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Entries from January 2010

Religious Crutches

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

If you can find a way to say something is part of your religious beliefs, you can pretty much do anything you want.

Colorado man: Pot charge violates religious rights
AVON, Colo. – A Colorado man says marijuana is the main sacrament of his religion and a drug charge against him violates his First Amendment rights.
Trevor Douglas [...]

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Your God …

January 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Your god is a false god. Yes, YOUR god.

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“The Book of Eli” is apparently about hypocrisy

January 18th, 2010 · No Comments

Given the damage that religion has wreaked in our modern world—and no religion is exempt—one would think that in attempting to rehabilitate the role of religion in modern life, one would seek to avoid association with violence.
But instead, with “The Book of Eli,” that is what we get: Violence. Post-apocalyptic violence justified by the Bible. [...]

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