We heard about Pastor Wiley Drake praying for God to kill Obama. Now it seems others are too. There’s a cafepress gift shop with slogans like “Pray for Obama – Psalm 109:8″ which seems to be Christianese for “Kill the President.” Psalm 109:8 says:
May his days be few; may another seize his position. (NRSV)
Of course God [...]
The New Humanist 2009 Bad Faith Award polls are now open. Lots of unreasonable people to choose from, though my list would have been quite different. I mean, how can a list like that not have Ray Comfort on it?
Who gets your vote?
Here’s Shai Linne, a Christian rapper, rapping the “greatest story every told” — no, not your favorite story — the one in the Bible about God killing himself so he can save some of humanity:
I have no rap sensibilities, so I have no idea if this would be considered good or bad in style, but [...]
A big thanks to Jesse Galef for a great week of blogging. Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.
Tomorrow we’re back to regularly scheduled UF blogging!
This is a huge setback for scientific research:
Congress voted Monday to cut federal funding for the superconducting monkey collider, a controversial experiment which has cost taxpayers an estimated $7.6 billion a year since its creation in 1983.
The collider, which was to be built within a 45-mile-long circular tunnel, would accelerate monkeys to near-light speeds before [...]
I’m turning over the reigns of the blog this week to Jesse Galef. Jesse has worked for the American Humanist Association and the Secular Coalition for America and is a contributing writer at Friendly Atheist. I also hear he’s a breakdancer, which makes him way cooler than me.
Give him a warm welcome! He’ll start posting tomorrow [...]
Richard Dawkins explains why evolution is a fact beyond reasonable doubt in his latest book, The Greatest Show On Earth:
Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt evolution is a fact. The evidence for evolution is at least as strong for the evidence for the Holocaust, even allowing [...]
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Jerdog: Couldn’t they have at least recycled all that paper? Or will anything tainted with evil 50%... The Book Burning That Wasn’t
Elemenope: Solid, except the “stop the hate” at the end blunts it slightly with corniness. Pray for Obama
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Kodie: I found this t-shirt on the same website: http://www.cafepress.com/+anti hate_tshirt,417804848 No real Christian, certainly... Pray for Obama
mikespeir: …it’s only a matter of time before some lunatic tries to act on this “biblical advice.” Yeah. It’s not these... Pray for Obama
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