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Okay, we all know that Kirk Cameron is a has-been actor from the ’80s whose minimal intellect has reduced him to partnering with professional joke Ray Comfort, a deal which, in a country full of similarly stupid people, has proven more lucrative than actually pursuing acting work would have been for him. So you’d already expect him to be too unintelligent to understand the legal and Constitutional distinction between decalogue monuments on private property versus public (ie. government-owned) property. That’s a given. At the same time, this is the first instance I’ve seen of him making smirking, approving comments about how people who fight for church/state separation should be murdered. Of course, if you were to call him on it, I’m sure he’d explain it’s all “a little joke.” Still, you know…what a shithead, huh? Read more

Apropos of everything relating to current discussions about misogyny, in the atheist/skeptical community as well as the world at large, John Scalzi boils everything you need to know down to a couple of sentences. Now go have a good weekend.

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Today it’s Matt and Tracie. Enjoy! And below is where you say the stuff you think.

You know what theists are hung up on? This notion of absolute certainty and dogma. Because they are so often trained to think in no other way, they cannot fathom how rational people can freely admit to not knowing a thing for certain, and yet still feel confident in rejecting the truth of the thing on the grounds of a lack of evidence. So why is it, the more we ask for their evidence for God, they insist we really don’t want to see any? Isn’t that just their way of comforting themselves in light of the fact they know full well they cannot meet their burden of proof? Of course it is. We’ve had an especially dense fellow emailing us since yesterday, and the exchange so far has wound up with the following… Out of one side of your mouths you claim that you do not believe in God, on the other side of your mouths you claim that you do not know if God exists, and to make matters worse you live your lives as if you knew for sure that God does not exist. Martin: Read more
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