Really getting tired of religion's intrusion in our lives.

Tolerance for their bullshit has allowed them to get this far.

Someone should reminds Dobson of Matthew 6;6

"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

How many Islamo-fascist are in congress, like none? How many Christo-fascist are in congress, like 100?

So I ask, who pose the greatest threat to America, freedom and liberty? The Christo-fascist within our borders or the Islamo-fascist half way across the globe? The former hands down.

National Day Of Reason - May 1
Set up as an alternative.

MoveOn Necadawg @ 7:

Religion is nothing more than a way to start another war. All wars were religious. The Conservatives of this country need wars to survive.

wow, smart guy, all religion solved in a nutshell.

if only gandhi and dr. king had your insight.

This Guy is a Lunatic from way back.
Anyone who would be distracted away from the fact that our Country is in
trouble both Economicaly and may not be able to overcome the mess these
very people have put us in. Is delusional.

No wonder folks hate "Christians," when so much evil is done in his name.

Me, I sing THIS hymn that day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk69e1Vcmvg

MoveOn Necadawg @ 7:

... The Conservatives of this country need wars to survive.

So long as it's not their kids getting killed while they and their corporate cronies rake in the profits from it.

And our President thinks of the Constitution as providing an “important bridge between church and state.” Um, Mister President? Thomas Jefferson said it was a wall, not a bridge, and as an architect of both Monticello and the nation, he ought to know the difference.

Bridge, wall, same difference to the retarded.

i know this is o.t., but there's a big sexy arianna ad right under this thread.

arianna huffington makes me feel like john travolta at the end of "grease"!

that woman is HOT.

Organizing religious fraternity is no more different than the corporate rise of a little oil company called Halliburton through Washington influence peddling, except in this case through tax-free loopholes to sanction a 2016 Corporate Christian service sector in the US economy. The true creationist goal happening underground while a public argues bigbang creationalism.

What about Jeff Gannon? He's got to have a blue dress in his freezer...

WHAT NEW SLANDER UPON MAY DAY IS THIS? THIS IS A DAY OF SOLIDARITY AND STRUGGLE!
GET THEE BEHIND ME YE PEDDLERS OF DRIVEL!
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Clinton fell in with The Family in 1993, when she joined a Bible study group composed of wives of conservative leaders like Jack Kemp and James Baker. When she ascended to the Senate, she was promoted to what Sharlet calls the Family's "most elite cell," the weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast, which included, until his downfall, Virginia's notoriously racist Senator George Allen. This has not been a casual connection for Clinton. She has written of Doug Coe, The Family's publicity-averse leader, that he is "a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God."

Furthermore, The Family takes credit for some of Clinton's rightward legislative tendencies, including her support for a law guaranteeing "religious freedom" in the workplace, such as for pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions and police officers who refuse to guard abortion clinics.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich

Scary stuff:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2365581/Jesus-Plus-Nothing

So everyone except the Dobson cult is basically excluded from a National Prayer Day?

My oh my how Spiritual.

bullfrog @ 20:

that woman is HOT.

How many drinks you have today?

Oy.

Do we need a National Day of Prayer? I thought the founding fathers wanted separation of church & state? does this mean I can practice witchcraft in the public square? It is a form of prayer.

geneHUSSEIN214 @ 25:

Speaking of religion, you folks should check out "Jesus Made Me Puke" by Matt Taibbi in this month's "Rolling Stone". Matt goes into the belly of the beast when he attends an evangelical retreat. It's funny, creepy, and nobody write about the experience like Taibbi. Check it out:

http://tinyurl.com/66mnxn

That is awesome. Money quote:

Here I have a confession to make. It's not something that's easy to explain, but here goes. After two days of nearly constant religious instruction, songs, worship and praise — two days that for me meant an unending regimen of forced and fake responses — a funny thing started to happen to my head. There is a transformational quality in these external demonstrations of faith and belief. The more you shout out praising the Lord, singing along to those awful acoustic tunes, telling people how blessed you feel and so on, the more a sort of mechanical Christian skin starts to grow all over your real self. Even if you're a degenerate Rolling Stone reporter inwardly chuckling and busting on the whole scene — even if you're intellectually enraged by the ignorance and arrogant prejudice flowing from the mouth of a terminal-ambition case like Phil Fortenberry — outwardly you're swaying to the gospel and singing and praising and acting the part, and those outward ministrations assume a kind of sincerity in themselves. And at the same time, that "inner you" begins to get tired of the whole spectacle and sometimes forgets to protest — in my case checking out into baseball reveries and other daydreams while the outer me did the "work" of singing and praising. At any given moment, which one is the real you?

