Religion
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Should Unbelievers be Nice or Not?
Michael Shermer has an interesting article in the September issue of Scientific American. The article is called, “Rational Atheism: An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens” and basically is a call for unbelievers to limit our “irrational exuberance” and not to make fun of those who believe in woo. In short, Shermer is advocating the following five…
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An agnostic I’d rather not be associated with…
Bill Moyers has just outed Karl Rove as an agnostic who has taken advantage of the religious for political gain. Now this is not really news, but it sure was fun to hear it on TV. The irony is hysterical, although Rove is someone that I’d prefer not to be associated with on any level. Rove himself is deeply enmeshed…
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An agnostic I'd rather not be associated with…
Bill Moyers has just outed Karl Rove as an agnostic who has taken advantage of the religious for political gain. Now this is not really news, but it sure was fun to hear it on TV. The irony is hysterical, although Rove is someone that I’d prefer not to be associated with on any level. Rove himself is deeply enmeshed…
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Help! My city is turning into a commune
OMG, I knew this was coming but I was hoping my city council (Longmont, CO) would stand up to it. I should have known better. They always have meetings and take polls, and then competely ignore what the people want anyway. It’s happened time and time again since I’ve moved here. After this last bit, though, I’m about to give…
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Dawkins takes on woo
We all know how Richard Dawkins feels about God and religion, but now he speaks out against all kinds of woo in a new TV series called The Enemies of Reason, which is on Google video. In his last Channel 4 series, Root of All Evil?, the evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins explored how organised faith and primitive religious values…
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Do sewing and cooking make you pious?
Apparently Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary thinks so. Southwestern Baptist, one of the nation’s largest Southern Baptist seminaries, is introducing a new academic program in homemaking as part of an effort to establish what its president calls biblical family and gender roles. It will offer a bachelor of arts in humanities degree with a 23-hour concentration in homemaking. The program is…
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Unicorns are real. The Bible says so.
From those crazy kids at This Week in Science: the Unicorn Museum! This makes me laugh like mad, because I love unicorns for all their cheesy, rainbow-riding beauty. How wonderful to discover they have the same amount of legitimacy going for them as other proven scientific concepts like creationism! From Job 39:9-12: 9Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee,…
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Spot the logical fallacy before your head explodes!
Let’s play a game and see how far you can get in this quiz for “Skeptics” written by a rather bitter creationist before your brain literally explodes into tiny meaty bits. Feel free to leave specific comments about each fallacious question below, but be sure to be extra grumpy just like the quiz creator expects! Here’s a hint: the “right”…
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