Discern4 has been quiet as of late, but in this comeback video he illustrates how he still has God-bothering chops of the very first order. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Bilking The Blinkered, Faith Healing, Religion, The One True Religion
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Exponential Book: Absence of evidence and evidence of absence
It has been a while since my last blog post (yes, I love euphemisms). I have not been writing for the simple reason that I ran out of things to say, a fate that I am told few, very few amateur bloggers escape. So, what am I doing here now? Well, I have
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Not Coffee You Dirty Sodomites!
Get out the duct tape! You’ll need it to keep your jaw from hitting the floor over how amazingly absurd this fine christian preacher is. Because people are protesting outside of his church they must be Sodomites and by extension the coffee that they are serving must be infused with
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: It Seems That Bill O’Reilly Got A Few Things Wrong About Jesus
At least according to scholar Resa Aslan: Recommend this Post
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Learning Lessons of History
11. Government handing over the most vulnerable to religious groups has worked out well in Canadian history: look at the residential schools — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 10, 2014 1. Canada is now a country that will offer sex workers the "option" of being sent to religious reeducation camps: https://t.co/sxaDIW1bC5
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Camping’s madness carries on
Harold Camping has been dead for almost a year, but his legacy lives on. Not just in the broken dreams of his deluded followers, but in the many lives he destroyed through his madness. You would have thought that, having predicted the end of the world several times, and been
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Featuring DarkMatter2525 – Where No God Treads
God will tell me, and I will tell you. All religious belief flows from that sentiment. Beware of it, for it has been used to manipulate countless people and instills unfounded assumptions of the unknowable in each of us, causing us to presuppose the very nature of our own experiences.
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Larry & Jerry’s Inferno
I had forgotten about this book until recently when I came across a reprint. I read it originally in the late 1970s when I was reading a lot more sci-fi than I do today. (Many years ago, I ran a Toronto computer convention where I invited the authors to be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Kidnapped for Christ – AKA Child Abuse.
What? The religious using coercive tactics to harm children. Unpossible. From Wikipedia: Kidnapped for Christ is a documentary film that details the experiences of several teenagers who were removed from their homes and sent to a behavior modification and ex-gay school in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic. The film was directed
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Our imperial conquests in the Middle East are, of course, busily blowing up in our face. The new normal is a murderous state of higgledy-piggledy brought on by us wiping out the quasi-stable societies that had kept the peace (of sorts). Because nothing says we love peace like bombing the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religous Disservice – The Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics – Objective Morality
Well you knew it was hogwash, but Anti-Citizen X unpacks and analyses how silly the idea of Objective Morality is. Unfortunately, their are many layers of stupid that come, hand in hand, with Christian Moral thought, thus necessitating the twenty minute deconstruction of all the silliness. Filed under: Philosophy, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Why Something Rather than Nothing?
The Counter Apologist takes on just one small part of questions that the religious often use when debating atheists. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Someting Rather than Nothing, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Ten Questions about the Harper Government’s embrace of war with ISIS-ISIL-IS
Ready, Aye, Ready! Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird whips up the War Party in the House of Commons. Below: Stephen Harper, the prime minister, and Edmonton Centre MP Laurie Hawn. Stephen Harper, John Baird, Laurie Hawn and the rest of the boys yesterday finally got the war in Iraq they’ve
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The Closer You Look …
The closer one looks at the ISIS thing, the more it starts looking like a sectarian war in the Middle East. Yesterday in the Globe and Mail, Robert Fowler very nicely articulated the problem with short term solutions to the mess in Iraq, and today I spotted a really interesting
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Global Regina Bullied by Racists Into Censorship
Racists who were criticizing the launch of a new mosque in Regina, forced the TV station to remove the news story from their Facebook page, rather than report and delete the offensive comments. Some of the racists were not even from Regina (one persisting is from the deep south). When
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Unity in Diversity
Polycarp of Smyrna Former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, or LBP – not to be confused with U.S. President LBJ, dominant Japanese political party the LDP, or women’s wardrobe staple the LBD – once obscurely remarked that Canada needed to maintain a “unity in diversity”. (I’d’ve written “famously remarked”,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Disproving Geo Centrism – Part 10?
Who knew we would need 10 segments to properly dismember Geocentric theory. I’m still sorta shocked that people would believe in Geocentrism in 2014. Filed under: Religion, Science Tagged: Confirmation bias, Geocentrism, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on Justin Trudeau’s remarkable demand that Stephen Harper set up a federal shun registry to make life easier for Trudeau politically. For further reading…– Trudeau’s Question Period interview is here, with the key passage starting at about the 3:15 mark. And some Libs went so far as to trumpet
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Planting the Toxic Seed
Religion doesn’t just happen in the 21st century in the West. Religion must be instilled into children, magic and fable must be taught to be revered and most darkly, the fear of eternal punishment must be enshrined in young minds. Hell for children is a very real fear –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Whelp – Conversion time for me…
Religion plies its trade in fear. Thank you khaki dude for providing such a clear example. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Fear, Humour, Psychology, Religion, Satan
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