Posts Tagged ‘Proselytization’

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? [...]

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 [...]

Anyone use them? We do, and yesterday, we noticed that ServiceMaster’s Corporate Objectives contain this nifty little clause:

Highlighting is mine. PDF of this document available on ServiceMaster’s website.
Here’s another bit from ServiceMaster’s corporate site.

Anyone know of an alternative secular home warranty company? No. I didn’t think so. Grumble.

Now don’t all run out and get them — leave some for the rest of us!

How come no one tipped me to this, which I found on FriendlyAtheist?
I teach public school at the 8th grade level in Tacoma, WA. Yesterday after school, I noticed a number of older men outside the school handing out Bibles to my 10 to 14-year-old students as they left the building, many of the men [...]

[Note: THIS is exactly why moderate non-religious people standing by the sidelines (YOU) need to get involved with secular groups like the MRRF, CFI, Seattle Atheists, the FFRF and others. The stakes are too high, and people are getting away with anything they want to when it comes to mixing religion and policy.]

Rummy, how have [...]

Here we go again… the U.S. military again fails to address the psychological needs of its soldiers:
A recent edition of the U.S. Army’s suicide prevention manual advises military chaplains to promote “religiosity,” specifically Christianity, as a way to deter distraught soldiers from committing suicide, which in recent months, according to one veterans advocacy group, has [...]

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.
Paid “friendship missionaries” on the University of Arizona campus scan for lonely foreign students, who [...]