Remember the parents who refused to give their 11-year-old daughter the medical attention she needed for her ketoacidosis? Instead they opted to pray for her healing? Then she died? There is now a bit of potential retribution: Marathon County District Attorney Jill Falstad announced at 1 p.m. at a press conference in Weston that Dale and Leilani Neumann each will be charged with second-degree reckless homicide, a charge that carries a punishment of up to 25 years in prison. Hallelujah…. Read more
Ben Dreidel sat through a Ben Stein interview on the Trinity Broadcasting Network so you don’t have to. (If you’re curious, go here, click on the “Behind the Scenes” tab, and go to the video for April 21th.) It’s amazing how many shock-inducing things Stein says to host Paul Crouch, Jr. regarding the theory of evolution and science in general when he doesn’t think non-Christians are watching. A few excerpts (courtesy of Ben D.) are below. Look at the last… Read more
Random question of the day: Who is the most famous person you know (who would admit to knowing you back)? [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
I’m not sure how many readers would submit an article to this magazine, but unlike other Christian publications, it’s willing to be honest about faith and God — in the sense that they’ll publish stories about doubt and struggles with Christianity. You don’t see very much of that in other Christian magazines unless it comes with a happy ending (i.e. The person gets “saved” at the end). That doesn’t have to happen here. What type of submissions will Relief accept?… Read more
The new Carnival of the Godless is at No More Mr. Nice Guy!. Go check it out! The next CotG is at State of Protest in two weeks. Submit your entries here! [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
According to anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics: “Humans alone practice religion because they’re the only creatures to have evolved imagination.” This is difference from the popular argument that religion evolved to promote social bonding. … he argues that first, we had to evolve the necessary brain architecture to imagine things and beings that don’t physically exist, and the possibility that people somehow live on after they’ve died. Once we’d done that, we had access to a… Read more
Yep. The cartoon by RJ Matson in the St. Louis Post Dispatch just about says it all: [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
If you still don’t feel comfortable after reserving your spot in Heaven, there’s another way to save your soul. You can still pay indulgences to the Catholic Church! I have committed a cardinalvenalmortalunspeakable sin… I seek completepartial absolution. I am purchasing an indulgence for myselfmy familya friendmy company or organization. After filling out the checklist o’ sins, turns out I owe the Pope a small fortune. Which I won’t be able to pay. I am *so* going to Hell now…. Read more
Matthew LaClair is the high school student who made headlines when he recorded his (public) high school history teacher preaching fundamental Christianity in class. He was last seen leading the charge to get a mistake-riddled, conservatively-biased Government textbook corrected or purged from the school systems. He has an Op-Ed piece in today’s LA Times about his goal. In one of my classes, we use the 10th edition of “American Government” by James Q. Wilson, a well-known conservative academic, and John… Read more
This girl had to deal with a frightening scenario: Gwen Adams, a 33-year-old software designer and staunch disbeliever in the existence of God, accidentally enjoyed an uplifting song played on an all-Christian radio station while scanning the dial on her car radio during her drive home from work Tuesday evening. “Since I [tuned in to the station] mid-song, there’s no way I could have known I was listening to a Christian rock station,” said Adams, struggling to find an excuse… Read more
