Religion
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PZ Myers Gets Expelled
This is completely hilariously awesomely fantastically awesome.
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Infidel Review: Part 2
Sorry for taking so long to post the second half of my review of Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. With my cold or allergies or whatever it is that’s been fogging my head up lately, it’s been easier to write quick, ranty posts than to think through what I wanted to say about the second half of Infidel, at least…
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Suffering and Living
“If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.” -Max Von Sydow “You think if Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?” -Bill Hicks Masala_Skeptic just sent me this link to an article about hard-core Catholics in the Philippines who will be celebrating Good Friday tomorrow…
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The Beliefs are Flowing Like Wine
You know what folks? I don’t believe in anything. Not one goddamn thing! At least that’s what the fine upstanding, highly moral, plastic, fall-in-line, self-righteous, piece-of-shit, religious jack wads I encounter keep telling me. Simply because I don’t look at the world the same way they do; simply because I don’t think exactly like them, they not only deem it…
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Irreligion Discussion
Since we are reading Irreligion by John Allen Paulos, a book that argues against the existence of God by tearing apart the arguments for the existence of God, I’ve been thinking about why people feel such a need to argue against something for which there is absolutely no evidence. This topic recently came up in the Atheist & Agnostic Crafters…
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Religious people are happier? Yeah, right.
Religion ‘linked to happy life’: Belief may make us more contented. A belief in God could lead to a more contented life, research suggests. I am sick, which makes me extra grouchy. I don’t know how this research was conducted, but based on my completely subjective, non-scientific, anecdotal experience, this is nothing but bullshit. Religious people say they are happy…
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Skepchick Quickies 3.18
On raising questioning children rather than atheist children– A good succinct article with the expected unfortunate reactions in the comments. There’s a discussion about it going on at the Friendly Atheist as well. In five hours of cable news expect one minute of science coverage– Not really surprising. Why the ocean is blue– It’s more complex than just the surface…
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Anonymous vs. Scientology
This past Saturday, March 15, thousands of people around the world gathered under the name “Anonymous” in front of their local Scientology centers to protest the organization’s tax-exempt status as well as their tactic of using strong-arm tactics to silence critics. It’s those strong-arm tactics that forced the vast majority of protesters to don masks lest they become “Fair Game,”…
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