Dan Savage is compiling images of Last Supper parodies: The list just keeps getting bigger and bigger… [tags]atheist, atheism, Christian, Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, Jesus, The Simpsons, Sopranos[/tags] Read more
Thanks to The Onion. The byline reads: By Bonnie Nordstrum Polytheist I’m In An Open Relationship With The LordWith Jesus as my personal Savior, I felt like I had it all. But then we hit a rough patch, and before long, I was beginning to question both my… [tags]atheist, atheism, The Onion, Christian, Jesus[/tags] Read more
A Reasonable Atheist never read much of the Bible growing up. His excuse: he was a Methodist. He’s finally going to read it, though. But he has a slight dilemma: Before I start however, I come to an important question. Which version of the Bible to read? There are lots of translations, so it might be difficult to choose. I could go with the most common one, the KJV. I asked an Episcopal friend of mine, and he suggested the… Read more
The Beliefnet interview I did has been picked up by some pretty top-notch blogs! The Freakonomics blog named it one of today’s FREAK-est links! One commenter there says this: It’s nice to see a tolerant atheist. Most of the atheists I know, especially the people who play an atheists on-line, are less tolerant than a taliban warlord. Yeesh. Things don’t get much better at The Huffington Post, where commenters said the following: Mr. Mehta better watch his rear end while… Read more
Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak is promoting the city’s growing economy and “pledged more than $11 million in workforce development and economic development strategies in 2008.” What is included in the plans? $4.7 million dollars of small business financing tools, including innovative loans with no interest to business owners whose religious beliefs restrict them from receiving traditional interest-based financing. What’s that again…? The mayor’s website says this: The Alternative Financing Program offers profit-based financing to Minneapolis business owners where no interest… Read more
From My Confined Space: It took me a second, but I figured it out. It looks just like PZ. [tags]atheist, atheism, Christian, Pharyngula[/tags] Read more
Someone call the ACLU. We cannot stand for this. You’ll never believe what Dale McGowan saw at his daughter’s school the other night. I am neither making this up nor exaggerating its appearance. Much. The actual medium was dry-erase markers, not tie-dye, but that is amazingly close to the actual appearance of the glorious crux splendidior on the whiteboard in my daughter’s public school classroom. And what a cross it was! Every color of the rainbow! I’d have burst into… Read more
Apparently, people in Brussels find that image of Jesus offensive: Catholic bishops in Belgium have protested a TV ad depicting a pot-bellied, hippy Jesus performing miracles and picking up scantily-clad girls up in a nightclub, a church spokesman said Friday. He’s also drinking Jack Daniels. The ad (which you can watch here) is a promotion for Plug youth television, “the coolest thing that even Jesus, with all his powers, could hope for.” Church representative Father Eric de Beukelaer said this:… Read more
In Madison, Wisconsin, a flyer was sent home with nearly 2,000 elementary school students that read: “Plant the Seeds of Faith in Jesus in Your Child at our Sunday school.” The Freedom From Religion Foundation is, as usual, on top of things: In response to Ginsberg’s complaint, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking the Madison district to change its policy and eliminate the distribution of non-school-related materials. In a letter to Rainwater released Tuesday, Annie Laurie Gaylor of the… Read more
A while back, I posted Minnesota Atheist August Berkshire’s list of the 18 Unconvincing Arguments for God: He has now updated the list with a few new entries, so the updated version of the 21 Unconvincing Arguments for God are below. If you’d like to download a nicer PDF version, you can do that here. To reiterate what I said in the original posting, August has said the list was written in order to give Christians (and those of other… Read more