You may think you know the answer, but by my third day I began to notice how effortlessly my soft-spoken Matt-mannequin was going through his robotic motions of praise, and I was shocked. For a brief, fleeting moment I could see how under different circumstances it would be easy enough to bury your "sinful" self far under the skin of your outer Christian and to just travel through life this way. So long as you go through all the motions, no one will care who you really are underneath. And besides, so long as you are going through all the motions, never breaking the facade, who are you really? It was an incomplete thought, but it was a scary one; it was the very first time I worried that the experience of entering this world might prove to be anything more than an unusually tiring assignment. I feared for my normal.

The imagery of the "mechanical Christian skin" is what fascinates this life-long atheist. I have NEVER believed in something that didn't seem real to me. Oh, for a little while when I was like 8 I pretended I could do telekinesis, and I often told my friends that I was Spider-Man. But I was 8. Adults acting like this astound me. I guess it's all hindbrain idiocy; not one of these educated adults, denizens of the modern world, has the stones to stand up during the raving idiocy of these proceedings and say "but you're ALL putting on an act!"

It is as I have often suspected.

The comparison between Thomas Jefferson (architect, statesman, scholar, farmer, scientist, and all-around champion of enlightenment) and George W. Bush (Jesus-twisting, warmongering, money squandering, inside-trading, economy-crashing, Constitution-trashing, all-around moron and buffoon) is simply astounding.

If you think about it, the best parts about religion aren't about religion at all - it's more of a sense of community connection and the natural feeling of euphoria when we feel a part of something greater than ourselves.

For most people around the world, religious traditions include celebrating holidays with delicious food - so perhaps it's time to consider creating a foodfaith? Skip all the dogmatic rituals and get right to the buffet table!

Of course the only caveat is that it has to be organic, sustainable and locally produced ingredients!

it's staggering when you actually pause to think about it, just how staggeringly ignorant george bush actually is as to the intent of the founding fathers of the constitution when they wrote the document. the president consistently misinterprets, and through his actions sullies the soaring greatness that was bequeathed to us in that powerful and liberating document.
george bush truely is a plague upon our nation that we will need generations to recover from.

Hey Dumbson;

So exclude me from your national prayer day for rightwing religio-fascists...
Like I give a rats ass......

As far as Bush's latest brainfart about bridges supplied by the constitution from the state to the pulpit??? Fuckers got a bridge of rocks between his ears where his brain should be.... That dumbass statement is just about what I'd expect from that little wuss......JD

I wonder how many of our tax dollars are being ripped off by the James Dobson religious freak show, under the guise of "Faith Based Initiatives?"

The Dude @ 45:

I like Pie @ 21:

Why would the christians celebrate a Communist holiday?

May 1st is the people's workers day. The Russians would have big parades and tanks would roll through the streets.

Actually May 1st is the international labor day. It is observed everywhere in the world, it is not a communist holiday.

The irony of the date, is that it is held in observance of the first win of organized labor: in May 1st, 1886 American unions were able to push for the establishment of the 8-hr work day.

So the rest of the world celebrates an American labor win, while the only country that does not observe May 1st as a holiday in the industrialized world is.... the USA. Ain't that a bitch.

Hmm, didn't know it was in the US the prerunner event was.

Anyway, in 1889 it was decided by the founding congress of the second "International" (if thats how you spell it), that it would be the international day for:

Demonstration and battle for the working class

and ye, some still demonstrate at the day here, but it has lost much of the zeal from 30 years ago and earlier. We take it as a neat day off to fix our gardens for the summer, and in preparation for May 17.

Dobson is a fucking con man. A total piece of shit. He takes money from the poor and gives it to the rich. Fuck him.

I really like the 'focus on your own family' image you posted. For more than two years now, every email I send, business or personal, has a tag line stating that. You would not believe how many people find it offensive. Do I care? Nope. I started doing it in response to people adding tag lines quoting the bible.

