Tuesday Godbtyes

Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist blog thinks that some controversy over some atheist-leaning billboards is a smidge overblown: “I’ve said before that atheists could put up a billboard saying, “We exist,” and Christians would find a way to get offended. Really?! *That* billboard is too ‘anti-god’ for you? The message isn’t anti-religious at all. […]

Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist blog thinks that some controversy over some atheist-leaning billboards is a smidge overblown:

“I’ve said before that atheists could put up a billboard saying, “We exist,” and Christians would find a way to get offended.

Really?! *That* billboard is too ‘anti-god’ for you?

The message isn’t anti-religious at all. It’s saying that atheists can hope, care, love, and live – without god – just as religious people do with god. It’s saying we’re all pretty much alike despite our religious differences. It’s not an insult to Christians.”

Raymond Schroth of the Catholic In All Things blog talks with folks who think that the Republican Party has become “an apocalyptic cult“:

“The Republican party has become more like an apocalyptic cult, Lofgren says. Virtually every bill, nominee for Senate confirmation, and routine procedure is subject to a Republican filibuster, legislating has become like war, but without the shooting. A few years ago a fellow-Republican staff director explained the strategy to Lofgren: Obstruct the Congress from doing its job, to so lower its prestige that they could get the pubic to hate the very institution of government. That’s all government. So the party against government would win. As Ronald Reagan said, ‘Government is the problem.'”

BoingBoing reports on a new graphic novel that chronicles Iran’s 2009 uprising, complete with explorations technology, youth, and Khomeniest versions of Islam:


“Zahra’s Paradise, a new book from FirstSecond, collects in one volume the serialized (and brilliant) webcomic, written by two pseudonymous Iranian dissidents. It’s the gripping story of a Medhi, a young man kidnapped by Iran’s secret police during the election-season demonstrations of 2009, and it is a heart-rending tale of loss, hope, technology, revolution, politics, bravery and resilience. Told form the point of view of Medhi’s blogger brother (who has previously been arrested for publishing political material), it features an in-the-round look at the power and limits of technology to effect revolution.”

Finally, in lieu of a Tweet of the Day, I present you with a mashup of Cookie Monster singing “God’s Away on Business,” courtesy Sojourners God’s Politics blog.

Yeah. The internet is a weird place.

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