Tag: religion

No separation of Church and State

In choosing evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama is associating himself with one of the most popular religious figures in the nation, reaching out to conservative America and proving he’s willing to take some flak from the liberal flank of his party

WTF? why is there even a religious angle to the inauguration?

Mad Max and the Meltdown

This year we celebrate the desacralized “holidays” amid what is for many unprecedented economic ruin — fortunes halved, jobs lost, homes foreclosed. People wonder, What happened? One man’s theory: A nation whose people can’t say “Merry Christmas” is a nation capable of ruining its own economy.

funniest blowhard in some time. apparently the minuscule retreat of religious values in the us is the cause for the financial meltdown. never mind that the us is still at 3rd world levels of religion.

Giving Up on God

shifting demographics suggest that the Republican Party — and conservatism with it — eventually will die out unless religion is returned to the privacy of one’s heart where it belongs. Religious conservatives become defensive at any suggestion that they’ve had something to do with the GOP’s erosion. And, though the recent Democratic sweep can be attributed in large part to a referendum on Bush and the failing economy, 3 long-term trends have been devastating to the Republican Party: increasing racial diversity, declining marriage rates and changes in religious beliefs.

if they get rid of the religious nonsense they might even become electable one day.

Interfaith Relations

fracas over baptism between Mormons, Jews, and Catholics

Apparently, Mormons are allowed to perform a ritual that is intended to “baptize” dead ancestors so that those ancestors can get to heaven. This “baptism” is purely virtual, since of course the dead ancestors were not actually Mormons, and aren’t around to attend the ceremony themselves. Jewish Holocaust survivors are so alarmed about this prospect that they are demanding that the Mormons revise their religion

Praying for Money

Did you know that some Christian dingbat has dubbed today the “Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies?” Well here they are, at the Wall Street bull statue thing, praying to Jesus for money. The dingbat has explained, “We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control over the economic systems.”

oy. they haven’t even read their own “holy book” which takes a dim view on idolatry.