In a controversial new move, the Pope has declared that he prefers theism over atheism. Read all about it:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL3016839520071130
Friday, November 30, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Daily Doubt
On arguing...Another great comic from the Cectic. I'm not sure how he does it, but nearly every comic manages to make a finer point of skeptical argumentation get across simply and humorously.
News
- Association for Christian Retail Sells Crosses Made in Chinese Sweatshops. From Podcast friend, Ed Brayton's Blog "Dispatches from the Culture Wars"
- A New Scenario For a Key Step in the Emergence of Life on Earth...silly scientists. All that time wasted searching for answers when they could have just read Genesis.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Daily Doubt
Beginning today were going to try to have a short daily (more like quasi-daily) post with links to articles religious skeptics may find of interest.
News:
Cool Stuff:
News:
Cool Stuff:
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The Atheism Tapes: full interviews from Jonathan Miller's A Rough History of Disbelief
(I didn't care much for the series but the interviews were great, especially those with Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn)
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Fletch Hits the Big Apple
RD co-host David Fletcher is spreading his charismatic wit around NYC this weekend. He's at CFI's "The Secular Society and it's Enemies" conference, spreading the gospel of doubt and rubbing elbows with some of my personal heroes; Peter Singer, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan. Of coarse I'm insanely jealous. But Dave is above rubbing it in my face. Instead he wrote me a nice email this morning.
"So, uh, I don't want to brag or anything, but I got Ann Druyan's card
and she told me to call her about the podcast.
Oh, and dinner with Dawkins? Sounds like that's going to happen tonight.
What's going on in Grand Rapids?"
~Fletch
...Laugh it up fanboy.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Fundies Say the Darndest Things
This website has a seemingly endless supply of the kinds of loving and intelligent things Fundamentalists have to say.
Hours of amusement or a lifetime of therapy.
http://www.fstdt.com/
Hours of amusement or a lifetime of therapy.
http://www.fstdt.com/
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
Bible Fight!
From Adult Swim.com, your source for psychotic online gaming. Play as Eve, Noah, Moses, Jesus, Mary, Satan and God himself. Hours of sacrilegious fun.
Check it out:
http://www.adultswim.com/games/biblefight/index.html
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Phelps Family to Pay $10.9 Million
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN3134225120071031
Kansas church liable in Marine funeral protest
Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:24pm
EDTBy Jon Hurdle
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral.
Church members said Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's death was God's punishment of America for tolerating homosexuality, and they attended his 2006 funeral in Maryland with signs saying "You're going to hell" and "God hates you."
The federal jury determined the Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, and three of its principals invaded the privacy of the dead man's family and inflicted emotional distress.
Albert Snyder, the Marine's father, testified that his son was not gay, but the church targeted the military as a symbol of America's tolerance of gays. Matthew Snyder died in combat in Iraq in March 2006.
The jury awarded Snyder's family $2.9 million in compensatory damages plus $8 million in punitive damages in the first civil suit against the church, which has demonstrated at some 300 military funerals the past two years.
The lawsuit said church Web sites vilified U.S. soldiers, accusing them of being indoctrinated by "fag propaganda."
"I hope it's enough to deter them from doing this to other families. It was not about the money. It was about getting them to stop," said Snyder, of York, Pennsylvania.
The church, which is unaffiliated with any major denomination, is headed by Rev. Fred Phelps, who has led a campaign against homosexuality for years. Most of the estimated 70 members of the church belong to his extended family.
"It will take the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals a few minutes to reverse this silly thing," Phelps said.
His daughter and co-defendant, Shirley Phelps-Roper, vowed to continue protesting military funerals and called the court's decision a blow against free speech.
Outside court on Wednesday, Phelps and his children waved placards with slogans such as "Pray for more dead kids" and "God hates fag enablers," while passing drivers and pedestrians shouted abuse at them.
Defense attorney Jonathan Katz urged jurors not to award punitive damages because the $2.9 million in compensatory damages was already three times the defendants' net worth.
"It's enough already to bankrupt them and financially destroy them," Katz said.
Craig Trebilcock, an attorney for Snyder, said jurors should award sufficient punitive damages to deter Westboro from repeating its actions.
Kansas church liable in Marine funeral protest
Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:24pm
EDTBy Jon Hurdle
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral.
Church members said Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's death was God's punishment of America for tolerating homosexuality, and they attended his 2006 funeral in Maryland with signs saying "You're going to hell" and "God hates you."
The federal jury determined the Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, and three of its principals invaded the privacy of the dead man's family and inflicted emotional distress.
Albert Snyder, the Marine's father, testified that his son was not gay, but the church targeted the military as a symbol of America's tolerance of gays. Matthew Snyder died in combat in Iraq in March 2006.
The jury awarded Snyder's family $2.9 million in compensatory damages plus $8 million in punitive damages in the first civil suit against the church, which has demonstrated at some 300 military funerals the past two years.
The lawsuit said church Web sites vilified U.S. soldiers, accusing them of being indoctrinated by "fag propaganda."
"I hope it's enough to deter them from doing this to other families. It was not about the money. It was about getting them to stop," said Snyder, of York, Pennsylvania.
The church, which is unaffiliated with any major denomination, is headed by Rev. Fred Phelps, who has led a campaign against homosexuality for years. Most of the estimated 70 members of the church belong to his extended family.
"It will take the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals a few minutes to reverse this silly thing," Phelps said.
His daughter and co-defendant, Shirley Phelps-Roper, vowed to continue protesting military funerals and called the court's decision a blow against free speech.
Outside court on Wednesday, Phelps and his children waved placards with slogans such as "Pray for more dead kids" and "God hates fag enablers," while passing drivers and pedestrians shouted abuse at them.
Defense attorney Jonathan Katz urged jurors not to award punitive damages because the $2.9 million in compensatory damages was already three times the defendants' net worth.
"It's enough already to bankrupt them and financially destroy them," Katz said.
Craig Trebilcock, an attorney for Snyder, said jurors should award sufficient punitive damages to deter Westboro from repeating its actions.
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