They think they’re talking about laser tag. I think they’re talking about religion. Same thing. Full cartoon is at So Your Life is Meaningless 🙂 Read more
The city council in Mount Vernon, Ohio just pissed off religious nuts in the region: As the May 14 meeting drew to a close, four council members spoke against the change. Afterward, on the city hall steps, voices and questions were raised: Who complained? Who made the decision? Why wasn’t prayer on the agenda anymore? … “I think it’s pathetic,” said local religious advocate Jeff Cline… “We keep kicking God out of everything.” So what exactly did they do to… Read more
Fact: Humans and apes share a common ancestor. In that sense, we are apes. Reaction from educated people: It’s awe-inspiring that all living things share common ancestors! Reaction from Creationist Ken Ham: HOW DARE YOU CALL ME AN APE?! Ham sees the whole idea as an insult and the fact that the San Diego Zoo was selling books about evolution just set him off: How would you like to have someone tell your children that they “are an ape” –… Read more
Note: Letter writers’ names are changed to protect their privacy. Dear Richard I’m an atheist living in Oklahoma, and I’ve always tried to be open with my children, yet responsible in how we discuss religion, etc. Their mother (we are divorced) is a Christian and told my 10 year old daughter that I was going to “go to hell”, because I didn’t believe in God. My daughter came to me in tears a few days later terrified that this was… Read more
It sounds controversial: The British Secretary of Education wants to give every state school a copy of the Bible: Every state school in England is to receive a new copy of the King James Bible from the government — with a brief foreword by Michael Gove, the education secretary, to mark the 400th anniversary of its translation. In a move intended to help every pupil access Britain’s cultural heritage, every primary and secondary school will be sent a new copy… Read more
When it comes to Jehovah’s Witnesses and their religiously-motivated reasons to deny blood transfusions, the argument usually goes like this: If adults want to let themselves die for dumb reasons like that, let them. When they let their children die for the same reasons, they’ve gone too far. … A group of Amish men are currently in court because they refuse to install smoke detectors in their New York homes: [Amish resident] Andy Miller explained that it would be against… Read more
From Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher (NSFW image at the beginning of the video): My favorite line: “This is a school you flunk out of when you get the answers right.” 🙂 Read more
