Likewise, we condemn any type of extremism. Of course, what took place was ugly. Offending the Holy Prophet is quite ugly. This has very little or nothing to do with freedom and freedom of speech. This is the weakness of and the abuse of freedom, and in many places it
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Dead Wild Roses: Tell me more about Biblical “Morality” – Marraige
I love it when people try to use their putrid magic books to say that they have a strong basis for their morality and ethical outlook. Of course its mostly these same people who don’t actually read the bible to see what it actually says. For your pleasure and edification
Continue readingTerahertz: Why read when you can watch and listen?
A bunch of shameless self promotion. Back in August I was invited to join Don McLenaghen on Radio Freethinker, the skeptical podcast of CiTR radio (the UBC radio station). Ethan was away that week, so we spent the entire hour talking about Humanism. You can listen to that interview here
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Atheism vs. Atheism Plus – Guess Where DWR plants her Standard?
Not too many surprises here folks, subscribing to the radical notion that women are people too is how we roll around here. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Atheism, Debate, Rational Thought
Continue readingTerahertz: Religion isn’t the problem
I’ve been toying around an idea in my head for a few days or weeks now and I want to flesh it out here, so bear with me. The New Atheism is generally focused on the idea that religion is the root of all evil or religion poisons everything. It’s defined by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: So, Tell me again about Islam being the Religion of Peace – Innocence of Muslims
Islam, religion of Peace burns down American Embassy illustrating dedication to rational non-violent ways of resolving disputes. This just in the from insano-delusional land (credit CBC.ca): “Many Muslims find it offensive to depict the Prophet Muhammad in any fashion, much less in an insulting way. This week’s attacks on U.S.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Sometimes the soft sell works.
By now most people (the US being the notable exception) get that religion is a toxic entity that has no place in the 21st century. The insipid nature of religion is usually highlighted in the DWR Sunday Disservice, however today will be different. Today we get to share one persons
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Creationism, not Appropriate for Children
Or anyone who claims to be rational. I’m not sure how the religious do the whole indoctrination thing with a straight face. Can you imagine? Child: How were we made? Parent: Well you see this magic ooga-booga decided to scrape some mud together and breath life into it about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Meet the Hovinds – Christian Creationist Stupidty on Display
You would think that after your Dad has been thoroughly trashed by making bogus claims you would, oh…I dunno… learn from his mistakes and not repeat them? Frak the facts, (creationist SOP btw) lets get the good word out there accuracy be damned. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Christianity, Creationist Fail,
Continue readingTerahertz: Radio Freethinker on Tuesday
Just a quick post tonight. On Tuesday afternoon, I’ll be on CITR’s Radio Freethinker show talking about all the latest news from the BC Humanists. The show runs for a full hour, so if you have ideas for what I should talk about, drop them below (obviously soon so that
Continue readingTerahertz: American Secular Stainless Steel Ring
Some of my most popular blog posts remains my rejection of the iron ring posts based on the religious references that I wasn’t allowed to strike. Every few weeks I get a new comment, typically a self-entitled engineer who feels like calling me names on the Internet. But the latest
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Why not religion?
I like the idea of religion. Faith comforts the mind, providing a solid defense against the existential questions that linger for all of us*. Why not surrender to the warm and fuzzy religious mentality that has all the tough questions answered with a certainty that even the best argumentation
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Qualia Soup – Secularism
Qualia soup argues for secularism and its benefits to atheists and theists. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Qualia Soup, Secularism, Secularism is good for society
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Faith is not a Virtue – Featuring Aron Ra
The speech is only 30 minutes long, the rest is an extended Q&A session. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: AronRa, Faith is not a a Virtue, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christian Science – Geocentric All the Way Baby!
The infallible word of god is proven once again to be anything but although we should give the RCC credit they stuck to their guns that the earth was the centre of the universe till 1992. That is religious progress for you. Potholer54 does a wonderful job of ridiculing the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Pell – Q&A – Watch Religion Fail Mightily
The good cardinal is out gunned, out classed and out argued on this episode of Q&A. He ends up calling Jesus and ignorant sheep-herder. A great debate, well worth your time. Filed under: Atheism, Religion, Science Tagged: Pell, Q&A, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Science and Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – God is Love and Poseidon is the Sea
“Do you believe in god?” “No.” “Well, do you believe in love?” “Sure.” “Then you must believe in god, as god is love” “Wha…?” I’ve heard the ‘god is love’ bit quite a number of times, but never as a proof for its deistic existence. When it is merely an
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There is no Morality in Christianity – Christopher Hitchens.
This small clip features Hitchens at his best, dismantling the arguments of Christian apologists and believers with his acerbic wit and argumentation. Consider the horrible implications of the all knowing, all seeing, all father. I for one reject the tyrannical celestial dictatorship and the misanthropic beliefs it spawns. Filed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Categorizing the godless.
What? No religious tomfoolery to debunk and slam? Even the practiced old hands here at DWR need a break from the usual turkeyshoot of specious religious arguments that get passed off as ‘debate’ these days. In that light, I present this article from Alternet that attempts to give us non
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