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Category Archives: Superstition
On the Origin of Superstitions
by Jesse Galef
Why are dirty underwear, mutant clover, and amputated mammal appendages associated with good fortune? How did humans develop our “lucky” rituals? And why are they usually gross when you think about them? I hope to address two of these three questions, read on to find out which.
A lucky charm I made [...]
I’ll Let No Flimsy Fairy Tale Push Me
I’m re-reading one of my favorite novels, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, and I thought this exchange between Samuel and his wife embodies some of what I feel when confronted with superstition:
The cooing of pigeons brought memory into the procession. Dessie remembered how her father had said, sitting at the head of the table, [...]
Jesus Appears on Pickup
It looks like the homeless man sticker I applied and removed is still confusing the minds of simple people:
Jim Stevens says he’s not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup.
Stevens — of Jonesborough — says nearly every morning, an image that looks to him like [...]
Attacking African Child-Witches
How can people be so cruel to their own children?
The 9-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.
His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning [...]
Atheists Worship Obama, Not God
When you turn away from God and religion, Glenn Beck says you put your hope and trust in Barack Obama instead:
He also says that the US became a powerful country because we acknowledged God (unlike, you know, all those other countries), and now it will decline as people turn into evil atheists.
The stupid, it burns! [...]
The Necessity of Blasphemy
Robert Ingersoll is an infidel I admire who praised blasphemy and heresy. He once compared orthodoxy and heresy to a vine:
Imagine a vine that grows at one end and decays at the other. The end that grows is heresy, the end that rots is orthodox. The dead are orthodox, and your cemetery is the most [...]
International Blasphemy Day
Today is International Blasphemy Day! Here is what it’s all about:
The objective of International Blasphemy Day is to open up all religious beliefs to the same level of free inquiry, discussion and criticism to which all other areas of academic interest are subjected.
Why September 30? The last day in September is the anniversary of [...]
