Like most religious objections to Atheism, the idea that it takes faith, just like the believers own, not endorse magic and mythology. Spoiler: It doesn’t. Let the following video detail exactly why this religious claim fails. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: ArguingfromIgnorance, Atheism, It takes Faith?, The
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – It takes faith to be an Atheist?
Like most religious objections to Atheism, the idea that it takes faith, just like the believers own, not endorse magic and mythology. Spoiler: It doesn’t. Let the following video detail exactly why this religious claim fails. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: ArguingfromIgnorance, Atheism, It takes Faith?, The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics -Part 6: Terrible Teleology
Damn university servers couldn’t connect to the Net today. Better late than never. Enjoy some more Anti-Citizen X folks. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: The DWR Sunday Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics -Part 6: Terrible Teleology
Damn university servers couldn’t connect to the Net today. Better late than never. Enjoy some more Anti-Citizen X folks. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: The DWR Sunday Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another Reason To Love Tim Minchin
His take on the recent gaff by the British Conservative government. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Religion, Tim Minchin, UK
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another Reason To Love Tim Minchin
His take on the recent gaff by the British Conservative government. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Religion, Tim Minchin, UK
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happy Eas…er Satan’s Testicles!
Not wanting to be outdone by John, on this special Friday, DWR humbly adds this helpful poster to the Good Friday basket of atheist wisdom. 🙂 When you see the religious mention anything about ‘the Truth’ it usually ends up looking something like this in terms of how seriously you
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Piss, Meet Rope.
If you’ve spent any time on the internet eventually you’ll run across a perfectly horrible subsection of the online community known as Men’s Rights Activists. These brave warrior souls have taken up the mighty struggle of the oppressed dominant majority and are serving as the tip of the spear against
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sunday Disservice: Shame
While the Jehovah’s Witnesses may be most famed for refusing life-saving medical treatments like blood transfusions for their children, their doctrine also ruins lives in smaller ways. And they’re determined to get their message out. See below for a message to the Deaf community, setting a Biblical foundation for forbidding
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Theism Takes a Drubbing
When actual science is involved, WLC loses. Dispensing the boots to the head is Sean Carroll. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Atheism, Debate, Sean Carroll, Theism, WLC
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice: Pope Junk
The Pope is getting his own weekly fanzine! We’re not talking some stodgy relic to buy at the Vatican gift shoppe to prove you were there, oh no! This is something that’s going to be coming out every week on newssstands all across Italy, and being produced by a regular
Continue readingTerahertz: Religion as a dirty word
Any headline in the form of a question can be dismissed with the simplest answer (which is also typically no). Case in point, a Victoria Times-Columnist blog asks “Has religion become a dirty word?“ It argues that Victoria, BC, with a non-religious population of 51% according to Statistics Canada’s 2011
Continue readingTerahertz: Is the Humanist brand dying?
It’s no secret that the term humanism (or secular humanism) have never really taken off. Simply ask a random sampling of people on the street and you’ll likely be met with blank stares. Now regardless of the utility of a word, I think it’s important for organizations to choose language
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Movie Interlude – Fist of Jesus
A jesus I can get behind. 🙂 Gore and silliness warning. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Atheism, DWR Friday Movie Interlude, Fist of Jesus, Humour, Religion, Zombie
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – In Case of Emergency Just Add Hot Air.
In the spirit of the holidays we here at DWR are going to go easy (for one week at least) on the religiously deluded, thus today’s disservice is a gift, only for religious emergencies mind you. 🙂 Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Emergency Pope, Humour, The DWR Sunday Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I Want My Own Personal Chat Bot
Browsing the time sink known as Reddit today I came across a very cool comic showing someone building a chat-bot to debate a theist. I googled the title of the comic and found the original as well a very awesome comic called Bag of Toast. I highly recommend checking it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Damn, this still gets me *every* time – In Excelsis Deo
The West Wing, ever so often, managed to perfectly capture the crazy paradoxical nature of the human condition. Watch and experience the juxtaposition so masterfully done in this short clip. How can any day be a day of joy when some 20,000 children will die of preventable causes. Oh sure,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: What Christmas Means to Me. Again.
I wrote this post a few years ago, after somebody questioned how an atheist like me, could celebrate Christmas. And I've run it every year since then on this day, because with some minor revisions to accommodate the passage of time, it still sums up how I feel about this day. It's Christmas Day, and
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One of the traditions of the holiday season is lamenting about the corruption of Christmas by commercialization or by foreign cultures that have invaded our pristine Christian shores. I have always been amused by these complaints, first because in my family’s tradition, Christianity has never intruded on our celebration and
Continue readingwmtc: i hate christmas 2013: christmas in the public library
My annual I Hate Christmas post is a mixed bag this year. Last year, I found Christmas less awful than usual, thanks to the absence of both commercial TV and my law-firm job. Those changes are permanent (at least I hope they are!), so I may never need to hide
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