Monthly Archives: March 2011

Intelligent Downbirds

Someone should burn this Huffington Post commenter for heresy! People, as we all know, evolution is only a theory. In fact, I would like to point out that gravity is only a theory. I would recommend that those who doubt … Continue reading

Posted in Evolution, Humor | 11 Comments

Calling a Fraud a Fraud

Bart Ehrman has a new article up at HuffPo to promote his latest book. The article is titled, Who Wrote The Bible and Why It Matters, and it’s basically an attempt to change how we talk about the bible. Many … Continue reading

Posted in Articles, Bible, Christianity | 32 Comments

No Belgian Church Escaped Child Sex Abuse

A recent investigation has found that “No Belgian church escaped sex abuse“: Investigators, working with the support of the Belgian Catholic Church received 475 complaints of child abuse committed in the 1950s through to the late 1980s by Catholic clergy. … Continue reading

Posted in Catholicism, Hypocrisy, Where is God? | 9 Comments

Sunday Facepsalm

“Facepsalm: v. The act of facepalming as a result of the use or misuse of Scripture.” (invented by BionicDance and tweaked by James McGrath.) David Barton turns out to be as bad with exegesis as he is with history. Here … Continue reading

Posted in Oh the Stupidity!, Videos | 13 Comments

Rick Joyner Predicts a New Earthquake

The New Apostolic Reformation crew, AKA third wave Pentecostals, neo-charismatics, etc. are all over the Japanese earthquake. Luckily, blogs like Right Wing Watch and the pagan blog The Wild Hunt are keeping an eye on them. Here’s Rick Joyner, talking … Continue reading

Posted in Christianity, Videos | 28 Comments

Apologetics Pick Up Lines

Check out Jen McCreight’s apologetic jokes: Is that a banana in your pocket, or have you also been designed especially for me? You must be God, because I want you to fill my gaps. My eyes are too complex to … Continue reading

Posted in Christianity, Fundamentalism, Humor | 11 Comments

The "I Have Sex" Campaign

This is interesting. The students at Wesleyan College put together this ad in support of Planned Parenthood: The group that produced it call themselves Wesleyan Uncut. Here’s their facebook page.

Posted in Sexuality, Videos | 15 Comments

From Christianity to… Islam?

This dude converted from Christianity to Islam. His demand for historical evidence and powers of reason must be very high indeed. The actual conversion was brief. It only involved one sentence: “I bear witness that there is no God worthy … Continue reading

Posted in Christianity, Current Events, Islam | 34 Comments

Stark's "Human Faces of God"

Thom Stark is kicking my ass. Here’s how bad it is: I thought I was a hard-nosed atheist always ready to find some unsavory bit of the Bible to bring up. I thought I looked at the Bible with an … Continue reading

Posted in Bible, Books, Christianity | 37 Comments

Religious Extinction?

Here’s an interesting story from the Beeb, reporting on a study presented to an American Physical Society meeting in Dallas: “A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction… The study found a … Continue reading

Posted in Faith, Math, Religion | 8 Comments