Warning: The following is my opinion based on what I am seeing and hearing. Don't get riled up. If you don't agree, I fully support your right to think I'm full of s&*(. The only thing I ask is, please don't quote the Bible at me. It does no good because I fully support my right to think that the bible is a bunch of baloney, even if you don't. Quoting it to me is as effective as me quoting the Wizard of Oz to you. 

Don't let the Religious Right take us back to the 1950's. They are trying but if we use our power as women, it can't happen. 

Women, beware! The conservative Republicans want you to have no choices AT ALL! They want to abolish abortion AND birth control. Will their intrusion into our lives stop there? I doubt it. When we are thrown back in time without rights or choice over our own bodies, where does that leave us women—in the dark ages, covered in a burka, pregnant, barefoot, and in the kitchen, forced to marry our abusers?

One day God was being interviewed by reporters about who could be President of the United States. After getting affirmative answers about individuals from many religions, genders and races, one reporter asked if an atheist could ever be President. God thought about that for a moment, and then replied, Of course an atheist could be President. But I doubt it will happen in my lifetime.

For the past few years, atheists such as P.Z. Meyers, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have been increasingly vocal in their challenges of religious belief and practice. Considering the influence of faith-based fundamentalism in the political arena, and its concomitant assault on the sciences, it is a welcome counter to the crazies who want to make the United States a theocracy, to hasten their apocalyptic vision of the world’s end through instigating a nuclear war in the Middle East, and the return of their messiah.

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE WATCHING THIS VIDEO. YOU MIGHT BE ENRAGED, ANGRY, AND OFFENDED, OR YOU MIGHT BE DELIGHTED. 

This Video is highlights of Christopher Hitchen's life work as a rational thinker and fighter against organized religion from JediJesseS's You Tube channel. You might be offended by the content. You might love the content. Either way, it is powerful stuff.

I am not an atheist, however, I am definitely not for religion. In my opinion, right or wrong, religion is ludicrous and dangerous. Spirituality and spiritual belief, I think, should be personal, not codified with rules and regulations meant to enslave the mind and body and definitely not to be foisted on others as TRUTH. In fairness, many atheists I have known are just as nasty and narrow minded as religious mongers, but I think Christopher Hitchens, like others I admire, including Mark Twain, George Carlin, and to a certain extent, Bill Mahr, was truly on a crusade to crack open the doors of ignorance and fear. I could go on, but not here. Maybe on my blog at Confessions of a Confetti Head.

I found this video to be fascinating, and in many ways enlightening. Keep an open mind or not, that is your right. I put it here because it invokes thinking at the very least.

Love it or hate it,

Anita Burns, Editor

Peace and Love * Never Trust the Man * Power to the People

Make Love, Not War * Give Peace a Chance * Drop Acid, Not Bombs

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Those are just a few of the "banners" we lived by in the late 60's and 70's. As many of you who follow my blog, Confessions of a Confetti Head, know, I have had a varied life experience. I guess choosing not to be a mother and not being tied down to much in the way of conventional thinking allowed me to gladly move from one life venue to another.