By now most people (the US being the notable exception) get that religion is a toxic entity that has no place in the 21st century. The insipid nature of religion is usually highlighted in the DWR Sunday Disservice, however today will be different. Today we get to share one persons
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Muslim clerics rally to protect Christian girl
Pakistan is so saturated with Muslim fanaticism that hearing about a host of clerics joining hands with leaders of other faiths to strike a blow for justice is refreshing indeed. News from Pakistan is replete with stories of religious barbarism, including the appalling law that provides the death penalty for
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Creationism, not Appropriate for Children
Or anyone who claims to be rational. I’m not sure how the religious do the whole indoctrination thing with a straight face. Can you imagine? Child: How were we made? Parent: Well you see this magic ooga-booga decided to scrape some mud together and breath life into it about
Continue readingEclectic Lip: How Libertarians brought America Big Religion and Bigger Lawsuits…
(originally written Nov 2010; uploaded Aug 21, 2012 as part of my Great Upload of Musings… for balance, I’ll soon post the follow-up which praises some portions of libertarian philosophy which are very dear to my progressive heart. Politics makes for strange bedfellows, and I’m not above shacking up with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christian “Anti-Choice” Site Advocates No Abortion for Child Rape Victims.
Christian ‘morals’ plus the abortion issue and dudes, you know where we are headed…. I’m not sure if I like the “reader” function that wordpress offers as a part of its blogging platform. Searching the Abortion tag seems to consistently raise my blood pressure because of beastly shite that I
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Isn’t it time to put an end to the Međugorje fraud?
Being someone who happens to be a kid born in Canada of parents from Croatia, this is bound to ruffle some feathers including some within my “ethnic group”. But it’s way past time to put logic into the alleged three decades long non-stop apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Međugorje,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christianity Supporting Rape and Slavery – Doug Wilson.
Thank you to Slender Means for posting this, everything below this disclaimer is hers: This is a very long post (linked below) but it is worth reading to see what some Christians still want to teach and believe about gender roles and norms, men’s rights to women’s bodies, and women
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Killing is Wrong(?)
The neat thing about bad arguments is that usually they are layered in thick and fast that you don’t catch them the first time,so you have to slow down and rewind the tape to see the intersectionality of wrongness and then unweave the fail. Today’s disservice is dedicated to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Teach the Controversy
Some of what I dislike about creationists stems from their basic epistemological premises. For instance the idea that belief in an idea ipso facto makes it correct. The harder you believe in something, the more correct you are. Of course this idea is just one of the pathologically shitty ideas
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: University of California Prof and author calls Sikh temple bombing ‘Christian Terrorism’…and I agree
A funny thing happens when people get old, many lose their sense of fairness. Something you hear from children almost every day is: “That’s not fair”, and oftentimes they’re one hundred per cent right. Of course they’re just kids, and as we grow older many of us come to accept
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Christian churches speaking out on Northern Gateway- Why are evangelicals silent?
Some of Canada’s Christian churches are giving voice to concerns over the Northern Gateway pipeline, in particular to the potential hazards it poses with respect to aboriginal peoples and wildlife. Kairos Canada has put out a primer for its member churches called: Ethical Reflections on the Northern Gateway Pipeline Kairos
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Chick-Fil-H8
Last week I didn’t know Chick-Fil-A existed, or how to say it. I wish I still didn’t. That sack of meat, dirt bag owner of the chain is welcome to cluck right off. What sort of faux-Christianity is it to use the Bible to fill a capitalist business after they
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Romney should audition for Keystone Kops with his mouth
Remember four years ago and Barack Obama’s goodwill tour of Europe — well before the Democratic convention — and how it brought out people in the tens of thousands; including 200,000 at Victory Column in Berlin. No surprise there as he was spreading the word of reconciliation with the NATO
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Noah’s Flood Debunked.
A now classic video by Potholer54 showing with considerable acumen how wrong the Flood myth and by extension, biblical creation, is. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christian Mythology, Debunked and put to rest., PotHoler54, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, The Flood
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Forty-seven Signs of the Apocalypse (#32)
From the Book of Toll-Free Numbers And lo, there will come a time when it will be possible to talk to the other Faithful, who live at great distances. Truly, there shall be some among us who will provideth of … Continue reading →
Continue readingTrashy's World: More Americans than ever claim no religious affiliation!
This is an encouraging sign coming from the USA. Unbelief is on the uptick. People who check “None” for their religious affiliation are now nearly one in five Americans (19%), the highest ever documented, according to the Pew Center for the People and the Press. The rapid rise of Nones
Continue readingTrashy's World: This is logic – and THIS is…
…the logic of religion! LOL! (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – “Just say no to Polio Vaccinations, Love Allah”
Watch what happens when you mix broken foreign policy with religion… “One of Pakistan’s most influential clerics has renounced his support for polio immunisation, claiming that the programme is a cover for American spies.” Pakistan needs less of this particular brand of religious stupidity. The stupid is compounded by the
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: This year, Ramadan has a serious Google twist
Today, over a billion Muslims around the world begin to observe the holy month of Ramadan, fasting from dawn to sunset. This year, Google is in on the action. In a serious way. The search engine behemoth will stream Islamic prayers live from Mecca via a dedicated YouTube channel. That means millions around the world
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Qualia Soup – Secularism
Qualia soup argues for secularism and its benefits to atheists and theists. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Qualia Soup, Secularism, Secularism is good for society
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