Archive for May, 2008
Unfortunately I get a chance to title my post, Pastor Disaster*
You know how you tell your kids, “Don’t do that or it will hurt” and then they do it… and it hurts. Please read as much I-told-you-so as possible.
If you haven’t heard, another pastor has taken the pulpit at Obama’s church and mocked Senator Clinton by pretending to cry and bemoan the fact that “there’s [...]
McCain rejects Hagee endorsement
So let me see if I can get this straight,
McCain & Hagee;
Catholic Church = The Whore of Babylon, McCain has no problem with that.
God-created Holocaust = Bring my people home, McCain has a problem with that
Obama & Wright;
Racially-divisive rhetoric = Black preacher’s message; Obama ok with it since he “didn’t hear it himself”.
AIDS = U.S. government [...]
John Loftus’ Speech to FreeThought Fort Wayne (Audio)
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On May 14th, FreeThought Fort Wayne sponsored an event at the local library entitled Why I Rejected Christianity. Our speaker was John Loftus, who runs the group site, http://debunkingchristianity.net.
John Loftus is a former evangelical pastor and apologist who is now an atheist. He has previously self-published [...]
The Enlightenment Show releases 3 new episodes
As many of you know some of our members, headed up by andyscathouse, produce a show for the local public access channels. To further promote their efforts we have been uploading these videos to our site and embedding them, along with show notes, on The Enlightenment Show’s page.
I have just finished uploading and embedding the [...]
John Loftus entertains, informs and incites in Fort Wayne
[Cross-posted from Neural Gourmet]
John Loftus, the former evangelical minister turned atheist, author of the soon to be released book Why I Became An Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity and founder of the group blog Debunking Christianity gave a lively talk Wednesday night at the Allen County Public Library. The event, which saw about 40 [...]
Thanks, John, For A Great Meeting
I have to admit I was reluctant to even attend John W. Loftus’ presentation last Wednesday, especially after the unexpected press we received. (I had someone in my office – whom I would never expect to have heard about us – ask “Did you hear there’s a former preacher that’s gonna teach people how to [...]
Forever and ever, Amen…?
The idea of eternal life is, at first glance, extremely desirable. Once you try to wrap your mind around infinity you start to see the limits to limitlessness. To experience all, see all, and to constantly be on the cusp of knowing all forever starts to sound like you yourself are a god. [...]
Taking a WikiLeak
Ars Technica has published an article, Mormons, Scientologist face uphill battle againsts Wikileaks.
Wikileaks is like wikipedia, the user-maintained, free encyclopedia, however it focuses on providing a forum for getting information, whatever it may be, out to the public.
This is essentially a free speech project. They are dedicated to “developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking [...]
Atheist churches
VJACK over at atheist revolution had an interesting post about the idea of atheist churches.
There were a lot of interesting reactions and replies to the idea.
I think there has been a serious misunderstanding over the years of reading too much into the word atheist. Many theists continually use the word to imply the “religion” [...]
Get your physics on!
Somebody explain this to me. James Randi showcased this clip at the end of this week’s SWIFT. I don’t think it is Einstein’s special relativity because the motion isn’t uniform. Maybe it is general relativity with warped spacetime? My guess is we are seeing Newton’s third law in action which states [...]
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