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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Dead Wild Roses: “Pro Life” Procedure For Men
Role reversal. It’s a fantastic way to check if a situation is horribly wrong. A brilliant example of this is found about 3 minutes in on this pretty great video. It follows the point I made in a previous post, but in a new, wonderfully hilarious way. Watch, laugh, be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Sodom and Gomorra – Featuring DarkMatter2525
As with most biblical examinations – Trigger Warning for Rape, Violence, and Profanity. Isn’t it cute when Christians ask atheists how they can be moral without god, when actually the converse is the correct question? 🙂 Filed under: Religion Tagged: DarkMatter2525, Sodom and Gomorra, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Further to York University’s Discrimination Issues…
If you haven’t heard, a York University prof denied a student’s request to work in all male groups for religious reasons. York’s Centre for Human Rights suggested the student should be granted the request to avoid being with women in public. I commented with my views here: I see
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Answers for Atheists
Pulling down the turgid crown of religious obeisance is high on most atheists “to do” lists. Easier said than done. Getting into the atheist loop and then bringing your wisdom to the faithful can be a tricky undertaking. One of the foremost requirements of being an atheist is possessing a
Continue readingReligious persecution on the rise
The Pew Research Center recently published a study of religious persecution over the period 2007-12 and the results aren’t pretty. Of 198 countries and territories included in the study, 29 per cent had high or very high government restrictions on religion and 33 per cent had high or very high
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Quebec Charter and the Religion that Kills
I think I can safely say that in the icy heart of this Harperland winter, just about the last thing I want to think about, talk about, or write about is the Quebec's Secular Charter.I've written about it before, and no doubt I'll write about it again. But not tonight.Tonight I'll
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Monumental Stupidity
Hold the phone gentle readers, the persecuted christian majority in the United States is once again in crisis mode. Why? Satanists want to put up a religious monument of their own, just like the pious Christians have done on the capitol grounds. The threat of Satan beckoning to them, on
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Movie Interlude – Fist of Jesus
A jesus I can get behind. 🙂 Gore and silliness warning. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Atheism, DWR Friday Movie Interlude, Fist of Jesus, Humour, Religion, Zombie
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – In Case of Emergency Just Add Hot Air.
In the spirit of the holidays we here at DWR are going to go easy (for one week at least) on the religiously deluded, thus today’s disservice is a gift, only for religious emergencies mind you. 🙂 Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Emergency Pope, Humour, The DWR Sunday Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I Want My Own Personal Chat Bot
Browsing the time sink known as Reddit today I came across a very cool comic showing someone building a chat-bot to debate a theist. I googled the title of the comic and found the original as well a very awesome comic called Bag of Toast. I highly recommend checking it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: US Christians led Astray by Republican Party – “Shocking.”
I know, I know. Belief in magic is not really the best way to run anything, but rather than focusing on the silly nature of believing in the Grand Oooga-Booga, lets look at how those in power keep their ‘base’ ignorant and happy to continue to lap up all mendacity
Continue readingMontreal Simon: What Christmas Means to Me. Again.
I wrote this post a few years ago, after somebody questioned how an atheist like me, could celebrate Christmas. And I've run it every year since then on this day, because with some minor revisions to accommodate the passage of time, it still sums up how I feel about this day. It's Christmas Day, and
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Remember the reason for the season: It’s time to put Krampus back into Christmas
Jiggers, look busy, it’s Krampus! And why is this mom giving him the thumbs up, I wonder? Below: Santa Claus, the God of Coca-Cola; Che Guevara; and Jesus Christ. Never mind Jesus Christ! It’s time to put Krampus back into Christmas. Who the hell is Krampus, you wonder? Well, we’ll
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Saying "Merry Christmas!"
I’ve come across a few recent bits of writing from people who think we should do away with “Merry Christmas.” Even though I’m an atheist, I love Christmas, and I really hope I don’t offend people with the following because it is Christmas and all! The rules around what’s allowed during
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Immoral, Unethical Nature of Religion
Late to the party as usual, this mash-up of Sam Harris laying the smack down on christianity is too good not to post. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christian Mythology, How Religion Poisons Everything, Immoral Religious Behaviour, Religion, Sam Harris, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, Uneithical Religious Behaviour
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: American belief in evolution is growing: poll
A new Harris poll released this month shows that Americans apparently are losing their belief in miracles and gaining it in science. The recent poll showed that American belief in evolution had risen to 47% from its previous poll level of 42%, in 2005. True, it’s not an overwhelming increase, and
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Don’t sweat it Pope Francis, Jesus pissed off the rich and powerful too…
Pope Francis has recently been harshly criticized for bemoaning the imbalance that exists in our world, an imbalance between the rich and the poor. Some, like Rush Limbaugh, have accused the Pope of being a Marxist, while demonstrating a total la…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Don’t sweat it Pope Francis, Jesus pissed off the rich and powerful too…
Pope Francis has recently been harshly criticized for bemoaning the imbalance that exists in our world, an imbalance between the rich and the poor. Some, like Rush Limbaugh, have accused the Pope of being a Marxist, while demonstrating a total lack of understanding of what Marxism even is. Good for
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Don’t sweat it Pope Francis, Jesus pissed off the rich and powerful too…
Pope Francis has recently been harshly criticized for bemoaning the imbalance that exists in our world, an imbalance between the rich and the poor. Some, like Rush Limbaugh, have accused the Pope of being a Marxist, while demonstrating a total lack of understanding of what Marxism even is. Good for
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