Obama Decides To Keep Government-Funded Religious Job Discrimination

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On Friday, Barack Obama decided to keep the employment discrimination on the basis of religion going. He issued guidelines that allow the government to keep on paying money to create jobs that are available only to people who have certain religious beliefs.

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Massive Quakes and Volcanic Destruction? I’m Still Waiting for God’s Mini-Me

Self-proclaimed religious psychic visionary Linda Newkirk has issued her latest prophecy in an e-mail blast: “Massive Quake/Volcanic Destruction Imminent!” Oh dear! But I’m not quite convinced it’s time to go out and buy a lava-repellent helmet. In December 2009 Linda …

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Mike McIntyre Uses Prayer As A Pose For Power

Congressman Mike McIntyre doesn’t care enough about prayer to center his own life around the practice, so what right does he have to lecture to the rest of us about how we’re not praying enough?

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Obama Administration Refuses To Talk About Discrimination Funded By Faith Based Initiatives

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Joshua Dubois, Barack Obama’s director of a program to funnel government money to churches, to pay for their employment discrimination, refuses to talk to Americans who are asking for a restoration of separation of church and state. So, why should Americans who support separation of church and state give their support to Barack Obama’s presidential re-election campaign this year?

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Ram Bomjon, Buddha Boy Gone Wild!

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Ram Bomjon, aka Palden Dorje aka Dharma Sanga aka Tamang Tulku Rimpoche, was said to be an enlightened Buddha Boy. More recently, however, he’s been holding people prisoner and physically attacking anybody who challenges his authority.

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Why Aren’t Paranormal Investigators Taken Seriously?

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Should scientists stop criticizing each other’s work, and just try to get along?

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A Miracle That Fighter Jet Malfunctioned And Wrecked Homes

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Just to make the point clear that he wasn’t just talking about dumb luck, but a bona fide religious miracle, the mayor explained, “We’re so blessed and truly believe a miracle has occurred here with us not having any victims.” It was a particularly Christian miracle, too, apparently. A “Good Friday miracle”, according to the mayor.

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Congressman Peter Stark’s Address On Religion and Public Service

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A transcript of the speech of Congressman Peter Stark to the Reason Rally, a gathering last weekend of thousands of non-theist Americans on the National Mall.

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Why Bother Holding A Reason Rally?

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It’s easy to forget that there are many places in America where it’s still extremely difficult for a person to publicly acknowledge that they don’t have any religious identity. Until such places are the exception, rather than the rule, it will be sadly reasonable to attend events like the Reason Rally.

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After the End of the World: A Harold Camping Redemption Footnote

We’ve spent a little bit of time deriding the absurdity of Harold Camping’s counterfactual prediction that world would incontrovertibly end in Spring 2011, his later insistence in the world would really really end in October 2011, and his consistent call …

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More Americans Wish Politicians Would Stop Using Religion As A Political Tool.

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Secular liberals are treated as pariahs by the Democratic Party. There is no functioning political party that represents the interests of secular Americans over the interests of religious Americans.

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Don’t Believe It? How to See Eddie Izzard for Free in Washington DC March 24

What would you pay to see comedian Eddie Izzard? What if I told you you didn’t have to pay a thing? Don’t believe it? Well, your disbelief is kind of the entire point. Jesse Galef of the Secular Student Alliance …

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Disunity Defines Spiritual Experiences

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A survey of spiritual experiences suggests that the concept of “God” is peripheral to the actual experience of the religious realm for most people… if it’s related at all.

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Scientists Confirm Finding “Osiris Particle” Is Near, Or Not

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Journalists have discovered that if they give the nickname of a god to a scientific subject that people don’t otherwise care about, their writing all of a sudden becomes relevant to readers and publishers.

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Newt Gingrich’s Latest Visionary Proposal: Publish An Old Book!

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Newt Gingrich says he’s a visionary, but when asked what his vision is, Gingrich can’t do anything but wave an old book in his hands.

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Secular Activists: Let’s Make Rick Santorum Vomit

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Let’s send letters to Santorum, with no other content than the message, “Mr. Santorum, I support the separation of church and state.” Every time he reads one of these letters, Santorum will get the urge to puke.

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How to Spot a RoboMailer, Lesson #412

Reading automated e-mail blasts can be so much fun. Today Irregular Times receives this missive from “Whitney Reed”: Hello ___, Do you accept guest posts for your site http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2009/10/30/christianity-but-not-confucius-for-theocracy-caucus-in-congress/? If so, I would be very interested in submitting an article …

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You Islamic Radical – Oops – I Mean Environmentalist!

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After people heard her accuse President Obama of being a secret Muslim extremist, Alice Stewart came back to MSNBC and said that her use of the phrase “radical Islamic” was just a slip of the tongue. We all can understand that, right? Why, just the other day, I was at the grocery store, and I asked the man at the deli counter for some “thinly sliced radical Islamic”.

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