The first two panels are below. Try guessing the punchline of the third panel of this comic from AmazingSuperPowers… Click here to see if you’re right… There. You are now thoroughly disturbed for the day. (Thanks to Tom for the link!) Read more
When you found out that Sarah Palin’s underage daughter, Bristol Palin, got knocked up, what was your reaction? Were you surprised? Did you want to denounce the mother for her hypocrisy? Did you want to say “I told you so” to anyone who supported abstinence-only sex education? Another question: What was your reaction when you saw that the conservatives didn’t seem at all concerned about this? [Liberals] expected the news to dismay the evangelical voters that John McCain was courting… Read more
Jessica Hagy offers a different take on the (completely inaccurate) saying, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” Read more
What do you do with your time when you’re not thinking about atheism or going to school/work? Read more
The late Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University in 1971. The Liberty University School of Law opened in 2004. The dean of the law school, Mat Staver, is raving about his school’s success: “The new results from the Virginia bar pass rate for Liberty University School of Law at 94.44 percent is absolutely phenomenal,” he contends. That overall score places the law school among the top five in the country, which Staver notes is quite a growth since its beginning. “Most… Read more
Since Richard Dawkins is retiring from his post as Charles Simonyi professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford this week, you’ll be reading a lot about him in the next several days. There is a nice personal interview with him in The Guardian. Some highlights: In Dawkins’ view, there is a battle taking place in Britain between the forces of reason, and religious fundamentalism and it is far from won. He is one of its most famous and… Read more
Forget buses. This is the way to start a discussion about religion: Here’s a close-up of the flags: Tell me it wouldn’t be awesome seeing those flags popping up everywhere you go… 🙂 The full story behind them is at Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Read more
A couple months ago, University of Central Florida student Webster Cook was impeached from his position as Student Government Association senator for “stealing” a consecrated communion wafer. It was an idiotic decision by the student government since no crime was committed. Not even a symbolic crime. (If “wafer abuse” is cause for this much chaos, we’re heading down a very slippery slope.) Now, Greg Laden points out that decision has been (correctly) reversed: There was a five hour long trial… Read more
James Dobson’s Focus on the Family has put out a fictional letter written by a Christian from 2012 informing readers of the horrors that may happen if Barack Obama is elected president next week. Here’s a partial list of their worries (PDF): Gay marriage is declared a Constitutional right. The Boy Scouts of America is forced to “hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys.” They choose to disband instead of following those orders. Gender… Read more
I had no idea they had to be refrigerated… I’ve been hoarding mine in the closet this whole time. I should’ve known better. (via Fail Blog) Read more
