by VorJack
Cracked.com has gotten ambitious and published a list of 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can (And Must) Agree On. And … eh, it’s Cracked.com. Not bad – I’d say he’s usually half right on both sides – but don’t expect anything deep.
For example, they do the classic comparison of theistic villains [...]
News came out on Tuesday that the Church of England (CofE, what Americans would call the Episcopal Church) have decided to go ahead and ordain women bishops. To a secular person, that doesn’t seem like a big deal – gender discrimination is, after all, illegal in Great Britain – but to many in the Church, [...]
by VorJack
The Boston Globe has an interesting and disheartening article about the relationship between facts and belief:
Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the [...]
The following is a guest post by Sandra Price.
I questioned a very nice man yesterday who explained to me that he was recently saved. He had been told the story of God and Jesus as a child and never questioned the story. From his discussions about his early days, there were no books [...]
The following is an essay from the new book Against Religion, a compilation H.P. Lovecraft’s writings on atheism and religion. Thanks to Sporting Gentlemen for giving permission to publish this essay on the site. If you like this essay, check out the book! And thanks be to Vorjack for editing the article and [...]
“If you become a homosexual, I’ll kill you. If I become a homosexual, you’ll kill me.”
I had forgotten about those terrible words until a friend reminded me of it. We made that pact together in high school, when we were young evangelicals with a “zeal for Christ.” We were bible-toting, Jesus-shirt wearing, tract-giving, church-obsessed dumbasses. [...]
by VorJack
In the greco-roman world, each decent sized city had it’s own civic cult – a collection of traditional stories and rituals that honored a deity who was recognized as particularly important to that city. Each city had special stories about this “patron deity” and what miracles they had wrought for the people of [...]
“We told Ted he could court Mary.” My mother told me this as we were driving to dinner.
That didn’t make sense to me, so I asked, “Why would Ted need to ask your permission? It’s not like Mary’s your daughter.”
“Well you know Mary’s father; he would nod his head and say yes to anyone. So [...]
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