Will be similar to that Letterman video hit piece of Obama the other night.

I know what Ted Haggard will be praying for!

Should we invite any Christians to our orgy?

They can carry serving bowls full of punch, or condoms, or the pill.

Playing with snakes,talking in tongues,jesus on toast, the more goofy and outrageous the display the better. How dare you question the holy ways. If you want to be forgiven for your sins,place a dead chicken in a paper sack and wave it over your head while praying "inkie dinkie do-inkie dinkie-di. Then the pastor,after collecting your offerings ,will place his hand on your forehead and bang its done. I have seen Benny "con" heal thousands of poor sick people every week with just a touch of his hand. Benny utters the magic words "inkie-dinkie do" the sick person swoons into spiritual bliss, miraculously healed with the touch of bennie's hair covered palm. The blind can now see, the deaf can now hear and the follower with one leg has suddenly grown a new one,dancing about the stage with divine joy, to the astonishment of all. How could any self respecting,reasonable intelligent human being see such ludicrous display of pure unadulterated bull shit and not be ashamed and embarrassed of the human race(small wonder any aliens who may exist ,would be to frightend to land here). I am sure that their is a "no landing "policy among extraterrestrials because of the danger involved in dealing with a savage lifeform like humans. Meanwhile may the great and powerfull magical being bless you with his words "inkie-de-inkie-do!---CEO

This uber conservative ,and uber low profile Christian Dominionist entity has its roots in Nazi and fascist values. This is the group whom Hillary refers to as her spiritual support mentors. The North Carolina smears done on Mc Cain a number of years ago,are alleged to have been their handiwork. McCain,in his defense,at the time ,rejected this ultra right wing ideology. and they jacked back! You can be assured Obama will be ,and is, the recipient of this Christian Dominionist smear. Here are some links from Wikipedia. The article entitled Christian Mafia is the most detailed and informative,IMHO.( Rove is a member from way back.) PLEASE avail yourself of this knowledge._________References:
^ Joshua Green, Take Two: How Hillary Clinton turned herself into the consummate Washington player The Atlantic Monthly, November 2006
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Doug Ireland, Hillary, l’Amérique, et l’intégrisme chrétien, Bakchich, 13 April 2008 (account of Jeff Sharlet, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, HarperCollins, 2008) (French)
^ Lisa Getter, “Showing Faith in Discretion”, Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2002
^ a b c Jeffrey Sharlet, “Jesus Plus Nothing”, “Harper’s Magazine”, March, 2003
^ Anthony Lappé, “Meet ‘The Family’”, Guerrilla News Network, June 13, 2003
^ Lara Jakes Jordan, “Fellowship finances townhouse where 6 congressmen live”, Associated Press, April 20, 2003
^ Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet Hillary’s Prayer: Hillary Clinton’s Religion and Politics Mother Jones (1 September 2007)
^ Joshua Green “Take Two: Hillary’s Choice The Atlantic (November 2006)
^ “Transcript: Bono remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast”, USA Today, 2006-02-02. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.
^ Frommer, Frederic. “Minnesotan to deliver keynote speech at National Prayer Breakfast”, Star-Tribune, 2008-02-06. Retrieved on 2008-03-22.

[edit] External links
Wayne Madsen, “Expose: The Christian Mafia”, Insider Magazinee_________________________________________________________ National Prayer Breakfast is an off shoot of the Fellowship I referred to in an earlier post. This is the entity spearheaded by Doug Coe,Hilary's admitted spritual adviser. This group has NOT been vetted. PLEASE avail yourselves of these links if you want to understand the roots of the rise of Christian Fascism and Fundamentalism in our present government.

Thanks for including this piece. It's a well-needed reminder that there are many sensible progressives working on behalf of our first freedom, and that in January, we will once again reclaim some very personal areas of choice, such as those around prayer, reproductive life, and end of life, that the extreme right-wing fringe has hijacked, and that sound science and academic integrity will once again become American values. You triggered me to do a piece about this at my site. Thanks again.

I meet a guy recently who spent 8 years and prison, he said the bible was they only thing he got to read while he was in there. He is totally brainwashed ready for instructions to go and kill Islam fascist.