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From Hot Air, Snoop, why do you think all liberals are fucked up in the head? This video is just another of many examples…

So self-parodic is this all the way around the horn that I can’t muster the requisite outrage. Of course David Crosby thinks American soldiers are out to kill women. Of course Graham Nash thinks “dialogue” is the answer to suicidal jihadism. Of course Chris Matthews doesn’t think he’s a Marxist even as he’s mouthing rhetoric straight from the Daily Worker. Of course, of course.
A lot of golden moments packed into 130+ seconds but if I have only one to take with me to the grave, it’s the knowing look Nash shoots Matthews after he very smartly suggests opposing the war as a good way for the Church to distract people from that nasty business with the altar boys. You’re nobody’s fool, Nashy!

 

By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) - The American Humanist Association on Wednesday announced the launch of the first “nontheistic” legal center in the nation’s capital — a direct response, it said, to the “influence exerted by the religious right under the Bush administration.”

The group said it is particularly concerned about “damage” to Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of church-state separation.”

The AHA’s first legal project (lawsuit) stems from the midterm elections. The group is challenging the location of polling places in churches. While some churches cover their religious symbols on Election Day, others do not, and the AHA sees that as a major problem.

Humanists plan to argue that religious proselytizing took place at the polls. “We put out a call to our members whose polling places were churches, asking them to report what they saw,” said AHA President Mel Lipman. “The response was shocking.”

An Illinois humanist says he voted in a church that displayed a four-foot wooden crucifix right above the election judges,” said AHLC attorney James Hurley.

“Another member in California was confronted with a large marble plaque dedicated to the ‘unborn children’ who are ‘killed’ by abortion and containing a quote from the Bible justifying the notion that the soul is alive in the womb.

“And a New York member voted in a room featuring large religious slogans on the wall behind the voting machines.”

But the AHA said it would pursue “one of the most egregious and well-documented cases” — that of plaintiff Jerry Rabinowitz who was assigned to vote at Emmanuel Catholic Church in Delray Beach, Fla.

The case, Rabinowitz v. Anderson, alleges that to enter the polling place, Rabinowitz had to walk past a church-sponsored “pro-life” banner framed by multiple giant crosses. In the voting area itself, “he observed many religious symbols in plain view, both surrounding the election judges and in direct line above the voting machines. He took photographs that will be entered in evidence,” the attorney Hurley said.

Oooooo! Scary! Scary I tell ya. Having to look at those evil crosses will make your eyes fall out.
I swear you damm liberals are a bunch of retarded asses, what the fuck.

“George W. Bush has been busy appointing conservative Christian judges who don’t support the separation of church and state,” said AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt. “And year after year we’re seeing government intruding further and further into the religious sphere.”

The humanist legal center says it includes more than two dozen lawyers from around the country, backed by thousands of humanists from coast to coast, who seek to have humanist values represented in the legal arena.

(The AHA defines humanism as a “progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism [religion], affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.” It rejects “religious propaganda.”) The group says its new legal center “will work to make sure that the First Amendment to our Constitution is honored.”

It will do so by calling attention to “injustices,” Lipman added. And at the same time, it will “educate Americans on the importance of religious liberty and the plight of humanists in the United States.”

ELTON JOHN: ‘I WOULD BAN RELIGION COMPLETELY’ - From Drudge

Sir Elton John wants religion banned completely — because he believes it promotes hatred of gays.

Speaking to the Observer Music Monthly Magazine the singer said religion lacked compassion and turned people into “hateful lemmings”.

The PRESS ASSOCIATION reports: In a candid interview for a dedicated Gay issue of the magazine he shared his views on topics as varied as being a pop icon to Tony Blair’s stance on the war in Iraq.

He said there was a lack of religious leadership, particularly in world politics, and complained that people do not take to the streets to protest any more.

Sir Elton said: “I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays.

“But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion. From my point of view I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn’t seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it’s not really compassionate.” He added: “The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren’t they having a conclave? Why aren’t they coming together? I said this after 9/11 and people thought I was nuts. Instead of more violence why isn’t there a meeting of religious leaders? It’s like the peace movement in the Sixties. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts but we don’t seem to do them any more. If John Lennon were alive today he’d be leading it with a vengeance,” he said.

Sir Elton said people were too busy blogging on the internet to go out onto the streets to stand up for what they believed in.

“They seem to do their protesting online and that’s not good enough. You have to get out there and be seen to be vocal, and you’ve got to do it time and time again. There was a big march in London when Britain decided to join the war against Iraq and Tony Blair is on the record as saying ‘the people who march today will have blood on their hands’. That’s returned to bite him on the ass,” he said.

Sir Elton compared his place in British culture with that of the Queen Mother’s.

He said: “People come to me and I’m a bit like the Queen Mother. I never get those problems. I don’t know what it is with me, people treat me very reverently. Referring to his “wedding” to long-term partner David Furnish, he said: “It was the same when Dave and I had our civil union - I was expecting the odd flour bomb and there wasn’t. Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that’s great.”

