I can’t agree with this guy enough. Can anyone out there cough up $2M for an Atheist ad during the SuperBowl?

I know why CBS is running an ad sponsored by Focus on the Family and starring Tim Tebow. It needs the money.

There is no other reason — and certainly no good reason — for anyone, including a television executive, to decide that the ethical standards which had stood for generations are suddenly no more worth preserving than that hairball the cat just coughed up. Advertising revenues are down throughout the industry, and one way to combat that is to accept ads you used to refuse from organizations dedicated to bigotry and divisiveness.

And so we get an anti-abortion ad by a homophobic organization during the biggest sporting event of the year. At a time when we’re all sitting together watching the big game, we’ll have another reason to argue and yell at each other.
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This makes me wish an atheist organization would do just that. And if not a Super Bowl ad, maybe one college kid could be persuaded to write “There is” and “no God” on his stripes of eye black. Either that or “Allahu” and “Akhbar.”

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I agree with the writer, but i just want to make one more point about Tim Tebow, Kurt Warner, and others that use their fame to inject religion, the most divisive idea in the world, into football.

They’re victims. They’ve been brainwashed since childhood into thinking they can’t do what they do without god, so they must use what they have to make new Christians (think payback). They were brainwashed into thinking their talents are literally god-given, and they would not be able to do what they do if it weren’t so. Tebow’s parents are missionaries, so you can imagine how his life was presented to him.

These poor saps swallow it whole, because they’ve never been taught to think and learn. Just pray and throw a football. When I watch Tebow on TV, with his constant in-your-face reminder that he believes in boogeymen, I feel sorry for him, and the mind he might have had if it were properly trained.

Poor bastards. I’m routing for the other team.

Thx Tarma.

A St. Cloud town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday invites people of all faiths and backgrounds to discuss a recent anti-Muslim incident in the city.

The meeting will give citizens a chance to talk with community leaders about concerns they may have, said Taneeza Islam, the civil rights director for the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN), one of more than a dozen organizations sponsoring the event.
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The incident involved cartoons, discovered Dec. 8 by a St. Cloud Muslim shopkeeper. They included vulgar depictions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, as well as an Islamic crescent with a swastika inside it, and were posted outside the store and in front of a mosque. Sidney Allen Elyea, 41, admitted to posting the cartoons and was cited with violating a city ordinance that prohibits posting materials on utility poles. Prosecutors in Stearns and Benton counties declined to press criminal charges, saying that the cartoons should be considered free speech.

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Awww…. Does the Moslem community not like being thought of as a hateful bunch of warmongers, just because they (not al Qaida, but huge masses of ‘normal’ Moslems) murdered people because a cartoon was published? Do they think, “hey, a cartoon was published in a paper, so I can go out and murder innocent people and there will be no repurcussions”?

Here are two pictures. Both will anger religionists, but only one puts people at risk of death from a pathetic backward mythology (note all mythologies are pathetic and backwards in their own right, but only one SPECIAL mythology murders detractors, as well as innocents because detractors exist).

The federally funded, abstinence-only sex education that was so popular during the Bush era did nothing to stem teen pregnancies or STD rates and may have done a lot of harm (depending on which studies you read).  However, while I think teens must be taught about birth control and STD prevention, I have no problem with churches and families working to emphasize abstinence as long as teens are exposed to real pregnancy/STD prevention methods elsewhere.  If religious people would keep their religious teachings in their places of worship, homes, privately owned businesses and schools, etc., and out of our public schools, governments, and wallets, organizations such as American Atheists wouldn’t be necessary.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-01-23-abstinence-purity_N.htm

Kathleen

CN) – The 9th Circuit rejected a challenge to the University of California’s admission policy, brought by Christian schools and students who said the university discriminates by refusing to approve certain high-school religious and ethics courses.
“As a university, one of UC’s ‘essential freedoms’ is to ‘determine for itself on academic grounds … who may be admitted to study,’” the court wrote, quoting a 1957 Supreme Court decision. “UC exercises that freedom by reviewing high school courses to ensure that they adequately prepare incoming students for the rigors of academic study at UC.”
The Association of Christian Schools International, Calvary Chapel Christian School and five of its students appealed a district court ruling that UC’s admission policy is constitutional.
The schools claimed that UC rejects courses taken at Christian high schools because those courses allegedly “add a religious viewpoint.”

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One of the few times I actually got angry in public was during a speech several years ago at a Christian School. The kids at this school had no clue what evolution was, except that it wasn’t true. They knew how God made sedimentary rocks appear, well, sedimentary. They were well aware that Adam and Eve were real people.

Some of them wanted to be scientists. That’s what upset me — the loss of potential. Interested and talented kids leave that high school thinking science is great, only to find out that colleges wouldn’t take their education seriously, because it was all wrong.

How many of those kids would overcome the huge initial obstacle of ignorance and stay in the sciences? I supposed very few. It broke my heart, truthfully.

You would think by now, folks would understand that it’s just not a good idea to do weird-looking stuff on a plane.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34973665/ns/travel-news/

Kathleen