Five of Five: Dan Savage and the Economist
A few days ago the Economist magazine ran a short opinion piece on the Dan Savage “bible bullshit” speech and the predictable reaction that followed from the religious right. A good number of atheist...
View ArticleTHE FIFTH COLUMN: God Created Adam and Eve Not Adam and Steve
I’m really not sure why religious right wingers always seem to use this phrase in reference to the Adam and Eve story (as well as other Old Testament references) to justify their claims that...
View Articlemark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Forty-seven signs...
From the Book of the Blessed Pie It shall come to pass that the Pharisees of the Hut will take the Blessed Pie and unto it they shall do wicked things. They will stuff the crust with their wantonness...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Cornel West Is Upset Obama Was Sworn In On Martin...
Dr. Cornel West, America’s most provocative public intellectual, progressive and champion for racial justice, explains why he’s upset that President Barack Obama was sworn in on Martin Luther King’s...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Biblical Slavery
NonStampCollector enlightens us with the special case of slavery in the bible. Feel the moral goodness flow. A great place to start if you need encouragement to stop drinking the religious Kool-aid....
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Breaking News(?):Bible Rife with Contradiction.
Shocking. There has been a poster knocking around that illustrate every contradiction (with footnotes) in the bible. I’m posting it here as a resource so not only can we tell the deluded that their...
View Article350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
In this video that’s gone viral, Reverend Phil Snyder makes a presentation in Springfield, Missouri where the city council is debating whether or not to add LGBTQ folks to the equal rights laws in the...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: US Christians led Astray by Republican Party – “Shocking.”
I know, I know. Belief in magic is not really the best way to run anything, but rather than focusing on the silly nature of believing in the Grand Oooga-Booga, lets look at how those in power keep...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Whose Bible is it Anyway?
The notion that the bible is the inerrant word of god is a joke. Try more like the ‘telephone game’ but using different languages and just saying no to clarity and connection to historical accuracy....
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Eloquence
‘Nuff said. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Bible, Christianity, DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, Science
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Bible
Pithy definitions for us today folks. :) Sooooooo… I need someone to tell me how morality springs from said book again, I seem to have forgotten how that works, given the source material.Filed under:...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Whole Bible in...
Whelp, that about covers it. 🙂Filed under: Religion Tagged: Bible, god, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Whole...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – On Biblical Morality
Pancakes and shedding blood just doesn’t seem right.Filed under: Religion Tagged: Bible, Christians, Morality, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice . . . → Read More: Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – God said so…
So I guess it is okay then? I mean, if a 2000 year old fairy tale condones the abuse of women it *must* be right. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Bible, Misogyny, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Reflections on Easter Sunday, 2018: There really is a war...
PHOTOS: Easter Sunday shoppers at West Edmonton Mall. Is nothing sacred? Well, actually, something is: The Almighty Market, god of Canada’s state religion. Below: A
View ArticleScripturient: You’re going to die. Again.
Yeah, I know: we’re ALL going to die sooner or later. No one gets out of here alive. But that doesn’t stop people from saying the end is nearer than we expect. Right around the corner, in fact. The...
View ArticleScripturient: Trump plays the god card
For a nation that allegedly separates church and state, Americans sure love to splash religion all over everything, their elections especially. So this week, Donald Trump made headlines by accusing the...
View ArticleScripturient: The Talibangelist Conspiracy to Rule America and the West
Talibangelists (aka (aka the pseudo-Christian, far right) would love to force everyone believe in and obey their highly-adulterated pseudo-religion, and to punish those who don’t. Or won’t. Punishment...
View ArticleScripturient: Biblical Commandments the Pseudo-Christians Avoid
The Talibangelists (aka the Christofascists) like those on the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) or in the anti-abortion movement like to pretend they base their decisions, their politics, their...
View ArticleScripturient: Why Jesus Won’t Answer Your Prayers
Christians pray to Jesus, but get no reply. They pray to Jesus for parking spaces closer to the mall, to win the lottery, to make their boss disappear, to lose weight, to restore Donald Trump to his...
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