I wonder how non-Christians will be less than human this Easter? 18 Apr 20192 May 2019 Every time religious leaders give Easter and Christmas sermons, they are reported as saying something like “only with Christ can one truly love” or “non-Christians do not experience the totality of life”. In effect this is a way to dehumanise non-Christians, and I have mentioned it before on this blog. I thought I’d get ahead of the game and prime you all to keep an eye out for this trope. If you see something, put it in the comments with a link, please. When the bigots take over completely, it’ll be nice to know what we are going to be killed for… Rant Religion
History Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! 23 Apr 2008 Or, “Ive been a baaaddd boy, Abbott” The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level Score Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Moderate Level 2 (Lustful) Very High Level 3… Read More
Australian stuff Unbelievers aren’t quite human, part 2 29 Nov 2010 Cardinal Fang, exemplar of all that is moral, has declared that people without faith have ”nothing beyond the constructs they confect to cover the abyss”, and “people without religion… are frightened by the future”. “”Australian society will become increasingly coarse and uncaring … if Christian principles are excluded from public… Read More
Politics 9/11 12 Sep 2010 They hated our freedoms, so we instituted warrantless wiretapping, electronic surveillance and denied habeus corpus. They hated our lack of religious control, so we redoubled our efforts to make discussing religion a crime, and to impose particular religious values on all, irrespective of their beliefs or commitments. They hated our… Read More