Or we could be in big trouble. The antis of Ireland have a whole arsenal of secret weapons in the battle to keep women pregnant that I haven’t seen deployed here — they have access to Catholic magic. I don’t think we’d be able to resist if they started cruising our country with magic paintings, …
Category Archive: Religion
May 15 2013
The stupid problem
This really is a constant problem. I don’t think most theists are stupid, just as I don’t think being an atheist makes you smart, but theists are led to say the most astonishingly stupid things by their abysmally stupid mythology. Ken Ham is probably a smart guy — he’s at least got cunning and business …
May 15 2013
The crucifixion is worse than nonsense
I was on another show with this odd New Covenant group — these are people very deeply steeped in Christianity, and it shows in their modes of thinking. Not all of them call themselves atheists, but they’re definitely freethinkers, and so I chattered with them for two hours. The topic for this one was on …
May 14 2013
And we’re the intolerant ones?
Al Bedrosian is the Republican (of course) candidate for the Roanoke County supervisor, and he certainly makes his position clear in a 2007 op-ed to the local paper. As a Christian, I think it’s time to rid ourselves of this notion of freedom of religion in America. Now that I have your attention, let me …
May 14 2013
Perspective
Science does make gods look ridiculous, as the illustration below illustrates. (I’m putting it below the fold because it’s a big image.)
May 11 2013
Gage Pulliam: Courageous atheist in god-soaked Oklahoma
It’s a very familiar story: atheist student sits in class, looks up, notices the school administration has plastered the walls with pious Bible nonsense, and sics the FFRF on ‘em. The usual response occurred: the town is up in arms, local churches whine about “Christianity under attack!”, bullies begin lashing out at those who don’t …
May 10 2013
Go into the darkness, then
I read this and thought, “but you’re alone either way!” It tells you all you need to know about the people who endorse that kind of message, anyway. (Sharing because I disagree!)
May 09 2013
Ja, we shall invade this Austrian poll
Hey, I thought Europe was more secular…so why is this poll going the wrong way? Oh, because it’s in Catholic Austria. In German: Sollen Kruzifixe aus den Klassenzimmern verbannt werden? 17,68% – Ja, denn Religion soll Privatsache bleiben. 77,04% – Nein, denn das Christentum hat in Österreich jahrhundertelange Tradition. 5,28% – Egal, es liegt sowieso …
May 09 2013
John Shook weighs in now
And he offers a historical perspective on Skepticism and Religion. Enlightenment theologians had to strike a bargain with scientific skepticism since they were terrified by a different, far older kind of skepticism: ancient Greek Skepticism. This rationalistic skepticism demanded high standards of provability before accepting anything as knowledge. The basic idea for a rationalist skeptic during …
May 08 2013
Gene Mims and the mysterious missing point
Some Christian dorkasaur named Gene Mims has an argument for silencing atheists. It’s about unicorns. Unicorns Stay with me for a moment and I think I can give you a better understanding to my perplexity concerning atheists. You see I do not believe in unicorns. You may and that is surely your right, but I …
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