It’s not a Jessica Hagy work, but the Venn diagram does make a good point: The never-ending CAPS LOCK comments usually do it for me. CAPS with Bible verses are even scarier. Bible verses alone? Not scary. Plenty of atheist blogs quote the Bible. How do you know you’re looking at a website you wont be visiting again? (Thanks to Brooke for the link!) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
Now here’s a church I could get on board with. A number of people, religious and not, have already attended services. Just to give you a preview: It’s located directly above Chicago’s Second City comedy haven… From the Chicago Sun-Times article by Mike Thomas: … the interactive and sometimes hyperactive Best Church (www.bestchurchofgod.org) isn’t your typical religious gathering place. Not unless your typical religious gathering place hosts sermons that warn against the evils of yeast, employs Shake ‘n Bake in… Read more
From lol god: Yep… the pastor’s reaction is pretty much how we atheists feel when a religious couple says they have a “Christian” or “Catholic” child. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. The children are not yet old enough to know what they are. It’s a point that Richard Dawkins makes very clear in The God Delusion. That said, I’d say there’s some truth to this picture (of “atheist” children). The kids have not yet been inculcated with religious… Read more
In a piece for Freethought Today, Barbara G. Walker writes about how, as a child, she began noticing the problems with religious faith. She posed some tough questions to her friend Patsy: When I was a child, my Catholic friend Patsy told me that her parents were paying a priest for special prayers to get her grandparents out of purgatory. I was fascinated. I asked, “How can you tell when they’re finally out?” Patsy didn’t know. I continued, “And why… Read more
I normally don’t read academic papers but when one has a title like the following, I tend to pay a bit of attention: Spirituality and Academic Performance at a Catholic Law School: An Empirical Study What did it study? This empirical study explores whether a student’s spirituality affects academic performance during the first year of study at the University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota). A spirituality index measured 1) frequency of attendance at religious worship, 2) frequency of… Read more
Too funny. You gotta appreciate this guy’s honesty in a forum on the Answers in Genesis (Creationist) website. He asks a question that deserves a proper, honest answer. But this is AiG, so he’s not going to get one. HELP! It is distressing to me when I buy Creationist materials, learn something, post it in a forum, only to be told, what I have been told is not true. Here is an example of someone “correcting” a statement made by… Read more
Oh man… Ugg is right. Which means I am *so* wrong. (via Rich Gentlemen Hide) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
The Exterminator’s puzzles just keep getting more elaborate and fun. This time, it takes a few seconds to figure out the rules, but once you do, it’s very enjoyable. How many can you figure out? [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
Denver was host to the United Astrology Conference this past week. Check out the tracks… they’re embarrassing to anyone with a shred of intelligence. You can hear about it on NPR. Check out this excerpt from the piece: In the report, a “professional astrologer” acknowledges that the horoscopes that appear in daily newspapers are nothing more than “cute little paragraphs that we all write because editors insist upon it.” But, she adds, “real astrology” is “a huge and complex system,”… Read more
