Religiously Beating an Adopted Child to Death

I'm speechless, yet I want to scream obscenities at the top of my lungs. Keep this in mind the next time someone tells you there can't be any morals without religion. Anyone who blindly follows the teachings of a book can be easily misled to do some truly miserable and disgusting things.

On another note, remember this the next time someone tells you that one dad and one mom are proven to be best for children.


Ugh:

Three years ago, Kevin Schatz and his wife Elizabeth did something so noble, a local television station featured them; the pair decided to adopt three children from Liberia. Now, they're accused of killing one of the children because she mispronounced a word.

Prosecutors say that the California couple used quarter-inch plastic tubing to beat their seven-year-old adopted daughter to death.

Apparently, they got the idea from a fundamentalist Christian group, which promotes this as a way of training children to be obedient.

On #theResponse and my Response to @theyouthblog

A young man took some time to put together a video response to me today on twitter. I felt it would be disrespectful not to respond in kind, since it was clear that he was interested in real conversation. So, here's my first video, and I kind of enjoyed making it, so there will likely be more to come.

"Priest dies after trying to walk on water"

Source: ReligionNewsBlog

A priest has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water.

Evangelist preacher Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle.

But he drowned after walking out to sea from a beach in the capital Libreville in Gabon, west Africa.

It's hard to not laugh a little at this, but it's part of the tragedy people experience as a direct result of blind faith. Blind faith is remarkably dangerous. It is a shame and I hope his followers will use this as a wake-up call.

Atheist Converted to Islam Through Logic

Laughing my fucking ass off!

Some folks have a very different definition of "logic" from what I've read in my dictionary.

Added to the Atheist Blogroll

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Hahahahahahaha!

This speaks for itself. Enjoy!

ps: As hilarious as this may be, this type of bigotry is potentially deadly. That should not stop us from laughing at the guy who thinks we have to prove god does not exist but he does not have to prove god does. In fact, he goes so far as to say you cannot prove god's existence until after you believe in "him" (I'm going to call it "it" from now on because that just makes more sense to me). Well ain't that a bitch?

Getting Suckered

People keep letting themselves get suckered by con artists and snake oil salesmen:

The FBI and police were left red-faced today after launching a massive hunt for 30 dead children following a tip from a 'mentally unstable' psychic.

Texas Rangers and the FBI joined 15 car loads of local police officers, sniffer dogs and a helicopter last night to scour the area in Liberty County after blood and a 'foul odour' were found at a house the 'psychic' claimed contained the dismembered remains of dozens of children.

You mean to tell me the psychic doesn't actually have psychic abilities? No way! I would respond, but this guy does it perfectly for me: