In honor of Bertrand Russell’s birthday today, The Exterminator at No More Hornets created a puzzle for you to solve. It’s fun as long as you are literate and can follow instructions… hey, wait! Come back! Start with the words Bertrand Russell, Atheist. Line up the letters, closing the spaces between words and eliminating the comma. Then perform each step. When you arrive at the end, if you’ve followed all directions correctly, you’ll find an appropriate phrase. 01. Start here:… Read more
***Update 2: Atheists sure as hell like to vote… 93%!*** ***Update: Wow, we really won the poll… 88%!*** We won the polling! Now, all Christians will just see the light and become heathens. [tags]atheist, atheism, Christian, Christianity Today[/tags] Read more
Something Awful presents letters sent to the magical, non-responsive Anonymous Atheist Complaint Box. A sampling of some of the letters: [tags]Something Awful, atheist, atheism, Anonymous Atheist Complain Box[/tags] Read more
Christianity Today wants you to finish the sentence in a poll: Atheism is… a major threat to Christianity the only rational outlook just another religion mostly irrelevant today other Let’s break this down. Of course atheism is a threat to Christianity. Just like Christianity is a threat to atheism. Just like every religion is a threat to every other religion. That’s just obvious. Bad choice. The only rational outlook? I like that one. Everyone, go pick that. Just another religion?!… Read more
Pastor Mike Clawson responds to your questions. Part 1 is also available here. … The Unbrainwashed asked me a rather blunt question that I rather liked: Do you actually believe that a dead Jew came back to life 2000 years ago to save us? Yes. Next question. 🙂 Actually, let me be more specific. I don’t just believe a Jew named Jesus came back to life. I believe that God himself became one of us – wrote himself into the… Read more
You can now download the schedule and registration form (PDF) for the Atheist Alliance International convention, taking place in Washington, D.C. Friday through Sunday, September 28-30. There are festivities beforehand as well. Guests will include practically everyone who has written a book about atheism that appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List: Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation Christopher Hitchens, author of God is… Read more
A while back, I asked readers to pose questions to Mike Clawson, a Christian pastor who frequently comments on this site. There were a lot of great questions, and today, I’ll begin posting Mike’s responses. Here’s Mike: … Several of the questions put to me were very similar. A few of you (Dan Harlow, Robert, writerdd, and Richard Wade) especially wanted to know more about the emerging church, how prevalent my views are and how I interact with fundamentalist Christians…. Read more
Toby posted his review of I Sold My Soul on eBay at A Load of Bright. He says a number of positive things such as this: If you had told me a month ago that someone could write a book about religion that could be read by both Christians and atheists, and that they could both enjoy it, be challenged by it, and draw a positive message from it without feeling attacked, I wouldn’t have believed you. And yet, this… Read more
Our favorite religion reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Suzanne Sataline, writes about how teaching the Bible in public school is (*big gasp*) causing a debate in Texas. The text used in Odessa high schools, developed by the nonprofit National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, represents as fact that the Bible was a “foundational text” in the framing of the U.S., that the King James Bible “remains one of the…most-loved books in the history of the world,” and… Read more
Fred Phelps will be picketing Falwell’s funeral (via Daylight Atheism). This is ironic. Phelps writes that Falwell espoused “false doctrines like ‘God loves everyone.'”… which is completely untrue. Falwell’s God hated everyone who wasn’t his brand of fundamental Christianity. The Onion asked “people” what they thought of his death… Televangelist Jerry Falwell DeadMoral Majority founder Jerry Falwell died yesterday after being found unconscious in his office. What do you think? Christopher Hitchens had some eloquent words to say about Falwell… Read more
