I know my Atheist Advent series of technically over but I’ll share one final video I had bookmarked that I thought addressed one specific issue really well, namely that a big part of the reason that human are religious is that we simply fail to grasp the time scales involved in things like evolution and […]
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Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 22 – The “War” on Christmas: One Atheist’s Perspective
Every December, the stories about “The War on Christmas” pop up once again, like mole heads in a fair game – how various people in society – the politically correct, civil libertarians, atheists – are oppressing Christians by trying to neuter Christmas, make everyone say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”, and forego the holiday’s religious elements for commercial/secular ones (read […]
Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 19 – Charlie Brown Explains The (Real) Meaning of Christmas
Or on a similar note… Or this…
Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 18 – Indoctrination Summarized in Three Short Lines
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.
Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 14 – How Tigers Got Their Stripes – Science vs. Religion
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 […]
Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 13 – “Without God, What’s To Stop You From Raping All You Want?”
Some of the people who say religion gives them their moral code seem to be lacking a certain amount of common sense…
Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 11 – Pope Francis is Time’s Person of the Year (But Then Again, So Was Hitler)
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 […]