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Louie CK On God

Below is Louie CK’s NSFW full episode of his show “Louie” devoted to religion, focusing for the most part on the dubious means by which children in particular are emotionally manipulated through the Roman Catholic Church’s emphasis on the violent death of Jesus which they are told is their fault. Your Thoughts?

Are Jesus And God Really The Same Being?

Nonstampcollector’s video “What Would Yahweh Do?” gives the strong impression they’re not. Your Thoughts?

“Mickey Mouse Jesus” Gets Art Curators Convicted Of Inciting Religious Hatred In Moscow

The LA Atheism Examiner reports: Two art curators, Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev, were convicted Monday by a Moscow court of “inciting religious hatred’ for putting on an exhibet called “Forbidden Art” in 2007. A Mickey Mouse Jesus, a Coca Cola Christ with the slogan “this is my blood” and a Christ on the cross [...]

Why Progressive Interpretations Of The Old Testament Still Do Not Justify Its God Morally

In reply to this video on various immoral things outright commanded in what is supposed to be God’s law in the Old Testament, Loyal writes: Militaristic non-Christians often seize upon the many difficult passages where God is condoning morally repugnant acts. I am glad you admit that they are morally repugnant acts and neither morally [...]

30 Preposterous Things You Need To Believe To Be A Christian

John W. Loftus, the former minister turned atheist, author of Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, and the primary blogger at Debunking Christianity (whose updates you can follow daily in our blogroll feed) has a terrific summation of 30 extraordinarily unlikely ideas, at least most of which most Christians would have to [...]

The Cosmological Argument, The Composition Fallacy, And More Reasons Not To Believe In God

Shane Wilkins, a graduate student in philosophy at Fordham (where we were fellow students and colleagues until just recently), has been an invaluable regular commentator at Camels With Hammers. He has served as my primary theistic foil since the beginning, when our 7-part debate (which started with my post Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellecuals 1) propelled this [...]

Daily Hilarity: Children’s Guide To Religion

Thanks to Das for the hilarious find: “Sometimes I think God drinks my tears and pees them back on my life.” Your Thoughts?

Bart Ehrman’s Concise, Informative Summation Of The Case Against New Testament Reliability On Jesus’s Alleged Resurrection

A barrage of key details in less than 10 minutes. H/T: Common Sense Atheism Your Thoughts?

Huge Jesus Statue Struck By Lightning

He must have done something to really piss God off.  You don’t think he suggested a change to the official policy on gays, do you? The full story is from the Associated Press and the photo comes from them too. Your Thoughts?

The Christian Logic Of Power, Pride, Humility, Free Will, Original Sin, And All-Consuming Divine Narcissism

Pride has traditionally been disparaged by Christianity as not only a vice but as the chief vice and gone so far as to recommend humility as one of the highest virtues for a human being. The theological reasons for this begin with the way that traditional Christianity understands human beings primarily relationally, as in an [...]

How Apologetic Goals Compromise Christian Apologists’ Historical Research

Appealing to insights of the great theologian Paul Tillich, Robert M. Price takes on the corruption of research when it has a defensive agenda. (Sadly, this video was taken down from YouTube) via Your Thoughts?

Jesus And Mo Watch South Park, Discover Profound Paradox

Put two great religious founders together and let the mysteries emerge: Your Thoughts?

Christian Justice

DarkMatter2525 offers a terrific pair of demonstrations of the absurdity of the New Testament’s logic on matters related to justice: Your Thoughts?

Daily Hilarity: Mr. Deity and the Quitter

It might be just me, but this is one of my favorite episodes in a while: Your Thoughts?

God Cites “Moving In Mysterious Ways” As Motive For Killing 3,000 Papua New Guineas

The Onion has full coverage of God’s remarks here and of Jesus Christ’s recent decision to hire an associate christ here. Your Thoughts?

Sundaily Hilarity: Jesus The Tea Partier

Portraits of Jesus captioned with the statements of various right wingers from recent years: Many more great pictures, all linked to the sources of the quotes, here.  I imagine they’ll keep updating in the future, so remember to revisit. Your Thoughts?

Pat Condell’s Case Against The Catholic Church

After a tasteless joke early on, he’s justly scathing and deserves to be heard: Christians are too blithe when they distinguish the evils perpetuated by Christian institutions from those same institutions’ claims to moral and spiritual authority as founded by God or, at least, to their being the church of God at all. How in [...]

Christmas Daily Hilarity: Judgmental Jesus

A video which somewhat hilariously captures the ludicrous essence of many a Christian’s belief in the hell-worthiness of the merest “sin.” Your Thoughts?

Christmas Daily Hilarity 1: Terminator Sent To Protect Jesus

Your Thoughts?

Do As Jesus Says, Not As He Does…

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Jesus And Other Undead Monsters, A Venn Diagram

via The Good Atheist. Your Thoughts?

Lisa Hannigan Sings Personal Jesus

From October 30, 2009 at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota comes this great live concert footage of Lisa Hannigan’s exhilaratingly arranged and performed cover that’s making the biggest splash during her current shows opening for David Gray: I so want this live performance to show up in a .WAV file and then for it [...]

Jessica Lea Mayfield’s “Bible Days”

I’m always scouring for great women singer-songwriters, here is my latest find, the twenty year old Jessica Lea Mayfield: Your Thoughts?

What Does It Matter If People Who Claim To “Know Jesus” Disagree About What Jesus Thinks—Can’t Some Still Be Right?

Last night (or, more technically, “this morning) I posted a Non-Stamp Collector advertisement and as a bonus threw in a video in which he demonstrates the implausibility of people’s claims to have “personal relationships with Jesus” by making the point that people claiming to “know Jesus” constantly contradict each other about exactly what this Jesus [...]