The Enemies of Reason

Part 1 of Richard Dawkins’ wonderful television program:

Sometimes Facebook can be Awesome

Too bad he got the part wrong about Catholics being cannibals… required to eat the magical flesh and blood of a dead person.  It is NOT symbolic at all.  See below.

Facebook sometimes rules

Regarding the eating of the flesh and blood…

Transubstantiation is a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. The Catechism [...]

Religion Continues to Drag Down Modern Society

Fear of the devil is holding up the census in India as groups of religious believers refuse to participate for fear of being associated with an imaginary evil force.

The fear of the ‘Beast’ or the Devil in the Christian-dominated state of Mizoram has caused almost 1,000 families to refuse to enroll their names [...]

Christian on solo mission to kill Osama Bin Laden

Faulkner

An American described as a “good-humored Christian who was ‘on a mission’ to kill or capture Osama” was arrested in Pakistan today.  This story is pretty amazing, but of course I’m only posting it to make fun of the magical irrationality of religion.

Our subject is named Gary Brooks Faulkner, and he [...]

6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning

Burning Jesus

I say no big deal.  The statue should rise again in 3 days right?  Muhahahahahaha… I crack myself up.

But seriously, wouldn’t the Christian god protect a statue of his son?  Or maybe he didn’t like it because it counts as an idol.  If so, then why did it stand for [...]

Who actually reads the Bible?

This image was produced as a humor piece by Standard Madness, but I have no problem believing the general idea that percentage-wise more atheists have read the bible than so called “people of faith”.

Personally, I’ve got 16 English translations of the Bible on my iPod.  I haven’t read the whole thing yet, [...]

God Made Me Shoot My Son

In our continuing series of “The Dangers of Religion and Magical Thinking”, here is a sweet tale of a religious woman who acted on the will of a god… the Judeo-Christian god in particular.

From the Orlando Sentinel: “God made me shoot my son, suicide note says”

Newly released notes and audio recordings left [...]

Fun with Religion – Who’s with me?

Get ready to LOL.

Which is the easier path?

Bass Ackwards

The religious enjoy asking you to prove a negative

Religion at work through the ages

A child is no more [...]

Thank God for Atheists. Wait! What?

I stumbled across a lot of excellent news from USA Today, and in particular, the American Religious Identification Survey 2008.

Atheists and the other unaffiliated make up 15% of the American population.  That’s 34 million of us.  And now for the really good news.  Atheists are the fastest growing “religious” group in America.  Finally [...]

Creationism Dig Violated Student’s Rights

Damn, if I were a science teacher, I would probably be in trouble all the time. It’s sad that people feel the need to sue over things like this.

When a high school history teacher told his students that creationism was “superstitious nonsense,” he violated a student’s First Amendment rights, a Federal judge [...]