Archive for the 'religion' Category

Sweden Recognizes Download Pirates as Religious Group [CJA]

Cidu Bill on Jan 5th 2012

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Offensive or Not?

Cidu Bill on Dec 20th 2011

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And does it help that the first one is actually a billboard put up by a church, or that the ad agency responsible for the second one is run by a Jewish man?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Chanukah, Christmas, advertising, religion | 41 responses so far

Rick Perry Doubles Down: “People don’t have the right to freedom FROM religion”

Cidu Bill on Dec 9th 2011

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Supreme Court: No Religious Worship in Schools [CJA]

Cidu Bill on Dec 7th 2011

…but when is a classroom not a classroom?

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666 [CJA]

Cidu Bill on Nov 23rd 2011

Fired for refusing to wear a “Number of the Beast” sticker

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Muslim Students Sue Catholic University of America for ”Surrounding Them With Catholic Symbols Which are Incongruous to Their Religion” [CJA]

Cidu Bill on Oct 28th 2011

The story, and the actual reason I’m writing it

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Muslims Fight Police in Amusement Park

Cidu Bill on Sep 1st 2011

Is there any way to satisfy both safety concerns and religious accommodation?

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Recyclicity

Cidu Bill on Aug 12th 2011

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Filed in Bettle Bailey, Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Dan Piraro, comic strips, comics, humor, recycling, reincarnation, religion, synchronicity | 13 responses so far

An Error in Judgment

Cidu Bill on May 14th 2011

According one of the Rapture’s “official” web sites, believers “refer to [May 21] as Judgement Day, as they intend to be saved by Jesus in the Second Coming. Non-Believers refer to it as May 21 Doomsday.”

Okay, just to clarify things a bit… non-believers refer to it as Saturday.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Judgment Day, religion | 50 responses so far

Burn a Koran Day

Cidu Bill on Sep 7th 2010

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You have to wonder how many of the politicians who rallied against the “Ground Zero Mosque” for their own political ends are saying now “Okay, well, I didn’t mean for it to go this far.”
For that matter, you have to wonder how many of those politicians are saying “Hell, yeah!”

The story

Filed in Bill Bickel, Islam, religion | 145 responses so far

Outrage I Don’t Understand

Cidu Bill on Sep 3rd 2010

Many Jewish leaders are angry about the Mormon practice of posthumous baptism by proxy — specifically, ceremonies in which the names of Jewish Holocaust victims are used to offer the departed a chance to convert in the afterlife.

Now, I can understand calling people who participate in these ceremonies arrogant, insensitive and disrespectful — but beyond that, who really cares? In the end it’s meaningless. Nobody’s forcing anybody to convert and the jokes on them anyway because Jews don’t believe in a Christian-style afterlife. By making a big deal out of this, Jewish leaders only seem to be acknowledging that there’s some validity in all this.

Personally, I’d rather have Mormons try to convert me after I’m dead than have Jehovah’s Witnesses wake me up by ringing my doorbell on Sunday mornings when I’m alive.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Judaism, Mormons, afterlife, posthumous baptism by proxy, religion | 102 responses so far

According to a new poll…

Cidu Bill on Aug 19th 2010

… 18% of the American public believe Obama’s a Muslim. If you think that’s bad, what until you hear the percentage who believe he’s black.

Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, politics, polls, religion | 105 responses so far

A Modest Proposal

Cidu Bill on Aug 18th 2010

I’ve been thinking, in light of the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy, that we need a law prohibiting Christians from teaching in schools or working with children in any capacity: there are many documented cases of Catholic priests molesting children, after all, so we know all we need to know about Catholics. And really, what’s the difference between Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Baptists anyway? Christians are Christians.

Filed in Bill Bickel, religion | 173 responses so far

”Jesus Hates Muslims”

Cidu Bill on Aug 12th 2010

Here in United States, this story is getting very little attention and those who read or hear about it are — I hope — for the most part appalled by these people’s actions.

Gotta wonder how much play this is getting in the Arab world, though…

Filed in Bill Bickel, Muslims, religion, xenophobic right-wing lunatics | 58 responses so far

Little Mosque in the Big City

Cidu Bill on Aug 11th 2010

New Yorkers, opportunistic politicians, and the ignorant and intolerant are up in arms over plans to build a multi-story mosque just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. Well, not a multi-story mosque exactly, more like a community center open to the public (sort of a YMMA), which includes a prayer room, but let’s not let facts get in the way of hysteria.

The two Egyptian men behind the plan say it’s meant as a statement against extremism, to bridge the gap between Muslims and non-Muslims. A Tea Party spokesman calls it a memorial to the 9/11 hijackers.

