Archive for the 'Good Religion!' Tag

Sorry to link to such distasteful sources, but I was reading some political news today and found a couple of right-wing sites discussing a flyer Obama recently released to court Kentucky voters.
CBN: Obama and the Cross
Race42008: Barack Obama’s pitch in Kentucky (contains images of the flyer in question)
CBN wonders if publicizing his Christianity like this [...]

And if they don’t have the technology, can we give it to them?
Religion News Blog: Muslim plan to tackle extremists
Potential terrorists should be sent to rehabilitation centres and deradicalised by exposure to intense and substantial periods of genuine piety, Britain’s first counter-extremism thinktank said yesterday.
The recommendation came from the Quilliam Foundation, established by former activists [...]

Frankly, one of the reasons I don’t blog about nice religious people more often is that I have trouble finding things to say about stuff I agree with. But I tire of being called a racist bitch when really, I’m just an argumentative bitch. So, Muslims (and everyone else), go read.

Well, this is interesting.
via Religion News Blog, Radio Netherlands: Dutch Muslims offer to air anti-Qur’an film
Amsterdam - The Dutch Muslim Broadcasting organisation has offered Dutch populist MP Geert Wilders to air his planned anti-Qur’an film. Mr Wilders has rejected the proposal. The network first wants to ascertain that Fitna does not violate any constitutional rights. [...]

Thanks to Wil Wheaton for reminding me, because I completely forgot!
We should all spend this most holiest of days observing The One True Religion.

All the urban legends and smear campaigns about Obama being Muslim and taking his oath of office on the Koran (I would guess that at least some of these people are confusing him with Keith Ellison, who is a Muslim and did swear in on a Koran) have me thinking about a political ad I’d [...]

Zeus makes a comeback in Greece
Unlike the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the old religion lacked written ethical guidelines, but its gods were said to strike down mortals who displayed excessive pride or “hubris” — a recurring theme in the tragedies of Euripides and other ancient writers.
“We do not believe in dogmas and [...]

Contributions of the World’s Religions — Buddhism

Only deity whose belly can be rubbed for luck.
Only deity who grants pie upon belly-rubbing.
Best hats. And most importantly…
“Not killing people” as religious observance.

Buddhism = teh WINNAR!