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 Matthew Chapman. Chapman is the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the author of Trials of the Monkey, an autobiographical book which discusses how Americans’ views on evolution/religion/science have changed since the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. More recently, he wrote 40 Days and 40 Nights about the Kitzmiller v. Dover… Read more
I recently upgraded this blog to a more recent WordPress edition, and there are some problems I can’t seem to fix… WordPress support forums are not being very helpful. If you can help me, please let me know! Here are the problems: 1) When people post comments, they get a long error message. The post goes through, but why the message? I can send the error report to you… (***I think this one is fixed!***) 2) When you click on… Read more
First, it was Charlene Cothran, editor of Venus Magazine. Now, it’s Michael Glatze, founding editor of Young Gay America magazine. Glatze was attracted to men at 14. He came out as gay when he was 20. Now, he’s 30 and declaring himself straight. He wrote a piece about this for WorldNetDaily: Homosexuality came easy to me, because I was already weak. My mom died when I was 19. My father had died when I was 13. At an early age,… Read more
This came in the mail today: My favorite parts of the enclosed letter: … as a new friend of Answers in Genesis, your perspective is especially important because it’s “fresh!” … Before you came to visit, you no doubt saw what the popular media has been saying about the Creation Museum, and how almost all of the articles focused entirely on the creation vs. evolution debate. And of course, that is a big part of the reason we built the… Read more
Remember when an American artist got in trouble for Chocolate Jesus? People in Britain are much more laid back when it comes to art. Artist Dan Baldwin created a painting called “Fuck Religion” (seen above). Apparently, it’s popular in the town of Brighton: Seventy-five limited edition prints of Fuck Religion were sold – at £400 each. That’s $804.88 in American dollars. Each. $60,366 total for those keeping count. (Of course, there would be three 6s in the number…) And it… Read more
Looks like Washington D.C. is the place to go for a hedonistically good time. Time to celebrate Atheistfest! What is Atheistfest? The yearly meetings (held just after the fourth of July) conducted by the godless for the purposes of worshipping Satan, sacrificing cats, having group sex, and making blood pacts with our glorious father, Lucifer. I wonder why these atheists would do such a thing… Why do we do all this? We conduct ourselves so because we are atheists and… Read more
It’s an oldie but a goodie. Christian Fundamentalist Marguerite Perrin switched homes with Pagan Jeanne D’amico-Flisher on an episode of Trading Spouses. This is when Perrin gets back home to her family…: Incidentally, Perrin has her own website. She calls herself the “God Warrior.” Once the site loads, listen to the song… (via Atheist Perspective) [tags]atheist, atheism, Christian, Fundamentalist, Marguerite Perrin, Pagan, Jeanne D’amico-Flisher, God Warrior[/tags] Read more
You know what’s scary? When your blog stops working for a day and you think everything you’ve written in the past year has been deleted. Thankfully, I had backup. And I think the site is back up and functional again, though I’ve spotted a couple glitches that I’ll fix shortly. It did give me an opportunity to add one helpful addition to the blog. Thanks to Helen’s suggestion, you now have the option of editing your entry a short time… Read more
A group of guys from the alternative Buffalo-based newspaper The Beast decided to have a little fun at the Creation Museum. They created a fake website for “The Special Times” newspaper (which catered to “developmentally disabled people of faith”). This gave them press credentials which in turn gave them special access to Ken Ham. Oh. And one of the guys acted… well, retarded. That’s when the fun begins. Here’s reporter Ian Murphy, who played the role of “Dougie”: Of course,… Read more
Reed had a crazy story about how he lent The God Delusion to his friend and all hell broke loose. It looks like he got the book back. From the friend’s father. But not without some drama: He showed up at my door a few minutes ago and thrust the book into my hands, urging me to never go near his property or son again. I made no promises, but I thanked him for my book. Curiously, there was a… Read more
