“Recently in the US, Soul Vegetarian and it’s African Israelite founders became the subject of much controversy after a 2011 interview with The A.V. Club. In the interview, Soul Vegetarian co-founder Yohanna Brown nonchalantly described the belief system, “It’s a complete lifestyle with diet, positive thinking, and styles of dress. Women don’t wear men’s clothing, and men don’t wear women’s. If you look at present culture, you can see how breaking these guidelines has led to things like homosexuality.However, this was not the first time that Ammi’s group has spoken out against homosexuality. The leader of the Atlanta chapter, Prince Rahm, openly denounced gay marriage in a 2006 address , saying, “In the early 1970s, homosexuality was classified as a psychological disease. Those evil marketing geniuses now got us saying ‘gay’ cuz it sounds nicer.” He also warned that the AIDS crisis was a punishment from god, saying, “This is Deuteronomy 28* coming into effect.” And on the subject of accusations of child abuse one member, Abshalom Ben Shlomo, remarked, “We support the authority of the parents. Families are not democracies.”

From the Skeptical Vegan, read the full story here.

 ’Eating babies’ has become the stereotypical attack on an opposing parties, groups or ‘fringe’ lifestyles [Atheists]. Jonathan Swift wrote a satirical essay (A Modest Proposal) on eating babies in the 1700s as a joke. An interesting discussion can be found here.

“If you’re bored you’re doing something wrong”
Amen.

James Randi. At the 7:59 mark he explains in the clearest terms the benefits of sober living.

“The truth is that the Abrahamic religions fear women and therefore go to extraordinary and sometimes brutal lengths to control them, constrain them, and repress them in every way. Show me a non-religious society that feels so threatened by the thought of female sexuality that it will slice off the clitoris of a young girl to ensure she can never experience sexual pleasure. Show me a non-religious society that feels the need to cloak women from head to toe and force them to experience the outside world through a slit of a few square inches. All three Abrahamic religions share the myth of Adam and Eve, the myth that it was through woman that evil was let loose in the world. They share the heritage of Leviticus, which declared a menstruating woman unclean, to be set aside, untouched, a revulsion that remains even today among some orthodox Jews, who will refuse to shake a woman’s hand for fear she may be menstruating. What kind of lunacy is this? It is the lunacy of a Bronze Age mindset fossilized by the reactionary forces of religion.”
- Read the rest over at the Washington Post

‘It’s hard enough being born in the first place,
Who would ever want to be born again?
It’s taken this long just to get to this place,
So what’s the point in ever being born again?’

- Son Of The Father, Fucked Up

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government”
- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Alexander von Humboldt regarding religion in Mexico, December 6, 1813

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814