Apparently, there are emails circulating that quote Philip Pullman (author of The Golden Compass) as saying this: “I want to kill God in the minds of Children…. I want them to decide against God and the Kingdom of Heaven.” Simon Owens at Bloggasm is having a hard time finding the source for this statement: After hitting thousands of inboxes, this false quote eventually spilled over onto dozens of webpages. Notice that some of those sites are run by churches. I… Read more
Bill Donohue should take notice of this piece by Matt Morrison: Parents at a 12:50 showing of “The Golden Compass” in Fort Worth’s Eastchase district were both shocked and appalled to find that the movie was preceded by a trailer for the upcoming big-screen adaptation of the novel “Prince Caspian”, which some parents fear may cause their children to read a series that promotes spiritual belief and “denigrates Atheism.” “I just can’t believe this,” said Leah Jones, mother of three… Read more
The Golden Compass movie, based off the books by Philip Pullman, cost around $180,000,000 to make. In its first weekend, it was a box-office disappointment. While it was the #1 movie, it didn’t make nearly as much money as the studios would have hoped. In North America, it made an estimated $26,100,000 (more optimistic projections put the estimates at $28,000,000). For the sake of comparison, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, the first movie in that trilogy,… Read more
The new Carnival of the Godless is at The Jesus Myth. Go check it out! The next CotG is at Defense of Reason in two weeks. Submit your entries here! [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
A pox on all those religious people who are trying to take the Flying Spaghetti Monster out of ChriFSMas: [tags]atheist, atheism, War on Christmas[/tags] Read more
You know that cough you have? Or that flu from a couple weeks ago…? Now, we know why you were sick: Jesus was spanking you. And not in the Christian Domestic Discipline way, either. By the way, if you want to check out more disturbing/blasphemous/rated-R images, feel free to go here. (Thanks to Grazatt for the link!) [tags]atheist, atheism, spank, BDSM[/tags] Read more
Last time we saw her, Teen Atheist was trying to go to an LGBT march but her mom was saying she couldn’t go. You offered your honest advice (even if they suggested very different things). So what happened? It was the night before the parade, and I approached my mother in the kitchen to ask her again if I could attend the gay pride parade. She, again, refused. “Please,” I whined, “my gay friends are counting on me to be… Read more
Last night, the Secular Coalition for America’s lobbyist, Lori Lipman Brown, appeared on The O’Reilly Factor. I thought she did a terrific job. Bill O’Reilly is almost speechless at the end. Lori also patiently gets across her main points in a limited time. OneGoodMove has this to say: Bill’s guest Lori Lipman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America does a pretty good job of respresenting the atheist position. I was surprised however that she didn’t mention what I thought… Read more
He’s only four, but he makes a lot of sense: “Mommy!! Come here, quick!” the scream from Natalie, our 6 year old, seemed urgent so Amy sped into the kids bathroom where Natalie was standing over her 4 year old brother. “Nathaniel said he doesn’t like Jesus.” Natalie said with disgust. Nathaniel immediately started his explanation,”I like Jesus but I don’t like the big Jesus, I just like the baby Jesus!” Amy was relieved there was no blood or real emergency… Read more
Here are excerpts from a variety of sources commenting on Mitt Romney’s faith speech: Freedom From Religion Foundation: We’ve read John F. Kennedy’s 1960 address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, and have to say, Mitt Romney, you’re no JFK. … Romney’s hodgepodge speech offered a little something for everyone–except nonbelievers. Even Pres. Bush has publicly admitted that America includes nonreligious citizens. But the 14% of adults in the United States who are not religious apparently don’t exist in Romney’s… Read more
