Monthly Archives: December 2011

A list of Atheist Christmas charities

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First of all, though, here are a couple – selected from thousands – of Christian charities that flourish at Christmas:

Angel Tree:
Angel Tree is a ministry of Prison Fellowship, delivering love in the form of Christmas gifts and a message of hope to children of prisoners. Angel Tree Christmas connects the parents in prison with their children through the delivery of Christmas gifts by local church volunteers who purchase and deliver these gifts and the gospel to children.
Operation Christmas Child:
Operation Christmas Child invites you to pack a shoe box with small toys, school supplies, other gifts, and a personal note to introduce a hurting child to God’s love. The small gifts of love and messages of hope through Jesus Christ are delivered to needy children overseas.

Here are a couple of examples of the good works over which atheists have laboured for Christmas:

Atheist Nativity sign:
The [atheist] group wants to place a sign that reads:
“At this season of the Winter Solstice, let reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”

Atheists Attempt to Ruin Christmas:
For the first time in the history of Christmas at Palisades Park there were 13 individuals that entered the race for the 21 spaces available rather than the usual three. The unusually high demand for spots, especially by atheists, has sparked Santa Monica’s City Hall to implement a random lottery system to determine who would have access to the spots.

That process left the Santa Monica Nativity Committee with only two spaces on which they can put up only three of the usual 14 scenes. The lottery system that was used gave atheists a majority of the available spaces.

Notice any difference?

Calgary Imam says his comparing the plight of Canadian Muslims to pre-Holocaust Jews was “misinterpreted”

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Imam Syed Soharwardy is the twerp who filed a complaint to the Alberta human rights commission against Ezra Levant for publishing the notorious Danish cartoons. Two years later he tried to withdraw the complaint, claiming that he had been misunderstood.

Here we go again. He is now protesting that he was misunderstood when he compared the requirement of Muslim women to have unveiled faces during the citizenship ceremony to the persecution of Jews in pre-Holocaust Germany. He has taken pains to clarify his true meaning, but it turns out that he still thinks much the same, although he may have had the timing wrong:

A local Muslim imam who compared the plight of pre-Holocaust Jews to Muslims’ situation in Canada said he only regrets he was misinterpreted.

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“I have regret in the interpretation, on how people understand … what I don’t regret is the truth I believe.” Other Calgary imams and Jewish leaders have criticized Soharwardy for being insensitive for mentioning the Holocaust to discuss Islamophobia. Though he hadn’t told reporters in previous days, Soharwardy said he meant to compare the rising hostility facing Muslims in Canada to the genesis of anti-semitism decades before the Second World War Holocaust. “It could be 50 years before, 100 years before but if the trend continues, we will have a major hard time for Muslims in North America,”

To confirm his less than tenuous grip on reality, Syed implores us not to make Canada like “Afghanistan or Pakistan” where, he seems to have forgotten, it is Christians who are not just persecuted by Muslims, but routinely murdered by them. Does he really believe that being able see each other’s face is a harbinger of a similar persecution of Muslins in Canada?

Richard Dawkins announces that he is a Cultural Anglican

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From here:

Merry Christmas! I mean it. All that “Happy Holiday Season” stuff, with “holiday” cards and “holiday” presents, is a tiresome import from the US, where it has long been fostered more by rival religions than by atheists. A cultural Anglican (whose family has been part of the Chipping Norton Set since 1727, as you’ll see if you look around you in the parish church), I recoil from secular carols such as “White Christmas”, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and the loathsome “Jingle Bells”, but I’m happy to sing real carols, and in the unlikely event that anyone wants me to read a lesson I’ll gladly oblige – only from the King James Version, of course.

Clearly, Dawkins is making a bid for the job of Archbishop of Canterbury when it falls vacant on Rowan’s retirement next year. It should be a good fit after he grows the requisite whiskers.

Lesbian, pro-abortion ex-nun ordained a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada

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From here:

For over three decades Joanna Manning, a former nun turned lesbian feminist pro-abortion activist, plagued faithful Catholics, causing scandal, embarrassment and much frustration.  On November 27 Manning was made a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, a Church which has openly accepted homosexuality and abortion.

This is a rare catch for the Diocese of Toronto which obviously searched high and low to find  someone with such fitting qualifications.

Lah Di Dah

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A number of years ago a friend of mine who was getting married asked me to perform this song at his wedding. I asked him if he was sure it was this song he wanted and he said yes.

To my intense disappointment, the wedding fell through. I don’t think the choice of music was entirely responsible, though.

Here is Jake Thackray, the writer of the song:

 

The Anglican Church of Canada desperately seeking real and deeper meaning

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The Anglican Church of Canada, in the form of Archdeacon Paul Feheley, has waded into the controversy over an Aukland church’s depiction of the Annunciation on a billboard.

From here:

The church has said the billboard is intended to provoke debate, a goal that Archdeacon Paul Feheley, principal secretary to the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, supports.

“Getting people to think about the real and deeper meaning of these events is a really good thing,” Feheley said. “Will it make some uncomfortable? Of course it will. But any thought-provoking ad does that.

Christians believe that Mary was a virgin, was impregnated by the Holy Spirit and gave birth to Jesus, the Son of God: a virgin gave birth to baby who was 100% human and 100% God. The question I have for Paul Feheley is: “what meaning could he possibly ascribe to the event that would be more ‘real’ or ‘deeper’ than that?”

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Turning the tables on Rowan Williams

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Rowan Williams, having bungled his job as leader of the Anglican communion, now confines most of his bon mots to setting the British government straight. David Cameron, taking his cue from the Archbishop of Canterbury has a few suggestions of his own:

David Cameron last night called on the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead a return to the ‘moral code’ of the Bible.

In a highly personal speech about faith, the Prime Minister accused Dr Rowan Williams of failing to speak ‘to the whole nation’ when he criticised Government austerity policies and expressed sympathy with the summer rioters.

Mr Cameron declared Britain ‘a Christian country’ and said politicians and churchmen should not be afraid to say so.

Will Rowan Williams, after being revived with smelling salts, respond by pointing out that declaring Britain a Christian country is not inclusive enough for the Church of England? Will he repeat his plea to adopt sharia law? Will he point out that, as a Druid, he is free of dogma and any fixed set of beliefs or practices and can’t understand all this “moral code” and “Bible” nonsense.

Or will he give his anti-capitalist inclinations full expression by joining the other dishevelled, bearded man in a Christmas protest at St. Paul’s?

More information than most of us want to know

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From here:

Sharing apps such as Foursquare already let us share where we eat, drink and shop.

Now ‘I Just Made Love’ lets you log and GPS-tag your private life in just the same way – and, bizarrely, some people seem to want to.

The Android app has been downloaded 10,000 times, and rated five stars by dozens of users.

‘Did you just make love? Or just want to check where people near you made love?’ says the app.

‘I just made love lets you do all that and more!’

Reminds me of a song by the incomparable Jake Thackray: