“[M]ost of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches,” Daniels wrote. “I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.”

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Yes it’s that time again. Time for everyone to have fun except for the Christians, who must try their best to get in the way, preach to your children, and protest anyone having fun without their god involved.

After all, Halloween is the only celebrated holiday in America that has non-christian roots AND has not been successfully co-opted by Christianity, so that’s right out if you’re so insecure about your mythology that you can’t even stomach giving candy to kids.

Oh, and talk about crazy? The above article, you may noticed, is cached, because the original has been removed from the CBN web site. Apparently they didn’t want their true craziness to be shown. THANKS GOOGLE!

Christians need to realize that Halloween is just as Pagan as Christmas and Easter. The only problem is that “All Saints Day” didn’t stick, so now they are trying to make Halloween a “currently religious” holiday (as opposed to a holiday with religious roots that is now secular) so they can protest it.

But this day is not about religion or dogma. It’s about fun and candy. So have a little more fun, and give a little extra candy this year to make up for those party-pooping fear-mongors who will have and give neither.

Today the House released their version of the health care reform bill that did not include language requiring private and public health plans to cover spiritual care for any person. This “spiritual care” includes reimbursements for payments that Christian Scientists make to members of the Church who pray for them when they are ill.

“Requiring American taxpayers to reimburse Christian Scientists and other religious sects that deny themselves and their children necessary medical care would have been incredibly unethical in addition to a violation of church state separation, said Sean Faircloth, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition. “I am thrilled that the House of Representatives has chosen to remove language that would have required Americans to foot the bill for religion-based care. Their actions demonstrate that common sense secular values are being heard in the halls of Congress.”

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This will save the lives of children, or at least prevent us all from having to pay for their unnecessary deaths. We should dedicate this victory to Madeline Neuman, who died at the hands of her ignorant, primitive and dogmatic Christian parents.

Those who counsel pastors say Christian culture, especially Southern evangelicalism, creates the perfect environment for depression. Pastors suffer in silence, unwilling or unable to seek help or even talk about it. Sometimes they leave the ministry. Occasionally the result is the unthinkable.

Experts say clergy suicide is a rare outcome to a common problem.

But Baptists in the Carolinas are soul searching after a spate of suicides and suicide attempts by pastors. In addition to the September suicide of David Treadway, two others in North Carolina attempted suicide, and three in South Carolina succeeded, all in the last four years.

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The article goes on to say that it has no hard stats as to whether or not suicide or depression is higher in the clergy, but I can speculate.

One thing I keep telling Christians is to read their Bible, because I know that the more they read it, the more likely they are to become atheists. I would suspect that someone who has trained their whole life to be a pastor, whose livelihood is preaching, would get pretty depressed when he realized that it was all a scam.

But suicide is not an answer. There’s nothing after you die (if I am wrong, and you kill yourself, you’re going to Hell), and there is a LOT you can do here and now. So here are a few suggestions for pastors who have realized that their religion is a scam.
1) Tell your family first. Get their support — you will need it, and they will probably give it.
2) Stay in your job and keep preaching while you train for another vocation. Find something that truly makes you happy, without sacrificing your morality. Don’t think of yourself as being above manual labor or farming.
3) While staying on as a preacher, preach only the messages you can stomach. Try to sleep well at night.
4) When your training is complete, tell your congregation honestly that you have come to a logical realization and quit. Try to give them time to replace you, but don’t let the church hold your life up too long. Preachers are hard to find these days.

Don’t think of this as a ‘crisis of faith.’ This is a good thing! Your brain is helping you! This is a logical realization of facts, not a crisis of any kind. Suicide helps nobody. This world needs “former pastors’ who have seen the light of reason.

The Church of Scientology in France was convicted on Tuesday of fraud and fined around half a million dollars. Although prosecuters wanted the church to be disbanded, the Paris court that heard the case decided not to do so as they supposed that they would continue to operate illegally anyway. The Church, its library, and six of its leaders were convicted in the case.

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Lord Xenu is gonna git the French!

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During his Fox News show on Tuesday night, right-wing pundit Sean Hannity attacked a new ad campaign soon to be appearing in New York City subway stations that raises awareness about atheism. The ad, sponsored by The Big Apple Coalition of Reason, reads: “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are you?”
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Sensing an opportunity to exploit the ads for political benefit, Hannity told his audience that a Christian group could never get away with airing ads like that:

“Can you imagine the outrage if a Christian group put pro-God ads in the New York City subways? What outrage”.
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But as Subway Sights — a blog about the NYC subway system — explains, “The problem with this thinking is that Christians have been putting up pro-Christianity ads in the subway for years and nobody cares.” The blogger continues, “There are ads for all kinds of competing churches, each offering their own flavor of Christianity and their own path to salvation,” and offers this photograph as evidence.

What outrage indeed Sean! Imagine if you actually knew what you were talking about! Imagine if you didn’t actually TRY to flame intolerance against atheists and instead attempted to support our right to free speech! Imagine the outrage among Christians if you APOLOGIZED for saying something WRONG!

But that will never happen, will it Sean?