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What the Bible says about…

christiantheatheist:

Figs

(God hates them.)

 Psalms 105:33

He smote … their fig trees.

Jeremiah 24:2-3

The other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Jeremiah 29:17-18

Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will … make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Hosea 2:12

I will destroy her vines and her fig trees.

Matthew 21:19

Andwhen he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

Mark 11:13-14, 20

And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. … And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

(Or maybe he doesn’t)

2 Kings 20:7

And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

Source

School Prayer Bill Has One More Stop in FL Senate

helvetebrann:

A school prayer bill introduced by state Sen. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, has caught the attention of national groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The groups are calling foul and warn that the bill is “patently unconstitutional.” Siplin, however, maintains that his bill is constitutional in a new interview with The Florida Independent.

Senate Bill 98 would “authorize district school boards to adopt resolutions that allow prayers of invocation or benediction at secondary school events.”

Early last month, an education committee added an amendment that would remove a line that read: “All prayers of invocation or benediction will be nonsectarian and nonproselytizing in nature.”

The Anti-Defamation League, a group dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, says the amended bill is more problematic than the original version. The group said in a press release that the bill “divisive and unnecessary legislation … [that] will result in state sponsored religious endorsement or coercion.”

“[The bill] blatantly authorizes sectarian and proselytizing prayers – such as prayers to Allah, Adanoi, Buddha, or Jesus at all kinds of public secondary school events,” said David Barkey, the League’s religious freedom counsel, in a statement. “We are even more concerned that the bill will be used to impose majority religious beliefs on minority faiths in Florida’s public schools.”

In a press release today, the group says it has urged the Senate Committee on Rules, which will be the last stop for the bill,  to oppose the legislation. League Religious Freedom Counsel David Barkey said in a statement:

We’re only going into the third week of the 2012 session, but this divisive and unconstitutional school prayer legislation is on a fast track to the Senate floor. Why is this religiously divisive legislation, which if enacted will undoubtedly cost school districts and the Florida taxpayer unnecessary litigation expenses, taking priority? But legislation addressing the epidemic of cyberbullying in our public schools, which effects children across religious, racial and ethnic lines, has yet to be heard by its first committee (Education Pre-K-12)? As set forth in ADL’s letters to all the Committees voting on the school prayer bill, public secondary school students have the right to privately pray alone or in groups during non-curricular time, form and participate in lunchtime Bible or religious clubs, or participate in after-school religious clubs. So given that students already have the right to pray in school, why does this legislation have priority over measures that would safeguard our children from the dangers of cyberbullying?

The League has warned that if the measure is passed, the state will inevitably be sued — which could cost the state a large amount of money in litigation.

I am so tired of this debate.  Prayer is legal in schools.  Forcing prayer on students is not.  It’s pretty damn cut and dry here, folks. 

Fuck you mitt. Our nation is NOT judeo-christian

Mitt Romney, check out the Treaty of Tripoli

Article 11:

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

WE ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION!