Religion

Evolution

Evo­lu­tion
A quick primer to send to any cre­ation­ists you may know.
Edit: Appar­ently the Youtube Word­press auto-post thing neglects to set the title.


Could Pat Robertson get any more out of touch with reality?

Yes­ter­day Pat Robert­son made another one of his trade­mark idi­otic state­ments. In response to Maine pro­vid­ing homo­sex­ual cou­ples the right to marry, Mr. Robert­son went on CBN and opened his mouth to let this shit dribble out:

Here is a tran­script, snagged from Think Progress:
HOST: Mean­while, the New Hamp­shire leg­is­la­ture has also voted in favor of […]


On “religious freedom” in the workplace…

With the Obama admin­is­tra­tion look­ing like they will be rolling back Bush era poli­cies allow­ing doc­tors to refuse to per­form cer­tain pro­ce­dures and/or refuse to pre­scribe or sell cer­tain med­ica­tions (let’s say RU-486 for exam­ple) the Internet’s polit­i­cal debate hotspots have erupted as expected. Over at the Some­thing Awful forums I saw a great […]


Blasphemy Day International 2009

PZ over at Pharyn­gula linked to this Face­book group, so I had to share. Blas­phemy Day Inter­na­tional 2009.


A few questions for my religious friends…

Yes­ter­day while dri­ving back home from help­ing my now-ex-roommate move out, I was lis­ten­ing to a recent episode of Athe­ists Talk radio (pro­duced by Min­nesota Athe­ists) in which the guest was Dan Barker, for­mer Chris­t­ian min­is­ter and now co-president of the Free­dom From Reli­gion Foun­da­tion. A few very good ques­tions were raised which have […]


What I Want For Christmas

I’m not the first to post this today, but it’s cer­tainly worth the read. The fol­low­ing is from Robert Ingersoll’s “What I Want For Christ­mas.”
If I had the power to pro­duce exactly what I want for next Christ­mas, I would have all the kings and emper­ors resign and allow the peo­ple to gov­ern them­selves.
I […]