[ May 4, 09 ]
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, [...]
[ Apr 17, 09 ]
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.
[ Mar 13, 09 ]
The Reuters caption reads:
Ghulam Hassan Banday, a Kashmiri Muslim clerk, displays a relic (inside of the glass tube) of Prophet Mohammad to devotees at the Hazratbal shrine, on the outskirts of Srinagar March 13, 2009. Following the March 10 celebrations for Eid Milad-un-Nabi, or the Prophet’s birthday, tens of thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered on [...]
[ Mar 10, 09 ]
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 [...]
[ Mar 10, 09 ]
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 [...]
[ Nov 3, 08 ]
I have been busy. I know, that’s always my excuse. The sad thing is, it’s always true.
I am closing my business of the past 15 years, probably before Christmas. I took a full-time gig back in March and I’m loving it: not just that my boss pays me on time, but I honestly love the [...]
