It's Not Just Evolution They Want To Dismiss

David Barton is a Christian fundamentalist tool. He has no history bone fides, but he was lauded as a serious history scholar by the Texas Board of Education. He justifies his theocratic notions by waving around a letter by John Adams that he says proves that said Founder believed that the Holy Spirit supported...nay wrote...the Constitution. As John Adams was a Unitarian, such a supposition should be immediately and logically dismissed.

Glen Beck, however...

No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must be Administered by the Holy Ghost from Chris Rodda on Vimeo.

Distrust anything you hear from Fox News: they are all the infections that the sun sucks up.

Oh...My...Jefferson...

Read this: the commencement speech of a high school valedictorian after he (with the ACLU) fought and won a case prohibiting prayer at the ceremony.

Hopefully They Aren't Only About Boning Chicks And Getting Drunk

Researchers discovered 47 letters by Benjamin Franklin previously unknown. No word yet as to how much he praised Jesus throughout them, but we can all presuppose...

Happy birthday, Mr. Madison

James Madison
"Father of the Constitution"

Born: March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia
Died: June 28, 1836, at Montpelier, Virginia

Jay Spears: Smack Dem Christians Down

Ah, Mr. Jefferson

As I get ready for next school year, I'm going to make sure I work this one in as part of my work for the forces of good - "Nation's third president compiled the four Gospels into a single text without miracles that ends with Jesus' burial rather than the resurrection." - (article, the text)

John McCain Is A Douche Bag

Really John? Could you cite me some chapters and verses in that bible of yours which directly and indisputably inspired the establishment of a democratic republic? Freedom of speech? No cruel and unusual punishment (snicker)? Any phrase of the constitution at all?

He's as intellectually and morally corrupt as his party, so at least he's consistent.

I Anti-[Heart] Huckabee

I really hope that Huckabee wins the Republican nomination. I really do. Republicans need their crazy-ass, fundamentalist base to be electorally chastised.

Huckabee sounds like the guy to get that done. Did you ever think a major contender for the President of the United States would ever say this:

"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."

I wish I didn't know history; I wouldn't weep so much. Or have to write this note:

Dear John Galt,

Where are we moving to again?

Sincerely,

Fucked Homo Who Only Wants To Be Left Alone

Brazil might be nice...

Thomas Jefferson On The Declaration

I found this recently, written by Jefferson 50 years after the Declaration of Independence. I particularly like this part:

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Monkish ignorance and superstition? God gracing spurred and booted tyrants? Science as a light? No politician would dare say such things today.

Chuck Norris Is Gonna Learn Us Some History!

The internets' most laughable heap of trash, WorldNetDaily, is all in a fluster because of us pesky, evil atheists. Like a pernicious hate-souffle, we're rising. Some people would actually even vote for us! Mary, Joseph, and Jesus! How can you even sleep at night knowing that ignorance-fighting rationalists may be lurking about outside, convincing your neighbors that thinking is ok?!

I'm sure TV Texas Ranger's well-reasoned, objective, and thoroughly researched article would turn me into a Jesus-loving, God-fearing, hetero wedlock sex-lusting, patriotic American man-stud were I to temporarily abate my quaffing of infant blood and read it.

Ed Brayton refutes their ridiculous "the Pilgrims founded America" nonsense here. He forgets to add that the Pilgrims didn't even found America's first English colony. Stupid Yankee revisionists.

I'm still trying to find out where the Bill of Rights and the terms "democratic" and "republic" are in the bible. I must have the wrong translation; I'm sure it's in Romans somewhere. And my copy of the Federalist Papers left out the bits where Hamilton, Madison, and Jay explained that the Constitution should be ratified because it is scripturally based and biblically sound. God-hating commie fudge-packing atheists musta took out all the Jesus parts.

For my favorite teacher, St. Eugenius

I thought this might interest you ...

A Thos. Jefferson Education

(I don't know how efficacious it is since one reviewer wrote about sending her daughter to collage [sic] ... twice.)

Who Doesn't [Heart] Thomas Jefferson?

From his autobiography:

The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read, "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.

I guess some people don't read. I include myself as an Infidel, as do the multitudes of "religions of peace"--including the one of gentle Jesus meek and mild--that would have my godless gay libertine ass murdered in some horrible fashion.

If Dr. McDonald endorses a book, we must get it

“This is a stunning achievement. Few people know the Founders well enough and contemporary issues well enough to have put together such a book, and even fewer have Brookhiser’s skill at telling the story in so fascinating a way.”
—Forrest McDonald, author of The American Presidency and Alexander Hamilton

The Father of the Constitution

A student left this comment on my myspace: "after you implying that James Madison is superior to jesus, you became my hero. Kudos."
Just doing what I can.