Goosing the Antithesis tells of the email that Ray Comfort sent to his mailing list regarding the Nightline debate. If you’ve seen the (admitted one-sided) preview video from the Rational Response Squad, you saw that Comfort and Kirk Cameron did not come off looking too well. Maybe that was just the RRS’ video, though? Judging from Comfort’s email, though, it seems like we’ll just see more of the same… What did his email say? Just a quick note to let… Read more
Arthur, an Australian, comments on the National School Chaplaincy Programme which will support chaplains who help with students’ “spiritual and emotional wellbeing.” There are chaplains for just about every religious faith, and as it turns out, there are Humanist chaplains as well. Arthur then talks about a Humanist chaplain that’s been in the news quite a bit lately: Greg Epstein of Harvard University. He draws some information from an interview Greg did with Humanist Network News. He then writes the… Read more
While promoting his new book, God is Not Great, Chris Hitchens is all over the place. The Daily Show, C-SPAN, New York magazine. The list goes on. Here are two of the more interesting things he’s done the past couple weeks. First, there’s the debate with Al Sharpton. The question they’re debating is: “Is God Great?” Which doesn’t make much sense to me for an atheist to answer because the question itself is a moot point. (It’s like when Stephen… Read more
Last week, a strange event happened at the Fort Lauderdale Airport. Here’s a law professor from Florida explaining what went down: At approximately 12:45 am, my partner and I were in the baggage claim area in terminal 3. We had just arrived from Chicago and were waiting for our bags when an announcement came over the intercom. It basically said that “a man who lies with another man as he would a woman is subject to death.” We couldn’t believe… Read more
Here’s a sneak peek at tomorrow’s debate between Christians Ray Comfort/Kirk Cameron and atheists Brian/Kelly, courtesy of the Rational Response Squad. And as they say, these are the “highlights as seen through the eyes of the RRS.” So I assume less flattering parts of the debate were left out. There’s some bad language in the video if that matters (though it’s not during the debate itself): The written commentary is also entertaining. [tags]atheist, atheism, Christian, debate, Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron,… Read more
When it comes to religion and the absurdities within it, there are a number of ways to tackle the issues with sharp, biting humor. These are my personal favorite comedians or comedy bits: 5) Even Stephven (Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell) on The Daily Show Comedy Central yanked the video off of YouTube. But you can still watch the brief debate between Islam and Christianity here. 4) Ricky Gervais Gervais originated the role on the British TV show The Office… Read more
On Thursday evening, I spoke at Cal State Long Beach about the eBay auction and book. The event went well and besides meeting some wonderful Southern California student atheists, I also got to meet frequent commenter on this site Richard Wade! Thanks to all who came and for the students at CSLB (Hi Sean and Matt!) for putting it together. Here’s a picture with some of the audience members, including Christians and the secular students from Cal State Long Beach… Read more
I’m surprised some Christians actually use this argument. And this doesn’t even take into account the number of Christians in the government. [tags]atheist, atheism, Christian, oppression[/tags] Read more
On Monday, May 28, at 9:00 a.m. (local time) a peaceful Rally for Reason will be taking place outside Ken Ham’s Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. It’s not just atheists. It’ll be atheists, Christians, science advocates, and everyone else who sees this “museum” as a travesty against human knowledge. This isn’t a protest against the rights of Answers in Genesis (Ham’s group) to present their views. As American Atheists Legal Director Edwin Kagin so succinctly says: “They can teach that… Read more
The debate between Kirk Cameron/Ray Comfort (Christians) and Brian/Kelly (atheists) was taped last night. You won’t be able to see it until Wednesday (on ABC News Now, online, at 2:00 p.m. (EST) and on Nightline, televised, at 11:35 p.m. (EST)). But Brian Sapient did make a few comments to me about how it went down: On 4 separate occassions the audience erupted in applause upon Kirk and Ray being destroyed. … It was ugly, we wanted to hug Kirk and… Read more
