“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
Welllll…. I was hoping to make this my last post of the year over here. And then I went trolling across the internet to see if there is anything worth commenting on.
There’s plenty.
But, fuck it. It is New Year’s Eve, and I will likely be kept awake far into the night. This is one night [...]
This is the question raised by the scholarship of Muhammad Sven.
Kalisch, 42, the chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Muenster and whose duties include training teachers for the rising number of Muslim students in German high schools, has created a furor by stating that in all probability Muhammad was a mythical creation.
We know [...]
Christmas day is filled with Christmas specials.
Between Christmas and New Years, the tv seems filled with all sorts of retrospectives, looking back at the year that was.
So, in the spirit of fitting in and doing what everyone else is doing, I give you 2008 in a nutshell.
The year 2008 arrived almost 12 months ago. It [...]
Fuck.
Fuckety-fuck.
Goddamn those Fuckety-Fuck Fucktardians in Ellwood, Indiana. Yes, Ms. Nancy Sumner, I’m referring to YOU because you posted exaggerated bullshit about someone for trying to do the right thing and YOU started a whole string of other ignorant comments. How DARE you behave in such a disgusting manner. Fuck you, Ms. Sumner, and Fuck you [...]
I was just pointed to this blogpost. Although it is many months old, JoethePeacock got it pretty much right.
How To Actually Talk To Atheists (If You’re Christian) is amusing, but pointed. Christians generally do not know how to talk with atheists. if you are a Christian and you really really REALLY feel you need to [...]
An inteteresting piece, unfortunately titled “Unlocking the misery some atheists feel“, by Paul Bloom, tries to address a real problem in America.
Many Americans doubt the morality of atheists. According to a 2007 Gallup poll, a majority of Americans say that they would not vote for an otherwise qualified atheist as president, meaning a nonbeliever would [...]
I did manage to trim the yard yesterday; not a full mowing, just a trim with the weed trimmer to make all the growth somewhat level. And then I collapsed on the floor for an hour and a half.
I will likely do the same this afternoon. I had to go to market for more vinegar [...]
Fighting a losing battle, he is!
In an article from the Galway Advertiser, Terry Eagleton is put forth to be one of the world’s foremost intellectuals. He is a Marxist, a Christian, and apparently an unashamed critic of atheism and atheists. <*yawn*> so what else is new?
A writer to the editor responds quite well to Mr. [...]
A quick perusal over at Planet Atheism shows there have been MUCH to talk about in the past day or two. I swear there must be at least three PAGES of posts.
Planet Atheism is not a blog itself, but a blog aggregator, compiling current posts from many atheist blogs. It is most interesting when [...]
Over the weekend I was at my granddaughter’s birthday party.
My son’s girlfriend’s kids couldn’t come — they were sick at home with the flu. ICK. And then I remembered I still hadn’t gotten my flu shot.
Thanks to an overwhelmingly good weekend of sales, I was finally able to do it today. Yaayyyy! I don’t recall [...]
My sibs and I grew up on hash. Basically it is ground beef, Trinity, and potatoes, plus a bit of salt and pepper. It is a solid, down-to-earth sort of dish, perfect for the kind of c-c-c-cold weather we’re having here in Houston. This is probably not a “polite company” formal dinner dish, but absolutely [...]
I’m sorry but this is a STOOOOOPID idea:
Her former deputy mayor (of Wasilla) has created this calendar. No, they aren’t raising money to provide prenatal care for teens in Alaska. They aren’t funding sex education classes, or providing training to law enforcement to help change Wasilla’s reputation as the meth capital of Alaska.
Nope, nothing so [...]
This one is a couple months old, and I haven’t been able to find out the resolution of it just yet, but it seems that Michael Jacobson, a humanist, applied for certification to perform weddings in Nevada. His request was denied in June. The reason:
The applicant has no local congregation or denomination where he resides;
and
“You [...]
I agree with Bill Maher: All y’all religious folks: grow up or die.
all religion that looks gleefully to the end of the world are hurting the rest of us.
Maher speaks of the arrogance of those who “know” that the end is coming or they “know” what happens after death. No they don’t know. [...]
A judge in Tennessee has decided, without evidence or reason, that a divorced woman cannot have her partner stay overnight when her children are also present in her home. Never mind that the court-appointed expert has shown that the women’s children have a positive relationship with their mother’s partner. Never mind that the court appointed [...]
Abraham Lincoln: Just like me??
The news that Lincoln liked the boys isn’t really news. Nor is the fact that he wasn’t particularly much for Christianity, either.
But some people REALLY get pissed off at the news that Barack Obama will be sworn into office on this gay atheist’s Bible! In fact, some of the people posting [...]
Okay, so we already know that Rick Warren is a homophibic fundagelical fucktardian. That’s old news.
Now we find out he is also a ignoramus about science and how we got here.
I believed that evolution and the account of the Bible about creation could exist along side of each other very well. I just didn’t see [...]
This is a very cool, “happy Christmas” sort of story.
Woman goes out for a walk. Falls in the snow. Is trapped for 3 days. She is found by a rescue dog.
Why she went out in a blizzard is beyond me, but up in Canada people do what needs to be done and generally have a [...]
Another fundagelical wackadoodle up in Maine has a real problem. Oh my. The poor dear!
She wrote a letter to the editor of her local rag:
I really can’t understand what is going on in this country. I was raised to not look down on anyone because they may be different from me. Whether it be the [...]
