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 [...]

Response to Fun with Religion – Atheism, Skepticism, and Faith

I normally don’t reply to comments to the controversial stuff on my blog for a number of reasons:

hardly anyone reads my blog, it almost never accomplishes anything useful, it takes me an awfully long time to come up with a reasonable response.

However, considering the nature and thoughtfulness of the comments received regarding [...]

“Oops”, says God

I apologize, for following up a family game review with this, but it’s just too beautiful to pass up.

Lion kills man who climbed into enclosure

A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lion in a Kiev, Ukraine, zoo after he crept into the animal’s [...]

Ambiguity, Religion, and the Concept of God

Here is why religion in general is so retarded to me (yep, I said retarded).  The biggest problem I have with the whole idea is the ambiguity.  (“God” below, for the most part, is referring to the traditional Christian view of a god).

How do we account for vastly different religions on Earth?  Who [...]

God As a Work of Fiction

Exactly!  Thank you Scott Adams and Bart Ehrman.

Just to give you a flavor of the magnitude of the problem, according to Ehrman, there are more changes (both intentional and unintentional) in the Bible than there are words in the New Testament. The estimates range from 200,000 to 400,000.

[Above, we are talking about [...]