About the twenty-first of May,
But now he says it’s October twenty-one!
Rapture’s Bright Side
The Bible-bangers went and made a prediction
That tomorrow at 6 comes salvation.
For those of our kind
Who will be left behind,
Why, we’ll just enjoy a world with no Christians.