The A Word

Comedian Dave Allen on Religion

Melanie Phillips is irritated

 

She is not happy with the fact that intelligent design is being misrepresented as creationism.

Here are a couple of quotes from her article titled "Creating an Insult to Intelligence"

"This is because Creationism comes out of religion while Intelligent Design comes out of science."

"And ignorance is only partly responsible for the confusion, since militant evangelical atheists deliberately conflate Intelligent Design with Creationism in order to smear and discredit ID and its adherents."

 

Looking Good For Jesus

I am entering the contest over at God is Pretend and Not my God. The contest is called The Search for Christian Kitsch.

I needed to find a tacky christian product. It didn't take me long.

I found the Looking Good for Jesus shopper. The detailed description of the shopping bag says.. "Look your Sunday best and shop till you drop with this King-sized shopper."

Are Atheist's Assholes?

I posted here about my 'atheists are nice' t-shirt. Today I received a comment on that post.

"The truth is, most atheists are not nice, especially those that are active on the Internet.

I think the fact that such a T-shirt was made to begin with is a case of protesting too much. If you really thought atheists were nice, would you feel the need to assert it so?"

I emailed the commenter back. This person seems nice enough and it all ended on a good note. However, I can't help but think that many people do have this same idea that atheists are assholes.

What do you think?

Strip mall church..somewhere in Mississippi

Jim Jones cool aid party, 30 years ago today

I received an eskeptic email today. I have always been interested in this story since I was young. You can read the article by Micheal Shermer here.

The article is titled "Jonestown and 'confirmation bias'

From Jonestown to tribalism to presidential politics, individuals seek the like-minded

Atheist Bus Campaign Launches

 

You can read more here.

From the website:

Atheism [/aythi-iz’m/] is defined as “the belief that God doesn’t exist”.

But atheism is much more than that. It’s about making sense of the world, thinking freely, and feeling liberated from unnecessary guilt and fear. It’s about using your intellect and sense of reason to see through the inconsistencies and intolerance of religion, and having the courage to think for yourself. It’s about relying on evidence rather than giving into irrational insistence, and being brave enough to speak the truth.

Googled The A Word

I just wanted to see what would come up. The top choice was www.theword.org. A website about Arachnoiditis. According to the website, its a complicated medical condition, and not a fear of spiders.

I Found this article down the page a bit (its old) titled "Atheist Arise: Dawkins spreads The A-Word among America's unbelievers."

When asked, What did he hope an atheist bloc in the US might achieve? "

Dawkins Anwered "I would free children from being indoctrinated with the religion of their parents or their community. I would like to free everyone from the assumption you have to be religious in order to be a decent person or to be moral. Obviously stem cell research and all the interference with scientific research that goes on [should stop]. Obviously the whole creationist interference with education [should stop] but I think, more positively, I would like to see people encouraged to rejoice in the world in which they find themselves, the universe in which they have been born, to take full advantage of the tiny slice of eternity they have been granted."

 

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