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!)
Category Archive: Religion
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 …
May 06 2013
How about if we all end the killing?
One point! One demand! Atheists must be hanged! Half a million Islamists marched in Bangladesh, chanting their desire to murder people who don’t believe in their demented, angry god. I take that personally — they want to kill people like me, for the crime of not thinking as they do. If I’d been there, that …
May 02 2013
Substitute “atheism” for “religion”, and it still works!
Sad, isn’t it, that even when we get rid of religion, we still have to ask this question. I suppose we also need to change “sacrifices” to “sex toys”.
May 02 2013
Today is the National Day of Reason
We live in an unreasonable country, so I don’t expect that the National Day of Reason will get as much attention as the idiocy of the National Day of Prayer. But apparently we’re not supposed to pray today. Big change for all of you, I know. But here’s a suggestion: usually we just sit quietly …
May 02 2013
A Moroccan hero: Imad Iddine Habib
The state religion of Morocco is Islam, so it took real guts to establish a Council of Ex-Muslims in that country Imad Iddine Habib was awesomely courageous to do so. What followed next was predictable. Under the yoke of Islam, shaking yourself free of superstition is a crime punishable by death. So Morocco’s High Council …
May 02 2013
What point would a protest have if it didn’t piss someone off?
This well-written article in The Atlantic remarks on a familiar tactic. It’s about the Femen, the topless jihad, and Amina, and the complaints an annoying number of stodgy critics have made. You know the ones: the people who demand that all arguments be respectful, and insist that there are proper channels for debate, and protests …
Apr 26 2013
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree
There’s another Hovind! And he’s an idiot, too! I’m no fan of genetic determinism, but man, when every person I know saddled with the name Hovind is a bible-thumping twit, I begin to have doubts. The new Hovind is Chad. He’s a preacher, of course, and he likes to turn complex subjects into simple-minded Bible …
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