Category Archives: Sermon
An education reform
You, like me, are most likely sick to the back teeth of education reforms. Every few years along comes another proposal to “fix” the education system, which everyone who has ever had any contact with it knows is broken. Each … Continue reading
My feet, my neck, my head
No, this isn’t a list of my better features or my autapomorphies. It is a list of the things that really, really, hurt. For those who do not know, I am without employment, and so I have taken up a … Continue reading
Religions, cults and wacos
Yes, I’m aware that it’s spelled “wacko” but when people start talking about cults, they often have in mind the insanity that led to the Waco compound disaster. The “Church” of Scientology has used a SLAPP suit to try to … Continue reading
Filed under Politics, Pop culture, Rant, Religion, Sermon, Social evolution
On the moral purity of skeptics and fallacies
The recent furore, called #elevatorgate on Twitter, about what Richard Dawkins said in response to complaints of sexism amongst atheists, has hit Gawker, who finish with the line: “That’s skeptics. Rational about everything except themselves, self-preservation, and manners.” Now without … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Religion
More on tone
The “Tone Wars” revive from time to time, most recently in PZ Myers’ justified criticisms of Richard Dawkins’ objections to feminist objections to sexist language and moves. The story so far: Jen McCreight, who blogs as Blag Hag (why can’t … Continue reading
Filed under Pop culture, Rant, Religion, Sermon, Truisms
Atheists aren’t entirely human, part whatever
I’ve lost track of the number of cases I have linked to in which the irreligious are outright or subtly suggested not to be fully human. Here’s another example, in an “uplifting” Father’s Day story about a man who drowned … Continue reading
Rapture and risk
So, if you are reading this, then the Rapture didn’t take you. I spent a fair bit of May 21 Tweeting various ways in which it didn’t happen in Australia. A bit of harmless fun, but I noted something as … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Religion, Sermon
