Translation of the banners:
Corporate greed = profitable company.
1917 = Trotskyite revolutionaries = bullet in the back of the head in a dark alley.
socialist.ca = we hate Harper = we hate Capitalism = we love Islam = we have disconnected our brains.
Marxist.ca = socialist.ca is the moderate version of us.
Worker Communist Party of Iraq = Marxist.ca is the moderate version of us.
Bob Rae = a man desperately seeking votes and one of the first against the wall if any of the above get their way.
Not unlike AA, there is now an organisation whose purpose is to support clergy addicted to unbelief. It is called The Clergy Project. It boasts a hundred members who:
use it to network and discuss what it’s like being an unbelieving leader in a religious community. The Clergy Project’s goal is to support members as they move beyond faith. Members freely discuss issues related to their transition from believer to unbeliever including:
- Wrestling with intellectual, ethical, philosophical and theological issues
- Coping with cognitive dissonance
- Addressing feelings of being stuck and fearing the future
- Looking for new careers
- Telling their families
- Sharing useful resources
- Living as a nonbeliever with religious spouses and family
- Using humor to soften the pain
- Finding a way out of the ministry
- Adjusting to life after the ministry
The organisation is sponsored by Richard Dawkins who devoutly encourages apostates who have, as he says, seen the light to join in a koinonia of disbelief with other faithless victims trapped in pulpits of pretend piety.
I’d love to get a list of the names of members to see if they include an Ingham, Hiltz or Bird.
This is excellent news: I’m on vacation until Friday, so now I won’t have to go back to work on Monday.
From here:
Doomsday preacher Harold Camping was left a laughing stock when his prediction that the world would end on May 21 failed to materialise.
But the 90-year-old Californian may well have the last laugh after revealing that date was in fact Judgment Day – a spiritual moment when the righteous would be chosen – and simply a warm-up for the Rapture which happens exactly five months later.
This means that Friday, October 21, will mark the start of the Apocalypse – when believers will be whisked away into heaven and hell will be unleashed on earth.
[…..]
Bed-ridden Camping, who suffered a stroke soon after ‘Judgment Day’, said: ‘We can be sure that the whole world [will be annihilated] on 21 October 2011.’
From here:
A police force yesterday announced it would be placing rainbow stickers on the front desks of police stations in order to make gay and lesbians feel more confident about reporting crime.
North Wales police said it hoped that displaying the rainbow would make the gay, lesbian and transgender community feel safer and less apprehensive about talking to officers, especially if reporting homophobic offences.
And that’s what policing in the UK is all about now: homophobia. Burglary, murder and looting are so yesterday.
On Saturday. The CBC tells us that it is the harbinger of an economic awakening and:
Canadian organizers are revving up their plans for the Occupy Wall Street-conceived global action day, the most adventurous idea yet for a movement that some experts say has the potential to trigger a major shift in the economic thinking of governments and big corporations.
Here we can see some of the organisers. I think I spot a couple of Macbook pros, a Macbook, a Dell and an HP laptop, all brought to the anti-big-corporation occupiers courtesy of big corporations.
I was planning on attending, but have decided instead to experience my economic awakening in the comfort of my study where I can savour the onset of a new epoch of halcyon accord without distraction.
It feels like the ’60s again.
From here:
Amnesty International wants the federal government to arrest former U.S. president George W. Bush when he visits British Columbia next week.
Alex Neve, Amnesty Canada’s secretary general then went on to make the understatement of 2011:
Neve conceded that arresting a former president would likely cause tension with the United States
In contrast, when the murdering madman, Muammar Gaddafi wanted to drop in to Canada, Amnesty was completely silent, leaving it to Stephen Harper to officially protest.
Any smattering of integrity that Amnesty International might have once possessed has long since dissipated and, in this latest foolishness, Amnesty has confirmed its compulsive asininity and irrelevance.
From here:
The free session, called Generation Sex, was being run by Portsmouth City Council with the aim of encouraging older people to practise safer sex.
Organisers said participants would be able to have frank and honest discussions about the realities of sex for the older generation.
But the workshop, set to have been held on Wednesday, has been cancelled.
A council spokeswoman said: “Sorry to disappoint but the sex over-60s event has been cancelled due to lack of interest.”
[….]
The council said proof of age and Portsmouth residency would have been required by those attending.
The reason for this could be: those over 60 are not interested in sex; those over 60 are not interested in safety; those over 60 who don’t already know what safe sex is are no longer with us; or – and this is my bet – sexagenarians who don’t already know what safe sex is can’t produce a proof of age because they don’t know what that is either.
Christopher Hitchens received the “Richard Dawkins Freethinker of the Year” award on Saturday, partly, I suspect, for staunchly maintaining his rejection of God while staring death in the face.
Fairly recently I had a long discussion with a young friend who has just emerged from years of university theological training. He is a universalist (he wasn’t before entering university), believing that all will eventually be saved: anyone confronted by the living God after death, he maintains, would be sufficiently overwhelmed that they would accept salvation – which would come through Jesus Christ. No amount of protesting that this would remove a person’s God-given free will would budge him.
In the case of a person like Christopher Hitchens who is determined to reject God come what may, universalism definitely can’t work since, for Hitchens, being compelled to inhabit heaven with God would be… hell.
From here:
During the convention, Dawkins praised Hitchens for his continuance of atheism even in the face of death and for proving that there were indeed, “atheists in foxholes,”….
[….]
“We have the same job we always had,” he told the crowd, “to say that there are no final solutions; there is no absolute truth; there is no supreme leader; there is no totalitarian solution that says if you would just give up your freedom of inquiry, if you would just give up, if you would simply abandon your critical faculties, the world of idiotic bliss can be yours.”
If, as Hitchens says, there is no absolute truth then the rest of what he had to say in that last paragraph can’t be absolutely true, including the very next thing he says: there is no supreme leader.
The religious left, in the form of Jim Wallis of Sojourners, is hastening to bestow its benediction on the Wall Street protestors who, it seems, are following in the footsteps of St. Francis.
From here:
Religious Left icon Jim Wallis has announced he will conduct a visitation to the occupiers presumably to bestow his blessing and, he doubtless hopes, to receive their homage.
[….]
A prominent Wallis acolyte is pacifist Evangelical Left activist Shane Claiborne, who likened the Wall Street Occupiers to St. Francis of Assisi, whose feast day is this week.
Brother Shane has a point. As I recall from “The Little Flowers of St. Francis”, one of his first acts on becoming a Christian was to remove all his clothes and present them to his wealthy father. Here is a worthy Wall Street follower doing the same:
And here is another acolyte defecating on a police car. I will have to reread “The Little Flowers of St. Francis”, since I can’t quite recall where that was mentioned.