An upcoming ad campaign, to appear on New York City buses, will demand that the city prohibit the building from being constructed. The ads will show pictures of one of the planes hitting the World Trade Center.

A spokesperson for the group paying for the ads said that being allowed to run the ads is a victory for free speech and tolerance.

A victory for free speech and tolerance.

The sound you hear is George Orwell turning over in his grave.

As an American, this all disgusts me. And it’s stupid as well as wrong, because what we’re telling the Muslim world that we think of every Muslim as our enemy.

As a Jew, the fact that so many Jewish groups are joining the hysteria troubles me. And it’s stupid as well, because traditionally, when a government looks for excuses to single out and discriminate against a religious group, it tends to be the Jews. Letting hysteria decide where Muslims can’t build… is that a precedent we really want to support? Hatred of Muslims is just the flavor of the week: anti-Semitism endures.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Islam, Judaism, Muslims, New York City, discrimination, media, mosques, politics, religion | 83 responses so far

Question of the Day

Cidu Bill on Jul 31st 2010

What makes people believe it’s anything other than rude and boorish behavior to ring my doorbell and interrupt my day so they can disrespect my religion by telling me why theirs is better?

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The Great Whitebread Hope

Cidu Bill on May 11th 2010

As soon as Supreme Court Justice Stevens announced his retirement and it became apparent that his likely replacements were all either Jewish or Catholic, Ann Coulter wrote an article sounding the alarm there would no longer be any Protestants on the Supreme Court. At the time, I thought this was an odd thing to even notice, and I figured it was just Ann Coulter being Ann Coulter. After all, she’s been having a tough time of it lately — suddenly ignored by the media in favor of Sarah Palin, who’s prettier and not half as intelligent — so she has to make increasingly outrageous comments in order to get any attention.

But now the dearth of SCOTUS Protestantism is being offered up as news by organizations such as the Associated Press, so I have to wonder: Is this something American Protestants are really upset about, or is this a media-manufactured issue like “the War on Christmas”?

Filed in Ann Coulter, Bill Bickel, Elena Kagan, John Paul Stevens, Sarah Palin, Supreme Court, religion | 46 responses so far

Saturday Morning Ar-LOL-Ewww

Cidu Bill on Mar 13th 2010

Nicole: It’s another trifecta… I suspect that you may want to add the religiously offensive warning to this one as well Continue Reading »

Filed in Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, Ewww, Saurday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, religion, religiously offensive | 60 responses so far

God Only Knows

Cidu Bill on Feb 3rd 2010

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I already had this one queued up for tomorrow morning; but then a bunch of people sent it to me, so I moved it up

Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, CIDU, Dan Piraro, comic strips, comics, humor, religion | 22 responses so far

Double-Quote of the Week

Cidu Bill on Jan 7th 2010

I shifted this one over to the Billo site, because it might be a bit religiously sensitive even by the standards of CIDU’s off-topic discussions (and the link is now fixed)

Filed in Ann Coulter, Bill Bickel, Billo, Brit Hume, Tiger Woods, religion | 3 responses so far

Losing Their Religion

Cidu Bill on Jun 18th 2009

A bit off-topic, I guess, but…

I’ve been wondering how religion can exist at all in the comic book world, given what the people see around them: Creating life has been done and done some more. Change water into wine? Dozens of people can do that. The Scarlet Witch can change the very nature of reality without pausing from putting on her make-up.

That whole resurrection thing? Please! Superman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Jason Todd, Electra, Jean Grey, Jean Grey, Jean Grey… Just over the past month or so, the Flash, Kid Flash and Superboy all returned from the dead. We’re not talking “missing and presumed dead” here, but dead-as-a-doorbell, bodies buried. Captain America is supposedly coming back this week. Later this summer, apparently, a slew of dead DC characters are coming back en masse. True, they’ll be sort-of zombies, but you can bet that the more popular characters will somehow end up whole.  Comic book heroes die, nobody even bothers to cancel their newspaper deliveries.

So in the DC and Marvel Universes, how is it possible for anybody to look at God/Jesus/Allah and see Somebody worthy of worship?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Superman, comic books, religion, super heroes | 41 responses so far

I Believe

Cidu Bill on Jun 25th 2008

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Article and your comments

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Trivia Fact of the Day

Cidu Bill on May 20th 2008

In the Muslim faith, anybody born to a Muslim father, regardless of the mother’s religion, is a Muslim (which might have implications in the case of Barack Obama); while Judaism uses the opposite rule, that a child is Jewish or non-Jewish depending on the mother — under the logic that you can be 100% certain who the mother is, but…

(None of this is to say, of course, that parents can’t and don’t raise their children however they see fit; but this is what Muslim and Jewish law dictate)

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