April 6th, 2009
Email to a Fundamentalist who obsesses on what he claims is a religion that “espouses rejoicing.”
Your religion also espouses killing members of other religions as part of its teachings. That makes you a danger to many members of this list.
I have never understood why people have to have “faith.” Is it because their religion causes a rift with the higher self? What, no more epiphanies? No more divine revelations? No more burning bushes? That’s ok, you can still have faith.
I prefer to believe in the sunset in Pacific Grove, California; a trip down the Wading River in the pine barrens of New Jersey; the view from a boat on Loch Ness; driving up into the sharp red mountains in Arizona. There is no imaginary playmate in my head trying to claim my feelings at those times.
The awe, the sense of something bigger than yourself? The earth is a big beautiful place, and that feeling means you are at the very edge of becoming part of it. Can’t have any of that Pagan nonsense in our heads! Quick, say that God made the things that gave you that feeling.
On the other hand, nobody ever builds a high wall around God except maybe Jesus or the Pope. I can see the attraction in diverting your feelings to something that you believe will never abandon you no matter what evil you do.
Tags: Christianity, Fundamentalist, Pagan, Wading River
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November 20th, 2008
Protests Over a Rule to Protect Health Providers – NYTimes.com
George W. Bush is trying to push a bill through Congress that enables doctors to force their religious beliefs on women. The NYT, phrases it as if they are somehow protecting the doctors’ rights. I don’t think so. If a doctor is a Fundamentalist Extremist, he has a duty to post a sign in his office saying “If it isn’t in the bible, I don’t do it.”
Anyway, what the bill really does is:
1) Equates birth control with abortion.
2) Criminalizes birth control.
3) Enables Fundamentalist doctors to withhold health care information from female patients.
4) Makes it illegal for any government-funded health clinic to provide birth control information.
5) Sets human rights in the United States back 100 years.
This is insane.
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Patty Murray had this to say:
“In the final days of his administration, the president is again putting ideology first and attempting to roll back health care protections for women and families. This HHS rule will threaten patients’ rights, stand in the way of health care professionals, and restrict access to critical health care services for those who need them most. Senator Murray and I are standing up once again to the administration against this rule and will continue to fight for women’s reproductive rights.”
Tags: abortion, Fundamentalist, George W. Bush, health care, health care services, Hillary Clinton, human rights, Reproductive rights, Women's studies
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