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Well if Christianity is ever going to prove to people it's not a crock of stupidity then it's not going to get much help from the organisation Living Waters, which has put together a quite astonishing version of Darwin's Origin of the Species.

An entire generation has been (and is being) brainwashed by atheistic evolution, and it's radically changing the culture of our nation.

In an effort to combat this, we produced a special 280-page full color cover edition of Origin of Species, which contains a 50-page introduction. This introduction gives the history of evolution, a timeline of Darwin’s life, Hitler’s undeniable connections to the theory, Darwin’s racism, his disdain for women, and his thoughts on the existence of God. It lists the theory’s many hoaxes, exposes the unscientific belief that nothing created everything, points to the incredible structure of DNA, and the absence of any species-to-species transitional forms.

The mind boggles really. Living Waters is your God so small he needs the protection of liars like you? But who am I to argue? I'll leave that to a much more learned soul, St Augustine -

It often happens that even a non-Christian knows a thing or two about the earth, the sky, the various elements of the world, about the movement and revolution of the stars and even their size and distance, about the nature of animals, shrubs, rocks, and the like, and maintains this knowledge with sure reason and experience. It is offensive and ruinous, something to be avoided at all cost, for a nonbeliever to hear a Christian talking about these things as though with Christian writings as his source, and yet so nonsensically and with such obvious error that the nonbeliever can hardly keep from laughing.

I'm with St Augustine on this. Creationism is just plain laughable. By the way this site is now the top Google search for "dinosaurs didn't exist", which is nice.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8076253.stm

Once again evil right wing fundamentalist crazies have proved why abortion should continue to legal. Because a world where they weren't allowed to be born would be a better world.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7847651.stm

It looks like new US president Barack Obama is off to a great start already. He's revoked the ridiculous, and one could argue evil, gag rule which blackmailed aid organisations into not mentioning abortion if they wanted funding from the US.

This rule, set up under several Republican administration, caused countless suffering across the globe and deprived those aid agencies who saw freedom of speech as a value worth preserving of much needed money.

The gag rule wasn't just about preventing abortion. What was so wrong about this policy was that it forbade organisations from even discussing the issue within the context of family planning education for fear of funding being withdrawn. The policy denied aid organisations overseas the freedoms of expression that are enshrined in the US constitution.

Thankfully though now it has been repealed again.

I wonder if this Muppet has to believe every advertising slogan plastered across the side of his bus before he'll drive it.

"Boss, does pro-retinol and plumping agent ceramide-R really hold back the first signs of ageing?"

"Just drive the effing bus baldy."

"Yes boss."

Governors at St Monica's High School in Prestwich have banned the anti-cervical cancer vaccine being administered to pupils at the school.

They believe that the vaccine promotes promiscuity. Because of course, most teenagers abstain from sex for fear of cancer in thirty years later. The stupidity of this position beggars belief.

Let's be clear, this is not the teaching of the Catholic Church. The church itself does not object to the vaccine against the virus that causes 70 percent of cervical cancers.

No, it is the idiotic set of governors at the school.

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Last night Channel 4 aired an interesting and rather unintentionally funny documentary called In God's Name about the danger in Britain of fundamentalist Christians gaining influence and power in the UK political system.

On the whole, while entertaining, David Modell's film failed to prove its hypothesis, though he seemed to think it had. The truth is that the three very sad figures of Christian Voice's Stephen Green, the female Christian parliamentary lobbyist and the rather strange lonely bloke John - all cut rather pathetic figures that were far from powerful.

Stephen Green continued to show why his tiny little group of nutters has failed to achieve anything other than annoying people. He's an insignificant racist twit of the highest order. He believes Islam is from "the pit of Satan" and that when a bird shat on him (to the amusement of Modell) that it was a message from God to stop taking part in the filming.

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I've watched the debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill rather aghast at the unscientific, uncharitable and anti-intellectual guff that has been spouted by various bishops over the last few days.

