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Atheist Feminists Reading Mormon Mommies
I’m trying to process Emily Matchar’s piece at Salon: Why I can’t stop reading Mormon housewife blogs. I’m a young, feminist atheist who can’t bake a cupcake. Why am I addicted to the shiny, happy lives of these women? The … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Mormonism
77 Comments
Getting Your Head Around It
( from Basic Instructions) The artist has clearly never dealt with a creationist, or he’d realize the best way to deal with a new fact is to invoke your own “anti-cheese presupposition” and claim that you interpret the facts of … Continue reading
Posted in Comics
8 Comments
Majority Rules
From the TPM Muckraker blog, I see that the Tennessee branch of the tea party has joined in the conservative tradition of complaining about history textbooks. They want to pass a policy with the following line: No portrayal of minority … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, History
10 Comments
Daily Derp: The Racist Rabbi
Your daily derp: Rabbi Dov Lior, a senior authority on Jewish law in the Religious Zionism movement, asserted recently that a Jewish woman should never get pregnant using sperm donated by a non-Jewish man – even if it is the … Continue reading
Posted in Judaism, Oh the Stupidity!
45 Comments
Luigi Died for Your Sins
Some deep, dark part of my psyche is still a liturgically conservative Episcopalian. This kind of thing makes it weep bitter tears. Wii Love JESUS – Kids Encounter 2011 from Austin Power House Church on Vimeo. (via American Jesus)
Posted in Videos, Weird
11 Comments
Feynman: How Do Magnets Work?
Feynman seems irritated at the question: “I’m not going to be able to give you an answer to why magnets attract each other, except to tell you they do.” Fucking magnets, how do they work? Even Feynman doesn’t know!
Posted in Science, Videos
40 Comments
Cartoon Theology
Via Dangerous Minds, here’s the weirder parts of the Jehovah’s Witness backstory, in cartoon form. To be fair, I don’t know that any religion would look sane when having their creation accounts explained in 70′s animation.
Posted in Videos, Weird
87 Comments
Evolution of Marriage
I really liked Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage. Her thesis, that marriage has become more personal and more egalitarian, seems to be both historically supported and charismatic. Coontz has an editorial up at the Washington Post, … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Sexuality
8 Comments
