“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
Okay, for those of you who are interested, you can read the official court transcripts of the Prop 8 trial. And you can find running commentaries from all sides of the issue (just Google “Prop 8 trial“).
I would love to be able to sit and observe the entire trial, and hear what is being said. [...]
Today the U.S. observes the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. I haven’t a thing to say about that. Or rather, I haven’t anything to say that hasn’t already been said.
Those who don’t get it, won’t be swayed by my words. Those who appreciate his contributions to advancing social equality don’t need me to [...]
(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 [...]
Never mind about trying to reconcile Science and the Bible. I would be happy to see if they could just reconcile Genesis 1 with Genesis 2 (two inconsistent accounts supposedly reporting the same thing) ….. or reconcile 4 different accounts of the last week of Jesus’ life.
Scientists around the world, of many cultures and many [...]
This from the Facebook status of someone I know:
Off to church this morning ready to hear what God wants me to know.
Truly a wasted effort.
Christianity is supposedly “not a religion, but a personal relationship with God”. Rather pitiful “personal relationship” if you have to go somewhere and listen to someone else pass a message to [...]
