'Religion' Archive

“Be Sealed” Against The Truth

October 8th, 2008 / Books, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Psychology, Religion / 7 comments

A seal is supposed to separate the desirable from the undesirable, like an airlock on a spacecraft, a ring on a piston, or a ...

Religulous Is Riling Believers

October 6th, 2008 / Film, Newswire, Religion / 6 comments

Jacques Berlinerlblau, program director and associate professor of Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, thinks Religulous is like screaming "suicide ...

Red Lenses

October 5th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Religion / 18 comments

What makes you angry? Seriously. What does it take to get you riled up these days? Yes, I'm talking to you. Does the ...

Prophet’s Daughter: It Happened Like She Said

September 27th, 2008 / Books, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Religion / 43 comments

  Over on Amazon, John "Flammo" took up my challenge to get specific about his statements of "inaccuracies" in my sister's recent book Prophet's Daughter. ...

Proof-Burden Shifting

September 9th, 2008 / Humor, Religion / 13 comments

Boiled down, ninety-nine percent of religious apologetics (and for that matter, new-age and psychic apologetics) consists of shifting the burden of proof. This comes up so often that it ...

No Good Government Says Anything About God’s Presence

July 31st, 2008 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion / 7 comments

It's official, we have another bat-shit crazy lunatic in the U.S. Congress, who seems to have forgotten not only common sense, but the very constitution he's sworn to uphold. This ...

Juliette p. 19

July 17th, 2008 / Marquis de Sade, Religion / 9 comments

More than 200 years after he was jailed and his works banned, some people may still give me a hard time for quoting Sade. ...

It’s Important to Keep Stirring the Pot

July 16th, 2008 / Atheism, Newswire, Religion / 7 comments

At PoliGazette, Michael Merritt reprises the age-old argument about so-called 'militant atheism.' He cites PZ Myers (misspelling his name) and "crackergate" as an example of "rubbing it in the ...

Cleansing the Public Square

July 12th, 2008 / Atheism, Humor, Religion / 14 comments

Religious messages on personal or commercial property are protected speech, and I would never dream of touching or damaging someone's car, church sign, or ...

KULR-TV Interviews Sean Prophet

July 7th, 2008 / Atheism, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Religion, Television / 14 comments

I was approached by KULR's (Billings, MT) Kathy Weber back in June to do an interview regarding CUT's 50th anniversary. Given all the ...

Why I Moderate Comments

May 17th, 2008 / Newswire, Religion, Stupid Things / 5 comments

Name: jeff bob | E-mail: joshy793@aol.com | IP: 71.252.132.111 | Date: May 13, 2008 Al gore is a hoax. All he did was restate an opinion. ...

Obama Deserves the Prize

May 16th, 2008 / Current Affairs, Religion / 17 comments

Given the ever-increasing milquetoast flavor of each successive presidential campaign, I had pretty much decided that in my lifetime I would never see a ...

www.isanyoneupthere.com

April 19th, 2008 / Bigotry, Books, Critical Thought, Religion / 14 comments

Oh, how the credulous are shaking in their boots. Searching high and low like jonesing addicts for their security blankets, their soporifics. Now comes ...

Shock and Horror: Teens Use Cell Phones for Sex Pix

April 14th, 2008 / Newswire, Religion, Society / 17 comments

(AP) Forget about passing notes in study hall; some teens are now using their cell phones to flirt and send nude pictures of themselves. The instant text, picture and ...

Classroom Evolution Kids Can Watch

April 8th, 2008 / Newswire, Religion, Science / 1 comment

As all students of Darwin know, evolution occurs when there is variation in a population; where some variants confer a survival or reproductive advantage to the individual, and where the ...