You thought it was bad when a conservative Christian blamed gay people for the problem on Wall Street? David Popescu, a “perennial independent candidate” from Sudbury, Ontario, was on a panel with his opponents at a local high school the other day. He said the following in regard to questions about abortion and gay marriage: Near the end of the more than two-hour event, students were invited to ask the candidates questions. As a long line of pupils waited to… Read more
Courtesy of Least I Could Do by Ryan Sohmer and Lar Desouza: The rest of the comic is here. Cheesy? Perhaps. But it makes a good point: It’s that easy to break the spell of religion. All you have to do is say no. (Thanks to Jason for the link!) Read more
Atheist Pat Condell’s latest video — a criticism of Saudi Arabia and Sharia Courts — has been removed from YouTube due to “Terms of Use Violation.” The message he received said: The following video(s) from your account have been disabled for violating the YouTube Community Guidelines: Welcome to Saudi Britain – (patcondell) Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning sanction, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post… Read more
Well, I guess I don’t need all the Armor of God PJs. I really just want the headdress and the shield. But I’m sure the Pants o’ Truth would be of use in the bedroom as well… And they said indoctrinating children with religion at a young age was child abuse… The PJs are $39.95 a pop. The graphic says that a mother inspired the pajamas when reading Ephesians 6:10-18 to her daughter every night. What does that passage say?… Read more
In case you missed it, Bill Maher was on The Daily Show last night for two segments. That’s twice the blasphemy! Religulous comes out this Friday! Reader Ken emailed me this review: I just wanted to tell you that I got to see an early screening of Bill Maher’s Religulous tonight, put on by the Phoenix Film Society. I was not disappointed. It was a scream from beginning to end, but absolutely courageous in stating his conclusion: “Grow up or… Read more
In Greek Mythology, Cronus was a Titan who learned that his own son would one day destroy him, just as Cronus had defeated his own father. So he ate his children when they were born. Demeter, Hera, Hades, Hestia, and Poseidon — All swallowed whole as they were born. Except Zeus. With the help of mother Rhea, Zeus was born in secrecy. And Zeus eventually destroyed Cronus. Reader Greg was in Munich recently and he visited Schloss Nymphenburg (The Nymphenburg… Read more
Dave Singer made this lovely little picture 🙂 I think he ought to claim the $7,839,451,126,496 reward offered by Creationist Adnan Oktar, who “has ‘issued a call to all evolutionists’ that he will give ’10 trillion Turkish lira to anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution’ — a sum roughly equal to £4.4trn.” Read more
Pastor Wick raises an interesting point about religious persecution: Yes, people in other places of the globe suffer for claiming Christ. They have in the past, they do today. We need to be in prayer for them. But I would assume even the Atheist community in America would stand on their behalf. Our constitution will not be changed anytime soon. You do see groups like the ACLU and Americans United fighting on behalf of Christians all the time. But they’re… Read more
In anticipation of the release of Bill Maher’s new film Religulous, the Catholic League (and president Bill Donohue) has put together a wonderful and hilarious compilation of Maher’s most strident attacks on irrational thinking: While Maher professes to loathe all religions, his favorite target is the Catholic Church. Indeed, he rarely aims his venom at Islam or Judaism. And while he does enjoy taking shots at Evangelicals, it is clear that he is monomaniacal in his contempt for Catholicism. Below… Read more
You guys have helped me with Interweb issues before… maybe you can help me here. For whatever reason, this website doesn’t appear on the first page of Google when you search for my name. Or even when you search for “Friendly Atheist.” What am I doing wrong…? Thanks in advance. Read more
