Isn’t that a cute euphemism? “Allowing kids to Share their faith” sounds a lot nicer than “using children to recruit other people’s children to their religion”. Yes, the kids should be allowed to speak their minds, but let’s not confuse the issue here. These trinket toys are designed to recruit other kids — YOUR kids. They are not benign, and they are not harmless.

Lesson of the day: make sure your kids are armed with knowledge. Don’t let them be nonreligious just by default — make sure they understand WHY it makes sence that gods don’t exist, because there are children who will attempt to convince them otherwise in school.

An Irish atheist group has published a series of quotations on religion in an attempt to challenge a blasphemy law that went into effect on New Year’s Day.

The 25 “blasphemous” quotations include the words of Jesus, Mohammed, Mark Twain, Salman Rushdie and Bjork.

Atheist Ireland published the list on its Web site Friday. It says it aims to challenge the law, which makes blasphemy a crime punishable by a €25,000-($35,800) fine.

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I tried this when there was an anti-blasphemy law proposed in NJ. Sadly, it never became law, and I never went to prison. This is, however, a good reminder on what is coming unless we fight.

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) — Evangelical pastor Rick Warren is begging parishioners at his Southern California megachurch to cough up $900,000 before Jan. 1 to keep the parish out of the red.
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A spokeswoman for Warren said the church does not release financial details, so it’s difficult to put the $900,000 shortfall in context.

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The church does not release financial details? So this whole plea for money might be another lie, cooked up by another rich and powerful preacher to line his own wallet in the name of his God? You mean there is no way to tell if he gets the money, or how badly it is needed? You mean the church lives tax-free, and nobody knows how much it makes?

Yup. That’s what it means. it also means very gullible people will come forth with the last of their hard-earned recession money to help this professional liar meet his arbitrary goal of getting richer, taking lessons from Orel Roberts’ “God will call me home if you don’t give me money”.

Fools and their money. They won’t ask how much Preacher Big-bucks earns, or how many homes he has, or what kind of cars he drives, how how expensive his hookers are. They will ask nothing, they will only give.

Dave’s Psychic Prediction: Pastor Warren will soon announce that he was given enough money, through the grace of God, to keep his church open FOR NOW. he won’t name names, or give numbers, but he will praise his donors large and small. All will be well in Billionairre-preacher-land.