A French commission has recommended that “conspicuous” religious attire and symbols be banned from public schools. (Ban Religious Attire in School, French Panel Says). While I am generally in favor of any measures that strengthen the separation of church and state, I don’t know about this. In American constitutional parlance, isn’t this “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion? It seems like the main motive for the action is to ban Muslim head scarves. While the idea that women should have to cover their heads is offensive and stupid, people in a free society should have a right to be offensive and stupid. Any thoughts?

Have you noticed that the “Xians are so persecuted by the enforcement of state-sponsored atheism” whining dickheads (like David “Brother of Rush the Big Fat Idiot” Limbaugh) have all adopted the buzz phrase “banning religion/Xianity from the public square“? Google News for “public square”; it’s essentially all religion-oriented stuff, and overwhelmingly the whiners using it. Why? Because they want to imply and claim that stopping state support and enforcement of theocratic oppression is really banning religion “in the public square” — like, you know, ripping crosses from people’s necks, or confiscating bibles read in public, or arresting people for talking about God or praying while, say, sitting on a bench in a public park. This is clearly a current line of bullshit the pro-theocrats like: continue to blur the obvious distinction between legitimate state neutrality with respect to the varieties of religious views on the one hand, and the idea that the state is “against religion” and “enforcing atheism” on the other. It’s undoubtedly on their handouts from their “Amerikkka for Xians” network: “Keep saying that neutrality and separation are really oppression and stifling of freedom. Separation is persecution. Separation is persecution. Separation is persecution. Say it enough, and it’ll stick.”

This week, something from the New Testament: Matthew 10 34-36, where God (speaking now through the J-man), seems to forget that whole “don’t turn on your parents” command from earlier. Some delightful Xian family values for us all:

(34) Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. (35) For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. (36) And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

But surely, you say, it’s not that you should always hate the family, but just make sure they come in a distant second (third?) to God and Jesus. After all, in the next verse (37), he says that “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” But the parallel passage at Luke 14:26 seems to suggest something even stronger (as if this “more charitable” reading weren’t already nihilistic enough):

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children,and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

No wonder the really serious Xians seem full of self-hatred and life-denigrating impulses so often.

This actually looks like it’s for real. Somebody at the Nebraska Atheists site has found seven states with explicit anti-atheist language in their constitutions. For example, North Carolina’s says that “The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God.”; Maryland’s says that “nor shall any person, otherwise competent, be deemed incompetent as a witness, or juror, on account of his religious belief; provided, he believes in the existence of God”; and Pennsylvania’s says that “No person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth” — that is, no religious discrimination except against those who deny God or an afterlife.

Check it out: Atheists are Discriminated Against in Seven State Constitutions!.

There’s a reason for everything, I hear. Or is it “God never gives you more than you can handle”? Yeah, that’s it:

A vicar has given his flock hardcore porn videos instead of a video about God’s message at Christmas… About 300 people ended up with the XXX-rated material in the German town of Lampoldshausen. The evangelical congregation had hoped to spread the word about Jesus to those who did not enjoy reading – but churchgoers found themselves handed videos containing hardcore sex scenes instead.

No, wait. How about “God always answers our prayers; just not always in the way we expect”? Vicar gives out porn videos

xanax presciption buying without

First trial payments using mg xanax guide to pay for a Coca Cola vending machine were set in Finland in 1998.

credit bad application auto news loan

USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Japan and Finland are among perkins federal loans countries left where most phones are still contract-based.

God strikes down man in an unusually open manner for swiping Salvation Army donation bin. God was unavailable for comment on his actions, but local law enforcer quipped, “God has a poetic sense of justice.”

Not necessarily about god, but it’s about Santa Claus, which is the same thing for this blog: Children fear Santa’s not coming to town after teacher casts doubt

“How do you destroy a 6-year-old like that?” demanded Pam Sturt, whose son Bradley is in D.J.’s class and said the teacher also made it clear the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny are not real. “Kids don’t believe in enough things already.”

The social nihilistic similarities are striking, aren’t they, folks?…