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That’s a damned lie.
Porn thrives off of dishonesty. This is bullshit.
As opposed to religion, which thrives off of dandelions and jaffa cakes?
Jen McCreight (Blag Hag) is driven from blogging by mysoginist fuckfaces
I hope all the mungfaces who’ve been harassing her are proud of themselves. If I ever meet one of the people who hassled her for speaking out about the inherent sexism in the atheist movement, I’m kicking them in the crotch.
The fact that the people responsible for this mostly identify as skeptics, as I do, makes me all the more sicker. I can only hope that the climate will change and Jen will one day soon feel safe enough to return to the skeptic blogosphere; Our online presence is poorer without her.
We are star stuff.: theplanetmidnight: i-am-the-sword-in-the-darkness: me-the-demon:...
i-am-the-sword-in-the-darkness:
A message to tumblr:
Yes, some of us are religious and have faith in a higher power.
Yes, it is very awkward for us when we scroll through our dashes and see nothing but hate posts and reblogs…
AWW POOR WITTLE RELIGIOUS BABY FEEL OPPRESSED?
“ If my father were alive today, he would be in his 90s. He grew up financially well off in the Depression but his disinheritance by his father and service in WWII opened his eyes to the suffering of most of the world. He did not contribute to charitable religious organizations, preferring to support governmental or secular groups. Here’s why: I vividly remember driving by the Salvation Army store one day, and my father saying he wouldn’t give them a cent. When I asked why, he said, “they make those poor bastards say a prayer before they’ll give them a hot meal.” He believed, rightly or not I cannot say, that religious charities served the poor only to recruit them to their faith. The thought of a man bending his knee to a god he didn’t believe in, in exchange for a hot meal, made my father sick. Government doesn’t make you say a prayer before they give you a hot meal. This has always been a very powerful argument, to me, for supporting public social programs over private charity.”
A Dish Reader
Paul Ryan And Private Charity, Ctd - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
(via think4yourself)
Absolutely believe the same thing. Some fellow students and myself tried to start a non-denominational soup kitchen program when I was in college (location: central Indiana) and it was supremely difficult. The Christian organizations didn’t want the “atheists” (we were not an atheist organization) cutting into their territory. They did not even want to work with us.
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So apparently in the UK, if you get offended, you get to go to the police.
John Richards of Boston (the one in Lincolnshire, not the one in Massachusetts) is an atheist. He decided to express his atheism on his own property in a rather mild way: he put up a letter-sized piece of paper in his window with the slogan “religions are fairy stories for adults.”
Police then told him that he may face arrest if he didn’t remove this sign.
I understand now a little better the volume of mewling, simpering apologies the BBC keeps putting out.
the 1986 Public Order Act states that a person is guilty of an offence if they display a sign which is […] insulting […] which may cause another person harassment, alarm or distress.
I’m fairly astonished the UK has such a draconian, chilling piece of “law” on the books.
(via cityblue30)
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