Recent content by arcadia

Well, his "father" or alter ego said that sinners should be condemned unto the fourth generation of descendants. And that was after Daddy drowned every living thing on earth... And it seems I recall JC telling folks they need to stone their disobedient children to death. Not to mention a lot of...

Wait 'til some Muslim group claims and enforces a right to get the government to help pay for and erect a large monument to Mohammed;s night flight on a white horse to the Mosque on the wailing wall. Then we will find out how conservatives really feel about separation of church and state. Public...

Litttle Lord kiran Gee, I wonder why you scaredy-cat country boys with big guns and jacked up trucks, didn't manage to overrun all of SE Asia a couple of decades ago. Sadly for you, ideas and thought count much more than fists and guns in this country. May it ever be so. By the way, what's...

So, what the original questioner really asked was a very old question. How many angels will fit on the head of a pin. Or the point of a pin.

I had to love a commentator's (Chris Hayes, I think) comment about an 1850's newspaper ad offering a $300 reward for Tubman when she was an escaped slave. "Well from now on that amount will be known as 30 Tubmans". The arc still bends...

My reading of Matthew 10 would indicate Jesus is not commanding or condoning this but saying this is the sort of shit that will happen when his followers go out among the people and represent. Yep, I guess that's why he goes on about bring swords and gives a shout-out to the folks who deliver...

From the Times this AM: An Islamic State militant executed his own mother in front of a post office in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa this week after she tried to persuade him to leave the extremist group, Syrian activists there said on Friday. The fighter, Ali Saqr, 21, killed his mother...

...and religion is often death to those who see the humor. ...and to those who have a different sense of humor.

Bronzeage: "In the same way, a moral code which does not account for private property and boundaries will cause problems in a modern city. The moral code is always a generation or two behind the times. It seems to me that you are saying that moral codes evolve (usually in the face of determined...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/13/opinion/sunday/13kristof-how-well-do-you-know-religion.html (You may need a subscription). Kristof does an excellent job of publishing a quiz which demonstrates the commitment to extreme violence by all the Abrahamic gods and sacred texts. Not sure...

Donald Trump, apparently disturbed by the terrorist actions of some Muslims is demanding that all Muslims should be required to register with the government and be deprived of their due process rights. Since my guess is that this country has been home to probably 20 times as many Muslim...

Upstate NY last month an entire congregation including the victims' parents gathered and collectively beat one teenager to death and severely injured another for suggesting that they might want to leave the congregation. So, yes, words, even biblical words do have meaning. And the words...

Sorry, he's got waaay too much human blood on his hands. Just last week in NY a congregation took his directions to have uppity children stoned to death. The congregation, including his mother, father and half sister beat him to death in the church sanctuary, apparently because he wanted to...

Or, maybe it's just the hundreds of millions of people who feel terribly guilty about silly things done or thought. Or, who think that there is an entity who watches everything they do, and which listens to their prayers.

Today, the cult near Utica where two parents beat one of their 2 teenaged boys to death by hitting his genitals and thighs, while 4 other cult members tried to do the same to the other son. Either that or one bomb or another killing dozens in the Middle East. Last name of the Utica folks was...