Posts Tagged ‘Children’

This website. Whatever they are, it’s hilarious. I give up.
KIDZ: ATHEISTS MIGHT EAT YOU! RUN AWAY!
Click on the goat’s head for some funny comments. “Hey kid, wanna read some Ayn Rand?”

I don’t *think* I look like that in the morning, but I do love sleeping in on Sundays!
And this cute little Ganesh takes it in [...]

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle.

What’s the point?
1. Evangelicals are constantly mischaracterizing non-theists. We need to listen and not preach.
2. [...]

What are they doing to these poor kids (besides early indoctrination) down at the Tacoma Rescue Mission?!

I mean, I appreciate that they help people, but why is that help always with the requirement of religion? Why are they not just selflessly helping, rather than making these kids recite scripture, proselytizing to them, and indoctrinating them? [...]

Where’s the harm in religion? Why, here. As Evan says, “This kind of story makes me want to shout blood.” I tend to agree.
AP, Tues., July 28, 2009
WAUSAU, Wisc. – The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died of undiagnosed diabetes as the family prayed for her to get better testified Tuesday that she believes [...]

Via the P-I.com:
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MARYSVILLE, Wash.
New guidelines for volunteers in the Marysville School District stop them from promoting religious or political viewpoints.
Superintendent Larry Nyland issued the guidelines last week after a parent complained that a 19-year-old volunteer had offered her 11-year-old daughter a ride to church.
The Everett Herald reports the new guidelines allow volunteers to [...]

For those out there who argue that there’s no harm in religion, check it out.

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