Jesusophile proves that God is merciful. There’s an orange involved. And something racist. And I believe he says one-legged people shouldn’t complain about their lot in life. I can’t explain it. Just watch: See? It all makes sense now. Read more
Not interesting: A Christian group (The Alpha Course) put up an online survey asking visitors if they believed in God. Not interesting: The poll was crashed by atheists. Not interesting: Atheists won, and the poll overwhelmingly swung in our favor (Most respondents said, “No,” God doesn’t exist). Interesting: This is news to anybody. More than 88,000 responded to the posters and adverts. But embarrassingly the poll on the Christian website backfired with a massive 96 PER CENT insisting there was… Read more
It is a long shot, obviously. But it is still a very nice gesture for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. They have been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Who nominated them? The nominator of MRFF for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize is identified as a Senator from a foreign nation, which is an ally of the United States, and the only Christian legislator in the upper chamber of that country’s national parliament. Why were they nominated? You can… Read more
On November 1st, a group called Secular Life will be putting their own billboard up in Nashville, Tennessee: Like other billboards, the main purpose of this one is to let other atheists know they’re not alone and that there are others like them in the area. Thaddeus Schwartz, the founder of Secular Life, had this to say about the billboard (via email): … hopefully it will bring awareness that there are positive communities who are non-religious doing good in the… Read more
The Pod Delusion is a new 30-minute podcast aimed at the types of people who enjoy Point of Inquiry and Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. It’s also quite British-y. With accents and everything. You can check out new episodes and subscribe to their podcasts by going here. (Thanks to Sal for the link!) Read more
Mike Clawson here… So some of you know that I am currently back in graduate school working towards a PhD in Religious History. This affords me lots of opportunity to read fascinating books and contemplate interesting ideas, unfortunately it doesn’t often afford me much time to actually write about any of them, either here or at my own blog. However, the other day I was reading about the history of Methodism in America and came across an interesting paragraph that… Read more
This post is by Jesse Galef — Everyone seemed to like Neil deGrasse Tyson. Good, it shows you have good taste. For your Friday afternoon viewing pleasure, here’s another great clip of him, this time explaining how absurd it is to claim that the universe was designed for life, let alone human life: (rough transcript by me) I want to do a fast tirade on stupid design. Look at all the things that just want to kill us… Most places… Read more
SkepCHICamp is essentially a one-day grassroots skeptical conference in Chicago run by volunteers taking place on March 6th, 2010. You can find more information about it here. (I’ll be there. So will Skepchick Elyse. Do you need to know any more?!) One of the things organizers are looking for are local speakers who’d like to make a brief (~15 minute) presentation. As volunteer Don Riefler put it: Any talk relating to skepticism, critical thinking, science, etc. is relevant. If you… Read more
Good morning Richard. In the past week both an employee of the company I work for and the father-in-law of a co-worker died. Non-related. Inevitably situations came up where I was in a conversation with co-workers who were all saying “At least they are in a better place now.” When I didn’t join in with that type of comment I received some disapproving views. Can you suggest a polite way to empathize with people in this situation. Thank you, Tony… Read more
