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Movember -- November is Moustache Month!

Via: dowser • Religion & Ethics • 30 Comments • 10 years ago

I found this video and thought it was hilarious! I hope you enjoy it!I like moustaches, myself... Good thing, since my husband has one!Thanks for coming by!

Penis shaped church erected in Dixon IL

Via: krounded • Religion & Ethics • 7 Comments • 10 years ago

Well....the sermon this week is: Who told you that you were naked - Genesis 3:11 The site used to be used to manufacture gas, so I guess this is an improvement....

Costco in Simi Valley labels Bibles as fiction; pastor disagrees

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 10 years ago

A Costco in Simi Valley found itself in a flap this week after a local pastor posted a photo on Twitter showing Bibles at the big-box store labeled as fiction. Caleb Kaltenbach, pastor of...

The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning -- by Jonathan Sacks

Via: len • Religion & Ethics • 31 Comments • 10 years ago

Book Summary: ***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist*** Dorot Foundation Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience An impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully...

Organization promoting religious freedom plans to deploy atheist billboards

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 85 Comments • 10 years ago

source An organization that promotes the separation of church and state plans to deploy more than 50 billboards in the Sacramento, Calif. area to highlight atheists who are ignoring...

From “Faith and Doubt,” by Rabbi Norman Lamm, Ktav Publishers, 1986

Via: len • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 10 years ago

For many contemporary men and women, God is irrelevant, and secularism triumphant; there are no longer any questions. However, for many others, the will to believe is alive but not the ability to...

The new Pope deserves all the acclaim he is getting and much much more.

Via: retired-military-ex-republican • Religion & Ethics • 8 Comments • 10 years ago

Time Magazine man of the year and very deserving. The new Pope is bound to upset the Catholic Church of the United States of Corporations. Can our Government endure his reign. Remember when the...

Vitor Belfort Demonstrates Why Church Sucks

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 10 years ago

see video HERE There are times when reality becomes way more ridiculous than satire. This is one of those times. Vitor Belfort, the UFC's favorite devout Christian/TRT user, stars in a...

Hindus follow Satanists, want display at Okla. Capitol

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 7 Comments • 10 years ago

source OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma's decision to allow a Christian monument on its state Capitol lawn has opened the door to almost any other religious display, legal experts said, as...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/18/tea-party-patriot-arrested-for-swapping-child-porn-using-hornypastor-email-account/

Via: retired-military-ex-republican • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 10 years ago

This has it all Child Porn, Religion, GOP, Tea party Patriot. Other than parasite on society this individual has no earthly function. Wonder if his mommy and daddy never taaught him right from...

The Late, Great American WASP

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 20 Comments • 10 years ago

The Late, Great American WASP The old U.S. ruling class had plenty of problems, ut are we really better off with a country run by the self-involved, over-schooled products of modern...

Why should religion have anything to do with this?

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 5 Comments • 10 years ago

source Central African Republic crisis: 'Like Darfur, plus anarchy' By Ann Curry, NBC News National and International Correspondent BANGUI, Central African Republic At Bangui...

former-alabama-youth-minister-Onearrested-for-allegedly-sodomizing-teen-boys/

Via: retired-military-ex-republican • Religion & Ethics • 3 Comments • 10 years ago

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/former-alabama-youth-minister-arrested-for-allegedly-sodomizing-teen-boys/ Once again Religion is used as a inroad to child abuse. Religious leaders and...

Six Habits of Highly Empathetic People

Via: ambivalent • Religion & Ethics • 10 Comments • 10 years ago

six-habits-highly-empathic-people It can be difficult to reach out, understand and actually listen to others when we ourselves are often flailingand thrashing around in our own lives. I am a...

The UN has said that the Vatican should "immediately remove" all child abusers

Via: larry-crehore • Religion & Ethics • 10 Comments • 10 years ago

The UN has said that the Vatican should "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers. The UN watchdog for children's rights denounced the Holy See for adopting...

Belgium's parliament votes through child euthanasia

Via: larry-crehore • Religion & Ethics • 20 Comments • 10 years ago

As reported in an article in to-days BBC News Europe Parliament in Belgium has passed a bill allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children without any age limit, by 86 votes to 44, with...

Churches Off the Hook for Pedophilia; What’s Next for Survivors?

Via: larry-crehore • Religion & Ethics • 4 Comments • 10 years ago

For now, the Catholic Church in South Dakotaalong with schools, religious orders and other churches and institutionsappears to be off the hook for sexual abuse that Native Americans say they...

Iraq considers allowing girls as young as EIGHT to marry as part of new laws that also force wives to submit to sex at their husband's whim

Via: larry-crehore • Religion & Ethics • 11 Comments • 10 years ago

The bill also makes the father the only parent with the right to accept or refuse the marriage proposal. Also, under the proposed measure, a husband can have sex with his wife even without...

giving out free cash then detained in mental hospital

Via: petey-coober • Religion & Ethics • 15 Comments • 10 years ago

LINK http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/man-committing-random-acts-of-kindness-by-giving-out-cash--detained-in-mental-hospital-225126586.html Man committing random acts of kindness by...

Saudi Arabia declares all atheists are terrorists in new law to crack down on political dissidents

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 13 Comments • 10 years ago

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-declares-all-atheists-are-terrorists-in-new-law-to-crack-down-on-political-dissidents-9228389.html Saudi Arabia has introduced a...

Good News for Pat ?

Via: petey-coober • Religion & Ethics • 3 Comments • 10 years ago

LINK http://news.yahoo.com/australias-top-court-recognises-gender-neutral-sex-category-004428333.html Australia's top court recognises 'neutral' third gender By Neil Sands | AFP...

Islam’s Religious War with Everyone

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 22 Comments • 10 years ago

Islams Religious War with Everyone By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Mag, April 22, 2014 Few divides are as impossible to bridge as those of religion. You either believe or you dont....

Empathy... An informative experience...

Via: malamuteman • Religion & Ethics • 82 Comments • 10 years ago

In a recent comment on a controversial topic I explained my feelings to the article author in what I thought was a pretty clear and, if I do say so myself, compelling way. At the end of my...

Have you no empathy for the tasty things the snail will now consume??? - An empathy sequel...

Via: malamuteman • Religion & Ethics • 25 Comments • 10 years ago

In a recent article on empathy I made a case for trying to empathize with those who are most different from us, including non-humans, plants, and even non-living things. I used the following...

Vatican: 848 priests defrocked for abuse since '04