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A Texas Republican congressman said on Wednesday that he opposed atheist chaplains in the military because they would tell the parents of dead soldiers that their children were just "worm food."

During Wednesday night's House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ) explained that he had offered an amendment to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow humanists to join the chaplain corps to provide better counseling services for atheist soldiers.

"I don't offer this to be provocative, I certainly don't offer it as an attack on else's choice of faith," Andrews remarked. "But it seems to me that for whatever number of people -- it's either tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands -- who wear the uniform that they have this option to receive counseling when they believe they need it in such a situation."

Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), however, said that he "couldn't disagree with this move any more vehemently."

"You can't use the word chaplain with atheists because they don't believe anything," he insisted. "They don't believe in a faith, they don't believe it."

"I can't imagine an atheist accompanying a notification team as they go into some family's home to let them have the worst news of their life, and this guy says, 'You know, that's it. You're son's just worms, I mean, worm food,'" Conaway added. "I couldn't disagree with this more."

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I have no idea what she's talking about here. via Rightwing Watch:

On Wednesday, Religious Right activists and members of Congress gathered together for a prayer event held in Statuary Hall at the US Capitol called "Washington: A Man of Prayer."

Among the speakers was Rep. Michele Bachmann, who used the opportunity to promote the 9/11 prayer event being organized by Birther-king Joseph Farah, saying that "it is no secret that our nation may very well be experiencing the hand of judgment" and declaring that both the original 9/11 attack and the attack in Benghazi on 9/11 of last year were God's judgment.

As such, the only recourse, Bachmann said, is to humble ourselves before God and cry out in repentance for this nation.

God doesn't like where things are going so sent these 9/11 attacks to send us a message. That's about the size of it, huh?

Michele Bachmann: It’s no secret that our nation may very well be experiencing the hand of judgment. It’s no secret that we all are concerned that our nation may be in a time of decline. If that is in fact so, what is the answer? The answer is what we are doing here today: humbling ourselves before an almighty God, crying out to an almighty God, saying not of ourselves but you, would you save us oh God? We repent of our sins, we turn away from them, we seek you, we seek your ways. That’s something that we’re doing today, that we did on the National Day of Prayer, it’s something that we have chosen to do as well on another landmark day later this year on September 11. Our nation has seen judgment not once but twice on September 11. That’s why we’re going to have ‘9/11 Pray’ on that day. Is there anything better that we can do on that day rather than to humble ourselves and to pray to an almighty God?

There are reasons Michele Bachmann needed $25mil to squeak out a 1% win in 2012 in a decidedly red district over a Democrat she outspent over 10-1, but the main one is obvious: she's insane.

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Bill Maher let his audience know what he thought of the Catholic church just making up their own sets of "new rules" over the years during his New Rules segment on Real Time this Friday evening.

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Hosts of the Atheist Experience cable access show in Austin hung up on a Christian caller over the weekend after he suggested that God might not stop the rape of a little girl because the victim was also "evil."

A Christian viewer from Phoenix named Shane called in to Sunday's show with the hopes of convincing host Matt Dillahunty and co-host Tracie Harris that the fact that even atheists had a "moral code" proved of the existence of God.

"Divine command theory, the religious proposition that God dictates morality is in fact immoral," Dillahunty explained to the caller. "It forces you to sacrifice your humanity and pollutes your moral compass because you are stuck doing whatever this God supposedly says is good, whether or not it's actually good. And we already know that there are, for example, commands in the Bible that are not morally correct."

"I think you're more moral than your God and you just haven't figured it out yet," Harris added.

"Why is God so immoral?" the caller asked.

"I don't think that God exists but if we're talking about the God character in Bible as God is represented, you know, it's a pretty horrible, jealous, angry being that advocates slavery," Dillahunty pointed out. "I don't know why he's that way. Maybe he's just a dick."

"You either have a God who sends child rapists to rape children or you have a God who simply watches it and says, 'When you're done, I'm going to punish you,'" Harris agreed. "If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That's the difference between me and your God."

"First of all, you portray that little girl as someone who's innocent, she's just as evil as you," the caller shot back.

With that comment, Dillahunty disconnected the call.

"Goodbye, you piece of shit!" he exclaimed. "You know what? I was a better Christian than you when I was a Christian, and I still am."

The entire the Atheist Experience broadcast is available here.

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Jon Stewart gave the wingnuts over at Fox a faux apology on his show this Wednesday evening for going after them not long ago for their ginned up "war on Christmas" which sadly we've come to expect as a yearly ritual from the network. What was responsible for Stewart's change of heart? Realizing just how mistreated they've all been by the real culprits out there destroying Christmas for all of them... those bullying atheists.

If only we could have a holiday season where all religions are treated equally instead of those Christians being treated so unfairly. Stewart proceeded to take his audience through his version of A Christmas Carol, where he dreamed about not being mocked for being Jewish at Christmas and what his childhood might have been like in a world where all religions actually are treated equally.

