Just thought I'd share this with you all.

Wow.

From the AP via AOL News:

Like hundreds of young men joining the Army in recent years, Jeremy Hall professes a desire to serve his country while it fights terrorism.

But the short and soft-spoken specialist is at the center of a legal controversy. He has filed a lawsuit alleging he's been harassed and his constitutional rights have been violated because he doesn't believe in God. The suit names Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Known as "the atheist guy," Hall has been called immoral, a devil worshipper and — just as severe to some soldiers — gay, none of which, he says, is true. Hall even drove fellow soldiers to church in Iraq and paused while they prayed before meals.

You might recall that last month an American businesswoman in the great, freedom-loving nation of Saudi Arabia was arrested, strip-searched, finger-printed, and detained for having the audacity of hanging out in a Starbucks with a man who wasn't a relative.

Spurred in part by the infamy of this incident, a brave female journalist with Arab News is now posing some tough questions for the famously brutal Saudi religious police (Known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice).

Among the questions she's seeking answers for: "Why is having coffee in a public place with an unrelated man considered 'illegal seclusion'?"; "Is a strip search really necessary for women arrested for khulwa (illegal seclusion)?"; and finally, "Is brutally beating a suspect to death a form of promoting virtue or preventing vice?"

We here at the Professor Politico Show commend this woman for her courage in trying to put a cruel and corrupt system on trial.

From BoingBoing.com:

The Chinese government this week dispatched military troops and police to important monasteries in Tibet to crack down on the largest protests by ethnic Tibetan Buddhist monks in the Himalayan region in 20 years. Witnesses are reporting that trucks full of troops have surrounded Drepung monastery in Lhasa, as police surround nearby Sera monastery.

The mystics finally show their true colors.

Reason and logic are the only things that provide humanity with it's means of survival.

Because without reason or logic we are nothing more than primitive animals living only for the moment.







P.S. What side do you think I'm on, hmmmm?

From the National Secular Society:

After an acrimonious debate in which the bogeyman of secularism was repeatedly invoked, the House of Lords (in England) on Wednesday accepted the amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill that abolishes the common law of blasphemy and blasphemous libel.

The amendment had originally been introduced by Lib Dem MP Dr Evan Harris in the House of Commons, but the Government had persuaded him to withdraw it after promising to introduce its own amendment later in the Lords. This it has now done, although — if Baroness Andrews’ speech was anything to go by — with something less than enthusiasm.

More here.

From BoingBoing.net:

A Quaker math teacher at California State University East Bay has been fired for inserting the word "nonviolently" into the loyalty oath that state employees are required to sign. The woman, who works with young people who need remedial help with math, has always made this change in the loyalty oaths she's signed throughout her long teaching career, but the CSU East Bay administration fired her for refusing to pledge to violate her religion's tenets to in defense of the Constitution (a document that guarantees religious freedom).

For all you theology majors: An excellent debate between an atheist and a theist on an atheist call-in show

Why wasn't this one of the commandments?

A pastor in Ybor City, Fla, has issued a challenge for his congregants (the married ones anyway): Have sex every single day for a month.

If I had known priests like this one when I was younger I'd still be a practicing Catholic instead of the godless libertarian atheist I am now.

It's just like the virgin Mary on a piece of toast, but better.



Link.

This picture is all you need to pitch a movie. Hell the name of the movie is already in the picture.
Some on should get on top of this pronto! Not me of course because I, you know, have no idea how to write a movie.

I have no words so just soak it in.
















There ya go.

Now I have a question. What meaning do you take from the above picture and what is your reasoning behind it? (this is me trying not to be a total douche)