Religion
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Can I get more pissed off?
Probably not. (I know, I know, a lot of things about religion piss me off.) I am going out of town to teach for a few days, so I don’t have time to ruminate on this and create an original post. This is by Peter Nuhn on nogodblog.com, and I hope he won’t be too pissed at me for stealing…
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Oh, God. Not again.
It happens every time. Without fail, whenever some truly monumental event occurs in the world, God swoops in and takes all the credit for the good, slipping away before anyone has a chance to blame Him for the bad. Like everyone else in the country, I’ve been following the Virginia Tech shooting all day. This morning, a man shot and…
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Did Jesus Have a Y Chromosome?
Hmm. Here’s a quote from an interesting story in The Independent by Steve Connor, the science editor: Women might soon be able to produce sperm in a development that could allow lesbian couples to have their own biological daughters, according to a pioneering study published today. Scientists are seeking ethical permission to produce synthetic sperm cells from a woman’s bone…
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Was Jesus Hot?
It’s Easter, so thoughts naturally turn to the big religious questions, like ‘is there any chocolate left?’, ‘isn’t this a Pagan festival?’, and my personal favourite ‘was Jesus hot?’ I invite you to submit your own ratings of the hotness of Jesus, but please keep any specific fantasies to yourself. First, a short investigation. Our first port of call is…
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Sweet Jesus
I hate to kick the important issue of sexual assault awareness out of the top slot, but something else is bugging me today, too. It seems like even the main stream news had jumped onto this story about a chocolate crucifix that was supposed to go on display at a New York art gallery in time for Easter. The gallery…
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Frak the Koran, and the Bible for that matter
Here’s something I posted on my knitting blog this morning (hence the last sentence). I think this is a fine example to support Sam Harris’s argument that moderate religious folks give cover to all sorts of evils because they place religion outside the realm of rational criticism. I, for one, am through respecting immorality and stupidity just because it’s part…
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First non-believer in Congress
Well, he’s probably not the first, but he is the first to admit that he had no belief in any supernatural god: Representative Pete Stark. Here’s the press release from the Secular Coalition for America, which I received by way of the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy: There is only one member of Congress who is on record as not holding a…
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Holy water
I didn’t think it was possible, but the bottled water situation just got more ridiculous. Bottled waters claiming to originate from mountain springs on foreign horizons are sold at a premium every day. Now you can buy holy water, blessed by a priest in Southern California. I’ll give Christians this – they know a good business opportunity when they see…
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