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I like that there is a thing called "The weekend",cause people used to work 6 days 12 hours a day..and Sunday was the only time off. Just like it better when it is called a day off,cause your boss understands you are not a machine. But,a paid holiday is good, and getting paid for not working is very good.
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Working in retail, I have no problem with Blue Laws. They may have been designed for religious purposes but I want holidays back. You do not need to be shopping on Thanksgiving or at 12 AM Black Friday. You will even live if you don't get to go clothes shopping on Sunday. I don't need them to specifically ban retail on religious dates but I would love to shove some non-shopping days down the throat of the US population.Leave a comment:
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And so it goes,don't feed the homeless,it only encourages them to remain alive and we can't be having that now can we.
Humans:can't live with them,can't kill them,and for sure can't feed them.(turns in my membership to the human race back in)Leave a comment:
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How to use shitty laws to your advantage:
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These just in:
Atheist Mom Gets Threats After School Cancels 'Bible Man' Visits
"We just can't get over how much hate there is in their loving, Christian hearts," the mother, who has not been identified due to the nature of the threats, told the station.
And this here:
Oklahoma Satanist church wants permission to distribute books in elementary school
Less than two weeks after a third-grade teacher in Duncan, Okla., distributed Gideon Bibles to her students, the Church of Ahriman, a Satanist church in Oklahoma City, has asked permission to distribute Satanist literature at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Shahaku View Post
...And this is why we continue to have bad PR.
Seriously. Public change is incremental. It requires baby steps, it takes coddling, and coaxing, and compassion, and buckets of patience. Decades of work*. For groups of people that are all *oh, ancient traditions and ideals*, they sure don't understand concepts of communites very well.
And what happends when someone finally has this opportunity?
Oh, well...if you don't do it *my* way, it doesn't count and I will fry you publically.
*and that is decades of behind the scenes work just to get to the point where visible activism can work, and even then (if you look at the Civil Rights movement in the US as an example, it took over 10 years of protests) it takes years of civil action to get real changeLeave a comment:
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An update on this. Deb is still planning to be there, but there are already people picketing. She made a comment in one interview about how many Wiccans didn't want to claim the title witch because of the negative stereotypes Christians associate with the word due to the bible. The article quoted her as simply saying that the word witch has a bad reputation. So there are chunks of the pagan community out to get her for that one. And the Christians...duh. There is a chance the Westboro's are going to show up, but they weren't there yet on Saturday night, likely because of Easter. We're expecting them by Tuesday. The invocation is on Thursday.Originally posted by Shahaku View Post
And then she made a comment in one interview about how she has her first degree in the Cabot tradition. So the Cabot's are on her now and have given her an ultimatum. The invocation she was going to do was an inclusive one more in line with the Unitarian Universalist ideologies (she is also a lay minister for the UU). She was told by the Cabots (the daughter was the one who called her) that she could not act as a UU minister and a Cabot priestess. If she did not do the invocation in the Cabot tradition, she would loose their backing and her priesthood. And since the invocation is required by state to be inclusive, she's not sure if they are going to allow her to do the Cabot invocation. In which case she will be calling them back and going from there.Leave a comment:
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Sadly but predictably, they begin to eat their own. http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/d/s...PUaZJn_SHFqqXQLeave a comment:
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Lol funny thing about #5 is the bible verse that people think says men or women shouldn't crossdress, actually refers to men disguising themselves as women not to go to war, or women disguising themselves as men to go to war. So if a woman is in the military at all, no cake for her. XDOriginally posted by thalassa View Post
I think the sad part is that I can actually see a lot of christians following through on some of these things though, from my experience in a charismatic evangelical church. v_vLeave a comment:
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Not really news (more sarcastically humorous commentary) on the Indiana "Religious FReedom" legislation...Leave a comment:
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^^^ I read another article about that, http://www.kcci.com/news/wiccan-to-d...tives/32066106Leave a comment:
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