Since it's Sunday . . .

"Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers."
--Mustafa Akyol
 
Boy Says He Didn't Go To Heaven; Publisher Says It Will Pull Book

Nearly five years after it hit best-seller lists, a book that purported to be a 6-year-old boy's story of visiting angels and heaven after being injured in a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, Alex Malarkey, said this week that the story was all made up.

(Blessed are the cheese-makers)
 
dbphoenix said:
Indiana Trooper Pulled Over Woman to Ask if She’d Accepted Jesus Christ as Her Savior: Lawsuit

Travis Gettys

October 7, 2014

An Indiana woman says a state trooper pulled her over this summer and asked if she had accepted Jesus Christ as her personal lord and savior.

Ellen Bogan said she was stopped in August by Indiana State Trooper Brian Hamilton, who asked whether she had a home church and handed her a pamphlet asking her to “acknowledge she is a sinner.”

“It’s completely out of line and it just — it took me back,” Bogan told The Indianapolis Star.

She filed a federal lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union against Hamilton, claiming the trooper violated her First and Fourth Amendment rights.

Bogan said she felt she could not leave or refuse questioning because the trooper was in uniform and had his patrol car parked behind hers.

“The whole time, his lights were on,” Bogan said. “I had no reason to believe I could just pull away at that point, even though I had my warning.”

If Bogan’s claims are true, an expert told the newspaper, the trooper clearly violated the First Amendment’s establishment clause.

“The most important thing for people to understand is that the First Amendment specifies that the government shall not prefer one religion over another religion, or religious adherence over anything else,” said Jennifer Drobac, a professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

She said the trooper was representing the government, so he was “basically overstepping” by “trying to establish religion.”

A spokesman for the Indiana State Police said there was no specific policy against troopers handing out religious materials.

Bogan said the trooper gave her a pamphlet advertising the “Policing for Jesus Ministries” radio program hosted by “Trooper Dan Jones.”

She said she does not go to church, but she felt compelled to tell the trooper she did.

“It was just weird,” Bogan told the newspaper.
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As if the trooper does not have free speech rights??????????????????????????????????
US nation is founded on Judeo-Christian foundation.
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Where is that woman from, Arabia?????[Jews, churches are outlawed, in Arabia].NOT an anti-Arab post.

I like the way the King of Arabia told general ''stormin'' Norman, Operation Desert Storm; come on in, to Arabia. General Storming Norman named his kid '' Christian''


PS That mistaken prof, Jennifer need to REREAD the 1st amendment Thanks; drive careful + God bless US
 
Actually, it's only Saturday, but to the religiously ignorant who created this thread and don't know the difference, this being Saturday, we might as well talk about the left's pathology against the Jews.

CNN anchor quits after going on a hateful diatribe against the Jews after the Charlie attack by mooslims. Apparently the cog dis was just too much for a leftist anti religious Jew hater to bear when he had to face up to who it really is, in fact, that's killing innocent people.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com...ells-truth-about-beliefs-then-promptly-quits/
 
dbphoenix said:
You might be interested in this: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/11/why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-empty-space.html

Some people are fascinated by this subject. Others just get a headache. Creationists don't have to think about it at all.
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There's nothing as in no matter: empty space / no energy. Then there's nothing as in no space at all, where it's impossible for something to exist. And there's the nothing beyond these nothings where even concepts like mathematics cannot exist, which is a total head fuck. I mean can there really be something that nothingy?

When you start thinking (in my case amateurishly) along these lines you find yourself getting closer to something resembling creationism. But then I'm just thinking aloud.
 
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