Cut the shit and vaccinate your kids! This means YOU, Catholics.
That Awkward Moment When Anti-Immigration Protesters Realize They're Immigrants too. Priceless.
Arizona's attempt to take Medicaid funding away from Planned Parenthood patients gets the axe. I wonder what would happen if Medicaid were withheld from Catholic hospitals.
CNN offers its Ten Rules of the Internet
Stumbled onto the improbably titled blog, Experimental Theology, which has some posts on something called "Christian A/Theism." This blog reminds me of the Upton Sinclair quote:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." The corollary could be "It is difficult to get a theologian to admit to being an atheist when his salary is paid by a religious institution." This poor soul is twisting into knots trying to craft a theology he can believe in.
Huffpo blogger thinks sciency atheists should be nicer to sciency religionists. As a politically expedient tactic, maybe. But does religion have a role in science? uhhh NO!
The Anti-Science Left: Author Alex Berezow on Why Both Parties Fail at Science.
Salon's list of 10 Celebs You Didn't Know Were Atheists. I knew about Seth McFarlane and Angelina Jolie & Harry Potter. Hugh Hefner being on the list is just what we need for the "You just want to sin" argument. How about "You just want to adopt brown-skinned babies?" Don't hear that one much.
How the U.S.'s five most numerous denominations view homosexuality (with promo of show about Methodists' dilemma)
George Costanza look-alike neo-nazi opens a yeshiva in Ohio.
Anti-Semitism is up in France. Do the French like anybody? Jews are leaving France, and they're also leaving Hungary. In Tunisia, anti-semitic activity is on the rise. What year is this? 1933?
Meanwhile, a film documents how The Philippines rescued 1300 Jews during the Holocaust.
Atheism and secular living from a woman's point of view.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
New Video: "Sophia Investigates the Good News Club"
hat tip: The Thinking Atheist podcast. He interviews Katherine Stewart, who wrote The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children. She also has a blog. The Good News Club (not a club, really fundamentalist education with a five-year curriculum aimed at elementary children in public schools, even kindergartners) came to her hometown of Santa Barbara, California. They're probably in your town too, or they want to be. They're in 3500 schools nationwide.
She's not the only one drawing attention to this menace. Check out "Good News Club: A Critique."
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Random Links
7 Habits of Marginally Effective People I've known a few of these
Wisconsin Republicans tell fundies that transvaginal ultrasound is their top priority. Total lack of imagination. I'm sure every unemployed undereducated Wisconsite would be happy to know this... if they could afford the interwebs or could read long words.
Cruise ship is study in dystopia society. Christians get credit for being the good guys. I'd love to know how many of the food-hoarding drunkards were Christians and how many of the good guys were atheists.
...and in dystopian India, where drugs are manufactured for American companies, there is only one school of pharmacy, and a government program gives six menstrual pads per cycle to rural teens. When I was that age, those would have lasted me two days, max... or maxi.
The Vatican is full of old Italian men who don't like change. And being sent to the United States is punishment. *lol*
And in more Vatican news, they stonewalled a bishop who tried to get rid of a pedophile priest.
Perhaps they were unconcerned because a Buddhist teacher in L.A. is also a sex offender.
Emory University president praises the slavery-era decision to value blacks as 3/5 the value of whites. It was a compromise "both" sides could agree on, but if I recall correctly, black people were not consulted on this.
The 30 y.o. pentecostal who headed the Office of Faith-based (and Community-based wink wink) Initiatives, is on his way out. He e-mailed daily devotional passages to the president... as part of his job duties? How was any of that Constitutional? Or for that matter the whole office. It should close.
Teenage girl gets thousands of dollars for obeying one stupid line in Deuteronomy.
In Missouri, a bill proposes to redefine "science" in a way that permits "intelligent" design in schools.
Wisconsin Republicans tell fundies that transvaginal ultrasound is their top priority. Total lack of imagination. I'm sure every unemployed undereducated Wisconsite would be happy to know this... if they could afford the interwebs or could read long words.
Cruise ship is study in dystopia society. Christians get credit for being the good guys. I'd love to know how many of the food-hoarding drunkards were Christians and how many of the good guys were atheists.
...and in dystopian India, where drugs are manufactured for American companies, there is only one school of pharmacy, and a government program gives six menstrual pads per cycle to rural teens. When I was that age, those would have lasted me two days, max... or maxi.
The Vatican is full of old Italian men who don't like change. And being sent to the United States is punishment. *lol*
And in more Vatican news, they stonewalled a bishop who tried to get rid of a pedophile priest.
Perhaps they were unconcerned because a Buddhist teacher in L.A. is also a sex offender.
Emory University president praises the slavery-era decision to value blacks as 3/5 the value of whites. It was a compromise "both" sides could agree on, but if I recall correctly, black people were not consulted on this.
The 30 y.o. pentecostal who headed the Office of Faith-based (and Community-based wink wink) Initiatives, is on his way out. He e-mailed daily devotional passages to the president... as part of his job duties? How was any of that Constitutional? Or for that matter the whole office. It should close.
Teenage girl gets thousands of dollars for obeying one stupid line in Deuteronomy.
In Missouri, a bill proposes to redefine "science" in a way that permits "intelligent" design in schools.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Epic Rap Battle: Adam vs. Eve
It looked like Adam was winning but then he went too far and it was downhill from there!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Richard Dawkins on Al-Jazeera English
His answers should be familiar to most atheists, but it's unusual to see him being questioned by a Muslim:
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