Monthly Archive:: February 2008
12 Feb 2008
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
12 Feb 2008
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
12 Feb 2008
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”.
12 Feb 2008
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
11 Feb 2008
Cussing is the new thing in bigotry apparently
The Christian Defense Coalition is picketing ESPN. Why are they picketing ESPN? Because saying Jesus Christ in a less than loving manner and Goddamn is the equivalent of calling a black person a n*gger and a homosexual
11 Feb 2008
Republican’s sexist & racist – what a surprise, eh?
The Conservative Political Action Commitee (CPAC) recently got together and here’s what they’re selling each other (via Feministe): Hillary, of course, gets the brunt of the hatred (The Economist): It’s not every day you see racism, sexism
11 Feb 2008
Religious kids are corrupt fools
And it’s your fault American atheists. You’re a relatively powerless minority group that can’t so much as frown in the vicinity of a theist without being accused of personally plotting the assassination of every theist on the
11 Feb 2008
More evidence that God’s a bit bizarre
Check out this video of young amphibians literally eating the skin off their mom’s back: [flashvideo filename=wp-content/uploads/videos/amphibians_feeding.flv /] As weird as it may be, it makes sense if evolution is true. The mother’s skin becomes very thick
11 Feb 2008
YouTube: A nod to atheist women
When I first saw the link for the video I was a bit worried as a lot of things that address atheist women tend to run along the lines of “an atheist female who’s also pretty??? hot!!!”.
10 Feb 2008
Can you steal an election from yourself?
While there’s some rumbling that the Democratic National Convention might involve tear gas this year it appears that the GOP higher-ups are getting a bit worried about Huckabee’s popularity. Huckabee took all the delegates for Kansas and