Extremely Lame

I don’t know if it’s a result of my being raised Catholic, my being raised in the Midwest, or that I was raised in a small city that isn’t connected to a major metro area but isn’t exactly rural either, but churches down here in Texas have a tendency to make me feel all kinds of uncomfortable. And it’s not entirely because I don’t find myself particularly religious anymore.

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The other day I got lambasted at a gathering because I and another philosophy geek were discussing existentialism. People who weren’t even part of the discussion overheard us and because they thought that we were talking about religion, we were not-so-politely told to shut up because religion and politics aren’t  appropriate for “polite conversation,” never [...]

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For those of you who don’t follow the news, the California Supreme Court overturned a statewide marriage ban for gay and lesbian couples. Differing politics based on things like the role of the Executive, how we relate with foreign powers, and how to use our military, those things I can completely understand even if I disagree with people. Believing that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people shouldn’t be afforded the same rights as everyone else is simply baffling.

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This is something I found really interesting as a recovering Catholic. One gets the feeling that the Roman Catholic Church is and has always been against abortion because of their belief that a soul is present at the time of conception. Interestingly enough, they didn’t always believe that, and there are popes who issued decrees [...]

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Seriously, what is it with license plates and this sick need to use it to boast about your faith in God? First you have Indiana taking money out of their highway fund to pay for “In God We Trust” license plates, now you have the state of Florida wanting to put a huge cross on [...]

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Not even neo-conservatives have their head so far up their tuckuses as the religious right. And of those, even the abstinence only fools aren’t as bad as the mock creationists known as the Intelligent Design movement.

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