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 is a false god. Yes, YOUR god.

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In an effort to rehabilitate its treatment of Galileo Gallilei—and by extension, its own—the Vatican is planning a laudatory treatment of Galileo to mark the 400th anniversary of his telescope.

Good Heavens: Vatican rehabilitating Galileo
AP
VATICAN CITY – Galileo Galilei is going from heretic to hero.
The Vatican is recasting the most famous victim of its Inquisition as [...]

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I’m miserable.
Or so I’ve been told, at least.

Sharing their misery
John Wallace
It is tragic that there are people who apparently have no hope and are so hollow inside that they will spend huge amounts of money to spread their misery to others (”Atheist group spreads word on billboards,” Nov. 12). I guess it makes them feel [...]

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Q. What Broomfield, CO resident has no fucking idea what he’s talking about? Answer: Charles W. Wooten.
From the Rocky Mountain News’ Letters to the Editor, we get this parade of ignorance:

Palin better qualified than Obama, Biden
Charles W. Wooten, Broomfield
Questions regarding the national security of the United States and the foreign policy expertise of Republican vice [...]

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Hand in hand with the lunacy that God uses weather to smite the sinful is the lunacy that by thinking hard enough, the invisible man in the clouds will read your thoughts and do your bidding. So we get what we had here a couple weeks ago, which is Focus on the Family praying for torrential rain of “biblical proportions” during Obama’s acceptance speech on Thursday.

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Jesus-Freaks and God-trolls are an inherent nuisance for those who engage in an ongoing dialogue about the nature of religion, belief, and the role that spirituality takes in giving meaning to our lives.
Yet the admonishments continue that there is only one “God” and we only need cease questioning, cease seeking, cease giving rein to our [...]

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As I’m in London for the next couple of months, I’ve had a chance to observe many of the differences between the U.S. and the U.K. Aside from the more obvious ones, such as language (”American English” vs. “The Queen’s English”), I recently came across one that I found particularly interesting.
In the U.S., where our [...]

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Thomas Jefferson wrote of the role of religion in the public sphere:

. . . it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

And he is correct. Religion being a purely private matter, the thoughts of another make no [...]

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For some inexplicable reason, more and more frequently I have been seeing reference to the Declaration of Independence as some sort of evidence that America is a Christian nation. What better day than the 4th of July to address this document and its historical role in our government.
Contrary to popular belief, the Declaration of Independence [...]

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