Pastor Marc Grizzard, of Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, NC is back in the news this week, but I’m not really sure if it’s because of something he did or something that was dredged up online from a few years back and has just been regurgitated. This week, a
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Blevkog: It’s Not the End of the World
His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Russell Brand’s Politics
I want to look at a few things Russell Brand has to say – in print and on video (quotations below are from both). As Elizabeth Renzetti said in yesterday’s Globe & Mail, he’s resonating with people. But, as she also suggests, he’s not going far enough clearly enough for others
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Anti-Intellectualism: The New Elitism
There’s a growing – and disturbing – trend in modern culture: anti-intellectual elitism. The dismissal of art, science, culture, philosophy, of rhetoric and debate, of literature and poetry, and their replacement by entertainment, spectacle, self-righteous self ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. These are usually followed by vituperative ridicule and angry caterwauling
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA: Don’t Not Have Sex
It is nice every once and awhile see how religious thinking, in this case, opposing contraception (let’s not mention abortion because women in control of their reproductive destinies really is just satanic) looks like if we follow through on the policy. Filed under: Education Tagged: Contraception, DWR PSA, Religion, sex
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Pouring Salt into Creationist Wounds
It is fascinating to browse the wordpress reader and see all the posts that start with God says…and the bible sayeth and all of the other faux-flowery shards of bullshit that immediately marks the contents of the following paragraphs as absolute bollocks. Unfailingly, magic is consulted, mythology is taken as
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Atheists Just Want to Sin!
Well duh? I mean if we couldn’t stop the 25/8 festival of sin centered fun that all atheists share, why would be atheists? Darkmatter2525 has a rather poignant reply to some of the horsepucky thrown at gentle unbelievers. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Atheists Just Want to Sin!, Christianity,
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Reading Mark Twain…’Christian Science’
Reading Mark Twain…’Christian Science’ ‘Christian Science’….Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1907 I was continuing my task of reading anything available, in print or on the internet, when I came upon this book, over a century old, in the recesses of one of my storage boxes. The volume
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Religious Morality?
Anti-Citizen X lays waste to the idea that morality is divinely inspired. Shorter video – God is unnecessary for moral behaviour. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Anti-Citizen X, Morality, Religion, The Immorality of Christianity
Continue readingTerahertz: Revised Charter: Less Hypocrisy, More Intolerance
A new report suggests the separatist Government of Quebec is listening to some of the criticisms of its proposed Charter of Values. Supposedly the Parti Quebecois will now include a provision to remove the crucifix that has been hanging in the National Assembly since 1936 and “a previous exemption for
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Poor Lao Tzu: He Gets Blamed for So Much
Poor Lao Tzu. He gets saddled with the most atrocious of the New Age codswallop. As if it wasn’t enough to be for founder of one of the most obscure philosophies (not a religion, since it has no deity), he gets to be the poster boy for all sorts of
Continue readingTerahertz: Catholics crash poll to protect privilege
Ontario’s Liberal government has done something really cool in setting up an online database for policy ideas that can be submitted and voted up or down to prioritize what the province should be doing. One ambitious member of a local Young Liberal riding suggested merging the Catholic and Public school
Continue readingTerahertz: “If you don’t feel comfortable with your children in that kind of milieu, don’t send your students here.”
Following up on the religious proselytization and abstinence-only sex education occurring in Edmonton Public Schools comes a quote from Orville Chubb, candidate for the Edmonton Public School Board, from his time as executive director of Meadowlark Christian School Foundation. Chubb was asked in 2011 about a proposed anti-homophobia policy at
Continue readingTerahertz: Two sides of a coin
There is no inherent contradiction in viewing fundamentalist religious headgear as misogynistic while still supporting an individual’s religious freedom, so why does the media keep painting it as such? The Charter of Quebec Values is creating a huge, perhaps irreparable rift in the province’s women’s movement. For feminists, there is
Continue readingTerahertz: The end of Catholic Schools: Not with a bang but with “creeping incrementalism”
The Windsor Star has a story about how declining enrollment a in local secular and Catholic school boards (both publicly funded) are forcing creative solutions as funding declines. It sharply highlights the growing need to consider amalgamating the competing systems into a single non-discriminatory body. Unsurprisingly the local Catholics remain
Continue readingTerahertz: Quebec Charter hurting secular efforts
Efforts to defend the separation of church and state in English Canada are already suffering as Quebec’s Charter of Secularism Values is used to argue that secularism is “exclusionary” or intolerant. The latest example comes from the City of Saskatoon, where the city is considering options for a prayer policy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Biblical Baby Mamas
Darkmatter2525 takes us into Genesis to highlight the idea that god is a douche. Dark Matter’s take on genesis is crude, so be forewarned. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Biblical Motherhood, Christianity, DarkMatter2525, NSFW Bible Stories, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dr. Goldenberg – God’s Role in Government -Liveblog
At the Filmpool , where an overfull crowd has gathered for a UofR religious studies lecture. 7:06 introductions are done by Luther College and another. Luther HS students present for a class assignment. What is religion and what does it have to do with governments around the world? Huge question.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Teen Exorcists Brainwashed to Exploit the Desperate
It’s a sad day friends. I was all primed to deliver a hilarious disservice, mocking some religious lunacy that rivals e-meters, magic underwear, and sin-absorbing chickens. As I researched further, however, the humour faded rapidly to be replaced with revulsion and dismay. It all started earlier this week when I
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Key of Keys
Egoless divine pride: the most glorious concept I have ever heard – from Tibetan Buddhism. The Uttara Tantra elaborates: There once was a prince, who lost his memory and forgot who he was. Lost in forgetfulness and confusion, he wandered aimlessly, and became a homeless beggar. Years later, a minister
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