March 2012
7 posts
BREAKING: US Senate agrees that women should have...
cognitivedissonance:
Planned Parenthood breaks some marvelous news!
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via newwavefeminism)
aintasuperhero:
nehzoomey:
how do 90% of people on tumblr even go outside without being offended by a blade of grass or something
some people don’t have grass where they live, check ur privilege
This shouldn’t be as funny as it is.
"My sister lost her baby... and my state requires... →
silentlydrawn:
stfuconservatives:
leeleeleelee submitted: “This is the reality of Texas’ ultrasound for abortion bill. A 30 year old Texas woman’s fetus’ heart stopped beating after 12 weeks. The options given were to wait until miscarriage, give birth to it, or to abort it (the preferred, safest option). She has to look at an ultrasound of her already dead fetus and if she looks away, she...
February 2012
114 posts
Statement no one ever expects to hear:
“I didn’t think you liked kittens.”
“Claiming that someone else’s marriage is against your religion is as sensible as...”
– (via dumbconservativebitches)
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the... →
strudelcuddy:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never...
“I’m so tired of hearing political parties claiming they’re doing ‘the Lord’s...”
– Landon, former guitarist for Showbread (via ryanelindsey)
“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via axelgonz08)
Anonymous asked: so i was browsing for more liberal tumblrs to follow and found yours and I just want to say how great it is that you represent that not all Christians are narrow minded. keep up the good work<3
STUDY: Rich people are more likely to steal candy... →
For women, heart attacks look different. →
elfgrove:
distractedbyshinyobjects:
Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second:
I’ve long wondered if this - that women don’t recognize the symptoms of a heart attack in themselves, and consequently don’t get the fast care that is vital for heart attack survival - is the reason heart disease is the #1 killer in women. Women statistically take better care of themselves health-wise, than men...
andyts:
liberalchristian:
andyts:
liberalchristian:
andyts:
It’s a scenario and I really wish I remembered the thinker who I, more or less, quoted this from. Anyways, no, I agree. As long as we’ve held the capacity to, we’ve pondered our existence and our origin. I’m not debating that nor am I debating the concept of faith, what I’m trying to say is that if presented with a (if...
andyts:
liberalchristian:
andyts:
liberalchristian replied to your post: I really just want to post stuff about religion…
What if that happened, and it turned out everyone did?
I just don’t find it likely… I’m sorry.
Even with the knowledge of varying viewpoints we, as a species, have not clinged onto a single belief system when it comes to religion.
We’ve had polytheist religions; We’ve...
“[TW: Rape] Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
andyts:
liberalchristian replied to your post: I really just want to post stuff about religion…
What if that happened, and it turned out everyone did?
I just don’t find it likely… I’m sorry.
Even with the knowledge of varying viewpoints we, as a species, have not clinged onto a single belief system when it comes to religion.
We’ve had polytheist religions; We’ve had belief systems that...
unknowable woman: What Lot's Wife Would Have Said... →
catch-the-trade-winds:
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body...
Lutherans are pretty close too
Best conversion line ever-
Friend: If you’re going to go to an Episcopal church, you might as well just convert to Catholicism.
Me: Oh, yeah, cause they’re so identical. Really, I would, but I hate the thought of having the Pope call me every week to tell me what to do.
Friend: He does what?
Me: Well, that’s the impression I get online.
Friend: Ah. Of course.
“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
– Selected bits FROM THIS ARTICLE which is almost entirely perfect. (via aninsufferableknowitall)
Anonymous asked: Why Christianity?
Peace Corps?
fsufeminist:
siempre-palante:
My immediate connotations with the Peace Corps are definitely that icky feeling of white people saving the world and all of that. & I get that, and it is a valid and a very real mindset/occurence that doesn’t do any good for anybody.
I’ve looked into the projects that PCVs engage in, and whether they seem sustainable. Most do. Some folks teach English abroad,...
“the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For...”
– Romans 3:22-26 (via seannullo)
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I think I will give up arguing for Lent, and all variations of the phrase ‘I hate it when people say…’ I do that way too much.
theworldisconfused:
“Let the heathen spill theirs On the dusty ground. God shall make them pay for Each sperm that can’t be found.”
—
G.K. Chesterton
Ack. But what about all the billions that die in failed pursuit of the egg? We’re all doomed…
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Evangelical atheism
Still don’t get the concept of evangelical atheism. If one did define exactly what was wrong with religion(as opposed to nearly every other strongly held ideal in the world), then it might make sense to argue to fix that problem. Ex: Religion tends to not teach critical thinking skills. True enough, even if I’m not sure why that would be a religious/church obligation in the first...
Happy Valentines Day
<Receive phone call I’ve been waiting for for three days>
Him: Happy Valentines day!
Me: Happy Valentines day!
Him: So, what’s new?
Me: Oh, you know, politics, writing, arguing about religion. Atheism and objective morality, that sort of thing…
Him: …what?
Suddenly remember that we’ve never discussed this particular topic before.
<Three hours of...
It really bugs me when people hate on religion
philosophersdog:
liberalchristian:
philosophersdog:
As I suspected, it seems that your beef is not with atheism, but with physicalism. All atheism does is deny the existence of a super-natural god. It doesn’t entail that they also reject any kind of non-natural properties. An atheist can disbelieve in a god and still accept that there are objective, non-natural moral properties. This...
On Morality: where it comes from. →
vernardm:
I’m going to make a short and quick response and less wordplay on the quote at the bottom.
Your Question: “Where does Morality Come from?”
As much as I can simply say that “it comes from the Human mind”, I doubt that answer will please you because you will need a more complex explanation for that.
But that is basically it. It comes from our thinking. Our compassion, our hatred,...
It really bugs me when people hate on religion
philosophersdog:
liberalchristian:
philosophersdog:
I’m not sure what they would disagree with me about. The fact of the matter is that nothing about atheism would lead someone to reject moral objectivity. It would have to be a different philosophical theory that would lead one to rejecting moral objectivity. This is the point I’ve been making this whole time. I, personally, have chosen...
It really bugs me when people hate on religion
philosophersdog:
liberalchristian:
philosophersdog:
Haha, what books have you read? There is nothing about atheism that would make it logically inconsistent to believe in an objective morality. Absolutely nothing. You will have to explain that to me because, speaking as a moral philosopher, that makes absolutely no sense.
Moral naturalism does not claim that morality has been tested...
atheistbiblestudy said: Ugh. I knew this ‘nice guy’ a couple months ago who ranted and raved when I told him I wasn’t interested in going out with him because I’m gay and in a relationship. I’m the feminist bitch who must have just become a lesbian so not to go out with him
That’s awful. I know it’s sort of a complaint among some nice guys that girls will claim to be lesbians when...
dividedkingdom said: Oh phew. I dunno where I got dating from then. Isn’t breaking up with friends harder than breaking up with a bf/gf? I’m horrible at it. I usually ignore their calls. Lame, I know. What did you do?
There’s this group of people that I know from a mutual game we play online. Most of them I’ve never met in real life, but some I talk to a lot about non-game stuff and...
dividedkingdom said: I can’t believe you managed to date that guy. I’m glad it’s over! “Forced” to install a keystroke? I fucking hate keystrokes. They’re why my computer is so fucked now. So anyone who is associated with keystrokes is automatically banned in my book.
I never actually dated him, but eventually being ‘just friends’ got too much to take too. And yeah… such a...