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War on Religion

zenodotus5:

This phrase has been bandied about for a fairly long time. From stores choosing to acknowledge other religions with Happy Holidays to ensuring that those who need it have birth control covered by the insurance they pay for, the phrase is owned by White American Christianity*. Despite being the majority religion in this country, people cry incessantly about how persecuted they are. 

On Sunday we saw actual blood shed over religion. It was not White American Christians that were killed, but worshipers at a Sikh temple. CNN has infamously said that Sikhs are “unfairly targets” of Islamophobic attacks, as if to contrast it with the “fair targets:” Muslims. This terrorist’s** inability to discern between religions with certain types of PoC as worshippers is, sadly, shared with almost all the people of this country, including me.

The word “religion” has come to just mean “White American Christianity,” and it has to stop. We have to acknowledge that there are other religions out there, and they need to be given some of the spotlight dominated by White American Christianity. They need equal consideration for their faith in the law, barring, of course, any infringement on the rights of others. But, as I write this, I see people who can’t get married, or get birth control, because White American Christianity not only has a say in the law, but they basically WRITE the law. Add to this the ridiculous Sharia Law bills, and you see that the right to religion in this country only applies to White American Christianity.

The idea of calling attempts to prevent White American Christianity from completely dominating out lives a War on Religion was ridiculous before. The fact that people of a religion so few people in America actually know about (I, again, include myself) are dead from a violent attack makes the use of a term with such violent connotations as “war” in debates about fucking shopping bag signage seem like the height of pettiness.

*Note: I use this phrase because there are certain Christians in other parts of the world that do suffer violence, or legitimate violations of their religious liberty.

**(you will note the public’s hesitance to call a killer of a group of PoC that, in contrast to the immediate presumption of terrorism if the killer is a PoC)

Reblogging because I agree.

Amino Acid Synthesis (1953)

religiousragings:

accidentordesign:

When Stanley Miller produced a few amino acids from chemicals amid a continuous small sparking apparatus, newspaper headlines proclaimed, “Life has been created!” But evolutionists hid the truth: The experiment had disproved the possibility that evolution could occur. The amino acids were totally dead, and the experiment only proved that a synthetic production of them would result in equal amounts of left- and right-handed amino acids. Since only left-handed ones exist in animals, accidental production could never produce a living creature (R. Milner, Encyclopedia of Evolution, 1990, p. 274).

You know what’s interesting?

It’s not so much that it’s obvious that your taking an experiment from sixty (SIXTY!) years ago and almost certainly misinterpreting the results is an act of desperation.  That you aren’t talking about current research in abiogenesis and that it has progressed incredibly since this point must be clear to the most simple of minds.

It’s not just that your confusing evolution with abiogenesis shows with blinding clarity that you don’t even have the most rudimentary knowledge on either topic, and are just likely quoting from another source, which also clearly demonstrates that it’s author likewise didn’t have even the most rudimentary knowledge on either topic.

It’s really, rather, what the implication of this leaves for your god.

How the mighty have fallen, huh?  From the creation of life all in a single day to the manipulator of a some molecules on a microscopic scale 3.8 billion years ago.  Even if we grant that your god created the first reproducing molecules (which we by no means do), where, honestly, does that leave you?

Oh, I know.  This is just part of your argument, and you have similar arguments against all of evolution. (And by similar arguments, I of course mean highly strained, amateur, and deliberately misleading arguments, just as this one is.)

But it really all kind of comes down to the same thing, doesn’t it?  All of it a laughably fallacious arguments showing where science has it wrong, and none of it giving the slightest evidence as to why creation is right.

~ Steve

BOOM

I have nothing to add.

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