Made for our friends down south, but really our fine Harperites are feeding from the same trough so it applies to them as well. Filed under: Atheism, Politics Tagged: How Religion Poisons Everything, Religious/Republican Mendacity, Sing with Jesus!
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Terahertz: Vancouver’s Freethought Movement Grows
Today was a very good day. This morning the trend of increasingly successful BCHA meetings continued, with just over thirty humanists gathering at the Oakridge Seniors’ Centre for a discussion on Neuroscience and Memory. Four-year-old Addysen was perhaps one of the youngest attendees to one of our meetings yet –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Shifting Sands of Evidence & Argument – Why Religious Arguments Fail to Persuade
This is a technical look at religious arguments, both for and against the way way in which religion describes our experience. I suggest you skim the preview of the paper for more understanding, but the video is an adequate primer for answering the following question – Are your beliefs, theistic
Continue readingFive of Five: Draw Mohammed Day 2012
I forgot today was the third annual Draw Mohammed Day, a popular internet movement born out of frustration with violent reactions to simple parodies such as cartoons. While I had mixed feelings about it, on the whole I think these kind of movements are quite appropriate. Islam is one of
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Spit in the eye of religious stupidity. Proclaim a mighty “Frack You!” to the people who seriously believe in screwed up shite. Mark Twain said it best: “Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them–and by laughing at them destroy
Continue readingTerahertz: The Atheist Census–obnoxious and obscure marketing?
Atheists tend to be a very skeptical bunch – at least those who participate in online communities, so when an email arrives in my inbox titled “AtheistCensus Mailing List – Action Required” when I never signed up for such a thing, my skeptisense gets tingling. Thank you for your interest
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – You Can’t Explain It: Must Have Been God
There is a conversation that happens all the time between theists and non-believers. I have engaged in it many times myself as well as observed others engaging in it more times than I can count. While there are a number of seemingly valid ways atheists could deal with this conversation,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice Featuring Theramin Trees – Death Part 2
The lengths we go through to gain the illusion of control… Enjoy this thoughtful exploration of death and atheism. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Death, How Religion Poisons Everything, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, theramin trees
Continue readingFive of Five: Dan Savage and Some High School Kids
Dan Savage is talking to some high school age kids at a conference about journalism. When the subject turns to homosexuality in the bible a bunch of them walk out. By walking out they are making a public statement that they don’t mind being on the wrong side of history
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Yes Your Religion Sounds This Stupid – AronRa at the Global Atheist Convention
Videos like these get my heart beating faster. The sheer amount of ignorance displayed by the faithfully deluded is recorded for the world to watch and collectively groan as they*facepalm* to shield themselves from the pants-on-fire grade of stupid emanating from the mouths of creationists. We have rationalists now (thank
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Religious ‘arguments’ – Check. Intellectually bankrupt – Check. Thunderf00t laying the smack down on delusional christians – Check. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: christian truth, How Not to Argue, Presuppositional Nonsense, Thunderf00t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Week – Jarod from Practical Doubt on Christianity.
This is the conclusion to a great article found on Practical Doubt. “Hidden beneath the inclusive guise of Christianity exists the absurd notion that people are capable of understanding the depth of humanity through the eyes of faith. They engage this masturbatory exercise without the slightest comprehension of words
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: AronRa – Reason Rally – The Foolishness of Faith
This video, like the Thunderf00t reason rally video, is about taking the superstition and religious non-sense head on. There is no moderator, no stage just the free exchange of ideas and arguments in a public forum. AronRa does a marvellous job of handling all the ‘gotcha’ questions the deluded
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Easter Sunday – god still not good.
Debating the religious on a one to one basis is almost always an exercise in frustration. The religious indoctrination often runs both wide and deep making finding a reasonable starting point extremely difficult. What is beneficial is to listen to both side advance their arguments and then deconstruct them
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: On unnecessarily codifying specific freedoms such as the freedom of religion
Should there be explicit protection for the freedom of religion in the founding documents of society? This question may at first seem to be an obvious ‘yes’ since almost everyone – including most atheists such as myself – consider it to be abundantly clear that people should have the freedom
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Folly of Debating Christians – Thunderf00t and Eric Hovind
Thunderf00t gets a trophy for patience as he systematically attempts to debate with the foolishly inane Eric Hovind. This video is 29 minutes of fist-clenching agony as Hovind petulantly refuses to answer questions and fails to understand the most basic of knowledge. People who debate Theists are aware of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Top 10 Reasons not to believe in God (#10).
Greta Christina is a prominent member of the new Atheist movement. She has recently published a work called “Why are you Atheists so Angry? – 99 Things that piss off the Godless.” I’m happy to feature some of her work here on the Sunday Disservice. 1: The consistent replacement
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Religious Beliefs in the Public Square
Richard Dawkins provocatively suggests that the superstitious religious beliefs of politicians should be more openly challenged. “You challenge a candidate about his beliefs about taxation, about military policy, and so on; why don’t you challenge his beliefs about what he thinks about the universe and the world?” “As a voter,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: ThunderF00t – Why make a fuss about religion?
The title of the video is actually called “Thunderf00t Unmasked” as it deals with some of the nasty things zealots have and continue to do. It is a little slice of youtube drama, but at the same time the argument Thunderf00t makes against religion is remarkably cogent and clear and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Atheist Conversations
Why do atheists hate so much? Is it some sort of unnatural compulsion to blasphemy and make the religious feel uncomfortable? Well, not really. The message from this part of the atheist community is clear: believing in the supernatural is not rational and basing decisions that affect people and institutions
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