Tennessee Intolerance

About four days ago, I was in a hotel room out of town when the news came on television about a church shooting in Knoxville, Tennessee.
To be perfectly honest, my first thought was that I was glad I was so far away. My next thoughts drifted back to the families of the victims and what [...]

Kitten of God in Dunlap Indiana. Jesus is spotted on the back of a cat

I wish this wasn’t happening in our state. If this is what a miracle is today, I can only imagine what the church could get away with during the dark ages. I don’t think the moderate religious believer buys this stuff like the virgin Marry toast or the Christ cheese doodle and it [...]

Hate the Supernatural (Belief), Love the Superstitious

I first heard that line from Joe Nickell on this Point of Inquiry interview. I was listening in the car and almost lost control because it is such a funny play on the religious outcry “hate the sin, love the sinner” line about homosexuals.
The thrust of the interview is how skeptical folks should be [...]

Do it for the kids

Last week I gave my response to theo’s post on Atheist Evangelism. In it I made specific recommendations for what we as freethinkers can do today to bring about our Utopia now. My recommendations centered around starting, participating in and promoting a local freethought group however that is not the single most important thing I [...]

Odds and Ends

Mars Phoenix Lander

Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to prepare a proper post this week so in lieu of actually thinking and writing I’d like to instead offer up a pot-pourri of articles elsewhere on the web that have, in one way or the other, caught my interest in the past week or so.
However, before I [...]

Flip-flops are still in season.

I don’t usually talk about politics. I’m not a member of any particular party and I don’t like labeling myself as anything. I find American politics have been an increasing barrage of mud-slinging and emotional pandering the older I get. I find very little true courage or truth in politics in general [...]

Robert Price Phone Interview about his book “Top Secret”

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Dr. Robert M. Price will be speaking about his new book “Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today’s Pop Mysticisms” in Fort Wayne on Wed. Aug 6th at 7 PM in the Main Allen County Public Library in the theatre on lower level 2.
This video is a [...]

Signs of the times

If you haven’t yet noticed, collecting church sign pics is one of my many inane interests that occupy my mild obsessive-compulsive disorder. Of course, I may only imagine it to be OCD, so maybe I’m more of a hypochondriac. The jury is still out.
Anywho, I like church signs because they do most [...]

We want our Utopia now

theodorsing recently posted Evangelist = Evil’s Agent?, in which he asks a number of compelling questions. So my post this week has been discarded in favor of my thoughts on the same topic.
The main theme from the post was that atheism, by definition, and often in practice is a negative assertion. It provides no foundation for a [...]

This is only a test

I found this video online from one of the many blogs I read. This reminds me of the kind of object lesson that I used to be transfixed by when I was younger. Specifically, the one I remember most was an abstinence lesson where someone would take a bite of an apple [...]