by Custador
The Swiss, perhaps the only people on Earth to practise direct democracy, took a vote recently on whether to ban the building of minarets (the towers outside of mosques where Imams used to stand to call Muslims to prayer before the introduction of loud-speakers) in their country.
A majority of them voted in favour of [...]
A new report is out showing the Most Holy Chaste Catholic Church has been covering up child sex abuse for decades:
Following a three-year investigation in the Dublin Archdiocese, the country’s largest, the report concluded that four archbishops routinely protected abusers and failed to inform police of the allegations. One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, [...]
The Science Network has a ton of videos available from speakers like Sam Harris, Michael Shermer, Lawrence Krauss, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and more from the “Beyond Belief” conferences:
Beyond Belief: Science, Reason, Religion & Survival (2006)
Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 (2007)
Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark (2008)
Lots of good stuff in there, be sure to check it out.
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?
by Jesse Galef
The Indianapolis Public School system has a policy to ban certain websites from being viewed at school. I certainly hated it when I was in high school (we found ways to bypass it if course) but it’s a reasonable idea. And the list of subjects banned is pretty straightforward: Pornography, Social Networking, Atheism [...]
by VorJack
Here’s a little ditty I learned back in the days of Vacation Bible School:
The Lord is good to me,
And so I thank the Lord,
For giving me
the things I need,
The sun and rain and an apple seed.
The Lord is good to me.
I suspect that many of you are baffled, particularly those of you from outside [...]
The most logical answer to why God won’t heal amputees is that either God doesn’t care or doesn’t exist. This would also explain the lack of miraculous healings for people with Lou Gehrig’s diseases, long-term quadriplegics, untreated AIDS patients and those with Parkinson’s disease, mental retardation, Down syndrome, and a host of other maladies.
Christian apologists [...]
Jabster: “I see a lot of things science has produced for our benefit. Religion hasn’t given us anything to compare.”... Fooling Ourselves
Brian: the first time I see a monk levitate up to the moon I’ll start giving religion a little more respect. Theologians... Fooling Ourselves
