Or on a similar note… Or this…
It’s been said that if there was a law making it illegal to introduce religion to a child, the same as our society does with other things children aren’t capable of handling such as alcohol, driving and gambling, religion would disappear within a single generation. I agree.
Nothing controversial here… 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfmjMlPEic “Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins” – Tim Minchin
One of my big problems with religion is that it demonstrably makes people more gullible – about east Indian call centres telling you that your computer has a virus and psychics charging $0.99/minute and even the “official” word you hear on the evening news and in the daily newspaper. Because if you believe the Bible’s […]
Some of the people who say religion gives them their moral code seem to be lacking a certain amount of common sense…
Today’s big announcement that Pope Francis has been named Time’s Person of the Year is great timing, coming roughly halfway through my series of Atheist Advent posts. I was already thinking about doing a post about the new Pope and how, in light of yesterday’s post about the hypocrisy of many religious people (including religious […]
I’m not so strident in my atheism that I can’t acknowledge that Christianity (and most religions in general) have decent principles behind them, have done a lot of good in the world, and that many religious people are to be commended for how they move through life – generous, understanding, kind, compassionate, etc. My problem […]
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 […]
John Lennon was murdered 33 years ago today. Â 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; […]
