Hey, God is for Suckers! is one year old today — which means it might walk and talk a little, but it still shits its pants. Or, you could think of that as being about 12 in web-years — which means it doesn’t bathe enough, is getting zits, and masturbates every chance it gets. Your choice.

A little walk down memory lane: For nostalgia, here’s the first non-test post from last January:

Just-ass Scalia, regular defender of theocracy in the US and leading candidate to replace Rehnquist as Chief of the Supremes, is out thumping the “atheists aren’t real Amerikkkans” bible again. Check it out at The Washington Post. Here’s a little taste:”

In his 10-minute speech, Scalia launched a spirited defense of such public expressions of religious faith as coins stamped “In God We Trust,” chaplains in the military services and in Congress and nondenominational prayers before high school graduations. Such actions, Scalia said, “reflect the true tradition of religious freedom in America — a tradition of neutrality among religious faiths.” “Government will not favor Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews,” Scalia told the crowd. “But the tradition was never that the government had to be neutral between religiousness and nonreligiousness.

Ah, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or something.

Even though he couldn�t identify Martin Luther King Jr. from any other peace advocate of the past 50 years, Bush dropped by King�s tomb to blatantly garner the black vote by appearing to admire King and his work.

After Bush laid the wreath, he stood, head bowed, for about 15 seconds, when he thought quietly to himself, �I think I have one black sock and one blue sock on � how embarrassing. I wonder how long I can hold my breath? One-Mississippi, two-Mississippi � hey, why isn�t it one-Texas, two-Texas? I wonder if I can pass a law changing that? Why are black protesters taunting me?�

Carrying signs and chanting to rhythms pounded from conga drums, members of the crowd resisted efforts by police to move them to a designated protest area about 150 yards from the reflecting pool in front of the simple white marble crypt. Shortly before Bush’s arrival, a line of city buses parked in front of the center, preventing Bush and the protesters from seeing each other, although the demonstrators’ jeers and slogans were not muted.

“America has come far in realizing Dr. King’s dream, but there is still work to be done,” Bush�s statement said. “In remembering Dr. King’s vision and life of service, we renew our commitment to guaranteeing the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans. Additionally, I can be seen as giving a rat�s ass about African-American issues. Apparently my statement about Clarence Thomas being my favorite Supreme Court Justice during the last presidential election was only worth 9% of the black vote.”

Bush touts faith-based programs
Bush also announced he had issued an executive order opening $3.7 billion in Justice Department grants to bids from faith-based institutions.

“Government should not fear faith-based programs. We ought to welcome faith-based programs and we ought to fund faith-based programs,” Bush said in an address at the church, which runs a day-care center and a program to feed the homeless on weekends.

�I don�t know why the Founding Fathers fought so hard to exclude the god thing anyway, so we�re gonna turn that thing around,� Bush continued.

“Many of the problems that are facing our society are problems of the heart. Addiction is the problem of the heart�not the nose,” Bush said in indicating why he believes government alone cannot solve some social problems.

Bush has been trying to persuade Congress to change the laws governing federal funding of religious-based programs since shortly after he took office in 2001. But his opponents have held up such legislation, saying it would be tantamount to government support of specific religions.

“They balked,” Bush said. “So I signed an executive order instructing all federal agencies not to discriminate against religious groups. The playing field is now level,” Bush told the church members. “You’ve got a chance to bid along with other types of organizations … without fear of discrimination.”

Andy Rooney, in his column from about a week ago (Britney Spears and Howard Dean), implies that Howard Dean might be a bit of a closet atheist. (Rooney himself is listed at Celebrity Atheists.) Although he mentions the not-going-to-church and the not-liking-to-talk-about-it parts, his more central reason for saying this seems to be that Dean says that David Hume (yes, 18th-century Scottish atheistic empiricist known to most of you who’ve taken a philosophy class) is his favorite philosopher. (Hume is far from my “favorite philosopher”, but certainly an intellectually respectable choice.) As Rooney says,

I’ll bet Dean would be pleased if not too much was said about [this]… I do remember Hume was known at the time as an empiricist. An empiricist believes only in what can be proven through practical experience and knowledge. Empiricism would eliminate things like ghosts, the paranormal, communication with the dead, astrology, levitation, mind reading, life-after-death and virgin births. Too many Americans believe in one or more of these for any candidate to proclaim that he thought, as David Hume did, that they were all nonsense. Hume was an atheist and it would be political suicide for a candidate to say he was an atheist.

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If you haven’t been to the excellent Objective: Creation Education page recently, give them a visit. There are recent updates to “Those Wacky Evolutionists: Amusing stores of Evolutionist wackiness” and “Dawkins Watch: Keeping a non-evolved eye on the arch-Athevolutionist.” These guys rock.

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Another killing-for-blasphemy passage. What makes this one different and special is that (a) it’s pretty clear that the blasphemy is incidental — it happen during a disagreement between two men, not as a directed act against God; and (b) the command to kill comes directly from the Big Guy. From Leviticus 24:10-16:

And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.

God clearly does not like the blaspheming thing. Is that clear enough?

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