I'd like to thank Raygunz and The New Puritans for converting this mild-mannered little Catholic girl into a Flaming Pro-Choice Atheist Who Still Likes to Party ;-)

Journalism is dead, and the ‘free press’ is not free—it is bought and paid for by corporate oligarchs who have spent forty years using "news" programming to deceive and misinform citizens in support of their fascist takeover of the United States.


Become the Media! Fight back against the lies that are heaped upon us daily by obscenely-paid Republican Propagandists like this fucking tool:

"America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008.
I don’t remember any attacks on American soil during that period of time."

– Eric Bolling, FOX News, July 13, 2011



Also too, more stuff I like...
Following


Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

~ President Thomas Jefferson letter to the Danbury, CT Baptist Association, 1802.

Given the sentiments expressed by many of the Republican candidates (I see you, Herman Cain), and at Rick Perry’s rally over the weekend, this seems like a useful reminder of what at least one of the Framers actually thought about the relationship between church and state. It helps to remember that Baptists were considered outliers and extremists at the time, and the Danbury Association’s members were worried they would be persecuted.

(via politicalprof)

RELATED:

The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom

Thomas Jefferson, 1779 (codified in Virginia 1786)

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in nowise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

source lib.virginia.edu

What you hear is the sound of Fundie Freaks and FOX Christian Death-Threaters stuffing their fingers in their ears:

“la la la la I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you…”

(via andrewhartwell)

Quote
  1. theartofslack reblogged this from politicalprof
  2. intestinalfortitude reblogged this from canisfamiliaris
  3. homeskilletjane reblogged this from canisfamiliaris
  4. rinnyrinree reblogged this from homeskilletjane
  5. canisfamiliaris reblogged this from politicalprof
  6. whatgodzillasaidtogod reblogged this from politicalprof
  7. faerielandsforlorn reblogged this from politicalprof
  8. jennaologie reblogged this from politicalprof
  9. savanna reblogged this from bapeonion and added:
    Plus another founding father, Thomas Payne, was a big old atheist whose life’s work was The Necessity of Atheism.
  10. bapeonion reblogged this from politicalprof
  11. pieceinthepuzzlehumanity reblogged this from namelessgenxer
  12. namelessgenxer reblogged this from andrewhartwell and added:
    The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom Thomas Jefferson, 1779 (codified in Virginia 1786)
  13. letfreedomring reblogged this from politicalprof
  14. rootsofunity reblogged this from politicalprof
  15. questionall reblogged this from politicalprof
  16. andrewhartwell reblogged this from politicalprof
  17. nopainkiller reblogged this from politicalprof
  18. politicalprof posted this