As the new semester begins for my students, I should probably give fair warning. The competitive forensics/Speech Team I coach is winding down our season over the next couple weeks… the “postseason” begins in February, culminating with the Illinois state finals near the end of the month. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, I’ll explain all this at some point in the future. For those who have done this, you get the level of… Read more
I can’t vouch for whether this is a good idea or not, but for anyone interested, this email came in from a TV producer: I am an Associate Producer with Left Field Pictures and we are working on a new series about couples dealing with issue with their In-Laws. I am reaching out to the non religious community because we would like to devote an episode to a couple looking for acceptance from their parents/ In-Laws who do not share… Read more
Dante Shepherd explains: No one should be wasting their time putting salt shakers everywhere. Remember that the next time a Christian says, “But you can’t prove God doesn’t exist.” Even with god, though, it’s not like Christians keep “salt shakers” everywhere either. How many church sermons urge Christians to be more like Christ? How many fall short of the bar they seem to set? Maybe it’s because, as Mark Twain once said, “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.”… Read more
Some Mormon Fundamentalists have been instilling the “fear of authority” into babies through the use of water torture. “It’s quite common,” Carolyn Blackmore Jessop said. She was a witness for the B.C. government in the constitutional reference case to determine whether Canada’s polygamy law is valid. “They spank the baby and when it cries, they hold the baby face up under the tap with running water. When they stop crying, they spank it again and the cycle is repeated until… Read more
