"...This is what we’re saying: actions have consequences. If you didn’t want a child, you shouldn’t have had sex. You must be punished by becoming a parent even if you know that you are not willing or able to be one. This is insane. ... " - Charles M. Blow

From the "It-was-so-much-easier-during-the-Inquisition" Department: Bill Donohue (head of the Catholic League) made a gob-smacking statement, on Larry King Live (30 March 2010), while defending the Catholic Church on allegations of sexual abuse by priests and cover-up by the Vatican: "The vast majority of the victims are post-pubescent. That is not pedophilia, buddy. That is homosexuality." According to Donohue, the age at which boys become "post-pubescent" is around 12 or 13. What does this mean? Does the Church want us to believe that a priest raping a 12 year-old boy is not the same as a priest raping a 10 year-old boy? Surely not.

""In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters."
It's an oral history. It was passed down, word-of-mouth, father to son, from Adam to Seth, from Seth to Enos, from Enos to Cainan, for 40 generations, a growing, changing, story, it was handed down, word-of-mouth, father to son. Until Moses finally gets it down on lambskin. But lambskins wear out, and need to be recopied. Copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of copies of an oral history passed down through 40 generations.
From Hebrew it's translated into Arabic, from Arabic to Latin, from Latin to Greek, from Greek to Russian, from Russian to German, from German to an old form of English that you could not read. Through 400 years of evolution of the English language to the book we have today, which is: a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of an oral history passed down through 40 generations.  You can't put a grocery list through that many translations, copies, and re-telling, and not expect to have some big changes in the dinner menu when the kids make it back from Kroger's.  And yet people are killing each other over this written word. Here's a tip: If you're killing someone in the name of God — you're missing the message." - Nick Annis (musician) in the preface to God is Good.

The New York Times reports that American churches are turning to violent sport to attract converts...apparently the "marriage of faith and fighting is intended to promote Christian values."

Atheists hit back: Video parody of fundamentalist Christians...all words taken from Christian websites. The Youtube video has generated over 18 000 comments and over 700 000 views. 

"For a second consecutive year, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s award-winning "And Tango Makes Three," a children’s book about two male penguins caring for an orphaned egg, tops the list of American Library Association’s (ALA) 10 Most Challenged Books of 2007. "