Mikey Weinstien tells us about the anti-Semitism at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Bush tells us that he is fighting in Iraq because God told him to go and kill Muslims. Gen. Boykin says that God put Bush in the White House. So read this piece by Robert Koehler linked to in the title to this posting.Our Department of War is being run by the U.S. Evangelical Taliban who is in control of the most technologically advanced deadly war machine in the history of the world and our decider in chief says we are on a holy crusade. We know there are atheists in foxholes, but the Nuts are running the asylum.See my past posting on Blackwater Evangelical mercenaries. Peter Nuhn

The National Day of Prayer (NDP) takes place tomorrow. By federal law, the commemoration occurs on the first Thursday of every May.Most events around the country are coordinated by the National Day of Prayer Task Force, a private group run by Shirley Dobson, wife of Religious Right leader James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family. The task force instructs its volunteers to allow only conservative Christians to speak, and its events are often laden with ?Christian nation? rhetoric.?A government-sponsored day of religious activity was never a good idea,? says the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. ?Now, the event has been taken over by the Religious Right and turned into an exercise in political posturing and theological one-upmanship.?

Well it’s official: My friend’s kid died of a drug overdose (huffing). I used cocaine once. I had one line and had a life-changing epiphany I’d like to share.I remember that there had been a basketball player that had apparently died having tried cocaine for the first time (turns out he had a heart defect and the cocaine pushed him over the line, if I remember correctly). At any rate the news of the day was that one could die from Cocaine on a single use.As I raised my head from the mirror, having snorted my one line, I realized that I had just risked death — the cessation of my existance (as an Atheist, there is no afterlife, so death is pretty bad). No matter how small, it was a stupid risk. Stupid is the word — I felt really stupid for having taken such an unneccary risk.And that’s why I don’t use cocaine. That’s how Atheism stopped me from using hard drugs.I wonder if this is unique, or if there is a pattern here (admitted sample size of 1). How many Atheists keep clean because life is finite and therefore more precious than those who think there is more after death?And then we can relate this back to Pat Tillman and other Atheists in the armed forces. Does Atheism make those who risk their lives for family and country more brave/heroic than their theistic counterparts?