That’s just one of the questions Sara is asking: And I’m going to assume that she wanted to mention my name at the very end. Because I live in my own little world like that 🙂 [tags]atheist, atheism, love, relationships[/tags] Read more
Edwin Kagin, National Legal Director for American Atheists (and a founder of Camp Quest), is representing David Ryan in his quest to prevent his son from attending a Catholic high school. Ryan (an atheist) is divorced from his son’s mother (who is Roman Catholic): According to Kagin, when Ryan and his wife got divorced, a judge ordered their son continue attending a Catholic school. But Ryan is an atheist and wants his son to attend a public high school next… Read more
Jeffrey Jackson, a reporter for the Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN), tells the story of Bill Kass, a former Catholic who started the Rochester Area Freethinkers: “I always got myself in trouble by asking the wrong questions,” [Kass] said. And the answers he was given — answers such as “some things are not meant to be understood” — did not satisfy him. Then, when his parents divorced and his mother was excommunicated from the Catholic church, Kass, as a teenager, found it… Read more
Remember the travesty that was House Resolution 847? It was about “the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith.” And it passed by an overwhelming margin. House Resolution 888, which has not been voted on yet, is even worse. It was introduced the week before Christmas by Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) and it basically tries to rewrite American history. It currently has 31 co-sponsors. Here’s the resolution: Affirming the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation’s founding and subsequent… Read more
What if Mike Huckabee wasn’t a Christian…? (Click for larger image) This shows two things: how irrational it is to be a religious fundamentalist of any stripe and how the media needs to call Huckabee out on his more absurd religious beliefs. (via Reddit) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
… or else you’ll have to donate to Focus on the Family. This alarm clock from ThinkGeek has a special feature: That’s why everytime you hit the snooze button, the SnūzNLūz will donate a specified amount of your real money to a non-profit you hate. The problem of sleeping in is solved. If you knew you money was going to James Dobson, wouldn’t you get up on time instead? 🙂 (via Kottke) [tags]atheist, atheism, humor[/tags] Read more
Pastor Mike here again: In the aftermath of the Iowa Caucuses I thought I’d take the opportunity to do a political post. And if this question doesn’t continue my trend of drawing hundreds of comments, I don’t know what will. Here’s what I want to know: as an atheist, do you consider yourself patriotic? I know this question has a history. For most of the Cold War Era atheism was considered synonymous with Communism and un-Americanism; thus I could understand… Read more
Cectic combines math and atheism! Yay! We have him! The Count is *so* much cooler than Grover. [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
The National Academy of Sciences is offering a free PDF download of Science, Evolution, and Creationism: In the book, Science, Evolution, and Creationism, a group of experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine explain the fundamental methods of science, document the overwhelming evidence in support of biological evolution, and evaluate the alternative perspectives offered by advocates of various kinds of creationism, including “intelligent design.” It looks like a great resource. To get it for… Read more
You can argue over whether raising a child with certain religious beliefs should be considered mental child abuse. But it’s hard to deny that religion has the potential to harm children when you read these cases in the On Faith article by Shawn F. Peters: A hemophilic boy in Pennsylvania bleeds to death over a period of two days from a small cut on his foot. An Indiana girl dies after a malignant tumor sprouts from her skull and grows… Read more
