Rantings of a New Yorker

Are the biblical Ten Commandments REALLY responsible for our laws and morality, as many Christians claim? Do we owe anything to them at all? Should they be considered significant? Displayed in public buildings such as schools and courts? Yahweh, the old testament god, looked into the future and discovered that the mighty western civilization was [...]

I saw this ad during the football game and thought, “WTF?” It’s by Focus on the Family. This is the indoctrination of our children. This is pushing intolerance via children. It’s creepy and it’s got to stop.

These woman are absolutely crazy. Victoria Jackson doesn’t get why liberals are pro-Muslim because Muslims are supposed to kill gays. Maybe she should go read her bible and see just how much her religion matches up with Islam. All she knows is “what she heard” about how the Muslims do things. She seriously gets upset [...]

Isabella Rossellini details the troubles God encountered in determining who or what qualifies to board the Ark.

Neil talks about how the amount of peer reviewed science research being done in the U.S. has gone down since 2000, and gone up in other places like Japan, China, and Europe.

Thousands of people have gathered in a town near Jerusalem to protest against ultra-Orthodox Jews whose campaign for gender segregation has erupted into verbal and physical abuse against women. There were no clashes on Tuesday in Beit Shemesh between the participants and the residents who have recently been filmed spitting at a woman and verbally [...]

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