Central Bucks West High School counselor threatened to "personally shoot" protesters staging a "die-in" outside Lincoln Financial Field if they stopped her son from getting to the Eagles game.
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An Oregon pastor is set to stand trial 18 years after women first brought allegations of rape and sexual abuse to authorities
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What bothers me is just how silly it all is. By focusing on the literal truth of the Bible, people seem to lose sight of any of its spiritual teachings. It isn’t so important what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, but that it is literally true that he said it. Like in Life of Brian: “Judea AD 33. Saturday Afternoon. About Tea Time.” I just don’t see many Christians living as though they actually believed, “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.” In fact, some of them have threatened me with violence for suggesting that the Bible wasn’t literally true.
http://franklycurious.com/wp/2015/01/03/silly-religious-beliefs-past-and-present/
And the hits just keep coming:
A week doesn’t go by without Sarah Palin saying something shockingly stupid about the U.S. government. This week we learned that the apple does not fall far from the tree, when Palin’s daughter Bristol decried the separation of church and state in her blog.
“I just get so sick of hearing about the ‘separation of church and state.’ Because it usually means the state is pushing Christians around,” complained the younger Palin. To make her case, Bristol cited an example of what she deemed to be the government bullying Christians:
"Answers in Genesis is building a life-sized Noah’s Ark in Kentucky and a theme park to go with it. […] The state has a program to encourage tourism that refunds sales tax to big parks like this for the first 10 years they’re open. The plans for 'Ark Encounter' were approved by the state in 2011 along with the tax credits.
"But now, out of the blue, Kentucky officials say they’ve changed their mind! Answers in Genesis won’t be approved for the program unless they agree to hire people who aren’t Christians and unless the exhibit doesn’t talk about Christianity."
But poor Bristol fails to realize the controversy in the Commonwealth of Kentucky has nothing to do with Christianity and everything to do with the park's documented discriminatory hiring practices. Palin tries to suggest that the park's message was “too religious,” but when the park is a Noah’s Ark theme park, it stands to reason there is no confusion about how religious this park is.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/fundamentalists-remain-denial?akid=12648.1722.dvmOAh&rd=1&src=newsletter1029671&t=20