I picked up Penn Jillette’s new book God, No!, yesterday, and am already most of the way through it. It’s pitched as an atheist’s version of the “Ten Commandments”. (This apparently was prompted by an exchange Penn had with Glenn Beck that resulted in Penn dashing off his own version of the Ten Commandments and [...]
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Hell, No
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on October 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
. . . You Won’t Go Back
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Education, Gender Issues, General, Legal Issues, Marriage Equality, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Race, Religion, Science on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The onward march of progress: Gallup reports today that overall US public approval of interracial marriage stands at an all-time high of 85% – up from 4% barely 50 years ago. What’s really striking is the almost linear trendline: Predictably, it slows during Republican administrations, and jumped dramatically during the Clinton years, but overall that’s [...]
Christianity in Action: Asshole Pastor Wants to Register Atheists Like Sex Offenders
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Flame Bait, General, Politics, Religion, Things That Suck on August 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Running true to a very tedious and familiar form, some nutcase makes waves to prove how Christian he is by proving how crazy he is: Brothers and Sisters , I have been seriously considering forming a ( Christian ) grassroots type of organization to be named “The Christian National Registry of Atheists” or something similar [...]
Special Rights for Pastafarians
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, News & Current Events, Religion, Satire on July 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Bowing to religious extremists who demand special exemptions from ordinary rules – such as providing clear identification photos on drivers’ licenses – Austria allows religious believers, only, the right to wear headcoverings in their ID photos. An Austrian Pastafarian has demanded that he be allowed to take his ID photo wearing headgear appropriate to his [...]
The Media We Deserve
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Religion, Science, Things That Suck on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Raw Story posted the following headline, lede, and second graf today: Texas police find children’s dismembered bodies in mass grave HOUSTON, Texas — Texas police, acting on a tip-off, Tuesday found a mass grave containing “a lot of bodies,” including the corpses of children, US media reported. UPDATE: Texas officials say no bodies found [...]
Who’s Crazy Now?
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, News & Current Events, Religion on May 21, 2011 | Comments Off
So God failed to Rapture anybody today … again. But you’ll be glad to know that groups of believers in different end-times-judgment prophecies are rushing to comfort the believers in this weekend’s end-times-judgment prophecy that all will be well if they simply adopt that other prophecy now that their own has failed. That’s progress, Christian-style. [...]
Degrees of Crazy (Small σ)
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science on May 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Just an observation: Obviously the end-times whackos proclaiming that God is going to destroy the earth this weekend because of some crazed interpretation of an equally-crazed prophecy from their Bible are ludicrous. They deserve all the ridicule they are reaping, and all that is to come when their prophecy fails. But their beliefs are almost [...]
Our Rights Rest in the Hands of an Scatology- & Animal-Porn Director – Which is a Lucky Thing
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Legal Issues, Media, News & Current Events, Religion, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on April 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Startlingly clear-headed, absolutely right-on interview at Salon with Ira Isaacs, the defendant in a long-running censorship trial, about the absurdity of the obscenity doctrine and the stupidity of the government’s prosecution. Trigger Warning: censorship
Truth in Labeling
Posted in An Agnostic Reads the Bible, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Read Your Bible, Reading the Qur'an, Religion on March 29, 2011 | Comments Off
French atheist group sues publishers to include warning labels on Bibles and the Koran: This book contains sexist, homophobic, sectarian and crime-inducing passages. It is necessary to set it back in its historical context knowing it was written before the Middle-Ages. Or just “. . . is psychotic imaginary bullshit and provides no justification for [...]
Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Gender Issues, General, Marriage Equality, News & Current Events, Politics, Privacy, Religion on March 22, 2011 | Comments Off
Utterly heart-breaking story in the NY Times today about the tragic plight of conservative Protestant pastors who spent their whole lives training to dispense the dogma of a patriarchal, sex-role-obsessed religion, and then find they can’t get jobs because they don’t conform to the dogma of their own patriarchal, sex-role-obsessed religion. This is a terrible [...]
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