While browsing Amazon recently, a book titled The Purpose Driven Life caught my eye. The name interested me because a sense of purpose is indeed crucially important for human beings. Without a sense of purpose, and of values to act towards and achieve, life would indeed be useless and meaningless. With my [...]
I was browsing the web, when I came across the “Kabbalah Centre.” It’s basically Madonna’s attempt to make some money from the New Age movement. I was sure that this was a new age deal when the first thing the video on the homepage said is Kabbalah is NOT a New Age movement. [...]
Relax, I still think that Jesus is nothing but a dressed-up Santa for adults. What I realized after debating with Christians during the last few days however, is that presenting yourself as an atheist or making atheism the focus in a debate is not a good idea. The obvious reason is that I [...]
Whenever I get frustrated with Christians, it’s time to pull out the invisible pink elephant. It’s almost as effective as the “step out in front of an oncoming semi and pray/wish/pretend that it goes away” line.
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There is an invisible pink elephant floating in my room. You can’t see, hear, feel, smell, or touch [...]
My Heinlein quote did not go unnoticed. I was challenged on Hobbes, a local forum, to defend the charge that religion is the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. As if I didnt have better things to do, I stayed up half the night writing a 3000 word response on [...]
I found these gems on some fundie site and just couldn’t keep them to myself:
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I realize that some of the views expressed in this blog are pretty radical, so I’m not surprised to see a large number of flames and negative remarks in my comments from all sides of the political and social spectrum. I tolerate them because the arguments presented by my opposition are often so unsubstantial and [...]
Reports MSNBC: “Calls for the U.S. government to be more forthcoming on what it knows about UFOs increased following the release of the poll results. That RoperASW study, sponsored by the SCI FI Channel, shows that 72% of Americans believe the government is not telling the public everything it knows about UFO activity.”
I’m inclined to [...]
I’ve added a new essay called “The Atheist FAQ” on my essays page—check it out!
To contribute to $1 Million Psychic Challenge, I hereby personally declare a prize of $500, out of my own funds, to anyone that can demostrate to me any sort of psycic, hypnotic, levitational, or any* other paranormal ability in a valid, repeatable scientfic experiment.
Hello, Miss Cleo? John Edwards? Uri Geller? Santa? [...]
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.-- Lord Halifax
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