So I was perusing a Christian’s blog, as I am sometimes wont to do, and she was discussing the Biblical creation story (version 2, which contradicts version 1 from a few verses earlier, but anyway…) In this creation account, Yahweh creates everything else, then places one man (Adam) in the Garden
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Meta-Thoughts on Conversing with the Deluded.
The authors here at DWR have a mean atheistic streak. There is no denying that. I mean we have a whole day of postings that deal specifically with religion and the goofiness that ensues when you allow magical thinking into your wheelhouse. My readership mostly knows that believing in
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Canadian Atheist blogger Veronica Abbass emailed me a couple days ago to say: More than three years ago, I wrote a post on Canadian Atheist about prayer in Peterborough municipal council meetings. In the comments you suggested I contact CFI Canada. I did and CFI connected me with Dan Mayo
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Cows! Milk! Rape! RPOJ! – Christian “Morality” On Display
Usually we get to watch loopy christians say loopy stuff in support of their sincere belief in magic here on the the Disservice. Not so much fun today as we are going to look at how belief in magic can warp the moral fibre of people into condoning rape and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Generation Jihad on the BBC
Religious fundamentalism of any creed, is a threat to peace, secular societies and evidence based decision making. Lets take a closer look at one strain of the radical fundamentalism – radical Islam with the BBC as our guide. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: BBC, Fundamentalism, Radical Islam, The DWR Sunday
Continue readingTerahertz: 10 reasons the Saguenay ruling establishes Canada as a secular country
It’s been only 5 days since the Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that the prayers said by the City of Saguenay discriminated against atheists, and already cities across Canada are reviewing their own practices. But I suspect (although caveated with the standard, I am not a lawyer) this ruling
Continue readingTerahertz: On PZ Myers and Atheist Ireland – what she said
I can’t add much to this statement from Secular Woman on the recent “public dissociation” controversy. I will admit that this blog was briefly listed as one of the Secular Policy Institute’s affiliates though (because they literally asked everyone they could google). But after they issued their bizarre statement about “shock
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Conrad Black: Off the Rails
I generally read Conrad Black‘s columns for their entertainment value, but I also read them for the language. Black is the best tosser of pithy epithets since Spiro Agnew*. And like the former US VP, he’s a pompous git who puffs up his intellectual feathers like a pigeon in heat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Ode to Yahweh
I’m glad to report that NonStampCollector is at it again. This collaborative effort with 43Alley is a wonderful return to his old form. Enjoy all the benefits that “An instant, fruit-based moral education” has to offer. Filed under: Atheism, Humour, Religion Tagged: Fruit based moral education, NonStampCollector, Ode to Yahweh,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Another Sterling Example of Egregious Religious Behaviour
When you believe in magic you can just stow your moral and ethical compass in your back pocket and whistle while you do God’s work. “Estimates suggest that anywhere between 60 and 80 percent of migrant women and girls are raped on their journey as they travel across the southern
Continue readingTerahertz: Republished: There’s no ‘God’ in graduation
This was the first article I wrote for a student newspaper and in a way it’s somewhat historic. In 2008, the University of Alberta Atheists & Agnostics started campaigning for a secular convocation charge. When our initial request was ignored, I raised the issue with the student newspaper, The Gateway,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Logic: How to PWN an argument, without getting the RPOJ
If you want to take down somebody else’s argument, a certain familiarity with the nature of intellectual or philosophical (as opposed to playground) argument is required, so that you can construct your own counter-argument. In an intellectual argument, the person putting forth an argument sets out a number of premises
Continue readingwmtc: in which my annual noncelebration of christmas causes my jewish cultural roots to reappear, a tiny bit
Two years ago, wmtc’s annual “i hate christmas” post declared: “i hate christmas is slightly less hateful this year“. Working in the library, as opposed to an office environment, I found getting through the holiday season much less trying. No more co-workers – at their computers, able to talk while
Continue readingTerahertz: Diversity in the atheist/skeptic communities: An evidence-based approach
Richard Dawkins has lost it: ignorant sexism gives atheists a bad name – Guardian Atheism’s shocking women problem – Salon Why atheists have a serious problem with women – Mic.com Will misogyny bring down the atheist movement? – Buzzfeed The mainstream media has picked up that within the atheist community,
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Hate Crimes Against Non-believers Growing
We all know about the hate crimes religious believers commit against one another, against people of a different faith. It’s headlines news, almost daily. Protestants against Catholics. Sunnis against Shiites. Muslims against Christians. Hindus against Muslims. Buddhists against Muslims. Christians against pagans. Christians against Jews. Muslims against Jews. Cults against
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice: Free Association at Choir Practice
Naturally for this time of year, the choir that Arb and I sing in is preparing for our Christmas concert, and there is Jebus-music aplenty. Really that’s OK by me; most of the shit about Santa seriously sucks. One of the beautiful carols we’re doing is Harold Darke’s arrangement of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Musical Interlude: The Intransigent One’s Favourite Band
This is VNV Nation, an Irish/English alternative electronic/industrial duo currently based out of Berlin, but touring to Canada this fall/winter – I’ve already got tickets – and plane tickets because the closest they’re coming is Vancouver. They were my first exposure to electronic/industrial music – I grew up in a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Why is there Something, Rather than Nothing?
The desperate need to feel like a special snowflake with an afterlife easily sums up many Theistic arguments. This video goes a little deeper and compares the common endpoints when discussing the problem of why is there something rather than nothing. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Atheism, Religion, Something rather
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moving Away, Slowly and Painfully from Theism
The deconversion process does some pretty wacky things to people. We join Evidence and his tale of his journey away from the theism that held him prisoner for so long. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Christianity, Deconversion, Theism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Moving Away, Slowly and Painfully from Theism
The deconversion process does some pretty wacky things to people. We join Evidence and his tale of his journey away from the theism that held him prisoner for so long. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Christianity, Deconversion, Theism
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