Bill has noticed a strange occurrence on his blog, FriendlyChristian.com. His readers are disappearing. More importantly, his Christian readers are disappearing. When writing about what he may have done to alienate readers, he lists a few possible reasons: Be a Christian that is openly relational with the arch enemy: the Atheists. Be promoted by Atheist websites. Read books written by Atheists. Comment on Atheist websites. Check, Check, Check Sure, there are plenty of reasons people are attracted to (or not… Read more
It’s been a little while since we’ve done a contest… A lot of you bailed on me for the roommate contest (thanks to the few who submitted stories!), but Richard stepped in and ran an atheist limerick contest that is just begging for a winner. So… here are the Top 5 limericks (with submitters)! 5| After the twin towers fell My anger started to swell Theist’s invisible friends Yield such horrible trends To my atheist meekness, farewell (Ben) 4| The… Read more
Why don’t the other women on The View just come out and tell Sherri Shepherd she’s a moron? The ratings would go up, jaws across the country would rise back up to meet their respective faces, and I’d have one more video to post… After telling her audience that she wasn’t sure if the world is flat and that she did not accept evolution, she is now saying that nothing in history predated Christianity: I’m trying trying to decide whether… Read more
If you’d like to send something holiday-related to your friends in the coming weeks, feel free to send them a Flying Spaghetti Monster e-card! It’s not offensive (damn!) but it does feature a cute picture of our Lord. RAmen. [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
He’s preaching and he has some of that fire in his belly! My advice: Start watching at the 2:00 mark 🙂 Does a congregation of three constitute an atheist megachurch? (Thanks to Kirby for the link!) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
Oh boy… David Mills, the author of Atheist Universe, is going into outer space. In a press release on his website, he writes: … a new-generation atheist author will, in his own words, “float like an angel in heaven” on Sunday, December 9, 2007 to draw attention to his unholy cause. David Mills, author of the divisive yet briskly-selling book Atheist Universe, is scheduled to become history’s first avowed atheist author to fly into zero gravity. Did he just refer… Read more
Why is it blasphemy to call a teddy bear Mohammed but ok to give that name to a Muslim child? What are the naming rules in Islam? Slate explains: In some Muslim countries, almost all males take a religious name, either Mohammed or one of the prophet’s other names, Ahmed, Mahmoud, or Mustafa. But if you’re in the Middle East, you won’t ever hear anyone calling out, “Hey, Mohammed” to a friend on the street. The prophet’s name is too… Read more
Here are the first 10 minutes of her new stand-up special, Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell. She walks the audience through everything leading up to her infamous “Suck it, Jesus” speech — she recreates the whole thing (uncensored, thank you very much) — and the aftermath. And by aftermath, I mean Bill Donohue bashing: “… the Catholic League is one guy with a computer!” Enjoy! (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
The latest Humanist Network News podcast features an interview with The Golden Compass author Philip Pullman. Matt Cherry, the executive director of the Institute for Humanist Studies, is the interviewer. Cherry: … When did you start identifying yourself as a humanist and why? Pullman: Well, identifying oneself as anything, for a writer, for a novelist, is a perilous thing because then you find yourself acting as a spokesman for this cause or that cause. I have always tried to avoid… Read more
I cracked the top 10 on the SocialRank powered list! But The Exterminator is ahead of me… I must defeat him (and his challenging puzzles). If you’re looking for a good collection of atheist blogs, Challenge Religion has a nice list for you to peruse. [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
