“Off the record: If you’re a Christian and are not judgey with how the rest of us live our lives, my beef isn’t with you.”

I love how she conveniently erases the possibility of sex for anyone who’s not both religious and married. An approach that has been tested literally everywhere throughout history and has worked literally never and nowhere. If you want to talk about “always preventing the conception of a child”.

Oh, FUCK THIS lady.

It’s weird, because we don’t ask for 100% certainty anywhere else. “The prospect that a seat belt would always prevent a traffic fatality is preposterous.” “The prospect that an antibiotic would always prevent a bacterial infection is preposterous.” “The prospect that education would always prevent appalling ignorance…

“The prospect that contraception would always prevent the conception of a child is preposterous.”

Speaking as a librarian, I’m grateful that our field exists for this very reason. As soon as cheetolini was inaugurated Data Rescues have been organizing all over the country. These are events where developers, librarians, archivists, information junkies of all stripes get together to scrape at-risk government data as…

Since this story did not end with Z poisoning them all I am uninterested.

They literally have it in the cabinet behind them. Stop being faux offended.

I said this to someone else: there are people out there who are using electro shock therapy on gay kids, clergy who are sexually abusing children, people blowing themselves up in crowded markets, people who are marrying seventeen women, half of whom are underaged, all of whom are involved in the major religions and…

This is a valid point, and again, I think Scientology is fucking awful. But at the same time, we’re still living in a time with gay conversion therapy, plural marriage in Utah, child abuse by high ranking clergy, etc all by people involved in the major religions who should have the same perspective, no? Nothing and…

Christianity began as a breakaway sect of Judaism (and the Jews in turn considered them to be crazies and extremists) and considered itself to be so until a pretty long time after Jesus died. Islam in its earliest form was practically a private army under Muhammad’s command. The Jews who killed themselves at Masada…

Uh, when it comes to “money hungry cults that have claimed hundreds of lives and committed countless human rights violations” you’re got to include Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and a few others.

As opposed to the non-cult ones organized around the veneration of one specific person who, depending on your flavor, is so important there’s a half-naked sculpture of him in every room of every building, or so holy  you have to die if you draw a picture of him.

Again, based on modern conceptions of religion. Look back at the history of, for example, Christianity. Indulgences, Cluniac monasteries where the rich could pay to have their souls get extra prayers, heretics burned at the stake. Come on now. And most, if not all, of that can be found in the early histories of…

I’m not a Scientologist, and I’ve read/seen/heard many of the accounts of abuse within the religion, but every time I read/see/hear criticism of it, I can’t help but think “what’s the difference between those abuses and thousands (millions?) of similar or worse committed by other religions?” And what is the difference…

Most criminals get out early due to the overcrowding, or get released due to corruption, or lack of facilities to house the criminal.

I live in a country riddled with horrible criminals.

If I had a nickel for every thing religious people were hypocritical about, well, I wouldn’t be here chatting on Jezebel. I’d be sipping a blue drink on my hundred million dollar yacht.

OH MY GOD, the first time my parents found out I smoked pot my friend had left a small weed canister at our house that had just the tiniest bit of residue in it and they found it and freaked. So I get home and they are chewing my asshole talking about marijuana when my dad then snarkily interjects “Yeah and it’s …

JUST DO IT AT CHURCH!! Jesus Christ, people, you have a whole day that is supposedly set aside for EXACTLY THIS KIND OF THING. Or, if it really needs to be multiple days, do it during school vacation! I got forced to go to enough vacation bible schools/ other assorted religious bullshit to know that these kind of…