If you want to seem some quality pictures from inside the travesty known as the Creation Museum, here you go! (Thanks to Karolis for the link!) Read more
Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, was speaking at California State University – Monterey Bay last month as part of his speaking tour. Midway through the question and answer period, he was interrupted by a Christian mother and daughter. Noelle Blair, a staff reporter for the campus newspaper, wrote this: The two entered the room and asked to address the crowd. After Barker agreed, the mother began to yell that he was a liar and God was… Read more
A calendar of selected major events (such as conferences and holidays) for non-religious people has been started by Jason Torpy, president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers. Feel free to send him any omissions. As this gets filled out a bit more, with details, it’ll be a useful tool in keeping track of the goings-on of the non-religious world. [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
From the sublime to the ridiculous, let’s go from haiku to poetry’s highest form, limericks! Create an atheist limerick. Jared must be psychic or at least our logic flows in the same perverse way because on Contest # 9 he proposed a limerick contest the night after I started working on this. Go Jared! As you probably know limericks follow a very set pattern, usually iambic with five lines in a rhyming pattern of a,a,b,b,a. I’ll give you an example,… Read more
Last week, I ran this contest: Create an atheistical haiku! Here are the Top 8 answers (with submitters)! 8| Way of the Master: Kirk Cam’ron and his friend Ray Put their faith in fruit. Ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha! Bananas! (Reed Braden) 7| i am without god but bananas fit my hands i am so confused (RHawk68) 6| Creationism — Fill their young heads with nonsense. But claim it’s science. (The… Read more
The usually-conservative, Republican-leaning, “we haven’t endorsed a Democrat for President Since 1872” Chicago Tribune is supporting the blocking of the mandatory moment of silence law in Illinois, also known as The Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act. From today’s editorial page: Schools have always been free to ask students to pause and contemplate the day ahead, but they weren’t required to. By making it mandatory, the [Illinois] legislature has created a burden on teachers, a potential source of conflict between… Read more
WikiHow offers suggestions on how to avoid that pesky convert-at-all-costs Christian: Show them that you disagree with them in other matters, too. Point out that there are disagreements that may not be resolved. Talk to them about befriending people with different political, social, and intellectual belief. Show that many such arguments can get just as heated and emotional as religious arguments, and yet people of different political fractions are willing to befriend each other. There’s also a warning to potential… Read more
Jesus meets Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code: Love the ending 🙂 (via Heathen.tv) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
You know you want this: It’s $33 and handmade. And so very worth it. (via Boing Boing) [tags]atheist, atheism, Flying Spaghetti Monster[/tags] Read more
