http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/christianbashing/ en-us Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:30:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2408036/posts Folks, this according to the Thomas More Law Center: ANN ARBOR, MI – Tomorrow, December 16, 2009, at 10 AM PST, a panel of eleven judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in San Francisco will hear oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of San Francisco Board of Supervisor’s virulent resolution attacking the Catholic Church for its teachings against homosexual adoptions. The en banc panel will review the earlier opinion of a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit that upheld the resolution. Thomas More Law Center attorney Robert Muise will argue the case on behalf of the plaintiffs in... Vivificat - From Contemplation to Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2408036/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:30:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405217/posts Matt Frei, BBC man in Washington, has a long history of patronising Middle America and especially evangelical Christians. His latest piece instructs them to change their views on climate change, because “there is no prominent conservative politician on the horizon who is, to put it bluntly, both pro-life and pro-planet”. Pro-planet, in Frei’s worldview, means accepting the AGW alarmists’ views lock, stock and barrel.Frei doesn’t condemn all American evangelicals. On the contrary, he divides them into good and bad varieties: The evangelical movement is split between those conservative Christians who suspect that climate change is an evil secular plot, concocted... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405217/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:35:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372978/posts Did you miss it? Last month the country celebrated national Blasphemy Day! According to NPR.com, atheists marked Blasphemy Day last month at gatherings around the world, celebrating the freedom to denigrate and insult religion. Activities included de-baptizing people with hair dryers and an art exhibit in Washington, D.C., which showed, among other titles, Jesus Paints His Nails, in which "an effeminate Jesus after the crucifixion [applies] polish to the nails that attach his hands to the cross." The atheist group Center for Inquiry hosted the exhibit. Addressing a capacity crowd at the University of Toronto, columnist Christopher Hitchens elicited enthusiastic... JewishWorldReview.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372978/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340250/posts The 40-year-old "comedian" Jack Black went on the "dark side" during the MTV Awards praying to the devil. Black, who was promoting a heavy metal video game called Brütal Legend, asked the "Dear Dark Lord Satan" to bless the rock star nominees with "continued success in the music industry." "I was mortified when Jack Black lead everyone in a prayer to satan. It was no joke," said Samantha Taylor of California. "The audience held hands and did it. I was a fan, but not anymore." Black made his grand entrace wearing extra muscles and a battle axe. "During the Awards,... Christian Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2340250/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250218/posts Jesus of Suburbia – Green Day Beneath the finely groomed blissful suburban façade of America lurk desperation, denial, hypocrisy, and anger. The kids of suburbia today have an entirely different reality than the suburbs I grew up in during the 1970’s. The Ozzie & Harriet idealized version of suburbia from the 1950’s has degenerated to the Green Day nightmare vision of today. The suburbs have mansion-like homes with spotless interiors, entertainment centers, three car garages, manicured lawns, and no soul. The children of suburbia have been brought up on soda pop and Ritalin. They come home to empty mansions, as... The Burning Platform http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250218/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 19:44:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2203286/posts me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2203286/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196838/posts Liberal blogger and Media Matters employee* Oliver Willis channeled his inner Ted Turner last Wednesday, while writing for his eponymous Web site. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196838/posts#comment Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:57:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2159143/posts The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) has prepared a Top Ten list of the most egregious acts of Christian Bashing in American in 2008. Every day in America serious Christians face increasing hostility at work, school, and in the culture because they stand for their faith and values. "It is time for the Christian bashing to stop and for Christians to no longer be treated like second-class citizens," said Dr. Gary Cass, Chairman and CEO of CADC. "Anti-Christian bigotry is real and growing. Those who engage in it should be exposed and called to account." INSTANCE #10: Jack Black Musical Video... Christian Newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2159143/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:17:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146685/posts Because "public life" now entails virtually every part of our lives, erasing references to God entirely from public life means virtually eliminating them from America. Imagine, if you will, a gala birthday party given in your honor. The guests will sing, dance, give presents, eat, drink, and have the merriest of times. The hitch: your name will not be mentioned, the gifts will not be for you, the celebrants won't be thinking about you, and everyone would sort of prefer that you not come. That's all that will be left of Christmas if various groups have their way. All across... the new american http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146685/posts#comment Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:47:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145330/posts Leading social conservatives blasted Newsweek for its current cover story, "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage," which they said misinterprets both biblical scripture and their own political movement. “It doesn’t surprise me. Newsweek has been so far in the tank on the homosexual issue, for so long, they need scuba gear and breathing apparatus,” said Richard Land, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. “I don’t think it’s going to change the minds of anyone who takes biblical teachings seriously.” Tony Perkins, president of the socially conservative Family Research Council, agreed, calling Newsweek’s cover story “yet... