Is this how bad it sounds to people who don’t understand it? And the *ahem*… “lovemaking” scene with Richard Dawkins and Mrs. Garrison was priceless. The South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have said in interviews that they were going to poke fun at atheism this season, but I’m not sure any real point was made about it. Dawkins’ character came off pretty accurately. He was intelligent, trusting in science, and wanting to keep church and state separate… Read more
President of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)… head Pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs… One of the most influential Evangelicals in the country according to Time magazine… the guy who supposedly has a weekly telephone conversation with President Bush. And now, Ted Haggard is accused of having a three-year affair with a gay male escort. Never thought I’d be writing those words… Let’s not jump to conclusions about this. As of now, the accuser hasn’t produced any… Read more
The Secular Student Alliance will be hosting its annual conference on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, MA next year, in conjunction with Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy. The Chaplaincy will be celebrating its 30th anniversary and symposium. This is bound to be a very exciting event! The SSA will be hosting a separate activist training session in addition to the main events and speakers. Which speakers, you ask? The tentative list currently includes: Salman Rushdie. Amartya Sen. E.O. Wilson. Steven Pinker…. Read more
Wow. Read the article. The poll gives us some information worth delving into. I found interesting the demographics that do believe in God: “People with no college education (62 percent) or who have some college education (57 percent) compared to college graduates (50 percent) and those with post-graduate degrees (53 percent)” People in all age groups 40 and over compared to people in age groups under 40 Maybe the most amusing part: 10% of people believe God is a hermaphrodite…. Read more
A little while back, a Christian named Matt sent me a Bible he thought I would enjoy. He wrote, “As a Christian it bothers me so much to hear how stupid Christians are. It’s all a numbers game and it’s just all about how many people you ‘share Christ’ with. And to all of them, that just means trying to convince people why Christianity is right.” The Bible he sent was a Holman New Testament (Personal Evangelism Edition)! Matt said… Read more
