Tag Archives: Religion

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Did Not Support Prayer in Public Schools

Dr. King supported the various Supreme Court decisions prohibiting government-sponsored prayer in public schools. In a January 1965 interview with Playboy magazine, Dr. King was asked about one of the rulings. Not only did he back the court’s decision, he added that his antithesis, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, stood on the other side of the argument. Continue reading

2012 Is The Year of the Bible in Pennsylvania? Are You Shitting Me?

House Resolution 535 in Pennsylvania, sponsored by Rep. Rick Saccone (R), declares the year 2012 as the ‘Year of the Bible’. Are you shitting me? Continue reading

Cee Lo Green Ruins Lennon Classic, Panders to Religious Imperative of Conversion

Bestowed with the honor of singing Lennon’s famous solo-era tune on NBC’s New Year’s Eve show shortly before the ball dropped in Times Square, Green changed the lyrics from “Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too” to “Nothing to kill or die for, And all religion’s true.” Seriously? Continue reading

Thank You, Christopher Hitchens

I’m still upset by the passing of Christopher Hitchens; author, philosopher, erudite champion of the working class, enemy of tyrants, hater of ignorance, dialectic anomaly, someone I never met. Hitchens was someone whose boisterous, peremptive, larger-than-life personality seemed poised to … Continue reading