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Jon Stewart had a field day with Fox "news" and their phony "war on Christmas" which just keeps coming earlier and earlier, and getting more ridiculous by the year. Stewart mocked Fox & Friends Gretchen Carlson, who actually asked if they were "were nuts" for their feigned outrage, with a predictable answer from Stewart.

And he took on angry old Bill O'Reilly for his assertion that Christianity isn't really a religion, therefore Christmas displays are okay.

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The man who is likely to be Alabama’s next chief justice is warning that God will continue to punish America until same sex marriage and abortion are outlawed.

Speaking to around 100 anti-abortion supporters at the Stand Up for Religious Freedom rally on Saturday, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore said that "Satan is out to destroy everything that God has created."

"This is not just about religion, this is about law; the organic law of our country," the candidate explained. "When they pretended to give the right of choice to that woman, they took away the right of life to that child."

Moore added that Satan was also "convincing many in our land that they can form a marriage between the same gender. My, how God must be sad about this. He has a controversy with the inhabitants of this land, and until we reject those evils, we shall suffer accordingly."

"We wonder why we’re suffering economically, why we’re suffering economically, why we’re suffering the moral decay, and now they want to take away that natural union between a man and woman that’s called family."

The Alabama Court of the Judiciary was forced to strip Moore of the chief justice title in 2003 because he rejected a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the state courthouse, and now that he is running again, many Republicans in the state "are privately despondent over the prospect of a Moore victory and its effect on the state’s image," The New York Times reported on Sunday.

Earlier this year, Moore told conservative talk show host Steve Deace that secular government would eventually lead to Islamic law in the United States because “a government that is denying God” allowed Sharia law to take hold.

Moore's entire speech at the Stand Up for Religious Freedom rally is available here.

(h/t: Right Wing Watch)

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Christian conservative actor and activist Kirk Cameron on Tuesday offered praise for a Republican Senate candidate who recently said that women were less likely to get pregnant through "legitimate" rape.

During an interview on CNN, host Soledad O'Brien asked Cameron if Rep. Todd Akin should give up his bid for the Senate after telling KTVI that “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” referring to pregnancy as a result of so-called "legitimate rape."

"You know, I would encourage people to sit down and watch the video," Cameron advised "You know, he clearly is a pro-life advocate, and for that, I respect him."

"He said that he misspoke and that he mis-phrased something, and he apologized," the actor-turn-evangelist added. "I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for. So, he's in a tough spot."

Amid calls from Republicans for him to quit the race, Akin admitted on Tuesday that he had "made a couple of serious mistakes," but insisted that he was "not a quitter."

The congressman has until 5 p.m. on Tuesday to step aside. After that, a court order would be required to remove his name from the ballot.

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Video of a young boy at a church in Indiana being cheered as he sings about how "no homos are gonna make it to heaven" has gone viral.

"The Bible is right, somebody's wrong," the boy, who appears to be around 4-years-old, sings. "Romans 1 and 27, ain't no homo gonna make it to heaven."

Before the boy can finish the song, members of the congregation jump their feet, applauding and cheering wildly.

"That's my boy!" one man can be heard shouting.

The church seen in the video is reportedly the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle in Greensburg, Indiana, according to both Free Thought Blogs and WRTV.

The church's Facebook page has been inundated with comments since the video went viral on Wednesday.

"If the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle of Greensburg, IN thinks they are doing God's work, they are sadly mistaken," The New Civil Rights Movement's David Badash wrote. "They are teaching hate to an entire new generation. This makes more more sad than angry. I fear for these children's future."

Calls to Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Pastor Jeff Sangl were not returned by the time of publication.

(h/t: The New Civil Rights Movement)

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Members of Providence Road Baptist Church in North Carolina are speaking out in defense their pastor after he called for "lesbians and queers" to be detained inside electric fences until they all die.

Geneva Sims told WCNC that she had been listening to Pastor Charles Worley's sermon's since the 1970s and agrees with the message.

"He had every right to say what he said about putting them in a pen and giving them food," Sims explained. “The Bible says they are worthy of death. He is preaching God’s word.”

Church member Stacey Pritchard agreed that Worley was just speaking the truth.

“Sometimes you’ve got to be scared straight,” she said. “He is trying to save those people from Hell.”

During a sermon on May 13, the pastor had taken to the pulpit to express outrage over President Barack Obama's support for marriage equality.

"The Bible is against it, God is against it, I’m against it and if you’ve got any sense you’re against it," he preached. “I figured a way out to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. But it isn’t going to pass in Congress. Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out, feed em, and you know what, in a few years, they’ll die out. You know why? They can’t reproduce!”

Faith in America Executive Director Brent Childers told WCNC that Worley's message was dangerous to young LGBT people.

"That is what makes young LGBTs feel there is no hope," Childers warned. "When they see this type of rhetoric coming from a so-called Christian pastor, they aren’t going to want anything to do with the church—now or in the future."

“If you defend this pastor’s comments, you are mocking God’s love, God’s understanding and God’s knowledge.”

(h/t: Towleroad)