This website has been up for only a little while, but I’ve been seeing it everywhere: Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA. You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved. But when the Rapture comes what’s to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind. We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be… Read more
Do you see anything offensive about this ad? Me neither. It’s the poster for the Finland Atheist Bus Campaign — the sign translates to “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” It went up several months ago, and there were (surprise!) several complaints from religious people. Yesterday, however, the Council of Ethics in Advertising (a Finnish advertising watchdog) made this statement: Finland’s Council of Ethics in Advertising, a self-regulatory body that is part of the Central… Read more
Over the summer, this billboard went up in Moscow, Idaho: That was the second billboard in the area (the first stated “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone”). And guess what? They’re getting a third billboard in the same location (near Highway 95 and Sweet Avenue) and this one will be up through January: “We want people to know that you can be good without God,” said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. “Too many think… Read more
The Fark headline for this story reads: “Oh God, Oh God, Oh God” 🙂 A new study published in the journal Reproductive Health shows that there is a correlation between a state’s religiosity and the teenage birth rate. Except Utah. It’s the exception. (Nicely done, Mormons.) (And “new” study? Haven’t we heard this one before? Next thing you know, we’ll find out fire is hot.) Anyway, the bigger question is whether there is causation. Does religion play a role in… Read more
The New Orleans Secular Humanist Association is celebrating its tenth anniversary tomorrow (Friday) night! Sean Faircloth from the Secular Coalition for America is the guest speaker. There’s also a cash bar involved. All the details can be found here. Student tickets are only $15 and dinner is included! Congratulations to the group for a decade of existence, showing the rest of us that there are havens of rationality in the South 🙂 This one even has the added bonus of… Read more
You’ve likely seen the clip of tennis star Serena Williams cursing out a line judge in her semi-final match at the U.S. Open this past weekend — the outburst cost her a point, which ultimately meant the end of the match for her. Williams, however, is a Jehovah’s Witness. Is she allowed to do that? Slate asks and answers that very question. Cursing, then, is a sin among Jehovah’s Witnesses, but it’s a “nonjudicial” one — meaning it’s not sufficiently… Read more
Hey everyone, this post is courtesy of Ron Gold: Reincarnation in one of those beliefs that seems quaint, but not dangerous. After all, what harm is there in a person thinking they could come back in another life as a butterfly or a mollusk? Well, believing in reincarnation is actually causing people to die, at least in India, where people are afraid to donate organs for religious reasons: Hindus believe a person’s spirit is eternal, and the body is just… Read more
I don’t remember learning about this in U.S. History… In 1880, a man named George H. Walser bought some land and created an atheists-only haven in Liberal, Missouri. “[He] found a town without a church, [w]here unbelievers could bring up their children without religious training,” and where Christians were not allowed. “His idea was to build up a town that should exclusively be the home of Infidels…a town that should have neither God, Hell, Church, nor Saloon.” Some of the… Read more
Uh-oh. Pastor Deacon Fred just found out that South African runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite! He isn’t sure how to handle this: Brothers and Sisters, I saw on Fox News the other day that some secular scientists opened up the tummy of this African gal and found a couple of testicles floating around up in there! Oh my Lord! These are truly the last days! Where God Himself has forgotten that He only creates males and females! … Lord… Read more
Check out the new Ten Commandments tablet now up in a Louisiana park: Not so coincidentally, there’s a public high school right across the street from it. Where did it come from? According to The Baton Rouge Advocate, A.T. Furr, a former city councilman — he “paid for the marker and its installation.” Mayor Harold Rideau supports it, adding “We’re a Christian-based community.” He’s in for one hell of a lawsuit. Rob Boston of Americans United puts it like this:… Read more
