I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. – M. Cole
A Walter Reed employee informed FFRF that during the week of March 17, an email went out to all Walter Reed Hospital staff inviting them to a recurring “Soul Care Bible Study.” The program was billed as “a spiritual readiness program that supports the Defense Health Agency Director’s spiritual pillar of readiness.” The invitation asserted that the “Department of Defense recognizes that Spiritual Fitness is an essential area that requires some training and development for DoD personnel to be healthy, fit and resilient.” The invitation describes “Spiritual Fitness” as “one of the major components of the Total Force Fitness Framework, first established by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” FFRF learned that chaplains would encourage staff members to wash their hands with Holy Water. ” – “FFRF opposes DoD’s coercive bible study classes at Walter Reed Hospital” (I’m asking for more info on the holy water nonsense)
Unsurprisingly, these things are never just “invitations”. When the leadership trots out their religion, then people are expected to attend since the leadership is deluded into thinking that good equals their religion.
The “total fitness framework” has this nonsense in it “Spiritual fitness: Sense of identity and belonging, awareness of meaning and purpose, embracing service core values, and ability to cope” which simply means there is an “us” and “them” with the nonsense of supposed “core values” and “identity and belonging” when it comes to religion. This garbage has no place in the government or the military.
Gee, maga morons aka are now attacking weather radar stations in their delusions that somehow the weather is being altered, and they can blame someone else for the disasters rather than their orange rapist and his moron minions cutting FEMA, and idiots like this: ““There were a number of people that did not like the sirens going off because they go off accidentally,” Moser said. “They didn’t want that disturbance in the Hill Country.”
in a similar case, these idiots are also against fluoridation in the water. It helps many people, and I remember getting fluoride pills as a kid since I lived in a rural area which didn’t have a water system.
curious how Stanley Kubrick predicted their stupidity.
Yep, a day of prayer in texas, to the god that, per christianity, meant for the disaster to happen.
So, evidently these idiots, and Abbott in particular must not think that the people who drowned horribly were praying while they suffered. I guess maybe their imaginary friend only answers prayers of dry white people in their homes off the flood plain?
Here in the US, we have a variety of weather which is getting more extreme as climate change happens. theists of various types have insisted that their various gods control the weather.
This week we have two examples of how that doesn’t work:
“Today, Gov. Cox declared Sunday, June 29, 2025 a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Rain as drought conditions intensify across Utah and wildfire risks escalate.
Drought conditions have expanded by 82.9 percent since early June. So far this year, 380 wildfires — 275 human-caused — have burned more than 43,000 acres statewide, stressing farms, ranches, rangelands and wildlife habitat.
“Utah is facing a tough season, and we need both divine help and practical action,” said Gov. Cox. “I invite every Utahn, whatever your faith or belief system, to join me this Sunday in a unified fast and prayer for rain. And while we look heavenward, let’s do our part here at home — fix leaks, water lawns less and use every drop wisely. Small actions, taken together, can make a big difference for our state.”” “Gov. Cox declares June 29 a statewide Day of Prayer and Fasting for Rain”
And then this god seems to have missed, and people have suffered terribly: “A major search and rescue operation is continuing through the night in Texas after flash floods killed at least 24 people and left many girls missing from a Christian summer camp.
There was little warning as the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet (7.9m) in less than an hour and flooding that followed swept away mobile homes, vehicles and holiday cabins where people were spending the 4 July weekend.
“Nearly 40 years ago, a flash flood resulted in one of the worst tragedies to ever strike the Texas Hill Country. On the night of July 16, 1987, just outside Comfort, the kids at Pot O’ Gold Christian Camp were settling in for their final night of the retreat, while 30 miles up the Guadalupe River, at the other end of Kerr County, heavy rainfall would turn what had been a sleepy river into a wall of water.
Of course,”thoughts and prayers” are offered, and curious how the orange rapist, who has cut funds to FEMA (the US disaster agency), promises help to deep red Texas.
“WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Trump administration weighs the future of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters, it is ending a key program that has been used by communities across the country to pay for projects designed to help them prepare for natural disasters like flooding and fires.
In a news release Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it was ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, calling the move part of efforts to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.”
“The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters,” the agency said in a statement.
In addition to ending the program going forward, FEMA said it was also cancelling all applications to the program from 2020 to 2023 and that money that was awarded as part of grants but not already distributed would be immediately returned to the federal government.” – “Trump administration ends key grant program that helps communities prepare for disasters”
This god has a track record of missing the mark and having no problem in killing children, often for the supposed sins of their parents. So, before these Christians try to make excuses, and do the usual claims of how their god saved them, but conveniently forgetting about who it didn’t, perhaps they’ll take a moment to consider how their religion fails and makes them have to invent pious nonsense to cling to their belief.
Addendum: MTG, a completely moronic christian, is sure that humans are manipulating the weather. Again, showing that her imaginary friend is impotent.
“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday she plans to introduce a bill aimed at tackling “weather modification.”
“I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense,” she wrote in a Saturday post on X.” – “Greene to introduce ‘weather modification’ bill”
Addendum: yep, here come the “thoughts and prayers”:
“The Holy Father particularly mentioned the girls who were at the Christian summer camp. Some two dozen of them are still missing.
Pope Leo spoke in his native English after leading the midday Angelus today at the Vatican, to assure his prayers and condolences for the victims of the flooding in Texas.
The death toll was at 52 at the time of publication, just under an hour after the Holy Father expressed his prayers. There are 27 girls from a Christian summer camp who remain missing.
Among the dead were at least 15 children.
The Pope said:
Greetings to the English speaking pilgrims. I would like to express sincere condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones, in particular their daughters, who were at the summer camp, in the disaster caused by flooding of the Guadalupe river in Texas in the United States. We pray for them.”
strange how this god caused the problem per the cult, so why pray to it when this is what it wanted?
Mark Birchler is quite a Christian. He shows all of the typical ignorance, fear and hate of anyone not like him. This is what a Christian often is here in the US and they certainly do a great job in showing how the religion is splintered, and not a major religion at all.
It’s great to see christians attack each other and show how their religion is simply what they each make up in their own image. It’s even better to watch christains lie about others, showing how they ignore their god when they find it convenient.
Happily, liberals don’t support illegal immigrants who are criminals. They don’t support pro-hamas people, they support pro-palestian people. They don’t support rioting, arson, looting and murder. They don’t support intimidation, which is exactly what the conservative idiots support when they support January 6 and the threats to Congress and the Vice President. They don’t support the release of violent offenders. And no, they don’t treat illegal immigrants better than citizens. It’s great how these frauds repeatedly choose to lie and then claim to worship a god that hates lies and liars. No wonder these frauds can’t do what Jesus promises to his true followers, since they ignore what he preached in favor of their own ignorance and hate.
Happily, the US isn’t a christian nation. Christains can’t even decide which of them are the TrueChristains(tm) and they would be in a religious civil war if any of them actually got into power.
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