From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Americans United asks IRS to investigate the Doctor of Prayer

May 31, 2007

The AU has asked the IRS to look into Bill Keller’s ministry for political intervention for articles he has written about Mitt Romney, a Mormon presidential hopeful. It began earlier this month when Keller put up an article stating that a vote for Romney was “a vote for Satan”. In the fallout Keller [...]

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We have been betrayed

May 31, 2007

Last week the Democrats sold out the American public and gave what can only be called a ‘blank check’ to the boy king for his war in Iraq. Keith Olbermann took them to task for their betrayal in a special comment that I can only say “hell yeah!” to:

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Brahma loses thousands to Buddha

May 30, 2007

Thousands of the followers of Brahma have apparently had it with the racial/social bigotry of their religious brethren and have decided to join Buddhism in protest. Brahma has been conspicuously silent on the whole matter while human representatives are insisting that Buddhism is just another way to say Hinduism.
This latest conversion is considered the largest [...]

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Greg Epstein determined to start fight with atheists

May 29, 2007

Something needs to be done about Greg Epstein. He is seriously damaging the reputation of humanism, be it “religious” or “secular”. Last month he got his arse chewed about off for referring to outspoken atheists as fundamentalist atheists while promoting some shindig he was/is involved with. So [...]

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Carnival of the Godless #67

May 27, 2007

The latest edition of the Carnival of the Godless is up at Letters from a Broad. The next one is at Action Skeptics on June 10th.
PZ Myers of Pharyngula has put together a great collection of articles in response to the recent opening of the creation “museum” in Kentucky. Having a short [...]

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Fun with telemarketers

May 25, 2007

Getting off the phone with a telemarketer without being rude is about impossible. The slightest hesitation, the smallest act of politeness and *poof*. That’s 10 to 15 minutes of your time that’s gone forever. What’s a person to do? Tom Mabe may have discovered a solution for us:

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Now we need protection from birth control?

May 25, 2007

One of the biggest arguments by pro forced maternity activists is that women need ‘protection’. This how they’ve managed to get such ‘protective’ measures as informed consent, parental consent and mandatory waiting periods passed into law as well the upswing in support for forced sonograms.
We women supposedly have no idea that an abortion [...]

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Fatwa over adult breastfeeding gets cleric fired

May 25, 2007

Yes, you read that right. A cleric from the Egyptian university Al-Azhar has been fired over a controversial fatwa that allowed breastfeeding between unrelated adults in order to deal with Islamic social rules forbidding the mixing of unrelated men and women. The funny thing is that they’re all pissed off over something Mohamed [...]

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Penn & Teller: Bible Bullshit

May 24, 2007

Penn & Teller take on the ‘bestselling book of all time’ the Bible in their series Bullshit:

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Bananas, Coke cans and now electricity

May 24, 2007

Ray Comfort just doesn’t know when to quit. He’s tried to prove the existence of his god with a banana, brought up a coke can during a debate with the Rational Response squad and in a soon to be published book titled “The Atheist Delusion” he’s comparing disbelief in the existence of his god [...]

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