It is funny how often this claim comes up when engaging with the godbaggy crowd. You would think, seeing the historical record of authoritarian rule, that blindly following the dictates would not be a celebrated accomplishment. Potholer54 takes a hard look at this claim and provides a solid factual argument
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Trashy's World: A big reason why I’m an atheist…
is that I’m smarter than that. Only fools believe. Sorry if you are offended. But guys like these are your spokepeeps. 20 Children died because a fictional bogeyman has been called into question! GOD has been removed from schools so some fuckhead shot 20 little kids?? Proud to be an
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: An Atheist Celebrates a Secular Christmas in a Multicultural Canada
So why would a non-Christian celebrate Christmas. Well first of all from a religious point of view Jesus Christ is not just the Christian Messiah but also considered to be an important prophet amongst both Muslims and Jews so there is no reason they cannot celebrate his birth, while not
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: America’s Intolerant WBC Fundamentalists
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I watched this. laugh because Russell Brand* just runs circles around these guys from the Westboro Church and they don’t seem to realize when they are being mocked. Fish in a barrel, I suppose. Cry … Continue reading →
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – DarkMatter2525 on God’s Priorities
One way to tell your position is full of shite? The amount of mental gymnastics required to make it sound coherent and palatable to someone else. Care to guess where christianity fits into the picture? Let DarkMatter2525 give you a clue: Spend some time thinking if you have the god-bug
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: This is a cover version by Jock Mackay (with a few updated…
This is a cover version by Jock Mackay (with a few updated lyrics) of the underrated and relatively unknown John Lennon song “Serve Yourself”, which is a scathing attack on organized religion. Lennon wrote and recorded the song in 1980, several months before he was assassinated by a stalker with
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: How to Survive the Mayan Apocalypse
How will anyone survive the “end of the world” predicted for December 21, 2012? Easy: by breathing. That’s because it won’t happen. That the Mayans never predicted it would seems to have bypassed a few of the tin-foil-hat brigade. The complex … Continue reading →
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice and Hero of the Day Special Edition: Malala Yousafzai
I have done a few ‘Hero of the Day’ posts and I have a few more on the ways. The recipients have done great work spreading important information, rallying against injustice, educating us masses, and have been generally awesome. But today’s hero is special. On top of those usual achievements, she’s done it all while […]
Dead Wild Roses: Love letters to God:You’re a Son of Bitch, you know that?
The Latin translation: Am I to believe those were the acts of a loving God? A just God? A wise God? To hell with Your punishments! I was Your servant on Earth – I spread Your word and did Your work. To hell with your punishments! To hell with You!” Filed under: Atheism Tagged: evil, […]
ROAR!: Oh Dear Lord – Prayer in the PEI Legislature
A couple weeks ago I was asked to go sit in the gallery of the PEI Legislature, during Question Period, as a reminder to MLAs that folks from the ‘Stop Plan B’ group will still be watching and encouraging continued discussion about ‘the highway that no one wanted’. While we
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religion needs to stand down.
In this space we often decry religion for what it is: toxically delusional buffoonery that still has the gall to raise its putrid head in the light of the 21st century. Here at DWR we regularly delve into the myriad of topics relating to how religion poisons everything it touches and the shite secular rational […]
Dead Wild Roses: Go to Hell – Well, If I Must.
My workshoppe of elves occasionally sends me content of the awesome variety. I share this atheist tidbit with you today. 🙂
Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Religion, Things that make me smile, Your Atheist Thought of the Day
Continue readingTerahertz: Safe and filthy sex
I did a quick interview this morning for a country music radio station in Abbotsford, which followed up on this story that ran in Vancouver’s 24 Hours yesterday. The story prompted the following email from a fan with an Ontario email address (a province that has recently bowed to pressure
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Know your Tomfoolery – 7TH Day Adventists
Religious magic comes in so many wacky flavours. The Religious Antagonist interviews people who have found their senses and can give us an inside look at the belly of the beast.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christianity, Know your Sect, Religion, R…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Burn Victims
TW for squick. Tell me again about your just, kind, and loving god… Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Belief, Christianity, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Terahertz: I get email: Bibles and Abstinence
Posted without comment. TO: Ian Bushfield—B.C. Humanist Association DATE: November 17–2012 FROM: Leonard R., Abbotsford, B.C. SUBJECT: Article in Abbotsford Times — Nov. 8–2012 The article states you have protested to the Minister of Education of B.C. about the free distribution of Bibles to Grade 5 students at various schools
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Savita Halappanavar’s Death – Victory for the Irish Catholic “Pro-Life” Murder Brigade
I needed some time to digest this story… Sorry folks but that is a lie. I needed some time to come back to a (relatively) coherent state before I could write reasonably about what went down with Savita Halappanavar. A post filled with nothing but white-hot rage and invective against the pustulant ass-pimples known as […]
Bryan Crockett: Yes/no?
On a lot of specific things, opinions are a pretty binary yes/no or on/off kind of thing, especially when they come to identifying with labels. Are you a Liberal? How about a Conservative? Are you a Christian? Atheist? Muslim? Sikh? The answers to these questions are often a lot less
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Dumbest Question Award.
The “gotcha” question is tempting, oh so sorely tempting. The problem is, what if the question you decide to ask reflects poorly on you and your general level of ignorance. As with most train-wrecks, the results are ugly. Watch Potholer dismantle yet another clueless christian creationist with nothing but the sober reality of empirical fact. […]
Dead Wild Roses: You Can’t Make Shite Like this Up – Delusional Christians and Obama
It is like watching a traffic accident, everyone just slows down and gawks at the spectacle at hand. The wordpress reader made me slow down and read this post from Cynthia on The Trumpet Sound. Now usually when I see the godbaggy speak oozing forth from a blog I just keep on going knowing that […]