Atheists should not be seen or heard 11 Mar 2009 According to this cartoon, hat tip to Tangled Up in Blue Guy : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CtVhVImBM&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] Humor Religion
Evolution Desecration, blasphemy in public, and manners 12 Jul 2008 When does a person’s religious beliefs constrain someone who is not religious? What sorts of redress can a religious person expect in a secular society? These questions arise from the recent to-do about PZ Myers defense of the stealing of a communion wafer from a Catholic church. As a result,… Read More
Politics Religion is mental? 26 Feb 201427 Feb 2014 Over at Chris Stedman’s blog, he posted 5 reasons why atheists shouldn’t call religious people mentally ill: 1. Even if well-intended, the equation fails 2. Mental illness is not an insult 3. Religion is often associated with wellbeing 4. This parallel distracts us from trying to understand and learn from… Read More
Humor Carlin on the state of the US 25 Jun 2008 Here’s a somewhat different take on the late great George Carlin, in an interview with Keith Olberman last year: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UVXj8F9Fmk&hl=en] For me, though, he’ll always be the hip Catholic Archbishop who brings about the end of the world in Dogma. Read More
Thanks for the link love, John. I had forgotten to properly attribute it to Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta. I think that the ads are properly representative of the views of strong agnostics, apatheists, weak agnostics, weak atheists and the like. Ottowa’s City Council voted to approve the ads on their transit system, and some students at a Christian Academy are planning to walk (or snag rides from Ma and Da) rather than ride such “offensive” buses.
Thanks for the link love, John. I had forgotten to properly attribute it to Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta. I think that the ads are properly representative of the views of strong agnostics, apatheists, weak agnostics, weak atheists and the like. Ottowa’s City Council voted to approve the ads on their transit system, and some students at a Christian Academy are planning to walk (or snag rides from Ma and Da) rather than ride such “offensive” buses.
[…]some students at a Christian Academy are planning to walk (or snag rides from Ma and Da) rather than ride such “offensive” buses. Now that is a kind of protest I can get behind, even if I disagree! Orders of magnitude better than the usual petulant whinning…
[…]some students at a Christian Academy are planning to walk (or snag rides from Ma and Da) rather than ride such “offensive” buses. Now that is a kind of protest I can get behind, even if I disagree! Orders of magnitude better than the usual petulant whinning…