5 Books left! It is the end of week 37, and I have just finished book 45. I feel like I should continue reviewing books I finish after the fifty, keep counting to see how many I finish, because 50 is now basically inevitable. Maybe my challenge for next year will be to try to …
Tag Archive: christianity
Sep 19 2010
Richard Dawkins Welcomes Ratzinger
Joseph Ratzinger is an enemy of humanity. He’s an enemy of children, whose bodies he’s allowed to be raped and whose minds he’s encouraged to be infected with guilt. It’s embarrassingly clear that the church is less concerned with saving child bodies from rapists than with saving priestly souls from hell. And most concerned with …
Sep 19 2010
The South and God
I had forgotten how religious this place is. I can’t tell if people here are genuinely more into religion or if they just like to talk about it more. I have had religiousish conversations with far too many people today. I will say this though, none of them have been at all horrible to me …
Sep 14 2010
Why do atheists always have to mock religion?
I was asked this question, sincerely, by a relatively new convert to fundie christianity who had been, throughout the evening, talking an awful lot about church and god and such. I had gotten bored of that and, over the course of about 10 seconds, referred to the xtian god as an invisible friend, sky daddy, …
Jul 28 2010
Homophobia Round 2
Interesting. I just got this e-mail about the girl in Augusta who is suing her school for making her attend diversity workshops. Hi Ashley, I just saw your short post on Jennifer Keeton, the Augusta State University student who is suing the school for her right to be homophobic and not attend diversity workshops. Keeton, …
Jun 15 2010
Jesus on Fire
Not normally one to repost things I find on the interwebs without having something to add, but this is just… hilarious. The large Jesus statue iconic to Interstate 75 in Monroe was destroyed following an apparent lightning strike during a thunderstorm. Motorists were stopped along the highway and around the Monroe area to watch the …
May 14 2010
On the wtf is up with Damon Linker?
This is the article: http://www.tnr.com/blog/damon-linker/another-kind-atheism A) I’m not sure why one wouldn’t conflate truth and goodness B) Atheism is a neutral, it’s morality that is positive or negative, and atheism doesn’t create a set of moral values C) I still haven’t heard a cogent definition for what a “New Atheist” is as compared to a plain …
May 12 2010
5 random things I’ve been thinking about
1. Toilet seat sheets. If you’re too grossed out to sit on the toilet, is a sheet really going to make it better? The show I’m working on, these two women who were otherwise not like high maintenance said they would never use a toilet that wasn’t their own without a toilet sheet. What? Seriously? …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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