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Archive for October, 2006
A Rock So Big He Can’t Move It
It seems kind of trite, but this was the first 'challenge' to my faith when I was a child. An older kid asked me if I thought god could do ...
Carnival of the Godless #52
I just found out I've been getting a lot of traffic from the 52nd weekly "Carnival of the Godless" over at SkepticRant. This is the Halloween issue. I heard ...
Rush ‘Saved’ Me (And My Kids)
So I had a little time while I was packing. I guiltily grabbed my headphones to listen to the prohibited music, all in the name of research, of course ;-) ...
Theocracy Roundup
Two disturbing stories from the last 24 hours. Both the result of religious extremism. The first, a new law outlawing all abortions in Nicaragua, even when the mother's life is ...
Theist Arguments Getting Weaker
The one 'ace in the hole' religions have is their continued success at keeping the discussion off the table. The notion of "respect" for beliefs, no matter how absurd, is ...
Quotable Quotes from “The Island”
Announcer: You have a very special purpose in life. You've been chosen. The Island awaits you.
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Clone: "Who's God?"
Steve Buscemi: "When you close your eyes, and you wish really, really hard ...
“Now” You’re Dead
In the weeks before her death, Wilkins had become obsessed with the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. She had also stopped grooming herself, and had begun taking ...
Killer Used Bible for Justification
Jeffrey Lundgren used the bible to justify slaughtering a family of five in a pit in 1989. Now he is trying to ...
A Brief History of Religion
Thanks to Goose for this one!
Song for Jong
This image here of followers of communist thug Kim Jong Il demonstrates what I have said all along: The personality cults of dictators are state religions. Case closed. These people ...
Set It On Fire
A friend sent me this song, by a band called OSI, a Dream Theater side project. The group sampled a recording made by my mom Elizabeth Clare Prophet, in which ...
We Are Smarter Than Me
It's an exciting time. What's key to the success of these endeavors is the feedback mechanism. Humans are finally waking up to the fact that while popularity is no ...
Good Without God
A brilliant post by Alan Perlman at American Chronicle.
Claim: Suicide Bombing Less Immoral Than Nudity
Aaron Kinney of Kill the Afterlife started a very worthy discussion on his blog, with a link to this article, in which Militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar ...
Don’t Submit to Stupid Rules
Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khameini has been taking online questions about Ramadan on his website. Let's put aside for a minute the absurdity and health risks of fasting (without ...
Make War, Not Love
MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: Militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir sees erotic shows on TV as "more dangerous than the Bali bombs". Ba'asyir, who was released from ...
Afterlife Fantasy Dishonors Dead Girls
"We think it was God's plan and we're going to have to pick up the pieces and keep going,"
"A funeral to us is a much more important thing than ...
Awe and Wonder
To those who say matter and physical life has no meaning and does not inspire awe: Watch this video of human cellular processes in action. The wonder of life is ...
More Nanny Government
Arnold signed a bill making it illegal in California to hold your cell-phone while talking. (But you can still play with your ipod, tune the radio, eat, look at ...
The Book List
I've been tagged by olly over at 10,000 Reasons to Doubt the Fish. So here is my book list:
1. A book that changed your lifeThere were two, ...