I’m a little distracted right now, as my wife and I are moving across town. I could rattle off a lot of reasons for the move – closer to work, bigger apartment, better kitchen – but one of the biggest reasons is actually the fact that we don’t have children. We don’t, but [...]
James McGrath discovered this devotional song from the Ewokian sect. I suspect that this is going to cause strife.
Jub Jub.
Folks as Stuff Fundies Like made this comparison, and I had to check it out.
Compare Pastor Jack Schaap of the First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana (at about 0:55):
… with Sam Kinison (NSFW):
and while we’re at it, Kinison’s take on the Southern Preacher style:
There’s been a lot of talk about how Glenn Beck and the conservative movement in general have tried to associate themselves with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
One thing that struck me was how many of the conservatives seemed to be getting their entire understanding of Dr. King from his “I have a Dream” speech. [...]
Parents in the Sitapur district of the Uttar Pradesh, a populous state in northern India, had their four year old daughter beaten, killed and burned in the hopes of becoming rich:
Parents sacrifice 4-yr-old girl to become rich
The couple, identified as Srikrishna and Ramdevi, were told by a “tantrik” (exorcist)that they would become rich if they [...]
I recently picked up Vincent Bugliosi’s book arguing against the conspiracy theories around the JFK assassination, titled Four Days in November. It’s over 600 pages with index and endnotes, making it a hefty trade paperback and keeping it about equal with Gerald Posner’s Case Closed.
Of course, Four Days is really just a [...]
Over at the Psychology Today blog, The Scientific Fundamentalist, Satoshi Kanazawa is getting a lot of attention for a really odd argument. The title basically sums it up, “If Barack Obama Is Christian, Michael Jackson Was White.”
Honestly, not much good can follow a title like that, but let’s move on. Kanazawa, an evolutionary [...]
The contortions of the religious right are unabated. The latest schism seems to be between Ann Coulter and the conservative news site WorldNetDaily.
The story starts with a group called GOProud, one of the few gay conservative groups. Such groups have problems right from the start, since most people consider the words “gay republican” [...]
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Siberia: Or maybe they know they have neither patience nor inclination to deal with the fruit of their loins and thus, rather than be... QotD: Kids?
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CM: Good point, most religions encourage having a lot of children. From an evolutionary standpoint you sort of owe it to your... QotD: Kids?
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DarkMatter: And funny that most of them are huge in size in the vid. Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally – Interviews With Participants