You would think that science was suggesting we open up the gates of Hell rather than keeping splodges of cells alive for just two weeks to help solve major illnesses and bring relief to millions. There's more life in the potatoes in your cupboard than these embryos. But there are some clerics who think these splodges have more right to life than you mother suffering from alzheimer's, your dad with Parkinsons, your friend with cancer.

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Once again obsessive "Christian" nutjob Stephen Green and his (very) small band of fundies have been shown the door by the British legal system.

Green's shrill little group - Christian Voice - tried to sue BBC boss Mark Thompson over the decision to screen Jerry Springer The Opera.

Two judges decided Green's case didn't have any merit as the opera "as a whole was not and could not reasonably be regarded as aimed at, or an attack on, Christianity or what Christians held sacred."

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Regular readers, au fait with my usual ranting against blind fundamentalist preachers such as Fred Phelps and Richard Dawkins, are probably wondering where my bitter obit of Jerry Falwell is now he's shuffled off his mortal coil.

After all, Falwell was just the kind of preacher that gets my back up. Given recent events in my own realm and the confusion it has brought to that withered nutmeg I call my spiritual life I really don't have the heart to put the knife into the late fundie preacher.

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Sometimes you come across Christian Fundamentalism so lacking in anything like common sense and intellectual rigour that it becomes pure comedy rather than something to worry too much about.

Take charlesfinney.com (open in a new window), this site is so far off the chart that it's actually quite hard to be offended by it. Though I'm sure if you had a look around you'll probably find something suitably scary in there somewhere.

I particularly enjoyed the Evolution section explaining that dinosaurs never existed.

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I really wish these homophobic wack-jobs wouldn't keep pretending that what they are campaigning for is their rights of religious freedom.

I particularly wish Pentecostal self-styled Bishop Michael Reid would shut the hell up about this issue. He's just been ranting on BBC 5Live about what "committed Christians" believe.

I hardly think the leader of a Brentwood Cult that tried to annex a local political party and also requires the deeds to church members' houses has a right to talk about the sins of others.

I'm a committed Christian too Michael, but I'm really not obsessed with what people do with their genitals. Take a look at your own cult's activities before you attack other people.

I'm surprised the BBC even gave him air time considering his involvement in the very shady Peniel Church.

Today's tale of religious asshattery concerns the Christian Union at Exeter University. Regular readers will know my thoughts on University Evangelical Christian Unions but it's worth me restating my position. In my experience at Lancaster and my wife's experience at Wolverhampton, these types of Christian Unions are dangerous, a hotbed of sexual hypocrisy and packed the gunwales with fundamentalist children who shouldn't be running a tuck shop let alone an organisation charged with the spiritual wellbeing of its members.

If you're a Christian about to go to university, or perhaps are intrigued by Christianity while at university, go to your chaplaincy centre, talk to the Catholic society perhaps or go visit a local church of any denomination. Turning towards your average Evangelic Christian Union is like sticking your head in a lion's mouth. Unless that is you want a bunch of power-hungry teenagers poking their noses into every aspect of your private life and faith.

But back to the story, a tale of typical childish student stupidity from all directions.

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I was a participant in a BBC World Service discussion about Left Behind: Eternal Forces this evening. It was very entertaining.

I was invited to take part in the radio show to explain what the game's about in my official capacity as a games journalist. Then a preacher came on to talk about what a lot of bigoted shite the game was (not exactly his words). The Left Behind Games President waffled on his usual line about the game only using violence for defence.

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Interesting story over at The Times today about several groups condemning the PC strategy game Left Behind: Eternal Forces for inciting religious hatred.

Some Muslims have called for a ban, but that isn't going to happen and is really not a great idea. While I really dislike anything to do with Tim LaHaya and Jerry Jenkins right-wing nonsense I equally dislike groups trying to limit free speech and person freedom.

The fact is that Eternal Forces is going to sink without a trace over here. Why? Because the game isn't actually any good.

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