Archive for August, 2006
Nothing to say
How do you respond to an old friend that called you evil and said you needed to be ran out of your country because you don’t share their belief system? By email? Who never bothered to respond to your outrage? And whom you’ve never heard from since?
Josie and I met in Germany [...]
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America’s Most Wanted Fundy Wingnut Arrested
Ted Bundy was arrested after being pulled over for a traffic violation. Timothy McVeigh was arrested after being pulled over for having a busted tail light. Now Warren Jeffs, defacto tyrant of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), is in custody after being pulled over for not having [...]
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Boruc’s an idiot, not a victim
Suppose you’re a devout religious believer and an athlete. Would you put on a religious show during a match with full knowledge that such a display could quite possibly lead to a violent clash up in the stands? Especially if both your teams had been involved in a summit to try and turn [...]
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Christian Zealots Vandalize Historic Site
Qajartalik is an island in the Canadian artic that had big aspirations. Home to stone carvings dating back 1500 years that resemble the carvings of the Dorsets, a group that flourished in the Eastern Artic approximately 1000 to 1500 years ago, it hoped to get itself declared a World Heritige Site.
Then a group [...]
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Giving Religion a Bad Rep
Why is that liberal religious folk think the conservatives are the ones giving religion a bad rep? Take for example this clip over on Beware of the Dogma where there was an apparent dustup in the UK over a British Muslim issuing fatwas on people. Why? The fatwa author was giving [...]
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Won’t do that again
Know what happens when you install a Microsoft beta under “what could happen” thinking? I’ll tell you. Your computer won’t reboot properly after a crash, forcing you to reinstall the OS just to find out you can’t activate it and the support folks don’t know what the f’ went wrong. So, you [...]
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The Great Agnostic
Today is the birthday of Robert Ingersoll known far and wide as the Great Agnostic. There’s a great article up about him at Daylight Atheism. Instead of writing my own article I’d like to share one of my favourite pieces by the man:
When I became convinced that the Universe is natural–that all [...]
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