Via Mano Singham’s blog comes this link to a truly fascinating and poignant story: one year after Harold Camping’s failed prophecy, what happened to the believers? It’s must-read material.
Category Archive: Gullibility
May 25 2012
Missouri votes on redundant First Amendment amendment
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the voters in the state of Missouri will be voting this fall on a proposed amendment to the state constitution protecting the right to pray in public places. While the U.S. Constitution protects the right to pray in public places, supporters of the Missouri ballot issue want to clarify …
May 23 2012
Morality or tyranny?
PZ Myers has a post up about the old “objective morality” gambit popular with Chrislamic apologists these days. It seems a couple of Christian debaters managed to derail the debate by asking “is there an objective morality that determines whether you would torture a toddler?” PZ gives four pretty good criteria by way of answering …
May 21 2012
My new favorite religion
For some reason I don’t seem to attract the kind of crank email that, say, PZ Myers gets, but now and then I stumble across a bit of good material. It happened to me this weekend: I was in the store buying vitamins, and noticed that someone had discretely slipped a copy of “Prophetic Observer” …
May 09 2012
The cost of discipleship
The Christian faith isn’t just a story about how to get to heaven in the next life, it a way of walking by faith in all areas of your life. “We’re going to show you how to get wealth and use it for the building of his kingdom,” [Ephren] Taylor shouted to the congregation one …
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