Monthly Archives: January 2010

Stop Trampling Babies

What the hell, brown people… it’s all fun and games until someone hurts babies for real. In the video, Sanal Edamarku discusses a very disturbing ritual from Bihar, India performed by a “godman” — he’s trampling infants in an effort … Continue reading

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John Freshwater Still Causing Trouble in Ohio

The New York Times has an update on Ohio teacher John Freshwater, the public school teacher who doesn’t even try to keep his Christian beliefs to himself, opting instead to hinder their education with it: Mr. Freshwater, an eighth-grade public … Continue reading

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A Defense of Secular Government

by Jesse Galef – About a week ago I had the pleasure of attending a talk on the nature of secularism entitled “Belief and the Public”  given by Michael De Dora Jr., executive director of the CFI-NYC chapter. He started … Continue reading

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Ask Richard: Ten Year-old Girl Wants Her Parents to Pretend to be Christians

Note: When letter writers sign with their first names instead of a pseudonym or nickname, I randomly change their name for added anonymity. Dear Richard, I’ll try to keep it short. My 10-year old daughter has started complaining about her … Continue reading

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Christian Ads Hit NYC

After the New York City atheist ads made such a media splash, Christians in the area are coming back with this ad: That ad is on around 1,000 subways cars as of Friday. Looks pretty, but there’s little substance to … Continue reading

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Atheists Pitted Against Believers on Canadian TV Show

This Sunday (the 24th), the Canadian TV show Test the Nation is going to be pitting several different groups against each other next week to see who has the higher IQ. Two of the groups: Atheists and Believers. [Picture removed] … Continue reading

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Ways to Not Help the World

1) Provide the U.S. military with Jesus Rifles: Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. … Continue reading

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The server may still act up for a bit and run slowly, but feel free to resume commenting. A new system will likely be put in place next weekend (with threaded comments)! Thanks as always for reading.

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Secular Coalition for America’s Sean Faircloth Visiting Chicago

The Secular Coalition for America‘s executive director Sean Faircloth will be speaking in Chicago at the end of the month at a meeting of the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago. The Secular Coalition for America lobbies for secular policies in … Continue reading

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Server Maintenance

Moving the site over now. Should take a few hours. Comments made between now and the server switch will not be transferred. So please do refrain from posting. Thanks for bearing with me.

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