Archive for February, 2008
Can we just have change instead?
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times. Vote for Change. Vote for Obama. There’s only one problem. Obama doesn’t appear to be about actually changing anything if this photo of him in front of one of his signs is to be taken at face value:
“Believe” [...]
Popularity: 4% [?]
Women cannot be in positions of authority over boys
A religious academy in Kansas recently expelled a female referee from a boys basketball game after claiming it was inappropriate for her to tell boys what to do. Kudos, however, go to the two male referees who walked out also, one with the expelled woman and the other after he found out what was [...]
Popularity: 4% [?]
Can we drown the atheist "movement", please?
I’ve been an “out” atheist since I was a teenager when I was put on the spot about the truthfulness of the Bible. Having grown up in the backwater areas of the United States the only other atheists I knew were my brothers and my dad. I was in my early twenties and [...]
Popularity: 3% [?]
First patriotism, now God soaked patriotism?
Our daughter just started school this year and it’s been wonderful to see her slowly get past her bashfulness. Getting her to talk, even to say if something hurt was like pulling teeth with pliers made out of play dough.
Getting her talk to even family members was about impossible and strangers speaking to her [...]
Popularity: 4% [?]
What happens if God strikes himself dead?
Growing up in the southern US one of the phrases I heard and still repeat myself sometimes is “may God strike me dead”. It was/is a way of communicating that one is not lying no matter how far fetched the story might be.
If you were lying, God was supposed to take you out [...]
Popularity: 3% [?]
Do you have enough faith to survive cancer?
I’ve written a couple of posts about Kenneth Copeland and his holy war against Senator Grassley’s investigation, but a comment this morning reminded me of something that’s being overlooked in the scam that is the “prosperity gospel”.
What’s been overlooked is how Copeland and the rest get people to give them the money in the first [...]
Popularity: 3% [?]
The longest suicide ever?
90 Day Jane is due to kill herself a little over 80 days from now. She’s not crazy, depressed or any of that - she’s an atheist who thinks life has no greater purpose. There’s just no point to living, especially since her generation hasn’t had the experience of a “great depression” [...]
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