This story about leaving Mormonism doesn't get into nitty gritty details, but Johnny Harris' story is still a powerful example of how leaving fundamentalism has severe impacts on a person.
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Why Conservative Christians Need to Revisit Their Prejudice for LGBTQ People
Conservative and evangelical Christians love to cherry pick the Bible, especially the Old Testament. They weaponize and justify their prejudice for gays, lesbians, and transgender people using old books that don't even apply to Christians.
The book of Leviticus, that is lovingly quoted by the garden variety bigots, not only calls out being gay or lesbian as a sin, but it also has dozens of other restrictions that Christians ignore.
If Christians are going to rag on gays and lesbians, they need to also abide by these ancient rules:
* Stop eating pork
* Stop eating shellfish
* Stop wearing certain types of fabric
* Not let women touch anything when they're on their periods
Leviticus contains 613 commandments, many of which are nearly impossible to do in modern society.
The book of Leviticus was not written for Christians, and even reformed Jews don't follow the overwhelming majority of it's archaic and prejudicial rules.
From the Reformation project's page with extensive review of the old laws of Leviticus that do not apply to Christians:
The prohibitions in Leviticus don’t apply to Christians, and they are rooted in cultural gender roles.
A PhD in religion breaks down all the context of homosexuality in the New Testament and solidly rebuts conservative Christian arguments that try to cite those few passages out of context.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Lyme disease researcher does nothing, more MF questions
mental_floss Blog » Money for (Practically) Nothing: 4 Very Big Paychecks for Very Little Work
Edward McSweegan
While he may not be as high profile or as well-paid as the other names on this list, McSweegan may have found the sweetest deal an average guy could find. In a coup ripped directly from one of George Costanza’s daydreams, McSweegan claimed that he did nothing for seven years while employed as a scientist at the National Institutes of Health. In 2003 McSweegan told the Washington Post that he hadn’t really been given any job responsibilities since 1996. Prior to that, he had been a researcher and program officer on Lyme disease, but he was removed from that position in 1995 for arguing with a sufferers’ support group. Although he had a title as director of the U.S.-Indo Vaccine Action Program and a list of nominal duties associated with that role, McSweegan claimed that he only carried out the tiniest of tasks like ordering coffee. In exchange, he received a salary in the neighborhood of $100,000.
When the NIH vehemently disputed McSweegan’s story that he simply went to work and did nothing all day, he maintained that he never received any assignments. McSweegan would show up, sit in his office, and read to kill time. He took up fiction writing to fill his workdays and published a pair of novels he allegedly wrote while at the office. He told CBS in an interview that he also joined a health club near work “just to sort of break up the day.”
The most amazing part of McSweegan’s story isn’t that he managed to stay employed through this seven-year period, but that he received positive performance reviews from his superiors. He wryly explained to CBS, “I guess I’m good at doing nothing.”
Antisemitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The gospels are not part of the educational system in Muslim society and therefore Muslims are not brought up with the stories of Jewish deicide; on the contrary the notion of deicide is rejected by the Qur'an as a blasphemous absurdity.
- Muhammad did not claim to have been Son of God or Messiah but only a prophet; a claim to which Jews reproached less.
New antisemitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
INRI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- an acronym of the Latin inscription IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM (Jesus Nazarenus, Rex Judaeorum), which translates to English as "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews."
Affinity fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mental_floss Blog » Why Don’t School Buses Have Seat Belts?
mental_floss Blog » Why Is The Middle Finger Offensive?
Edward McSweegan
While he may not be as high profile or as well-paid as the other names on this list, McSweegan may have found the sweetest deal an average guy could find. In a coup ripped directly from one of George Costanza’s daydreams, McSweegan claimed that he did nothing for seven years while employed as a scientist at the National Institutes of Health. In 2003 McSweegan told the Washington Post that he hadn’t really been given any job responsibilities since 1996. Prior to that, he had been a researcher and program officer on Lyme disease, but he was removed from that position in 1995 for arguing with a sufferers’ support group. Although he had a title as director of the U.S.-Indo Vaccine Action Program and a list of nominal duties associated with that role, McSweegan claimed that he only carried out the tiniest of tasks like ordering coffee. In exchange, he received a salary in the neighborhood of $100,000.
When the NIH vehemently disputed McSweegan’s story that he simply went to work and did nothing all day, he maintained that he never received any assignments. McSweegan would show up, sit in his office, and read to kill time. He took up fiction writing to fill his workdays and published a pair of novels he allegedly wrote while at the office. He told CBS in an interview that he also joined a health club near work “just to sort of break up the day.”
The most amazing part of McSweegan’s story isn’t that he managed to stay employed through this seven-year period, but that he received positive performance reviews from his superiors. He wryly explained to CBS, “I guess I’m good at doing nothing.”
Antisemitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The gospels are not part of the educational system in Muslim society and therefore Muslims are not brought up with the stories of Jewish deicide; on the contrary the notion of deicide is rejected by the Qur'an as a blasphemous absurdity.
- Muhammad did not claim to have been Son of God or Messiah but only a prophet; a claim to which Jews reproached less.
New antisemitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
INRI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- an acronym of the Latin inscription IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM (Jesus Nazarenus, Rex Judaeorum), which translates to English as "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews."
Affinity fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mental_floss Blog » Why Don’t School Buses Have Seat Belts?
mental_floss Blog » Why Is The Middle Finger Offensive?
Monday, January 19, 2009
Jews and Marriage
I had no awareness of this before, but for Jewish people, marriage is supposed to mean marrying another Jew. My roommate had said that Jewish people are supposed to marry other Jews, so I wanted to educate myself about the subject:
A Rabbi on the Ohr Somayach website writes the following on why it's important for Jews to marry other Jews:
. . .By marrying a non-Jew one thereby ends over 3,000 years of Jewish continuity, effectively cutting oneself and one's offspring off from what it means to be Jewish.
For Jews, "marrying within the faith" isn't a cultural preference or prejudice. Rather, it is one the commandments G-d gave us at Mount Sinai. A Jew who marries a non-Jew transgresses a Torah prohibition.
Some scriptural background:
The practice of not "intermarrying" is in fact one of the oldest features of Judaism. It dates back to Abraham telling Eliezer, his servant, not to find a wife for his son from the Canaanites. It continues with Isaac's command to his son Jacob not to marry the "daughters of the land." The practice is mentioned in the Bible as a legal prohibition, and is also part of the covenant that Ezra the scribe had the Jews make when they rebuilt the Temple after the Babylonian Exile.
A Rabbi on the Ohr Somayach website writes the following on why it's important for Jews to marry other Jews:
. . .By marrying a non-Jew one thereby ends over 3,000 years of Jewish continuity, effectively cutting oneself and one's offspring off from what it means to be Jewish.
For Jews, "marrying within the faith" isn't a cultural preference or prejudice. Rather, it is one the commandments G-d gave us at Mount Sinai. A Jew who marries a non-Jew transgresses a Torah prohibition.
Some scriptural background:
The practice of not "intermarrying" is in fact one of the oldest features of Judaism. It dates back to Abraham telling Eliezer, his servant, not to find a wife for his son from the Canaanites. It continues with Isaac's command to his son Jacob not to marry the "daughters of the land." The practice is mentioned in the Bible as a legal prohibition, and is also part of the covenant that Ezra the scribe had the Jews make when they rebuilt the Temple after the Babylonian Exile.
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