Religion

  • A sideways look at Infidel

    I’ve been having a hard time wrapping my mind around Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which is why I’ve been writing about it sideways, by posting links to other articles about how poorly women are treated in Islamic nations. I read the book in one sitting, on a day that I’d been planning to work. I thought, “I’ll just read…

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  • Baby Bible Bashers

    This show was aired in the UK last night and is part of a series called Cutting Edge by Channel 4. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uBthAP6phk] Since that’s incredibly depressing, here’s a bonus video of slug mating set to opera via Wired. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLuH9hAH1yA]

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  • Hobby Lobby bails out ORU

    With no comment, except to say that I’ve never felt comfortable shopping in Hobby Lobby: [Mart Green is giving] $70 million of his family’s fortune to rescue Oral Roberts University, the evangelical Christian school engulfed in a spending scandal and burdened with tens of millions of dollars in debt. In return for the donation, Green becomes chairman of the university’s…

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  • Be(ware) my Valentine…

    Valentine’s Day can be rough all around, I think. If you’re single, you feel left out.  If you’re not single, there’s all this pressure to be romantic, to do something special. If you’re cheating on your spouse, you have twice the outlay, so to speak. If you’re a sado-masochist, you have to find the RED spiked ball gag from the back of the…

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  • Neener, neener….

    Sometimes you just have to stick your tongue out at a bully (and hope you can run faster than he can). In that vein, here’s a quick post for the day: The Danish cartoonists who drew this little picture have, once again, received death threats from Muslims who believe that it should be a capital crime to make fun of…

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  • Lies Women Believe

    Note: This is not a book recommendation. The other day I saw three women talking and reading together at Einstein’s bagels, where I went for breakfast and to work on my own book. I guessed they were Christians because one woman had a fat leather-covered Bible. The book they were reading was called “Lies Women Believe.” Being the nosey thing…

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  • I once was a born-again Christian…

    …but I’m not any more. Every once in a while I get an email or a comment accusing me of being a liar, saying it’s impossible for me to once have been a “real” Christian and now to be an atheist. Of course, the people who are so sure of my history have never met me and certainly didn’t know…

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  • Atheism is turning me into a bad student…

    I skipped out on my folklore class last night to attend the “debate” between PZ Myers and Loyal Rue. It was too tempting, considering that the venue was across the street from my class and my prof was rambling aimlessly. It turned out to be a great intellectual discussion about defining religion and science and whether or not they are…

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