Nov

29

History Lesson

November 29, 2008 by Brandon | Leave a Comment

Rev. George M. Docherty died on Thanksgiving this year. Who is that and why should we care?

Well, Rev. Docherty was the guy who is principally responsible for adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954.

Wait, what? You mean that wasn’t always in there? No.

The Pledge was originally written in 1892, sans-God, by, ironically, a baptist minister named Francis Bellamy. Bellamy also introduced a special little salute at the end of the Pledge that everyone took part in up until 1942, when it was replaced with having your hand placed over your heart. As you can see from the picture, it’s not hard to figure out why we no longer salute in this fashion.

But this is all beside the point. Now, I’m not going to say Docherty was a bad man, but he was at the very least a very misled man. Lucky for him, not all of the blame rests on his shoulders. Most of the blame lies on Eisenhower and his Republican buddies in Congress, such as Rep. Charles Oakman, a Republican from Michigan who introduced the bill in Congress to add “under God.”

The rest of the blame lies on the American people who were too foolish to stand up and denounce this move for what it was; a continued ploy to play on fears of “Godless Commies,” designed to seperate “us” from “them.”

But hey, next time some theist tells you that when we pledge to the flag, we say it’s “one nation under GOD,” you can politely explain to them that the bapitst minister who wrote the Pledge over 100 years ago thought it fit not to include God in our pledge.

Delight in the irony.



Nov

26

I’m creating a new category just for stories like this. May I present to you for your viewing enjoyment, the Epic Fail category.

In today’s Epic Fail, a woman attempted to burn away voodoo spirits she believed to be possessing various items in her home, nearly burning the apartment down in the process.

ATLANTA (MyFOX Atlanta) — A Marietta woman told authorities she set two fires in her apartment because items inside were possessed. Felicia Johnson is charged with arson.

This is an unusual arson case. Investigators said Johnson was trying to cleanse her apartment but in doing so she put lives in danger. 

Investigators said Johnson thought something evil was inside her Marietta apartment 

She told investigators she tried to burn away the bad spirits.

“She was extremely upset saying the material was possessed by voodoo spirits and she was trying to cleanse the apartment of the spirits,” said Marietta Fire Chief Jackie Gibbs.

Full article



Nov

25

For today’s epic fail of religious stupidity, Israel’s cheif rabbis are calling for prayer in order to end the world’s financial woes.

It never ceases to amaze me that people somehow think an omniscient god will do anything for them. Let’s think about this. Your god knows everything. Everything. It knows what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen. In other words, your god knew about this financial crisis and allowed it to happen. And if god allowed it to happen, why do you think god is going to somehow stop it because you’re squeezing your hands together really hard or bobbing your head up and down like a parakeet?

According to you, this is all of your god’s will. Your god wants this to happen, because if it didn’t, it wouldn’t be happening. It’s all part of god’s divine plan, right?



Nov

24

Guess Who’s Back?

November 24, 2008 by Brandon | 1 Comment

Our good ol’ buddy Ted Haggard is back, this time selling life insurance of all things.

AP PhotoThankfully, no one is taking him very seriously. But he’s putting himself out there again, blaming all his woes on a messed up childhood and being molested… you know the deal. Instead of just saying he was wrong (and I mean wrong about preaching about how homosexuality was immoral and wrong and evil) and saying that it is normal and this is how he is, he’s setting himself up again for another wonderful scandal because I doubt it’ll be long before we find him in bed with another male prostitute, jacked up on meth.



Nov

23

Obama Skips Church, Heads to Gym

November 23, 2008 by Brandon | 4 Comments

In the last three weeks since winning the election, Obama, unlike the past two presidents, has decided not to attend church services on Sundays and instead headed to the gym for a workout.

Good. And that’s all I have to say about that.



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The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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