Dumbass Quote Of Note - David Brooks

"The good news is there is no reason to be pessimistic during the war on terrorism. Individuals and societies are tough and resilient, and usually emerge from attacks better than before." - David Brooks

Quote Of Note - Jeffrey Tayler

"After all, in the United States, as has already happened across much of Europe, rejection of the supernatural continues its unstoppable expansion, with religion’s demise promising the sunniest pastures mankind has ever known." - Jeffrey Tayler

Dumbass Quote Of Note - Ted Cruz

"There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror." - Ted Cruz

Timothy McVeigh?

Quote Of Note - Jason Rosenhouse

"Mostly they don’t know anything about anything, which is why they are reticent about having serious discussions about anything." - Jason Rosenhouse

Dumbass Quote Of Note - Donald Trump

"If I become president, we're all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you. That I can tell you." - Donald Trump

Is Bernie Sanders Plagiarizing Red Green?

This Week in God, 10.31.15:

Sanders doesn’t dodge many questions, but when the ABC late-night host asked the senator whether he believes in God, Sanders replied, “I am who I am, and what I believe in and what my spirituality is about, is that we’re all in this together.

The Red Green Show:

Red gives out sage advice from behind his fly tying workbench, usually talking to older men about married life or coping with changing society ("Let's face it", he quipped in one episode, "these days, if you're not young, you're old.") This segment always concluded with, "Remember, I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together."

Good Question

Why do people in America want to vandalize our secular institutions with their nonsensical religious twaddle?

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I did an internet search for "religious twaddle" and found:

Rev Laurence Twaddle: Religious, spiritual... both?

What Does Equality Actually Mean?

Chick-fil-A wins in 'Faith Equality Index':

A website called Faith Driven Consumer that lists which companies are best in terms of espousing Christian values has given top billing to Chick-fil-A and Hobby Lobby, two businesses that have made media waves in recent months because of attacks on their executives’ faith.

Now both businesses are getting back-pats for the very Christian values that caused previous firestorms. The two filled first and second spots on the Faith Equality Index, the just-released survey to see what companies are most Christian.

First, there were no attacks on "their executives’ faith". Second, how is this a "Faith Equality Index"?

equal:

: the same in number, amount, degree, rank, or quality
: having the same mathematical value

: not changing : the same for each person

If things are equal there are no first and second spots. There are no winners.

If things are equal there is room for atheists, satanists, Muslims, Jews, etc.

Perhaps reading the dictionary instead of the Bible would be useful.

Dumbass Quote Of Note - Ben Carson

"The good Lord has provided me with mechanisms like my syndicated column and like Fox News. We'd be Cuba if there were no Fox News." - Ben Carson