He pledged to continue to campaign for gay rights saying: “I’m going to fight for them whether I do it silently behind the scenes or so vocally that I get locked up. I can’t just sit back; it’s not in my nature any more. I’m nearly 60-years-old after all. I can’t sit back and blindly ignore it and I won’t.”

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I have been peeping more and more blogs dissing God and religion, and I find it frankly amusing that the Anti-religion crowd is promoting their agenda just as any Democrat or Republican.

Hell, why don’t they just start running commercials, a nice 15 second spot will do. “If you believe in God, you are a fucken idiot. ” That would do the trick, maybe, with cleaned up language.

Or, the old egg in the frying pan spot. “This is your brain….this is your brain on God”

Now old Elton has spoken out because he is concerned how “Jesus Freaks” treats gays. Without going into great details, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. You know when I lost any sympathy for gays? The first time I viewed a gay right parade and saw two old wrinkled bastards tonguing one another wearing underwear and feathers, marching on a sunny San Francisco day all in the name of “gay rights” and “gay pride.”

Since that time, not much has happened to change my overall opinion of gays, particularly gay men. Women that tis another matter, not for the reasons you are thinking; I know some really cool lesbians who are not weirdo’s or hot chicks pretending to like women so that they can get more guys. But not gay men. Frankly, I think that most men are pigs. Other than sperm donations, men are fucken useless.

But back to this God thing.

Last week I went to the funeral of a dear old friend and mentor. It was a particularly painful funeral because this individual was a great woman and person. Her impact on the community will be greatly missed, not because she extended her hand to help other tirelessly but she did it so unselfishly. The only thing she ever wanted in life is for the Lord to bless her and keep her.

During this celebration of life, there was a lot of emotion helped by moving music and a room full of spirituality. A room full of mostly black folks taken by the spirit of the moment. Yes, despite all that black folks have been through they still are still rooted in their love of God and spirituality.

Now folks I’m not ignoring that fact that white folks can be spiritual and have love for God, I’m just looking at this from a black individual’s perspective.

I know my history of slavery, and anybody else you knows the history of slavery knows that the primary reason black folks were able to endure was their deep faith and belief in God. Were these people just too stupid to understand that this mythical God figure was not going to help them? That’s what these atheist bastards want you to fixate upon.

Maybe it’s just me, I’m wondering just what the hell has atheists contributed to this world?

Most of the crap that I read on the web from these people is all directed at convincing the entire world that their beliefs are pointless and that they are lemmings.

I have yet to figure out, what point are you people trying to make. Who are you trying to convince.

Even if you were able to make a dent in your argument just what would you be accomplishing?

I don’t remember the “United Federation of Atheists” coming to the aid of people after a hurricane.

I don’t remember the “Atheist Alliance” raising millions of dollars to feed the hungry.

I don’t remember “Atheist R Us” conducting a food drive for veterans.

I don’t remember “Atheists for Humanity”, building homes for poor folks.

I don’t remember “The Atheist Missionary” coalition going to prisons, ministering to felons trying to help them turn their lives around.

I don’t recall “Atheist for Education” helping to raise money to help inner city school children get into college.

I don’t remember “Atheist for Health” conducting free health care screenings, prostate exams, flu shots, kids wellness exams.

I don’t remember “Atheist Scouts” groups working with youth to teach them values and the lessons of life.

I don’t recall a Atheists for Remembrance, a group that would put flowers on the graves of veterans, those that died for our country, in case you forgot.

I could go on and on and on, but you get the drift. In case you don’t get my point, if they think they have so much going for them, why aren’t they doing more with it?

Does religion get in the way of common sense? In some cases, sure it does. There have been a lot of stupid things done and said in the name of God or some religion.

But to dis people for having a love of religion on a puny narrow point of view is simple retarded.

Go to any website that promotes atheisism or talk to a radical atheist. No where are you likely to hear or see any positive loving redeeming contribution they are making to society.

They spend every syllable and paragraph denouncing those who thank God almighty for their blessings, strength and all good things they have been given. Atheist pity you God loving fools, if you are lucky. A lot of the time, they hate those whose believe in a God.

I pity them more then pity me. But I don’t hate them. Can you imagine a more cold and lonely existence spending every waking hour constantly questioning the sanity and judgement of the people around you. Instead of dissecting the mental acuity of others you, my atheist friends, need to focus upon your own mental deficiencies.

I’m not suggestion that you must believe in God or what that specific target of worship should be, but I find worship a comforting and reassuring thing. Are there bad examples, of course. We are flawed and broken vessels. Some are lost completely, some spend their lives drifting, some don’t even know there is a voyage, some won’t take the voyage because they see storm clouds in their sleep.

But the belief in God and religion has done a lot more good then harm, over-all. Frankly even if I were told for certain that no God existed, I would keep it silent.

There are far more positive examples of religious spirituality doing good in this world than harm.

Oh and Elton, dude, your sexual trial and tribulations are the least of my concern. Frankly I believe a Godless world would do more harm to your cause than good. Most of us are capable of accepting you because of our faith.