Al Stefanelli

Archive for January, 2012

Transcription of my “American Heathen Radio” Commentary

Listen to American Heathen Radio, Saturday’s from 7pm – 10pm on ShockNetRadio. I was honored to be a part of the premier of the re-launching of American Heathen Radio this past Saturday. RJ Evans and the entire crew, the other guests and the hilarity that ensued in the chat room made it a grand experience [...]

How to Scare the Shit out of Your Kid

“God knows everything, is everywhere and is the more powerful than anything or anyone” – Moms and Dads everywhere Very young children lack the ability to understand the concepts of omnipresence and omnipotence in a way that doesn’t completely scare the shit out of them. Adults, for the most part, have lost the ability to [...]

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) Wants To Deport American Citizens

“This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” – John F. Kennedy West Palm Beach, FL – Allen West delivered a speech at [...]

Prayer – The Art Of Talking To Yourself

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.  - Peter O’Toole If you ask your average Christian, they will tell you that prayer works. They will cite incidences where they petitioned their God for something and, lo and behold, their request was granted. They [...]

Doing The Newtron Dance

“To The Moon, Alice!” – Ralph Kramden Talk about your empty campaign promises. The Fig has ambitions for a permanent, thirteen-thousand member moon colony with regular commercial flights from earth to be used for things like tourism and manufacturing, complete with a ”continuous propulsion system” that could take astronauts to Mars. Don’t get me wrong, back in July of [...]

Shopping With Satan: Grocery Store Evangelists

“Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste. I’ve been around for a long, long year, stole many a mans soul and faith.” – The Rolling Stones Mobility issues make it obvious that I am disabled, which sometimes make me a target for mission-minded evangelicals – especially in the grocery store. If [...]

Activism Explained: Why We Do What We Do

“Get up, stand up. Stand up for your rights.” – Bob Marley It  is difficult for many people to understand my passion for civil rights. Even members of my own family are sometimes perplexed by the lengths I go to in order to get a message out. Yes, I know it is hard to comprehend [...]

The United States Is Not A Christian Nation

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the  whole American people which declared that their legislature  should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State  -Thomas Jefferson Many of our citizens have little or no understanding of the [...]

Bigotry Alive and Well in Small Georgia Newspaper

“The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural [...]

The Ignorance of Defining Atheism as a Religion

“The most violent element in society is ignorance” – Emma Goldman If I had a dollar for every time a Christian says that atheism is a religion, I’d be a fairly wealthy man. If I added two-bits to that for every time a Christian says that atheism is a belief system, my kids would get [...]