I may be sick. The hateful, despicable members of Westboro Baptist Church plan to picket the vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting. The president is to be there. Maybe that will be excuse enough to keep these… Read More ›
Religion
Filmmaker Nakuola Basseley Nakoula arrested
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the man who produced the inflammatory anti-Islam film trailer for “Innocence of Muslims,” has been arrested in California. U.S. Central District Chief Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal ordered the arrest because in her opinion, his penchant for deceiving authorities… Read More ›
Muslim rioting spreads to Australia
(Updated Sept. 15 at 11:30 pm MDT) I’ve been dumbfounded and appalled by world events the last few days, and things don’t seem to be getting any better. The rioting and demonstrations in the Muslim world have spread from North Africa… Read More ›
Devils at the door
I don’t want to spoil the day for any true believers out there, but there’s a great parody over at The Freethinker, “Devils at the Door,” about door-to-door proselytizers (whom we all know and love). It includes the assertion, “I… Read More ›
Neil deGrasse Tyson: We are star dust
Carl Sagan once said we are “star stuff,” and I mentioned it when writing about being an “atheist by default.” Now I’ve come across this mashup featuring astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, someone I greatly respect and admire, and he uses… Read More ›
Pro-life groups not likely to let science interfere with religion, politics
While The New York Times first reported it in great detail several days ago, The Week breaks it down into a short form: The “morning after pill” does not keep a fertilized egg from implanting; it prevents fertilization from occurring… Read More ›
Political partisanship and the Big Bang
(Updated June 6, 2012, at 9:20 am MDT) Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a new report entitled “Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years.” The Pew study, as widely reported by the media, shows that the partisan divide in… Read More ›
Pastor Worley has plan to get rid of ‘lesbians and queers’
First it was Pastor Sean Harris in Fayetteville, NC. Now, not to be outdone, it’s Pastor Charles Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, NC. At least Worley isn’t telling parishioners to beat the gay out of their… Read More ›
Pastor Sean Harris can’t unring that bell
I mentioned the other day that I was becoming impatient and intolerant. So you can imagine how apoplectic I became after learning what Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, told his congregation recently: So your… Read More ›
Politics and intelligent design in education
If you’re interested in the issue of evolution vs. creation (aka intelligent design) and its place in our schools, check out Amy Greene’s op-ed piece from yesterday’s New York Times: God and Man in Tennessee. It explains eloquently why a… Read More ›
Caution: Higher education at work
In today’s New York Times there’s a wonderful editorial by Frank Bruni entitled “A Catholic Classmate Rethinks His Religion.” Don’t be put off by the title; it’s not some treatise on Catholicism. Instead, it touches on stereotypes, homosexuality, religion, bigotry,… Read More ›
YouTube bans ‘religiously offensive’ material
This video comes via I Want Ice Water and The Thinking Atheist. And as someone who has expressed concern about censorship on the Internet, I felt obliged to post it. Particularly because objections to acts of censorship sometimes are themselves… Read More ›
