Anglican churches in Nova Scotia and P.E.I. will now apparently have the individual autonomy to choose to bless same-sex marriages. A tiny step to be certain, but at least it’s one in the right direction.
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Dead Wild Roses: The Cleavage between Science and Religion – Richard Dawkins
When the religious compare their dogma of choice to science it is almost always a grand misrepresentation of what science actually is. One can break it down for them categorically for instance: religion – requires a belief in magic and the supernatural science – requires a dedication to finding the evidence and testable facts about […]
Dead Wild Roses: Atheism – Standing up for your Rights.
The world wide atheist community has stood up for Damon Fowler. Providing over 20, 000 dollars toward his post-secondary education. What heinous crime has Mr.Fowler committed that resulted in threats to his person, public defamation by his teachers and being kicked out of the family house? Expressing his rights, guaranteed by the Constitution of […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – How Religion Poisions Everything – Hitchens
Religion is one of the factors that constantly works against civilization and the values of the Enlightenment. Belief in magic and the supernatural, a wish to return to the Dark Ages is remarkable exercise in puerile wish-fulfillment. Strong argumentation, relentless morality and ridicule are the only answers to the plague of religion. The purulent immorality […]
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: When is a scholarship a "forgiveable loan" (or vice versa)?
A very interesting class action lawsuit has been launched here in The Hammer. It involves students of Redeemer University College and their parents who claim they were ripped off by an enticing “forgiveable loan” scheme to offset the costs of the t…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Gender As Afterthought
It’s not so strange to want children to be safe from bullying. It’s also not strange to want children to grow up whoever they want to be. One thing many people take for granted is that a person’s gender matches their sex organs. Obviously for millions of people around the world (homosexuals, transgendered, two spirited), […]
Canadian Soapbox: Time for the post Rapture headcount….
May 21 came and went with no earthquakes or other disasters to speak of, unless you think this blog qualifies. The Rapture was supposed to happen on Saturday, and near as I can tell we’re all still here. For those unfamiliar with what the Raptur…
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: The world ended yesterday
Or not. Nothing happened. What a shock. No quakes, no Rapture, no nothing. The closest we came were some day-early Victoria Day fireworks in Canada and some American atheist jokesters laying full clothing outfits out on the street and sending off helium-filled inflatable plastic bodies into the sky. On this site, a non-scientific poll was […]
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Obama: 1967 borders, please
It’s quite the provocation in the minds of many, but Barack Obama has done an almost complete reversal of what he said when campaigning in 2008.
At a meeting of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, then Senator Obama said that he suppo…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Market research for a new religion
Having looked into various religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam I’ve decided that the marketplace is in bad need of a new faith, but given our modern age I think some market research is in order first. After all, new products and servic…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Is Christianity an evil religion?
It has become something of a common practice for those of the Christian faith to ask whether Islam is an inherently “evil” religion. I’ve even heard fundamentalists question whether Muslims worship Satan. Just type “Is Islam an evil religion” int…
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: In Defense of Abortion
In this month’s Canadian federal election, abortion was not an issue. However, whenever election time roles around in North America, the issue of abortion tends to garner at least a little bit more conversation than normal, even if it is not a specific policy issue. Social conservatives will want to elect politicians who may one […]
Progressive Proselytizing: On Faith and Inductive Logic
Perhaps largely due to its strong religious associations, the word ‘faith’ is often significantly abused by both sides of the religious debate. The result has been some consistent misconceptions about the meaning and significance of the word.
Firstly,…
Death By Trolley: Less than a week until nothing out of the ordinary happens. Poll: How will Rapturites react?
It is no longer news that a small group of devout American Christians are eagerly awaiting this coming Saturday, May 21st, which they believe will see the Rapture of all spiritually and morally upstanding Christians into Heaven, leaving the rest of us behind. As described on their website, WeCanKnow.Com, this group also believes that on […]
Don’t Let Life Get You Down . . . .
Two weeks from tomorrow it’ll all be moot, anyway.Stock up on emergency supplies and offer to take care of your “believing” friends’ pets when they are released from their earthly ties . . . .Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Japan tsunami
No politics, entertainment, business or whatever, and for the obvious reasons …
Certainly this is a sad day with the news about one of the biggest earthquakes (8.9, off Honshu, although some reports say as much as 9.2) and tsunamis ever recorded ca…
Continue readingDTK: Catholic Child Abusers
No, I’m not not talking about the priests who are forcibly sodomizing little boys. That deserves attention, undoubtedly, but I’m talking about mental abuse. This kind of bullshit. It wasn’t until her seven-year-old son asked her if he’d burn in hell that Marjorie Kirsop became concerned.But this fall, when five-year-old
Continue readingDTK: Catholic Child Abusers
No, I’m not not talking about the priests who are forcibly sodomizing little boys. That deserves attention, undoubtedly, but I’m talking about mental abuse. This kind of bullshit. It wasn’t until her seven-year-old son asked her if he’d burn in hell that Marjorie Kirsop became concerned.But this fall, when five-year-old
Continue readingDTK: Catholic Child Abusers
No, I’m not not talking about the priests who are forcibly sodomizing little boys. That deserves attention, undoubtedly, but I’m talking about mental abuse. This kind of bullshit.
It wasn’t until her seven-year-old son asked her if he’d burn in hell that Marjorie Kirsop became concerned.
But this fall, when five-year-old Sarah Kirsop declared she had converted to Catholicism …
Let’s pretend for a moment that I, as a public school Grade 2 teacher, actually did what us “militant” atheists are accused of doing every day – and tried to force everyone to our non-religion.
Imagine, Mrs. Baptist’s children came home and said:
“Mommy, Mr. DTK told us in school today that Jesus is a fairy tale. Did you know that? He even showed us parts of the bible that are wrong!”
I’d be fired in a day, union or no union.
So how come the only school board in the town of Morinville, Alberta – a school board which is officially a public school board – is allowed to teach hellfire and brimstone to the children of non-believers?
Riddle me that.
Bunch of jerks.
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: Galactic Ruler Xenu Hires a Lawyer
There once was a guy who wrote sci-fi short stories for pulp magazines. Then one day he wrote this story:75 million years ago, the earth was over-populated with 186 billion people, so its ruler rounded up most of the people and put them in volcanoes an…
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