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145330/posts#comment Tue, 9 Dec 2008 04:51:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144224/posts An anti-religion placard posted alongside Christmas displays drew a thief, a preacher, a part-time elf and a security detail to the state Capitol on Friday as a weeklong uproar over religious speech hit a bizarre peak. It all started Monday, when the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation unveiled a winter solstice sign in the grand marble hallways around the Capitol Rotunda in Olympia. The sign’s atheistic message – reading in part that “Religion is but myth and superstition” – drew top billing on conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly’s TV show. Several days of angry messages to Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire followed,... The News Tribune (Tacoma WA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144224/posts#comment Sun, 7 Dec 2008 00:36:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144285/posts Just in time for the Christmas season, Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire has insulted Christians all over the world. Inside the state Capitol building in Olympia there is a traditional holiday display featuring a tree and the Nativity scene; perfectly appropriate since the federal and state Christmas holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. But this year Gregoire decided to add another item to the display. Standing alongside the baby Jesus is a giant placard designed by atheists that reads: "There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144285/posts#comment Sun, 7 Dec 2008 02:51:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2142899/posts In a short video posted on FunnyorDie.com entitled, "Prop 8 The Musical," an all star cast of Hollywood celebrities perform a low budget musical farce that defames Christ, mocks Christians and distorts the teaching of the Bible. "Jack Black should remember from his days at Hebrew School that homosexual acts aren't funny and are roundly condemned in the Bible," said Dr. Gary Cass, of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. "Appearing as a sarcastic, rotund Christ, Black distorts the Bible and condones shameful, homosexual acts. Associating Christ with perverse activity is an affront to all people of faith, especially Christians. Apparently Black... Christian Newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2142899/posts#comment Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:49:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130299/posts A reader writes: I love to see you grapple with trying to explain this woman and her thought processes. You are Tcs2 missing something obvious though. She believes in the literal truth of the Bible. She believes it informs on matters of science, biology, evolution, physics, cosmology, etc. So if there are multiple creation versions in the Bible what do you do, make up your own reality. If there are contradictions in it, ignore them. Just like you ignore inconvenient facts about day-to-day life. If you BELIEVE the bible is the literal inerrant word of God what do you do?... Atlantic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130299/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:22:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096134/posts Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is once again coming under attack because of her Christian faith. A recent Los Angeles Times story claimed that as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin espoused young-earth creationism. The report prompted liberal Internet columnist Robert Paul Reyes to brand Palin a "religious fanatic" with a "Neanderthal faith" who "thinks that 'The Flinstones' is a reality show." Reyes suggests that during tonight's vice-presidential debate, Palin should be questioned about her reported belief that God created the earth 6,000 years ago and that dinosaurs and men coexisted. Mark Looy is co-founder of the creation apologetics ministry... OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096134/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090218/posts Bill Maher's Anti-Religion Movie “Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.” That’s my favorite quote from Bill Maher’s often brilliant, but often unfocused “documentary,” called “Religulous.” It opens in early October right after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. The articulate, quick-witted comedian sets out in this film — which was supposed to have been released last Easter — to prove that line is true. Directed by Larry Charles, the man who put "Borat" together so skillfully, "Religulous" is blatant about Maher’s feelings: religion is bad. All religions are bad. They are ruining everything. If you go for... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090218/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:58:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042753/posts Christian publisher Zondervan is facing a $60 million federal lawsuit filed by a man who claims he and other homosexuals have suffered based on what the suit claims is a misinterpretation of the Bible. WOOD TV Grand Rapids, MI. