Damned Christians

[Fake Messiah]

Poor baby. He would still be alive today if his parents were not Christians.

(Note: this is from a Romanian site and they haven't done completely thorough job of translating the article on the English language)

Baby dies in Romania after being immersed in baptism


A six-week-old baby boy has died after his face was submerged in water several times during baptism.

The archdeacon said he spoke to the priest who baptized the newborn and he said the baby had cried during and after immersion, indicating that his vital signs were good.

However, several minutes later the baby, who was born prematurely, went floppy and he called the ambulance, he said.

The family contradicted that report and told Antena 3 that the baby stopped breathing when he was taking out of the font, and they called the emergency services.

”We wanted to christen him, and I can tell you he was crying, but the priest plunged him into water three times, and he inhaled water. The priest took him out and wiped him down. I found out from doctors that he’d inhaled 110 milliliters of water. He was bleeding from his nose and we put his head down to get out the water but he didn’t recover; his heart was beating but it was very weak,” the father, who was not named, told Monitorul de Suceava.

Emergency officials resuscitated the infant and he was taken to  the St John the New Suceava County Hospital  where he was put on a ventilator, hospital spokesman Dan Teodorovici said.

He suffered a cardiac arrest, and died early Monday morning.

Police have launched a manslaughter investigation, but haven’t charged anyone.

In 2010, another Orthodox priest was accused of accidentally drowning a six-week-old boy as he baptized him in in northeast Romania. [Just accused?!]

https://universul.net/baby-dies-in-roman...n-baptism/

[Fake Messiah]

Clueless abortion protesters get schooled about what they are actually protesting

[Fake Messiah]

God is a very useful thing

Rep. Al Green (D-TX) response to GOP Rep Greg Steube who said God opposes transgender rights: "You used God to enslave my foreparents. You used God to segregate me in schools. You used God to put me in the back of the bus. Have you no shame?"

[Fake Messiah]

Atheists still have a lot of work preserving secularism in the USA

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville complained on the Senate floor that the U.S. needs to get “God and prayer back into schools.”

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show...r-n1259259

Texas State Rep. Mayes Middleton seems to agree, and has a bill to get Bible readings into public schools.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021...c-schools/

Oklahoma’s House approved a dumb bill to require that “In God We Trust” gets plastered on state buildings.

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-ho...s/35694319

[Fake Messiah]

There's a new CBSN documentary, The Right’s Fight to Make America a Christian Nation: “The debate over what role religion should play in public life has never been more contentious, with some promoting a vision of Christian primacy that critics say tramples on the rights of everyone else.”

[Fake Messiah]

Woman got a letter from her church



https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/w...ing-letter

[The Grand Nudger]

My bro in law couldn't get married in his church due to cohabitation. Jut flat out wouldn't let him marry the woman he'd decided to marry, lol.

They lost five well tithing congregants that day and a man who would later become a pastor. Two years later, a child. One of those small humans that churches are finding it harder and harder to procure and keep glued to the pews. The kind that pays out for 60 or 70 years.

Dumdums. You don't just lose the customer you shit on, everyone knows that.

[arewethereyet]

Funny how churches do things like that. My hometown church, the one I was forced to attend for years, refused to baptize my older daughter. Being born out of wedlock and all that...sins of the fathers...blah, blah, blah. We found out later that a large contribution to the church pays your way out of that rule.

Then they wouldn't let me marry in the church. Okay, I can take a hint. Peace out Basilica of St. Francis Xavier and take your Catholicism with you.

Yet all these decades later they still send me begging letters for money for the Catholic high school I was forced to attend. Yeah, good luck with that.

[The Grand Nudger]

See, and shit like this is how I know that, no matter how small and limited, these people believe in gods. Someone or something would -have- to come and rescue them from their long list of inarguably poor financial decisions. They drive their patrons away, assuming that, in the end.... god will float a note to cover their mortgage.

He never does, because god doesn't throw good money after bad, but that doesn't stop any of them from believing that he might turn into an idiot, and do that thing, for their sake. The church I was mentioning no longer exists, btw. Turns out that my n laws were keeping their lights on. I already knew that just by looking at our bank statements.....but these guys, apparently, taken by suprise.

They refused the only life preserver that they could see thinking...one can only imagine, that some other might suddenly appear. Didn't happen.

[The Valkyrie]

Woman got a letter from her church



https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/w...ing-letter

Interestingly, the last Bill Burns I knew was a cunt, too.