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Love Thy Neighbor… Not!
One thing that pisses me off about the Christian faithful is their absurd insistence that Christians are kind, good people. It’s not a total lie, but it most certainly is no more than a half-truth for many of them (not all, of course). Christians are kind and good to other Christians. If they find out [...]
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Of Colds, Clerical Soccer, Fanatical Atheists and the Relativity of Wrong
The past few days have not been pleasant. Saturday, I awoke to find my $600 cell phone lying submerged in my dogs’ water dish. Then I came down with a cold that had knocked me flat by Sunday evening. Monday was a bit better, but I did spend the time between my morning and evening [...]
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Finally A Congressman Admits to Being a Non-Believer
Found this one over at Pharyngula — for the first time ever, a godless member of the United States Congress has admitted his lack of belief: Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), a senior member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Chair of the Health Subcommittee, and member of Congress since 1973, acknowledged his nontheism [...]
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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Fundamentalist Atheist
In my last post, I once again railed against the senselessness of religious fundamentalism. The following comment was left, under the name of Tyler: Hey, my dude. Yes religion is a sick and twisted vehicle for human follies too frequently. But I think you might be doing the same thing some of these lunatics are [...]
Feb 3rd, 2007 | Filed under Mythology (Religion) -
Science and Religion Forum
Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are back in the news again. At a recent forum in La Jolla, California, attended primarily by agnostics and atheists (several Christian invitees declined to attend), both men were, at one point, labeled by one fellow non-believer as “remarkably apt mirror images of the extremists on the other side…”. There’s [...]
Nov 21st, 2006 | Filed under Mythology (Religion), Science