2 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - The Late Edition - Britain's Own War On Christmas - Watch for the first 2 minutes 30 seconds rant about Christians complaining that "Christianity is under attack". Brilliant. (via Haddock)
# copy
3 month ago
deusx : Charles Darwin to receive apology from the Church of England for rejecting evolution - Telegraph - "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call "anti-evolutionary fervour" an "indictment" on the Church". The bold move is ce
# copy
4 month ago
deusx : Pharyngula: The Great Desecration - "By the way, I didn't want to single out just the cracker, so I nailed it to a few ripped-out pages from the Qur'an and The God Delusion. They are just paper. Nothing must be held sacred. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not
# copy
6 month ago
nelson : Jack Chick's "Lisa" - A particularly insane Chick tract
# copy
8 month ago
plasticbag : Delightful news: Homosexual Geneticists have discovered the cause of Christianity - Pretty funny as politically charged satires on the horrors of anti-gay rhetoric go. It's not quite as clever as I think it thinks it is. Some of the analogies are a bit forced and hurt their own message. Still, enjoyable.
# copy
12 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Wonderfully outraged editorial on the Golden Compass boycott - This guy’s got an axe to grind, but hey: it’s well written. Pass the popcorn. (More equanimity can be found over at The Atlantic’s overview of the situation.) ∞
deusx : Jesus loves 'His Dark Materials' / Shrill Bible-thumpers boycott 'The Golden Compass'; world's children grin devilishly - "Shrill Bible-thumpers boycott 'The Golden Compass'; world's children grin devilishly"
# copy
14 month ago
deusx : Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists and Anger - "This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry."
# copy
14 month ago
deusx : A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation - New York Times - "The founders were not anti-religion. ... But they wanted faith to be one thread in the country’s tapestry, not the whole tapestry."
# copy
16 month ago
jcgregorio : Religion beat became a test of faith - Los Angeles Times
deusx : Religion beat became a test of faith - Los Angeles Times - "Clearly, I saw now that belief in God, no matter how grounded, requires at some point a leap of faith. Either you have the gift of faith or you don't." I guess 'gift' is one way to describe it.
# copy
19 month ago
deusx : Crooks and Liars » Hitchens slams Falwell’s life - "The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called Reverend."
# copy
20 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: People committing eternal sin on YouTube - "If you’re going to blaspheme, do it properly! This “I deny the Holy Spirit” stuff is for pansies."
# copy
20 month ago
deusx : Atheist's Wager: First Post - "The atheist may find himself in hell for his disbelief, but at least he is not a traitor. Until God accepts that religion is His responsibility and can provide some real proof and guidance as to His plan, He is completely unworthy of our worship.&qu
# copy
20 month ago
deusx : onegoodmove: Hey Mom I'm an Atheist - "last time i checked, presents weren't a reward for believing in god."
# copy
20 month ago
philgyford : Bible Study for Atheists - A chapter of the Bible per weblog entry, with commentary. Wish I'd heard about this when it started, as I'd like to know more of the Bible.
# copy
22 month ago
deusx : AlterNet: The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair - "It is a movement built on the growing personal and economic despair of tens of millions of Americans, who watched helplessly as their communities were plunged into poverty by the flight of manufacturing jobs, their families and neighborhoods torn apart b
# copy
22 month ago
deusx : Christian T-Shirts, Christian Clothing, Christian Jewelry & Gifts – C28 Christian Store - This store kinda squicks me out - there's one at the Valley Fair mall in San Jose, unironically near Hot Topic and Torrid. "C28 is a Christian store chain, offering an alternative to the mainstream mall stores."
# copy
23 month ago
deusx : 000100000.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x700 pixels) - "You have to seel everything you own to inherit eternal life!" "Seriously, I thought that was metaphorical."
# copy23 month ago
plasticbag : Another review of The God Delusion - this time from the Independent and by Murrough O'Brien, and full of extraordinarily bad argument and logical fallacies... - O'Brien cites Darwin's influence on Hitler as a bad thing. It is, but logic (unlike religion) does not require the use of knowledge to be positive. Similarly, it is not reasonable to argue that longevity of the religious idea constitutes any evidence to i
# copy
23 month ago
plasticbag : Okay - only a few more of these to go - another review of The God Delusion, this time by Mary Wakefield of The Daily Telegraph, who again says that it won't convince anyone... - The assumption of these reviews is that an individual is either a Christian or an atheist. I disagree. I think there are a lot of people who call themselves Christians who when faced with the actuality of what they're supposed to believe look stunned and
# copy
23 month ago
plasticbag : Maps of War has a Flash map supposedly illustrating the evolution and territorial expansion of the world's religions - Frankly it's a pile of balls. Firstly it represents legally atheistic countries as Christian, does not distinguish between radically different sects of the same religion and totally ignores polytheistic religions. Judaism gets a particularly hard represen
Matthew M. Boedicker : history of religion in 90 seconds map - (via boingboing) [via]
# copy
23 month ago
deusx : Lacrimae Rerum » The Best Of: The Bible - "There’s a bunch more about smashin’ babies and starting wars and a lot of plagues and an army of 200 million angels which killed a third of the world’s population."
# copy23 month ago
deusx : The Blasphemy Challenge - "I deny the Holy Spirit."
# copy24 month ago
deusx : YouTube - Baby Got Book - Is there a word in German for that squicked out feeling I get when I see an awkward Christian repurposing of something from pop culture?
# copy
24 month ago
deusx : Day 1 (Sam Harris): Why Are Atheists So Angry? | Jewcy.com - "Sam Harris and Dennis Prager inaugurate Jewcy’s “Big Question†series by arguing this very question."
# copy
