Darkmatter 2525 is quickly becoming one of my favourite youtube video producers.
Filed under: Education, Religion Tagged: Reality Check, Religion fail, The Rapture?, Welcome to Atheism
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Dead Wild Roses: Hallelujah – Charlatans for Jesus!
Hallelujah! The faith healers of the world prey on the misery and hopelessness of others. Watch the fail in action as the power of the christian faith heals the sick, mends the crippled and gets everyone ice cream and unicorns for the car ride home. For a dogma based on uncritical belief and an […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Honour Killings – No place in Secular Canada
The correlation between religion and the capacity to do monstrous deeds is again shown by the following clip which describes a few of the honour killings that have happened in Canada since the turn of century. Most certainly patriarchal cultural norms play factor, but it religion that puts the icing on the cake, the […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Evils of Socialism?
Strip away all the muddle, all the hoopla, all the baggage and then you can begin to understand what Socialism is actually about. Noam Chomsky explains how the term has been, in essence, denatured and is quite meaningless except as a dog-whistle for the normative defenders of the the capitalist status-quo. Filed under: Education Tagged: […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Friday Classical Music Interlude – “Fugue for Friday”
S. Malinowski’s original composition.
Filed under: Music Tagged: Friday Classical Music Interlude, Friday Fugue
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gender Pay Inequality – Still Going Strong
Raiding Sociological Images is a pastime of mine as SI manages to succinctly highlight important issues in our society. One issue is gender inequality and how prevalent it remains in our society. The neat graph, along with some of their interpretation: “First, notice that women with more education (the lighter bars in each age bracket) […]
Dead Wild Roses: Killing Osama Bin Laden – Justice for None.
The celebratory mood seems to have died down a little in the US as perhaps they realize celebrating the gross violation of international law loud and proud might not be such a good thing. If the same sort of action where to happen to us, we would not be in such a happy mood, I […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Cleavage between Science and Religion – Richard Dawkins
When the religious compare their dogma of choice to science it is almost always a grand misrepresentation of what science actually is. One can break it down for them categorically for instance: religion – requires a belief in magic and the supernatural science – requires a dedication to finding the evidence and testable facts about […]
Dead Wild Roses: Atheism – Standing up for your Rights.
The world wide atheist community has stood up for Damon Fowler. Providing over 20, 000 dollars toward his post-secondary education. What heinous crime has Mr.Fowler committed that resulted in threats to his person, public defamation by his teachers and being kicked out of the family house? Expressing his rights, guaranteed by the Constitution of […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Pro-Life Position you Don’t Hear.
Snipped from a Pharyngula Thread -cowalker says: “It has long been one of my patented rants that all the poor menz who are out there weeping over aborted embryos and picketing women’s clinics should instead be policing their brother’s dicks. All this time they’ve been whining about the perfidy of women, the solution has been […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – How Religion Poisions Everything – Hitchens
Religion is one of the factors that constantly works against civilization and the values of the Enlightenment. Belief in magic and the supernatural, a wish to return to the Dark Ages is remarkable exercise in puerile wish-fulfillment. Strong argumentation, relentless morality and ridicule are the only answers to the plague of religion. The purulent immorality […]