the otherwhirled

I found this article by the magic of Google alerts – and I felt it rather obnoxious. Tell me what you think… It starts off by calling atheism a hip new fad, something supplanting pogs and Pokémon, not a great start, but that’s just the beginning. I believe this author has a fundamental misunderstanding of atheism, [...]

In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins presents us with a scale from 1 to 7 on which we can rank our certainty [or lack there-of] of God's existence. I wonder how the majority of atheists, agnostics, theists, deists rank themselves on this scale.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Roman Catholic Church’s Congregation for Bishops, defended the move, saying “the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons, who had the right to live and could not be eliminated.” Left unsaid is the assumption that while the twin three-inch-long fetuses had the right to [...]

One hopes that someday, Xtians would evolve to the point where they understood that prayers don’t stop bullets, save lives, change reality, or otherwise do anything constructive for anyone. meh. i should probably point out, in the interest of political correctness, that murder is morally reprehensible in simple humanistic terms, and i am genuinely saddened by [...]

…is the very likely fact that “Señor Fetus Death” here, like most fundigelical anti-abortionists, probably has no suggestion on what should be the punishment for a woman who has an abortion, if the abortion is illegal. Without commentary, I present the video below, which can also be found at Think Atheist.com. Not that it’s one of [...]

What a great day today is. Yes, don’t get me wrong, yesterday was quite nice, but I actually had a few internal problems with the expenditures on the inaugural hooplah when so many are suffering financially right now. I watched the proceedings on cnn.com live and all that, but as excited as I was to see [...]

Jesus butt-fucking christ on a pogo stick. Exactly how stupid are some people? Oh. THIS stupid. “Jesus” may love these people, but if he’s as omnipotent as all that, I’m pretty sure the love is despite the stupidity. About Pareidolia.