What? No religious tomfoolery to debunk and slam? Even the practiced old hands here at DWR need a break from the usual turkeyshoot of specious religious arguments that get passed off as ‘debate’ these days. In that light, I present this article from Alternet that attempts to give us non
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Dead 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 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 readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice Featuring Theramin Trees – Death Part 2
The lengths we go through to gain the illusion of control… Enjoy this thoughtful exploration of death and atheism. Filed under: Atheism Tagged: Death, How Religion Poisons Everything, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, theramin trees
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Easter Sunday – god still not good.
Debating the religious on a one to one basis is almost always an exercise in frustration. The religious indoctrination often runs both wide and deep making finding a reasonable starting point extremely difficult. What is beneficial is to listen to both side advance their arguments and then deconstruct them
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The End Times – Again?
If the world isn’t ending, some factions of the christian deluded just are NOT happy. What is amusing as all heck is that people keep believing these ‘prophets’ even though they are always laughably wrong. Watch as yet another doomsayer spews a boatload of lies for the faithful to worry
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Relgious Disservice: The Office of Religious Freedom? – Captain, set the “stupid” to Full!
We believe in spending your money on departments whose focus is the encouragement of illusion over reality. That is all. Where to begin with such a malodorous concept? Starting with irony is always good, so… for instance how about the blinding irony of the Conservatives dedication to ‘austerity and smaller
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Atheist Conversations
Why do atheists hate so much? Is it some sort of unnatural compulsion to blasphemy and make the religious feel uncomfortable? Well, not really. The message from this part of the atheist community is clear: believing in the supernatural is not rational and basing decisions that affect people and institutions
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – How do you know its *your* God?
Yes, we do mock religion here. Necessarily so. Today on the Disservice we look at the burning question (heh) of knowing if your magical sky fairy is indeed the correct sky fairy to be spending your time worshipping. I can think of a few possible responses from the deluded that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Family Action Council of Tennessee – Making Hate A Priority.
You would think that for one week, just one week, I could skip the DWR Sunday Disservice. I’d be happy to say, “Oh hey, the religious have not done anything horribly immoral or unethical,this is a good week.” Not gonna frakin’ happen. This amazingly batshite nutbuttery slice of insipid
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disserivce – Happy Darwin Day!
Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. In this episode of the Disservice we dispense with the direct god-bothering and present a BBC documentary on Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. It is important to recognize
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Religion poisons everything. Never fails.
Sometimes I get asked by the faithful as to why I advocate so strongly against religion. It is hard to know where to start sometimes, but sadly incidents like what is happening in Minnesota at Anoka High School makes it all to easy. Religion promotes intolerance, hatred and bigotry.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Proselytizing for Jeebus – The Real Story
Former Preacher Dan Barker summarizes the ‘good news’ in less than two minuets. How many people would sign up if they were actually served up the truth about christianity as presented by Mr.Barker. I’m guessing that the cognitive dissonance would be too much for most people in the non-gilded form
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – WLC for the “lulz”.
I’ve always found WLC’s arguments to be a bit frothy, and unnecessarily wordy, perhaps even straying into the realm of prolix. The Disservice today focuses on the reasons why prominent atheists and other intellectuals are wary of, or outright refuse to ‘debate’ WLC and his ilk. Filed under: Religion Tagged:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Slavery approved by jesus, god etc.
I love the Bible. I love christians who don’t actually take the time to read this heinous turd of bronze-age mendacity. I extra-love christians who claim that there can be no morality without god. Basing your morality on the dubious actions and pronouncements of a god-head who is self contradictory
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Reason for the Season
Sometimes Calvin says it best. For a wordier explanation see this video Take care everyone. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Be Kind to Others, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disserivce – Skeletor sends you to hell!
Not so much of the unveiled hate we’re used to this disservice, but more of an exploration of the hoops people will jump through to keep their chosen godhead happy. This video is about growing up in a fundamentalist christian household and the demonstrably evil toys that were not
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Boom! Headshot! – god’s kill count by the Numbers!
The god of justice, compassion and eternal fiery torment for us atheist types gives us proof of his love in his most revered book… I’m thinking with a kill streak like that god probably has an *aimbot. (* For those unfamiliar with FPS computer gaming – an aimbot is
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – God of the Paradox
Finding out that many religions are paradoxical is like making the discovery that there happens to be chlorine in salt. Looking at the basis of the christian god it is obvious that not one, but several paradoxes are required to make sense of who or what he/she happens to be.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Evil Evolutionists! – The Hobby Horse of Creationism
It is always funny to watch people try to argue against evolution without actually knowing what evolution is. Constructing straw men to beat down, making appeals to ignorance and arguments from incredulity seem to be the game plan for most arguments of the religious against well established scientific fact. The Living Dinosaur makes a great […]
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