And just for the hell of it, here’s your new desktop background: I love people who submit amusing things to me 🙂 (Thanks to monkeymind for the pics!) [tags]atheist, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris[/tags] Read more
The *official* webpage for my book is going to disappear! ISoldMySouloneBaybook.com was the subject of a cease and desist letter from eBay to my publishers. Goodbye site! We hardly knew ye. (The title of the book is still safe, though.) [tags]atheist, atheism, I Sold My Soul on eBay[/tags] Read more
Last week, I asked this question: Who is Richard Dawkins talking to in the picture below? What is their conversation? Here are the Top 5 answers (with submitters)! 5| “Hello P-Zed? Harris has gone over to the other side. No, not THAT side. He’s allying himself with the fr*mers. Pity. Unleash your Pharynguloid minions.” (Siamang) 4| (Dawkins answers phone) [heavy breathing] Dawkins: Who is this? Haggard: I need your paws on me you dirty ape you. Dawkins: … (cue photo)… Read more
You can read them Onion Breath: The book is about two boys named Roy and Eugene. According to one Amazon reviewer: Onion Breath tells the fun story of two brothers who are fussy eaters, refusing anything but mac-and-cheese. Mother does not know how to get them to eat new things, but Shmirna, the nanny, does. Shmirna tells the boys that spiders crawl into their open mouths at night, and the only way to stop the spiders is having onion breath… Read more
She has doubts during difficult times. But she still prays for healing. Sometimes, things get better: Well, laugh all you want, but the boy and I got down on our knees one evening, placed our hands on the tank and prayed for [goldfish] Swifty’s healing. We prayed passionately. I kind of rode on the kid’s faith. Not too far in the back of my mind was this thought: If I can’t believe God to heal a goldfish, my faith really… Read more
An excerpt from the new book Head and Heart: American Christianities by Garry Wills, along with commentary by Martin Marty: Wills contends, “It is not demonstrable that killing fetuses is killing persons. Not even the Evangelicals act as if it were. In that case, the woman seeking the abortion…is killing her own child.” If the fetus is regarded as a person, why would the murderous mother be exempt from the death penalty, in which most Evangelicals believe? And many Evangelicals… Read more
A hilarious conversation between a little girl trying to convert people to Christianity (which is frightening on so many levels) and an intelligent college student trying to figure out how to balance being polite and being firm in her beliefs: Here it goes. Now I have to look like a jerk and be a pain in the ass with a little girl in pigtails. “I don’t read the bible.” “You should. You’ll go to hell if you don’t.” “You forget,… Read more
At the Atheist Alliance International convention, I had a chance to meet several prominent leaders and speakers in the atheist community. One of them was Mike Estes: Mike is a member of the Atheist Coalition of San Diego. He has given wonderful presentations on African-American atheists in the early 20th century. It’s fascinating to find out how non-religious the black leaders were at the turn of the century when you consider how religious most are today. If you get a… Read more
Some of you may have read Carol Wimmer’s 1988 poem “When I Say, ‘I Am a Christian.'” Most likely in a forward from a friend trying to convert you: When I say, “I am a Christian,” I’m not shouting, “I’ve been saved!” I’m whispering, “I get lost! That’s why I chose this way” When I say, “I am a Christian,” I don’t speak with human pride I’m confessing that I stumble-needing God to be my guide When I say, “I… Read more
This site’s getting a lot of readers. That’s very exciting. It also means this site crashes frequently. You may have already been greeted by the “SUSPENDED” page before. The most common problem is: “This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota.” Which I think means there are a lot of people coming to this site all at once… which happens when there are incoming links from popular sites like Reddit. Right now, this WordPress site is hosted by Bluehost. It’s on… Read more
