Once again, Bollywood film star, Shah Rukh Khan (AKA SRK) has been detained at US immigration on the way to make a speech at Yale University. The first time Khan was detained was in 2009. Khan alleges that this was due to US prejudice toward muslims, and I couldn’t agree with him more. The US [...]

I came across these courtesy of American Creation and the post How Religious Were the Founding Fathers?: Unfortunately, both videos neglect the likes of John Witherspon and Patrick Henry who were religious types. But even the strongly religious believed that Government had no place in religion.

From the Misanthropic Principle

I really want to change the world, but I think that politics and economics are failures.  Traditional religion leaves me blank. I do believe that we have much more power over reality than most people are aware.  So, it intrigues me when I get an invitation to something like the New Reality Transmission: On 11-11, [...]

As salaam alaikum, mate, Keef Halik? OK, I’m not a muslim, but we’ve got a few things in common. First off, we were both born in the USA.  I bet you probably get sick when you hear Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” as well.  On the other hand, that fact makes us both US [...]

Lots of good reasons, but I like this young woman’s I just wish her mouth was in sync with what she’s saying.  She looks like a bad 1960s Japanese cartoon. And she”s cut off at the end of her speech.

Fear Monsters Freedom means being able to brandish a gun. Empathy Monsters And when you accidentally shoot yourself in the foot, to have the health insurance cover to cover it. Fear Monsters Let’s face it: Glenn Beck IS America. Empathy Monsters I’m moving to Sweden. Empathy Monsters Fear Monsters gets their political news from one [...]

When the heroes of biblical times despaired, God would speak to them. “Al Tirah! Fear Not!” God commanded. Good advice then, good advice now A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Jedi Grand Master Yoda, known for his idiosyncratic object-subject-verb word order, shared this pearl of wisdom. “Fear is the path to [...]

Since I am into the Interfaith-Ecumenism thing and a fan of Father Ted. This clip is from the Tentacles of Doom episode (S2E3): one of my fav episodes (the Are You Right There, Father Ted? episode is pretty good too!) “Come on, I know you can do it!” Other fav quotes from this episode: Bishop [...]

I have become familiar with someone whom I shall call the Botox Bandit rather than her actual name. Mostly because Botox Bandit is the best thing to call this deluded ____. Any more facelifts and she’ll have a beard. But what got this going was that the Botox Bandit was talking about how offended she [...]

The Man With the Muckrake got me going with his 93% A- post about the  Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s 32 question quiz about religious knowledge I did 100% at the CNN version and 14/15 at the Pew test (15 “Which one of these preachers participated in the period of religious activity known [...]

This is for a right wing, Islamophobic, racist asshole who needs to take a good look in the mirror. If she thinks that her Christianity isn’t barbaric: she needs to seriously get her shit together. This material shows actual crucifixion in the Philippines Warning: these people are really being crucified with real nails. Or maybe [...]

It’s too bad that Americans are blind to their history and what goes on outside their nation otherwise they wouldn’t ask that question. I wanted to answer that question for Americans, but I am pretty sure that they won’t hear the message. They haven’t heard the message even though it is well published. For example, [...]

I found this to be an interesting post. This seems to apply very strongly to US society where the religious right is trying to make the US a “Christian Nation” rather than the secular one it was founded to be. Religion, according to sociologists like Durkheim, plays a vital role in society. It unites and [...]