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COTG #95 is up at The Atheist Blogger and as usual it’s chock full of godless goodness. A small sampling of this edition’s offerings:

Jeff Dembinski talks to a confused friend who badly needs a dictionary to look the up the difference between spirituality and religion.

Ray from What Would Ray Do? carefully analyzes and refutes a video making the idiotic claim that the Bible has been proved through science.

vjack from Atheist Revolution comments on the recent episode of 30 Days where a fundamentalist Mormon went to live with a homosexual couple who have adopted 4 children.

Diana Hsieh from NoodleFood sent in a letter to the editor concerning proposed theocratic amendments to the Colorado constitution. The letter was published in the Vail Daily.

So head on over there and check it out. You won’t be sorry.

Carnival of Sex and Sexuality #1 - Silence is up at Homo Academicus. Included are great posts from The Day of Silence Blog, Greta Christina’s Blog, Brain Blogger and more. Since this is the first issue of a brand-new Blog Carnival please make a special effort to show it some love!

Carnival of the Liberals #63 is now up at Vagabond Scholar. There you’ll find many excellent articles from Liberal blogs like Greta Christina’s Blog, Divided We Stand United We Fall, The Greenbelt and many more! Stop by, you won’t be disappointed.

It’s up now at The Rational Response Squad. There are great entries from Atheist Ethicist, Executed Today, The Atheist Blogger, Greta Christina’s Blog, Providentia, and much more so pop in and check out the godless goodness.

The annual Blog Against Theocracy is now up. Blog Against Theocracy is a blogswarm dedicated to the separation of church and state. This is a very important topic and many fine bloggers have contributed so stop by and show them some love.

Addendum: Comments are already coming in for my contribution to the Blog Against Theocracy, Move over DADT, Make Room for COE. First up, FranIam said:

As someone who is a Christian, this makes me ill. So many who identify as followers of Christ act like anything but.

I could go off on how there are so many inconsistencies between Jesus Christ and the military, that the two could ever be joined in anyone’s mind but this is not the place.

All I will say is this- every time a so-called Christian forces his or her will upon another, their behavior and choices fly in the face of the Jesus that I know.

Can we all just live peaceably? I know that probably sounds like a stupid question. However, as someone very committed to my faith, married to an agnostic, close friends and related to all manner of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, and atheists, I would hope that we could all find our way.

Call me a dreamer I guess.

Your post is brilliant and so well written. It is just another reason I loathe so much about the military.

Peace.

Thank you very much, Fran. I too wish we could all coexist peacefully. It’s a shame some feel the need to force their chosen beliefs on others rather than simply using them as a guide for their own lives. While I am an atheist I do find certain religious ideals noble. In particular I am fond of the Wiccan Rede: An it harm none do what ye will. Then there is always The Golden Rule, which is not exclusive to Christianity.

The next comment is from Barbara:

Even as a Christian, I am appalled and disgusted by this sort of behavior. Discrimination and intolerance are not Christian values, no matter how many fire-and-brimstone preachers try to claim otherwise.

And it’s no wonder the Muslim world is so offended and upset by our continued military presence in their homelands, if our soldiers are being told that it’s part of their mission to serve as evangelists for the radical right.

But I thought they hated us for our freedom… Huh.

I agree. I was a Christian for about 20 years and was always deeply respectful of the rights of others to practice religion (or not) as they wished. I don’t understand the drive some have to force their chosen religion on others by evangelism, legal action and other means. What is even more astounding is the mental disconnect that allows them to see any resistance to these actions as “persecution”, but their actions as righteous and proper.