The faithful don't need you to advocating on their behalf, nor explaining
their beliefs. They don't even need you to protect them, because they have laws on their side protecting their dangerous stupidity. Pick up a newspaper and you'll find plenty of contemporary cases of religious beliefs interfering with common…

Could you explain your use of scare quotes?
Are you implying that the flu shot and the flu don't exist?

That isn't true. People who have been vaccinated can still get diseases. Vaccinations work because of herd immunity. When enough people don't get vaccines there is no longer herd immunity and the disease can be reintroduced into the population. This is why previously almost eradicated diseases like whopping cough…

This author is full of BS about HFCS being proven as worse for you than cane sugar and straight up making up the idea that it unregulated.

Probably not. I crochet vests for my dog.

There are few things that disturb me more than the anti-vaccine people. Or movement. Dear god, I hope it's not a movement because if so we really need to stop them. Anyone want to join me in starting the anti-anti-vaccine movement?

You are missing the point.

That's not strictly true - following those parts of Lev and Deut is a mortal sin in catholic doctrine and has been since Aquinas, so all modern denominations share the doctrine.

I wish people would stop saying that "these people arent real christians". They are christians. They are just also assholes and bigots. Every religion has em. It happens.

I can not believe that a post containing this amount of sexist, classist, ageist, and racist was posted here.

"This close, they always look like landscape. Nope, those are balls. "

Yes. Unless you included your eye doctor's phone and fax number when you placed your order, you've procured them through illegal means, even if you weren't aware of it.

No one will give a shit about a player getting paralyzed or killed during a football game. Millions of Americans have been brainwashed to believe that football is just tits, Jesus and Batman and apple pie and tight pussy all wrapped up into a padded-but-sill-manlytough sport. People will shrug and say "too bad," "he…

Ha! It's Oregon's October mascot! Clever!

I'm saying you don't have to alter your behaviour, just to make sure that someone with an idiot's idea of the universe can maintain their little bubble-world. You also don't have to hold your tongue, if you want to say that their religion is a bunch of lies, and you don't have to pretend like you believe they are…

Seriously, this is a non-issue. I don't think anyone, Muslims included, could be terribly offended by the pictures. They're not fine art, OK, but they're not offensive, really.

Okay I love all the respect for this "holy place" from Jezebel readers. There are some haters that will grab onto anything that sounds like an approved reason to throw shade. Someone even said "it's their property."

Of course they have authority, that's why she complied and left. Nothing you said, however, gives them the right to have their worldview respected. And there really is nothing to respect about it.

So basically the take-away here is that being very disrespectful at a religious institution is acceptable to us if you have legitimate beef, but being slightly disrespectful without good cause is not. I personally don't find her photos to be inappropriate or disrespectful, but I am fairly strongly anti-organized…

Religion: A weak excuse for telling other people how to live.