Having trouble conceiving? The Eleven7 church in Southlake, TX has a potential solution for you! Fill out the application (PDF) by next week. (My favorite part? All the fine print on page 4.) The church will randomly choose 10 eligible couples from the batch. Then, about a week later, on Father’s Day, the church will randomly choose one couple as the winner! The winning couple will get a medical evaluation and, depending on what’s needed, will be directed to the… Read more
Remember the Christian woman from Survivor: China a little while back? She kept saying things on the show like: “I’m not a religious person, but I have a relationship with Jesus Christ…” Which, to me, makes no difference. It all sounds pretty smug… “I’m not religious. I’m Christian.” “I’m not religious. I’m Muslim.” “I’m not religious. I just pray to a divine being and believe in the Holy Book and go to church and think you’re going to Hell. But… Read more
Illinois schools used to allow teachers to observe a moment of silence if they chose. Not many teachers did this. Probably because it’s just a waste of time. State Senator Kimberly Lightford didn’t like the idea of teachers deciding what’s best for their classrooms, so she sponsored a bill to make the moment of silence mandatory. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman stopped this from happening at one school. As of Thursday, the same judge “issued a preliminary injunction barring school… Read more
The AA drama has not yet been resolved… One board member just stepped down. His resignation letter can be read here. [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
If that’s not an element, it should be. I mean, Flying Spaghetti Monster is already an organic compound…: Would anyone like to venture a guess as to the name of that compound? (via Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
In New Zealand, 75% of the people support evolution. So you wouldn’t expect to see Kansas-like problems in neighboring Australia. However, at Pacific Hills Christian School in Sydney, students were being taught the following spectrum of beliefs in regards to evolution: Somehow, this teacher places Intelligent Design to the right of Theistic Evolutionist. That makes sense… This teacher also doesn’t know how to delete unwanted parts of a Powerpoint slide. The entire video in which this slide can be seen… Read more
Every year, the Secular Student Alliance gives out awards to the best campus atheist groups in the country in a variety of areas. The winning groups each receive $300 in funding; the Best Overall Affiliate receives $500. Here are this year’s winners: Best Service Project: Atheists, Agnostics, and Freethinkers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their project was to send 11 members of their group along with 19 members of the schools Campus Crusade For Christ group to New Orleans… Read more
There’s a wonderful translation guide at Unreasonable Faith that lets non-Christians understand what Christians are really saying. It gives us both acceptable and unacceptable responses to the phrases: “Do you know where you’re going to go after you die?” Translation: “This is the question they told me to ask in my evangelism class.” Acceptable Response: “To heaven to see my sweet, precious Savior!” Unacceptable Response: “How can you know that before you’re actually dead?” … “Thank you Jesus!” Translation: “It’s… Read more
A dilemma posed by a reader: I have a daughter who just turned one. And I have been thinking about this dilemma since long before she was conceived. I have always liked the idea of “godparents.” Of course, being an atheist, I don’t like the god in there and their role wouldn’t be anything god-related. I posed this question on a bulletin board for atheist parents, and it didn’t really get much response. There was an “earthparent” kind of theme… Read more
Except women. Because… you know… Jesus didn’t appoint one as an apostle. Therefore, screw ’em. Says the Vatican. The Vatican issued its most explicit decree so far against the ordination of female priests on Thursday, punishing them and the bishops who try to ordain them with automatic excommunication. … A Vatican spokesman said the decree made the church’s existing ban on female priests more explicit by clarifying that excommunication would follow all such ordinations. … Rev. Tom Reese, a senior… Read more
