Monthly Archives: June 2010

Quote of the Moment: Banning Moustaches

All of this brings up a strange inconsistency to the opponents of same-sex marriage. Their ends — every child gets a mom and a dad — are strangely mismatched to their means — prohibit same-sex marriage. It’s sort of like … Continue reading

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QotD: Next Sunday A.D.

by VorJack I was reading through the old Slacktivist archives and laughing at his deconstruction of Left Behind. LeHaye and Jenkins did a miserable job of, among other things, predicting what their “not to distant future” would look like. They … Continue reading

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This Is An Outrage!

Let us find who made this blasphemous graphic and stone them! (via)

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A Bible Museum?

by VorJack Hemant points to an article over at the NYT: Craft Shop Family Buys Up Ancient Bibles for Museum [...] With a goal of establishing a national Bible museum of great depth and size, the evangelical Christian family behind … Continue reading

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The Placebo Effect

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The Sin of Onan

The sin of Onan. Spilling the old seed on the ground. Cuffing the camel. Dusting the donkey. Flogging the Pharisee. Onanism, a sin that requires hundreds of hours of practice to get right, or at least that’s what I told myself. … Continue reading

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Pareidolia

We’ve all experienced pareidolia — we see elephants in the clouds or Jesus on a marmite lid — but rational folks realize it’s just our brains grasping for patterns. And then there are the religious nutballs, who think that sewer stains on a wall … Continue reading

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Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

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Online Religious BS!

I like this facebook ad:

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QotD: Lifeline

by VorJack I had a friend in high school – let’s call him Jacob – who was a stone-cold biology geek. He was the kind of person who would always have a bottle of flynap in his bag. We teased … Continue reading

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