The other day, we heard the watermelon story: A stray bullet in a gunfight flew into a car, going through one girl’s stomach, then going through a Bible, and finally coming to a stop inside a watermelon the first girl’s sister was holding. Their grandmother said, “The word of God and the Lord’s power saved” her second daughter. (So, the first daughter must have deserved it…?) Here’s one more story like that. Nine-year-old Chicago White Sox fan Griffin Cox was… Read more
Here’s an amusing song to brighten your day 🙂 Umm… NSFW lyrics. ***Update***: The song is called “Hand Of The Almighty!” by John Butler. Thanks to Derek for passing along the info! ***Update2***: There’s a video! (Thanks to Mark for the link!) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
In January of 1971, the first issue of The American Atheist came out, printed by American Atheists and its founder Madalyn Murray O’Hair. Within its pages was this cartoon, entitled “FCC”: How much do you feel has changed between 1971 and now? Do the movies, press and radio respect religion far more than it deserves? (via American Atheist Online) [tags]atheism[/tags] Read more
I’ll get right to the point: here’s a wonderful article on Richard Dawkins from The Times Online (UK). Read more
Webster Cook, the Florida college student who started a national uproar when he left a Catholic Mass with a sacred Communion wafer, will be on Freethought Radio this weekend! The incident led to PZ Myers receiving death threats, Bill Donohue feeding his attention fetish, and a 1-800-Flowers employee getting fired. Tune in this weekend (or download it afterwards like I do)! (via Secular Student Alliance) Read more
You know what would make a wonderful present for your German and Italian friends? A copy of I Sold My Soul on eBay in their languages! In Germany, Biete Seele – suche Gott: Was ein Atheist in christlichen Gemeinden erlebte: In Italy, Ho venduto l’anima su e-bay: In fact, buy them multiple copies. (Beats the heck out of me what those pages say…) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
Chase Hilgenbrinck was a soccer player for the New England Revolution. He played for them after a long stint playing in Chile. Until Monday. That’s when he left his soccer career to begin a different calling: Hilgenbrinck accepted the calling… to enter a seminary, where he will spend the next six years studying theology and philosophy so he can be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. “It’s not that I’m ready to leave soccer. I still have a great passion… Read more
Because people keep quoting him, making him look bad! How dare they alert the media to what he says on his show?! From Tuesday night’s episode of The 700 Club: ROBERTSON: Well, our next story and our next guest, I know about personally. There’s an organization and they’re called People For the American Way. They have camped on this program for decades. They record every single word that I say. If there’s any possibility that they can catch something or… Read more
Let’s find the flaw in this logic: A gunfight takes place in Indianapolis. A stray bullet flies into a random car. It hits an innocent ten-year-old girl in the stomach. She’s bleeding. The same bullet continues on its path and *almost* hits her sister, who is thirteen. I say “almost” because between the younger girl and the older girl was a book and a watermelon (sitting on the older girl’s lap). The bullet went through the book and was ultimately… Read more
