From the category archives:

Thinking Out Loud

Our First Lady, Michelle Obama

January 21, 2009

I don’t know about ya’ll, but I for one am tickled pink that our first lady is a black woman.
I’m happy for Barack Obama and I realize that him becoming POTUS is history with a capital “H”, but it’s Michelle Obama that really makes me grin and want to do a silly dance.
It’s kind of [...]

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From one extreme to the other?

November 29, 2008

I finally got around to reading this month’s issue of Freethought Today by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and as usual, it was not disappointing.  Of all the articles this month it is the one by Barbara Walker titled “A Brief History of Marriage” that caught my eye.
Apparently back in the day it was [...]

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Damned if we do, damned if we don’t

December 13, 2007

Someone at the Economist has a problem with atheists. According to the anonymous author of this piece we pick the wrong fights and keep using that “A-Word” which frightens the poor little Christians.
How do we know when we’ve picked the wrong fight? A wrong fight is anything the liberal Christians don’t agree with [...]

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On Atheist Hostility

May 11, 2007

If there is one way to start an argument amongst atheists, it is bringing up the hostility some of us have towards religion. Belts come off and guns drawn over the subject throughout the atheist blogosphere, but we never appear to get anywhere be it for the better or the worse. So, I thought [...]

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Awakened Atheists

April 9, 2007

I just found a great comment over at Unscrewing the Inscrutable by Hank Fox and thought I’d share a part that hit home with me:
But an Awakened Atheist? I don’t think there’s any way such a person could ever let religion back into his/her life. After you get religion out of your head, after you [...]

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Should the Bible be spared from flames and poo?

March 1, 2007

There seems to be a bit of an uproar over on YouTube. In response to the Blasphemy Challenge author David Mills put a video of himself cursing and ripping out pages of the Bible which he used to pick up dog poo. An atheist by the name of KillTrend took offense [...]

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