This is Caiden Cowger: He has his own radio show and everything! Which seems cute… until you realize he’s a young gay basher. When you listed to his twice-weekly internet talk show based out of West Virginia, you realize that Caiden doesn’t like gays. Not at all. Homosexuality is a belief. It is a– it is not mandatory in that person. That person is not born that way… no matter what Lady Gaga says. That person is not born that way. It is a… Read more
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has created an offshoot from their full-page newspaper ads encouraging people to quit the Catholic Church: This time, it’s a commercial featuring former religious Catholic (and former Saturday Night Live star) Julia Sweeney. Sweeney is the actress who performed the fantastic one-woman show “Letting Go of God” and — I mention this only because it’s an entertaining tidbit — she once played a nun on Sex in the City. Hi, I’m Julia Sweeney, and I’m… Read more
The always excellent Mr. Deity presents us with an absurd situation that is simply accepted by so many: loving someone who is set on torturing your loved ones. Read more
Christian “prosperity gospel” pastor Creflo Dollar (yes, his real name) got arrested this morning for beating his daughter. That’s obviously big news in Atlanta, near where Dollar is based. But holy crap, look at the comments defending what he did on a local Atlanta news website: What the hell…? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?! Read more
Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze, just did an “Ask An Atheist” series with atheist philanthropist Todd Stiefel. Their readers had questions and Todd answered them — the first installment is now up on the site. And they’re promoting it like no one has ever done anything like this before: (A couple of months ago, they ran a fairly positive article about him, too.) A quick excerpt (emphasis theirs): … Another reader asked, “How do atheists justify their use of taxpayer… Read more
Here’s a bad idea for an assignment If you’re teaching a history class: Draw a recruitment poster to enlist soldiers who can fight in the Crusades. You’re only asking for trouble… Here’s a hilarious idea if you’re a student: Draw a picture of Jesus (a la Uncle Sam) saying “I want you to kill all infidels!” Here’s a really bad idea if you’re the school: Display that poster so everyone can see it. That’s what went down at Hamilton Elementary… Read more
The following speech was given by philanthropist Todd Stiefel at Rock Beyond Belief on March 31st at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The aim was to help Christians understand what those of us who don’t believe in god do stand for: Excerpts from the speech are below: I want to start talking about my grandfather. My grandfather was a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army and he served in World War 2. He was Jewish, and he knew very well the… Read more
With all the accumulated idiocy emanating from creationists such as Ray Comfort, Ken Ham and prisoner #06452-017 Kent Hovind, it can be easy to forget that there exists an entire sad universe of Creationists making their nests in other countries and other religions. Enter Turkey, a country seeing an alarming rise in Islamism that is finally finding its way into the sciences. A conference recently took place at the prominent Marmara University, titled “Why Does Science Deny Inter-Species Evolution?” It… Read more
This is one of the Creation Museum’s 20 new billboards (click to enlarge): Even enlarged, it’s pretty clear that’s a human being in the same image with the dinosaur… (Because, you know, Creationists believe The Flintstones was a documentary.) But I can’t make out what that person is saying! Maybe you can decipher it…? I like @303dk’s suggestion: I can’t read the what the guy is saying, but it’s probably “I flunked out of 1st grade” blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/… @hemantmehta— Dave (@303dk)… Read more
