Ah, you human monkeys and your penchant for violent fiction! Of course, this question has no meaning for me, because I have neither been influenced by the collective delusion you call “God”, nor have I ever asked anyone else to … Continue reading →
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Left Over: Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gates….
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Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: God is not a statistician
Wow. 100,000 years of wow. Alltop is a standard deviant from the mean.
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: 30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God
In this 25-minute video, Jonathan Pararajasingham, a London-based neurosurgeon, presents 30 Renowned Writers Speaking About God. The writers offer both a literary homage to rationalism and humanism, and a not-so-generous critique of orthodox religious belief. …Read More
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
On this post-COP 17 Sunday, with its indecisive outcome and the sad truth which that outcome reveals about the industrialized world’s myopia and its potentially lethal addiction to fossil fuels, let’s look to Albert Einstein for some wisdom. He said: We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Willing to Bet on Your God? – Choose rationality instead.
Betting on infinity is a tough choice to justify. Pascal tried and failed… will you?
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Continue readingTrashy's World: Canadian Brownies and Guiding…
… what an enlightened organization! Let me explain… My youngest daughter wanted to join our local Brownies Chapter – largely because one of her best buds was into it. And given why I knew about it, it would be a good fit for her and her personality. Yet, I have had some issues with organizations […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Santa, The Easter Bunny, and God
[ed. I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome Bleatmop to Dead Wild Roses as a guest columnist. Please welcome him, and I would like to extend my thanks for his time in preparing this post (and hopefully more to come).] Earlier this year, shortly after Easter, several co-workers and I were sitting around the […]
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Atheists are Differently Religious – and No, Atheism is not the/a Religion
A main focus of this blog is to consider and compare different political and ethical philosophies so as to promote better understanding of one’s own worldview and those of others. I frequently focus on progressivism/liberalism and libertarian conservativism, arguing that these incompletely overlapping moral/political philosophies each have their own internal logic and validity, but that […]
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: God’s Stimulus?
Contrary to Michele Bachmman’s belief that last week’s “Hurriquake” was a sign from God to curb federal government spending, it would seem that tens of billions of dollars will now be required to fix the widespread damage to infrastructure along … Continue reading →
Continue readingArt Threat: Christian outrage shutters contemporary art exhibit in Manilla
A contemporary art exhibit at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines has been shut down amid accusations that the work is “blasphemous”.
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Less than a week until nothing out of the ordinary happens. Poll: How will Rapturites react?
It is no longer news that a small group of devout American Christians are eagerly awaiting this coming Saturday, May 21st, which they believe will see the Rapture of all spiritually and morally upstanding Christians into Heaven, leaving the rest of us behind. As described on their website, WeCanKnow.Com, this group also believes that on […]
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