Have you ever wondered whether there is an almighty, all-knowing, all-wise, and all-loving God Who wants a personal relationship with each of us badly enough to literally die for it? Well, fortunately there’s a simple test you can do that cannot fail to tell you whether or not such a God exists. Ready? All you …
Monthly Archive: March 2012
Mar 24 2012
The equal rights bill you never heard of.
There is a major human rights bill under debate in Canada. You’ve probably never heard of it, which is a bad sign, because it’s important. It is about what happens to actual human beings. Human beings whose rights are being denied, identities being invalidated, ability to participate in our society being hopelessly compromised, ability to …
Mar 23 2012
The case against Mormonism
I’m going to try something a little different and see how people like it. A little while ago I was approached by a self-described Christian apologist with a request that I write my best case against Christianity, up to 2,000 words, for presentation on his blog, so that he could respond to it. I declined, …
Mar 22 2012
School prayer draws opposition from—wait, who?
For more than 30 years, Dr. Harold Brockus was the Presbyterian pastor at the Good Samaritan Church in Pinellas Park. Sermons, missions, prayers. Everything you would expect from a place of worship and a man of God. So when a school prayer bill landed on Gov. Rick Scott’s desk this month, Rev. Brockus understandably had …
Mar 21 2012
God’s definition of marriage
God’s definition of marriage, according to a lot of people today, is given in Genesis 2:24: “For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” But there are a few problems with that. For one thing, the word “wife” does not …
Mar 20 2012
I had no choice, he was packing a whole bag of Skittles
This is old news by now, but the passing of time has only made it even more outrageous. A white vigilante named George Zimmerman has shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, and hasn’t even been arrested. Zimmerman, 28, claims he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month in self-defence during a confrontation in a gated …
Mar 19 2012
“The real bigots are the liberals”
Writing for Mail Online, one Simon Heffer spews: I believe that the only people who should be able to marry and have a wedding are those of different genders. Well I believe that people should only publish opinions that do not make them look like narrow-minded twits, but you don’t hear me calling for the …
Mar 18 2012
Heh, publicity
The creationist lawsuit against the JPL is getting better and better: the Glendale News Press reports that lawyers for David Coppedge tried—unsuccessfully—to bar the press from their client’s religious discrimination lawsuit. [Update: No, I read that wrong, it was attorneys for JPL who requested the press ban, citing privacy concerns for the witnesses.] Los Angeles …
Mar 15 2012
Resistance is… persecution?
This is really not going to end well for the ID creationist community… “David Coppedge alienated his co-workers by the way he acted with them, and blamed anyone who complained about those interactions,” according to JPL in their response. “He accuses his former project supervisor and line manager of making discriminatory and retaliatory employment decision, …
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