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Monthly Archives December 2013

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 9 – Music Monday – “You only need to pray in a particular spot/To a particular version of a particular god/And if you pull that off without a hitch/He will fix one eye of one middle-class white bitch”

This story of Sam’s has but a single explanation: a surgical God who digs on magic explanations. It couldn’t be mistaken attribution of causation, born of a coincidental temporal correlation, exacerbated by a general lack of education vis-a-vis physics in Sam’s parish congregation. And it couldn’t be that all these pious people are liars. It […]

Posted 09 December 2013 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 8 – John Lennon, The World’s Most Famous Atheist?

John Lennon was murdered 33 years ago today.  He is perhaps the most famous atheist to have ever lived. While still a member of the Beatles, he caused an enormous controversy by stating a view shared by all of the group’s members: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; […]

Posted 08 December 2013 § PopCulture § UK § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 7 – Is “Faith” Just Another Way To Say “Pretending Really Hard”?

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Posted 07 December 2013 § Humour § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 6 – Are Religions Unfair To Women?

It’s a long documentary so let’s just say the short answer (at least in my view) is: yes! Given what day it is today, I can’t help but think about the fourteen female engineering students killed twenty-four years ago today. They weren’t murdered for religious reasons. But as part of my thoughts on this sad day […]

Posted 06 December 2013 § Canada § MemoryLane § Sasha § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 5 – Out of Nearly 40,000 Denomination of Christianity You Picked The “Right” One (You Should Try The Lottery Next)

Not sure how accurate the claim of 38,000 denominations of Christianity is but whether you’re talking about 40, 400, 4000 or 40,000 denominations, the point remains the same. (And that doesn’t even take into account other religions, major and minor, over the years.)

Posted 05 December 2013 § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 4 – “If you can’t determine right from wrong, you lack empathy, not religion.”

Posted 04 December 2013 § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 3 – “Take The Risk of Thinking For Yourself…”

Christopher Hitchens is one of the patron saints of atheists.  (Er, there’s probably a better way to describe him!) 😉

Posted 03 December 2013 § UK § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 2 – Music Monday – “I know the Good Book’s good/Because the Good Book says it’s good/I know the Good Book knows it’s good/Because a really good book would”

I suspect Tim Minchin will be making up the content of all my Music Monday posts for Atheist Advent! 😉 “The Good Book” – Tim Minchin

Posted 02 December 2013 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 1 – Introduction

In past years, I’ve often done a series of posts during Christmas week about atheism/religion/the Christmas holidays that are (hopefully) educational, humourous, thought-provoking or occasionally maybe even all of the above. Pace opened the first window on his Lego Advent calendar today and that made me think that the concept of Advent “a season observed in many Western Christian churches as […]

Posted 01 December 2013 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,