Doesn’t faith oppose skepticism, empiricism and science? I’ve read about scientists who say they’re trying to incorporate the two systems but that balance only lasts as long as science doesn’t bump up against some faith based belief -see Galileo. Then one side has to back down. For most of history it was science but…

Where do I give Islam a pass? You conservatives and your made up straw-men, sheesh.

One more person who hated gay people and made my life harder is dead.

I would respectfully argue that this is not possible. There is no “intellectually wholesome belief system” that includes the story of Mohammad. 

I don’t have a problem with religion; rather, I have many problems with the sect of a religion that doesn’t incorporate the science, empiricism and skepticism of the Enlightenment into an intellectually wholesome belief system.

Christianity is a crisis cult used for political and social dominance.

....Oh, another nice thing I can say: “Billy Graham has not uttered an antisemitic, homophobic, misogynist or bigoted word in several hours.”

Seventy years too late. If he had keeled over in ‘48, his shitbag son wouldn’t have been born.

“but at least he was not as horrible as his son Franklin....”

$25 million? I hope he spent some of that money on lessons on getting camels through the eyes of needles.

it’s almost like religion is shit.

Yeah, my Mom loves to praise her liberal (for a Catholic) church. I like to point out that parishes tend to be progressive in places where they’d otherwise have very few bodies in the pews. In places where they aren’t lacking for members, not so much.

I do not understand anyone who thinks religion is a good idea, but especially women, and especially women in the more fundamentalist churches. Even if you believe in god(s), why stay in a group that thinks you’re somehow less than human *and* it’s your fault?

I think it’s a great painting, but a lousy portrait. Even ignoring that it looks nothing like Michelle Obama, I don’t think it even captures her energy.

So you have to be an artist or an art professor to look at that painting, which is intended to be a portrat of an actual person, and say, “Gray skin or not, that does not look like Michelle Obama”? Because it DOES NOT LOOK LIKE HER.

You literally condescended to the write and then linked tweets saying, “hey, don’t be condescending about art.” Well done

I don’t know anything at all about art. And I’m not trying to be snarky because like I said, I’m totally ignorant on the subject, so can you give a quick tl;dr about why this is good, or at least why the fact that it doesn’t look like Michelle is ok? I’m honestly asking because the only things I know about art I…

Change “Gay” to “Black” and maybe you’ll understand things a little fucking better. Seriously, are people really this stupid still?

The maddening thing is that conversion therapy is just one of many anti-LGBTQ things he’s promoted. Just a couple years ago he was making front page news as governor of Indiana for signing the anti-LGBTQ “Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” The guy is not a one hit wonder of bigotry.

“My only hope for you is that you bring home a gold medal”??? Really telling Mike that your ONLY hope for this young man is that (in spite of all the horrific things you have said and done to diminish LGBTQ people) he performs well enough to glorify this country that you are turning into a shithole.