Stupid things religious people say

[Fake Messiah]

Wow, you can pay the holy mass with a credit card these days

[Sheldon]

Wow, you can pay the holy mass with a credit card these days

I imagine the legal bills resulting from decades if endemic child abuse by their priests, and covering up the same, don't come cheap.

[Fake Messiah]

Easily the dumbest thing you'll see today

[Angrboda]

I threw up in my mouth a little.

[Fake Messiah]

They're such snowflakes.

State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’

The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.

The department, according to a copy of an internal cable obtained by POLITICO, will work with an administration-wide task force to collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration” and will collect examples of anti-Christian bias through anonymous employee report forms.

The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. The instructions also were released in a department-wide notice.

Some State Department officials reacted to the cable with shock and alarm, saying that even if well-intentioned, it is based on the flawed premise that the department harbors anti-Christian bias to begin with, and warning it could create a culture of fear as the administration pushes employees to report on one another.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11...ias-033535

So you are not allowed to mention books by Copernicus and Dawkins at work if you work for the State Department because that offends Christians.

[Sheldon]

They're such snowflakes.

State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’

The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.

The department, according to a copy of an internal cable obtained by POLITICO, will work with an administration-wide task force to collect information “involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration” and will collect examples of anti-Christian bias through anonymous employee report forms.

The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. The instructions also were released in a department-wide notice.

Some State Department officials reacted to the cable with shock and alarm, saying that even if well-intentioned, it is based on the flawed premise that the department harbors anti-Christian bias to begin with, and warning it could create a culture of fear as the administration pushes employees to report on one another.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11...ias-033535

So you are not allowed to mention books by Copernicus and Dawkins at work if you work for the State Department because that offends Christians.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." 

How is this remotely legal?

[Alan V]

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." 

How is this remotely legal?

It isn't. It's just a part of Trump's creeping fascism, which is being challenged legally in over a hundred cases right now. I assume this will be another such case, if someone has the time and money to push back, and doesn't mind being targeted for retribution.

Trump never intended to support our Constitution and laws. As a malignant narcissist, he will always push his boundaries and leave it to others to keep him in line with relevant laws and truths. But good luck doing that, considering how he has a largely-enabling Congress and Supreme Court, who apparently don't mind their own powers being usurped -- at least for now.

Edit: I also should have mentioned that Trump is a paranoid delusional, who sees anyone opposing him as evil. I assume that is another aspect of his malignant narcissism.

So what the U.S. is going through right now is a huge psychodrama, which a majority of citizens have brought down on our heads by their various dishonesties.

[Sheldon]

How is this remotely legal?

It isn't.  It's just a part of Trump's creeping fascism, which is being challenged legally in over a hundred cases right now.  I assume this will be another such case, if someone has the time and money to push back, and doesn't mind being targeted for retribution.

Trump never intended to support our Constitution and laws.  As a malignant narcissist, he will always push his boundaries and leave it to others to keep him in line with relevant laws and truths.  But good luck doing that, considering how he has a largely-enabling Congress and Supreme Court, who apparently don't mind their own powers being usurped -- at least for now.

Edit:  I also should have mentioned that Trump is a paranoid delusional, who sees anyone opposing him as evil.  I assume that is another aspect of his malignant narcissism.

So what the U.S. is going through right now is a huge psychodrama, which a majority of citizens have brought down on our heads by their various dishonesties.

Well given how many people will be involved, the odds are good some of them will have the protection of a union, who might choose to fight this flagrant 1st amendment violation. There will be civil rights lawyers and law firms throughout the US looking for a "most likely win" scenario as well. 

Yes of course, I understand that the orange Palpatine already violated his oath of office to uphold the constitution by citing the Jan 6th insurrection. The real irony is that if the sith lord had won a second term, he'd likely have disappeared into relative political obscurity, but losing it, has provoked him into ever ore egregious excesses of his office. 

Only a narrow majority of course, just like Brexit in the UK, the rest of us will have to go along for the ride. At least in the case of Brexit, despite the egregiously mendacious campaign some waged, I can accept it is democracy at work. You can't always expect to get what you want in a democracy, something Senator Palpatine and many his breathless followers, won't ever grasp or accept.

[Fake Messiah]

Star Trek’s Prime Directive Is Anti-Catholic because it deprives aliens on other planets of knowing about Jesus

If you take the next generation understanding of the Prime Directive of not interfering with the natural development of a culture, um, then that does potentially come into conflict with the Christian duty to bear witness to Jesus Christ. As Christians, we have a responsibility to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with everybody, and that’s going to apply, you know, presumably to people on other planets, too.

Now, that doesn’t mean you do so immediately. I could see it being reasonable to say, okay, well, this is a pre-warp civilization, so we’re not really going to tell them that we’re aliens until they’re ready for it. But then once they’re ready for that knowledge, then we would want to share the message of Jesus Christ with them as well.

You could even argue that they need the message of Jesus Christ earlier than that. So I do see that although there are elements or versions of the Prime Directive that are reasonable, that there are also versions of the Prime Directive that are going to be in conflict with the Christian duty to evangelize.



https://www.catholic.com/video/is-star-t...i-catholic

[Fake Messiah]

Jodhpur cylinder blast: Rescued teenage girl runs back to get her hijab from burning room, dies in fire

In Jodhpur, Rajasthan, as per witness statements, thee 19-year-old girl named Sadiya was reading Namaz in a first-floor room when the fire surrounded the house. Sadiya managed to alert rescue workers and even walked out of the room. But the girl, who was a devout Muslim, had forgotten her hijab inside the room so she ran back to retrieve it. However, a burning door fell on her and she was trapped below it. Sadiya was pulled out and sent to hospital, but she had severe burn injuries and passed away en route.

https://www.opindia.com/news-updates/jod...s-in-fire/