“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
It is impossible to take seriously anyone’s claim to “divine protection”. I hear it over and over, mostly from well-meaning people, “God is in control”, “God will take care of you”, “God performed a miracle”. They don’t intend to lie. In fact, they usually seem to believe it quite deeply.
The reality, of course, is that [...]
Tamara Scott is the state director for Concerned Women for America and needs a better education. In a recent speech she said being gay was as dangerous as using products that have been recalled.
This is not about hate. Let me ask you this. Recently, there was a series of cars that were recalled by [...]
Almost daily I find stories of idiots trying to thwart the science education of young students. Fortunately, here in the United States, the teaching of Creationism has been struck down repeatedly by law. In other countries, however, religious idiots continue to push into the public schools to indoctrinate students to their own brand of foolishness.
In [...]
Daniel Fincke’s latest post discussing the comments of another is sooo reminiscent of things you have said previously, and his response to Loyal is better than I could conjure up on my own.
The God of the Bible is a horrid character, and there is no justification for the atrocities attributed to him. It is impossible [...]
Interesting discussion ensued yesterday over on Facebook, but I’d like to present it for further discussion here.
I’ll first post the video that started it, and then I’ll quote verbatim the entire relevant discussion.
And then add to it under the quoted parts.
and here’s what was posted after:
Ray
“We pray for you, and you go to OUR [...]
Once again Bill Donohue takes offense at something totally not offensive.
The Empire State Building as a privately owned structure.
“Selection as an Empire State Building Lighting Partner is at the sole discretion of the ownership and management of the Empire State Building Company LLC,” the privately owned building’s website says. The site says that selection is [...]
The Pope is coming to the UK in September.
BBC/Channel 4 is preparing a documentary about the Pope’s life since the 1930s, and his impact on both developing and Western societies. They have selected a gay rights activist to front this documentary. Not surprisingly, a few self-righteous Catholics are pissed.
It’s really awful,” said Jack Valero, a [...]
The Vatican has decided that they want to open up dialog between the Roman Catholic Church and non-believers. But there’s a catch!
The Vatican is planning a new initiative to reach out to atheists and agnostics in an attempt to improve the church’s relationship with non-believers. Pope Benedict XVI has ordered officials to create a new [...]
A clear and rational discussion of Pascal’s Wager:
That piece got a bunch of people pissed off, so it was followed by a discussion of the main criticisms:
No matter how you figure it, it is NOT smart to place your bet on the God of the Bible. You will absolutely LOSE.
If you put your trust, hope [...]
This is disgusting.
A nun has been “reassigned” and “automatically excommunicated” because of her role as hospital administrator (a paperpusher/manager, NOT specified as a nurse, doctor, or other medical professional) in terminating a pregnancy that would have likely killed the mother if carried to term.
Hospital nun rebuked for allowing abortion
According to the story, the presiding bishop [...]
This is brilliant and doesn’t need too much further comment on my part. Ten Ways Christians Tend to Fail at Being Christian.
Mostly it is a summary list of longer articles addressing each of the 10 points. They’re all pretty good points, and I agree with them. Basically, most of the Christians I know pretty much [...]
Bravo!
I don’t know who the news person is, but this FOX interview with Dan Barker reveals just how ignorant the news person is. See if you can find how many errors he makes.
Here’s some help:
1. Christmas does NOT have Christian roots, but was taken from earlier Pagan holidays and modified to facilitate forced conversion to [...]
Interesting new vid from ProfMTH
Christian theology declares that everyone “deserves” eternity in hell, just for being human. There’s no rational foundation for this, of course, but because of this ancient superstition, they had to construct a labyrinth of weasely ways out of certain hell. It is virtually impossible for a rational mind to adequately reconcile [...]
I want to share with you two pieces that should be writ on the hearts and minds of every thinking person, in my opinion.
The first is from Adam Savage, in his address to the Harvard Humanist Society a few days ago. You can read the entire speech here. I’m only going to comment on a [...]
This morning I went to the doctor’s for a blood draw (nothing serious, just the routine cholesterol check-up), and as I was riding my bike back home, I rode past Uvalde Baptist Church, over on Uvalde. I noticed about a dozen or more of these lawn signs sprouting up all over the property.
Well, okay. Uummmm, [...]
i’ve written occasionally about my past. Short version: my youth and childhood was pretty fucked up.
In 11th grade, during the lunch hour, there was a Bible Study group in one of the classrooms. It was led by a fellow student who had gotten saved and wanted to share the ‘good news’ around. it was a [...]
Okay, this is just insane! Anyone who knows me, knows my history and the role played by a Ouija board in the destruction of life as I knew it. If you don’t know this part of my history, you can send me $17.95 for my Ouija story.
Hasbro is marketing a special PINK version of their [...]
(blatantly lifted from Godless Blogger)
Based on all the available evidence, we can say with a safe degree of assurance that:
There is no god; and therefore,
No god created the universe
Lovely to see this principle illustrated so neatly.
Religions have tried for ages to claim this or that god created it all. Unfortunately, there has been no evidence [...]
The Redheaded Skeptic just wrote about “Best Friends?” where she asks an important question: Why do certain conservative Christians have this idea that you have to have formal academic degrees in order to really understand God or Jesus?
Indeed.
If fully understanding the message of God depends on doctoral level classes explaining language and culture, doesn’t that [...]
Here in the United States and around a large part of the world, today is Christmas.
I am spending the day working because I don’t observe Christmas. It has a history of unfortunate and unhappy personal memories, along with mounds of religious connotations that no longer make sense. If the religious world could keep their silly [...]