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042753/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 03:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031294/posts Hi everyone, I'm just wondering if anyone had this experience before. I wrote a column about the proof of the existence of a Divine Creator (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2029192/posts ) and am now getting google stalked by an Atheist Group in Austin, in addition to phone calls and emails. I'm not going to stop saying/writing what I believe or stop speaking out against these tactics, but was wondering if anyone here had experience and knows what to do about google, etc. I know some of us may disagree on the issues, but I don't think there's much debate about these tactics. The... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031294/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:25:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941682/posts After catching Harold Meyerson's latest Washington Post hatemongering against religion in general, Christians in particular, and Republicans especially, all I could say was just WOW! This thing is nearly unhinged and if you took the word Christian out and replaced it with any of the favored, protected minorities that the MSM guards like mother hens, it would be indistinguishable from the kind of pure bigotry that would result in Meyerson's utter ostracizing should it have been written about those protected classes. Calling Republicans/Christians torturers, abusers of immigrants, members of the KKK, bigots and even mean, Meyerson skipped only the Nazi... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941682/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:15:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941366/posts Huckabee on Christ Ad Brouhaha: 'Paul is Dead' December 18, 2007 3:07 PM ABC News' Kevin Chupka Reports: Former Governor Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., had some fun Tuesday answering a question about a brewing controversy over his latest TV ad called "What Really Matters." Huckabee is running a Christmas ad in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina where the former Baptist minister invokes Jesus Christ -- the first 2008 Republican candidate to do so in a campaign ad. In the ad Huckabee says that that at this time of year, "what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941366/posts#comment Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:01:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940643/posts And in only its second weekend in release, the bottom fell out of costly domestic flop The Golden Compass from New Line, which forked over $200+ million to make it. I know, I know, the pic is doing OK overseas after earning $50.9 mil from 27 territories December 7th-9th. But the fantasy epic is so lost domestically it earned only an anemic $2.6 million Friday and $3.7 million Saturday from 3,528 nearly empty runs for 3rd place and a new cume of just $40.5 mil. I hear studio topper Bob Shaye once again is blaming everyone but himself -- including... Deadline Hollywood Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940643/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:35:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1939458/posts Need something a bit more, you know, sexy and subversive this holiday? Here you go - No fruit baskets. No swell digital cameras and no "Sopranos" DVD sets and no noxious copies of "High School Musical 2" and no "Eat, Pray, Love" and nothing at all approved or endorsed by Oprah. No golfing figurines. No sports paraphernalia. No candleholders. No pink fleece hoodies with little glittery skulls. Not on this, my annual list, anyway. Just random delicious deeply cool things I've come across that make a statement or warm your blood or taste unreal or that serve some sort of... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1939458/posts#comment Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:50:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938106/posts Not the oasis it was intended to be, The Golden Compass failed to guide the box office out of the desert. A dispirited response to the fantasy adaptation combined with a largely pathetic group of holdovers led to the least attended early December frame in 13 years. The Golden Compass pointed to $25.8 million on approximately 5,600 screens at 3,528 theaters, which was about average for a live action fantasy. The turnout was well below half that of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or The Lord of the Rings movies, and the picture was... Box Office Mojo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938106/posts#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:23:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937030/posts Connecticut atheists, taking advantage of a town's policy of allowing holiday-season displays in its public park, have erected a 10-foot tall sign in celebration of the winter solstice that includes a message blaming the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on religious believers. The 3-sided sign was erected in the Town of Vernon's Central Park on Dec. 1 by the Connecticut Valley Atheists. The two sides facing Main Street feature a pre-attack image of the Twin Towers with the sun shining between them and the message, "Imagine no religion," drawn from the John Lennon anthem, "Imagine." Use of the image... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937030/posts#comment Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:39:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1935687/posts Contact: Kevin P. McVicker, Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, 703-739-5920, 800-536-5920, 703-727-9537 cell, kmcvicker@sbpublicaffairs.com FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- As Christians around the country are met with violence and marginalization, Dr. Gary Cass, has founded the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) a new organization that aims to counter threats to millions of Christians' First Amendment rights. While the overwhelming majority of Americans are professed Christians, it has become routine for the media and elites to openly mock and trivialize Christians because they choose to express their faith.In his new book Christian Bashing and the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, Dr.... Christian Newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1935687/posts#comment Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:32:55 GMT