Rolf at Jamonation has a challenge for everyone: … watch one hour of Sunday morning Evangelical Christian religious television programing and post a comment regarding [your] resultant thoughts and reaction. There’s a lesser second challenge of watching Christian television for an hour, period. The folks at Jamonation add this disclaimer: We at Jamonation accept no responsibility if, for some reason, you are converted to Evangelical Christianity by participating in The Sunday Morning Challenge. And that happens every time, so be… Read more
The Gematriculator gave me these results: What is The Gematriculator? The Gematriculator is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is. Basically, Gematria is searching for different patterns through the text, such as the amount of words beginning with a vowel. If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to… Read more
The Galesville Republican, a weekly newspaper in Wisconsin, won’t accept ads from either. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is lumped into the same league as the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party, and Al-Qaeda. (And apparently, they all want ads in the Galesville Republican.) FFRF said this about the piece: Ms. Eddy apparently does not realize that the Nazi party was Christian to the core, as is the KKK, and that Al-Qaeda also terrorizes in the name of a god–if… Read more
***SPOILER ALERT. The name of the tournament winner appears below.*** After 6,358 players began the World Series of Poker on July 6, a winner has emerged. Jerry Yang took home a cool $8,250,000. You feel good for the guy, especially when you hear his story. When he was 13, his Hmong family fled war-torn Laos to come to the USA. “The communists invaded my country back in the ’70s,” he said. “My family immigrated to Thailand. In fact, we escaped…. Read more
Rev. Reggie Longcrier poses this question to John Edwards for CNN’s YouTube Presidential debate: Sen. Edwards said his opposition to gay marriage has [been] influenced by his Southern Baptist background. Most Americans agree it was wrong and unconstitutional to use religion to justify slavery, segregation and denying women the right to vote. So why is it still acceptable to use religion to deny gay Americans their full and equal rights? Edwards’ wife, of course, has said she supports gay marriage…. Read more
Umm… this is nasty. On so many levels. If you’ve ever tasted paan, please tell me you agree… [tags]Indian-American, sex, condoms, paan, desi[/tags] Read more
Lore Sjöberg grades the various hexes and curses in the Potter World. For example: Avada Kedavra (The Killing Curse) It kills people, which is boring. If you have access to a wide selection of magic spells, just plain killing someone strikes me as a failure of the imagination. Any decent villain understands the concept of “a fate worse than death.” How about a magic spell that makes it so everyone on your block parks right in the middle of a… Read more
Remember the Paula Zahn debacle where she had a panel discussion about atheism on her show but didn’t bother to include an atheist? And did include Debbie Schlussel? And then atheists complained in droves and Zahn redid the segment with a new panel that included an atheist? She’s not making that same mistake again. Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, will be appearing on Paula Zahn Now to discuss “the role of religion in presidential campaigns, including the growing use… Read more
It’s an old video, but Ben at Eclectics Anonymous provides a guide for the references you may not understand, like the “Thompson chain” and “koinonia.” Is there an atheist response video to this one? If there isn’t, there should be… Baby Got Dawk? Baby Got Book and the Book got Contradictions? [tags]Baby Got Book, Christian[/tags] Read more
As the Atheist Alliance International conference draws closer, I will be interviewing a number of the speakers/presenters for this website and elsewhere. One interview will be conducted with Professor Daniel Dennett. Dennett is a Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is responsible for helping bring the word “Bright” into the national lexicon because of a piece he wrote for the New York Times. He is also the author of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon and Darwin’s… Read more
