I really wish my job was harder on finding and featuring the appalling nature of religion and the horrible shite it makes people do. Today’s disservice features Cardinal Timothy Dolan arguing that if forced to allow women access to birth control they intend to cease their charitable work done
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The Sixth Estate: Why Catholic Schools Should Be Allowed To Discriminate Against Gay Students
Why exactly this is news I can’t imagine, because it’s been brewing for years now. It was brewing when I was living in Ontario — and I’m not anymore. But anyways, as you’ve no doubt heard by now, the Catholic Church is enraged that the provincial government is putting strings
Continue readingTerahertz: Prayers in Peterborough go to court
Canadian Atheist blogger Veronica Abbass has taken her opposition with the Peterborough city council’s practice of reciting Christian prayers to court. Her lawyer, Dan Mayo, is a Humanist Officiant and is active in the Humanist Association of Ottawa. A woman is taking the City of Peterborough to court over the
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Note to Roman Catholic Church – If you take public $ you have to answer for it
Ah Rome and her church, the last crumbling and rotting vestige of a once powerful global empire. The Toronto Star is reporting that Cardinal Thomas Collins, archbishop of Toronto, has his robes in a knot over not being able to discriminate against students with a homosexual orientation. Go cry to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Christian Love – “Homosexuals are worthy of Death”
I do love what the commitment to mythology does to people. Religion distorts empathy and reason and allows bigots like the pastor featured in this clip to get away with spewing more than a few spitefully atrocious statements. It is funny though for a religion that often claims to represent
Continue readingTrashy's World: Gee…
… corruption within the Catholic Church! Who woulda thunk it? I mean, it’s just a modern institution that is sure to have complex internal mechanisms to prevent such folly, right? Things cannot have changed that much since the 14th century, right? Those billions of dollars that are funneled to the
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ask General Kang: What do you do when you ask God to smite your enemies, but no smiting ensues?
Ah, you human monkeys and your penchant for violent fiction! Of course, this question has no meaning for me, because I have neither been influenced by the collective delusion you call “God”, nor have I ever asked anyone else to … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe religious come up with more crackpot reasons for their beliefs, this time it’s health
Despite the fact that people are significantly healthier when attending a yoga class, palates, TRX, or just working out by themselves versus not doing any kind of exercise or physical activity on a regular basis, the religious care not but to emphasize the health benefits of going to church. In
Continue readingArt Threat: How the West Was Won – Art of Nicola Verlato
Nicola Verlato’s “How the West Was One” is a visually striking series of oil on canvas that tells the tale of the culture clash between monotheism and polytheism throughout human history. Depictions of wild west cowboys versus natives, depictions of the sacred heart and more flare with brilliance in his
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Babies in Hell
Like to watch Christians tie themselves in knots trying to explain/justify sending infants to burn forever? Yah..me too. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Babies in Hell, Christianity, How Religion Poisons Everything, Religious Violence
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Shifting Sands of Evidence & Argument – Why Religious Arguments Fail to Persuade
This is a technical look at religious arguments, both for and against the way way in which religion describes our experience. I suggest you skim the preview of the paper for more understanding, but the video is an adequate primer for answering the following question – Are your beliefs, theistic
Continue readingFive of Five: Draw Mohammed Day 2012
I forgot today was the third annual Draw Mohammed Day, a popular internet movement born out of frustration with violent reactions to simple parodies such as cartoons. While I had mixed feelings about it, on the whole I think these kind of movements are quite appropriate. Islam is one of
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Parenting, North Carolina style
North Carolina Pastor Encourages Parents to Use Violence on Effeminate Children “Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Jesus Loves the Hell Math Redux
Not too long ago Mystro wrote a persuasive piece about how horrible the ramifications are of being tormented for eternity and the loopy logic involved therein. Today’s Disservice will revisit that topic, only now in a helpful youtube video format to illustrate the machinations of a loving and just god.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Obscenity of Christianity – Thunderf00t on WLC
As if you need another reason to hate the rotten edifice of christian religion… Filed under: Religion Tagged: Deluded Christians, Morality, Religion, Thunderf00t, WLC
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Christian crackpot radio and useless Bible prophecy
I’ve been doing a fair bit of driving lately, often between the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Québec City. Entertainment while behind the wheel is typically my car stereo as my vehicle is over 15 years old and doesn’t have a CD player. Anyone remember cassettes? I make good use of
Continue readingTerahertz: No, I don’t
Look at this photo. What do you see? I see the moon, some clouds, a tree, and an over-exposed light post in the foreground. The Calgary Herald wants to know if you’re as pareidolia-susceptible as their reader L. Wolanski and see Jesus in the clouds. Nevermind how angry this story
Continue readingTerahertz: CFI Canada skips critical thinking
Last week a story broke from Nova Scotia that a high school student was suspended for wearing a t-shirt that said “Life is wasted without Jesus”. The story went that the student wore the same shirt several days in a row (let’s assume he washed it or had multiple ones
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – You Can’t Explain It: Must Have Been God
There is a conversation that happens all the time between theists and non-believers. I have engaged in it many times myself as well as observed others engaging in it more times than I can count. While there are a number of seemingly valid ways atheists could deal with this conversation,
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: On the compatibility of science and religion
Most people accept, at least tacitly, the majority of scientific claims: general relativity, quantum mechanics, pharmaceuticals; people accept that these work more or less the way the scientists say they do. Indeed, in almost all aspects of our lives people accept that a reasoned, evidential basis for knowledge is paramount.
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