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
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Dead Wild Roses: Same Sex Marraige not the Apocalypse, Honest.
Dan Savage on why SSM is a decent, humane institution. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Dan Savage, Human Rights, Religion, Same Sex Marriage, SSM
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Nine Images that will Implode your Faith
You’re welcome. 🙂 Filed under: Religion Tagged: 9 images, Doing Away with Religion, Implode faith, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disserivce – The Religious Should Just Play Diablo.
The world would be a much better place if the religious would instead of going to church and campaigning to reverse enlightenment ideals just played some Diablo 3 and got all of their god bothering, change-the-world-for-the-worse urges out of their system. It is a win win situation for everyone, the
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: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Send Yourself to Hell
Dark Matter2525 takes on the religious idea that somehow because we have free will their grand ooga-booga is somehow a less terrible entity for creating and sending people to hell. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christianity, DarkMatter2525, Hell, Religion, Send yourself to Hell, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
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: Brave Christian Soldier Stands in the Gap for Jesus
A note scribbled on a napkin and left behind by a passenger on a Westjet flight. It reads: To Capt./Westjet the cockpit of an airliner is no place for a woman. A woman. A woman being a mother is the most honour, not as ‘captain.’ Were short mothers not pilot’s
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos » politics: homeschooling, both religious and secular, and the need for accountability
In most settings I interact with people there is a presumption that a person will keep quiet about his or her religion, and not assume to know what religion the other person is. In homeschooling settings the rules are often different. Homeschoolers are often quite vocal about their religious beliefs.
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 readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Jesus Junk
How far have we fallen? Is there a bottom to the well of stupidity that christianity is? I keep expecting one day that people will grab a clue, catch on to the devious mind-fuck of organized religion and simply say, “Enough.” That fabled day seems to be moving into the
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Lucretius and the Renaissance
It’s fairly clear, even after reading only a few verses, why Lucretius’s didactic poem, On the Nature of Things – De Rerum Natura – made such an impact on thought, philosophy, religion and science in the Renaissance. It must have been like a lighthouse in the dark night; a “Eureka” moment for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Nye vs Ham – Post Debate Analysis
Where do you draw the line between taking on bad arguments and lending credence to corrosively stupid notions? This was one of the meta-debates that went on before, during and after the Nye v. Ham debate. It is a fine line to walk as savaging creationist stupidity publicly lends said
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Featuring Dark Matter2525
The title of this video is “what if you’re wrong” and yes atheist friends DM2525 does touch on that venerated old chestnut of Pascal’s Wager, but like M. Night – Can’tmakeagoodmovietosafehislife- with a twist – there are questions and consequences that the deluded must face. If your god happens to
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Feb. 12: Happy Darwin Day
February 12 is international Darwin Day, the day when we collectively celebrate science and reason. And, of course, we recognize Charles Darwin’s birthday: February 12, 1809 (the same birthdate as Abraham Lincoln, by the way). If Collingwood made such declarations, I would propose we recognize the day in our municipality.
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Back from Happy Hawaii
Synchronized phoning, coming soon to a summer Olympics near you… Trivia note: Swedish supergroup Abba’s “Why did it have to be me” was originally titled (and lyricized) as “Happy Hawaii”. But those of you who also secretly bought the 4-CD ABBA box set without admitting it to your friends, already
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Flashes of Creationist Stupidity
Alright, we already know we have enough flashes to make one hell of a light show, but this gem is really too good not to give extra attention to. Never coming to a science course near you. 🙂 Filed under: Religion Tagged: Creationist Fail, The DWR Sunday Disservice, What
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Did God Create the Universe?
Oh, probably not, but here is Discovering Religions take on why god isn’t necessary in our Universe. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Creation, Logic, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, The Universe
Continue readingEclectic Lip: The losers of Superbowl XLVIII will be…
Religious moderates. Here’s my reasoning. After the game, someone on the winning team, exulting ecstatically, will say “God was on our side” or words to that effect. It’s as sure as a post-touchdown two-point conversion attempt late in the fourth quarter, if the team is still down by a pair.
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