Finally, an educated, intelligent US president. Barrack Obama is delivering on the rational front as we all hoped he would. In his press conference on April 6 in Turkey, President Obama explained: “One of the great strengths of the United States is … we have a very large Christian population — we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
Conservatives assert that the U.S. is in some sense a Christian nation and tend to make the following arguments. The first is that the majority of Americans describe themselves as Christians, even though the number of voters who describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated has grown from 5.3 percent to 12 percent in 2008 in the last twenty years. The ratio of Christians to non-Christians in American society as a whole is actually irrelevant to the question of whether the American government or indeed the nation, is Christian.
Tags: america, christianity
I first heard about this on Freethought Radio and couldn’t believe it - but sure enough a quick Google found that it’s sad but true.
Two women serve in Israel’s new Cabinet, but some Israelis would rather not see them. Newspapers aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jewish readers tampered with the inaugural photograph of the Cabinet, erasing ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver.
The daily Yated Neeman digitally changed the photo, moving two male ministers into the places formerly occupied by the women. The weekly Shaa Tova simply blacked the women out, in a photo reprinted Friday by the mainstream daily Maariv.
Tags: churches & cults, fundamentalism, religion
Well, that’s over for another year - thank god… Easter I mean. Apart from the overindulgence on chocolate and the many and varied kinds of hot cross buns, the fawning, pathetic xtians on telly trying to ruin a welcome four day holiday for the rest of us gets on my goat.
It wouldn’t be so bad but they believe that the period is exclusively THEIR’S and no one else’s. Sorry, but Easter has bugger-all to do with christian’s (or any other modern religion) - the celebration of the Spring Equinox has been going on for far, far longer than 1AD.
Tags: christianity, churches & cults, humour
I reckon that I’ve got the site layout pretty much the way I want it now (but, well I DO like to fiddle…) but a while ago I ran into the Amazing Grace theme made by Vladimir Prelovac and was very impressed. Pity that he probably doesn’t share my philosophical viewpoint, but nevermind - each to his own!
So… I decided to give it a try on the site. Did a preview and all seemed to be fine - the ‘read more’ of the posts doesn’t leave the other posts on the page but what the heck, the benefits far outweigh that small difference.
I like the colour scheme too - I’ll have to change / add to the header images (bet you can imagine some of the ones I could put up THERE…) and possibly remove the Home & About this site links at the top. I prefer them in the sidebar, but that’s fine tuning!
Let me know what you think of the new look and any suggestions on images for the photo frame would be welcome too.
Tags: site updates
Now, this surprised me a little. I knew that Australia was a secular country (regardless of what some of the fundies try and tell us) but I wasn’t prepared for a startling result like this and take a look how many people cast their vote. I’d have to assume that the SMH would have had some kind of safeguards in place to prevent those naughty extreme atheists from having their say more than once.
In a reader poll held by the Sydney Morning Herald who asked this question: Would the world be better off without religion?
Tags: atheists, churches & cults, humour, religion
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