From the monthly archives:

June 2006

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Will Ruin Society

June 30, 2006

Being gay is not natural. Real Americans ™ always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to [...]

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Secular Fundamentalists?

June 29, 2006

Vjack of Atheist Revolution has a post up about the use of the phrase ’secular fundamentalists’ in a book he is reading. Apparently, the author thinks that the opposite of theocratic rule is secularism. I’ve encountered that kind of thinking in RL and I think it is somewhat of a misnomer.
The [...]

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Alien Flower Desktop Pic

June 28, 2006

Just thought I’d share a wallpaper that I made in Photoshop from a picture of a Bird of Paradise:

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Winrar needed for unpacking.

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Constitution Wins by One Vote

June 28, 2006

Despite the best efforts of elected officials which included 13 Democrats – the Constitution won by one vote in the race to defame the deaths of countless Americans who have died and continue to die in service to it.

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Is Religious Fanaticism a Disease?

June 27, 2006

We often hear of alcholism and other addiction disorders as being ‘diseases’. Now, personally, I’ve always had a problem with calling such things diseases. A disease is generally something that you can catch – like Hep-B or often just something that happens in our bodies such as cancer. It’s generally [...]

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New Scam: Iraqi War Booty & The US Army

June 27, 2006

Heard of the Nigerian scammers? Well, they’ve apparently relocated to Italy and are now a ‘faction’ of US soldiers in Iraq who need help getting their war booty out of the country:
Dear Friend,
My name is, Major. Jeffrey Burton and i represent a faction of American soldiers,serving in the military of the 1st Armored [...]

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Reframing the Abortion Debate

June 27, 2006

In the June/July edition of the Free Inquiry Eileen McDonagh writes that it is time to reframe the abortion debate in the wake of South Dakota declaring that a fetus is a person. I think this is a great article and reminds us that something has been lost in the debate.
A woman has the [...]

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God & The Problem of Evil

June 26, 2006

The problem of evil is the reconciliation of the existence of evil (or suffering) with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent god. In sum it is:

God exists

God is omnipotent
God is benevolent
Benevolent beings are opposed to all evil.

God is opposed to all evil.

God can eliminate evil completely.

Whatever end result of suffering, [...]

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When Christians Clash

June 25, 2006

This video is a great demostration of what happens in a debate when both sidesbase their positions on the existence of an imaginary being revealed to them in a body of text that can be interpreted to support all kinds ofpositions.
Both women are Christians and the views of each can be found in the Bible. [...]

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Do you think you're a good person?

June 23, 2006

Do you think you’re a good person? Want to test that theory? Click here.
Me? Evil. I’ve:

Stolen batteries (Hey! I was four! Give me a break!).
Avoided religious services like the plague since my emancipation.
been completely converted to “Jesus Frigging Christ on a Pogo Stick”.
just told a lie – I actually [...]

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