Looking forward to my first talk on Sex and God tonight at the Midwest Freethought society and very excited to speak next Sat. at ReasonFest at Kansas University. Each talk will be totally different. ReasonFest has over 250 registrations compared to 100 last year!

A…

Atheist Movies pores over the Net to bring us YouTube and other clips depicting topics of interest to non-believers, with a decided emphasis on evolutionary science.  In their latest email link, they take us to evolutionary biologist Lewis Wolfert's new work, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief, which I hope to get to when I finish things like Jennifer Michael Hecht's Doubt.  I say "things like" because I set works aside to read…

 Welcome to the final chapter and last of the most frequently asked questions on why I'm atheist. More associated blogs will be forthcoming. I hope you have found something here useful.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/eastern-earth-space-photograph/

Fkn' disgusting display of the Hubble's power:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16856812

my fondest memory of church

had to have been the day that girl from my confirmation class

whom i can’t for the life of me remember the name of now

showed up in a skin tight neon pink dress

which was hiked right up

inches upon inches above her knee

leaving very little to be desired

but i desired so very much---

i wanted her

i wanted what any bored, horny, teenage

nonbeliever would,

in such a…

Well Michelle Obama has taken off her jacket and done some push-ups. As they say, “you go girl!” and yes I’m attempting to be hip and offer a sense of parody with my street talk? And yes, I accept it didn’t work, did it? Especially when you factor in I am white and cannot dance, but keep my attempt to connect with you in mind for now!

Apparently the above mentioned incident all happened on the American talk show …

Can the US Army embrace atheists?

Great article about Sgt. Griffith and his quest to protect atheists in foxholes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16859421

I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but just a quick thought upon seeing another pick of Pope Palpatine riding around in his popemobile...  

Isn't it obvious that even he doesn't believe in God if he's that worried about being assassinated?  Wouldn't "God" protect him if he's supposed to be "His" emissary on Earth?

Contrary wise, if it's his time to go, wouldn't "God" make it happen no matter how much bulletproof glass he's surrounded by?

How to believers not…

As Dan Barker once formulated

Any belief system that threatens you with (physical) violence is morally bankrupt. 

It is 2012 and we take a look at some "democratic" country that allows for "6 religions":  …

I can't let another week go by without some predictions for 2012, the LAST YEAR EVER.

Playlist

Criswell 1

Alleee 1

Stereo MC's * Tomorrow Never Knows

Christian Puppets * Eat of my Body

Criswell 2

1L * Wanna Be Startin' Something

Tribute to Kent Hovind

Criswell 3

Cristina * Drive My Car

Citizen King * Once in a Lifetime

Criswell 4

Wobbly…

This afternoon I was reminded of a favorite episode of The Twilight Zone: “In Praise of Pip,” and a facet of that story I thought worthy of mention here.



The story opens in an Army hospital in South Vietnam, where a young soldier is brought in on a stretcher. He is evaluated by a doctor, who notes the soldier’s unusual name – Pip Phillips – and after examination, estimates that his patient’s chances of survival are not promising. Cut to half way around the world and a seedy…

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WHITLOCK'S BLOOD LIBEL



Linda Whitlock (Dec.18) repeats yet again the "blood libel" against unbelievers, that only Creationism offers any basis for ethics.



Whitlock has it backwards. Religion offers no basis for ethics. Religious morality consists of obeying the alleged will of God, as reported by your chosen authority. But obedience is not the same as morality. If believers wish to make war or keep slaves or oppress…

http://faithinsuperstitions.blogspot.in/

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http://www.economist.com/node/21543526?fsrc=rss%7Cbus

Driving through town this morning, the church parking lots were nearly full.  Thinking back to when I was a young man, under my parents' roof, and doing what was expected or demanded of me, I never gained or took much from attending church services - friends, certainly, and a lesson or two about life and people, perhaps.  But, I could never make any sense out of the creation myth, the miracles, a virgin birth, the resurrection, or being saved from my sins. 

I realize that some…

So, I originally wanted to create an account on here to rant about this, because I don't have too many people to rant to. It involves me signing up for a class about the New Testament at a community college in the middle of the Bible Belt and the crappy things that happened afterward. This is copied from my Tumblr, where I originally posted it, and it's fairly long.

I suppose it was my fault for thinking I could learn about the New Testament from a historical point of…