Monthly Archives: March 2011

Woman Tries To Avoid Tribulation

This woman decided to try and kill her daughters and herself to avoid “the Tribulation”: A woman slit her daughters’ throats before slitting her own early Friday evening, claiming that “the Tribulation” was going to occur and she wanted to … Continue reading

Posted in Oh the Stupidity!, Religion | 36 Comments

Comfort's New Bible

Here’s an ad for the new “Evidence Bible,” Honestly, at first I was frightened that this was going to be a new translation. Sort of like The Living Bible, which tries to defuse a lot of the biblical controversies by … Continue reading

Posted in Bible, Christianity, Ray Comfort Mania, Videos | 64 Comments

Common Radiation Doses

From Randall Munroe, genius behind XKCD, comes a handy chart of potential radiation doses from various sources, some common and some extreme. It’s helpful to set the current crisis of Japanese nuclear reactors in context. It’s far too large to … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 26 Comments

Beck's Dichotomy

Well, Albany has become famous. We’ve been mentioned by Glenn Beck. This takes a little explaining. Albany is a multi-college town, and we have some neighborhoods that are largely composed of college students renting row houses. A couple weekends ago, … Continue reading

Posted in Culture, Videos, Weird | 15 Comments

I'll Have What She's Having…

OK, maybe not. Religious ecstasy/hysteria isn’t really my bag. Poor woman is going to have to live with this video on the internet for the rest of her life. Meanwhile, if Todd Bentley wants to make a comeback, this probably … Continue reading

Posted in Videos, Weird | 40 Comments

QotD: Social Impact of Immortality

I recently walked into a conversation about the supposed science of immortality. Someone had predicted that science would be able to prevent death by the year 2045; I didn’t catch who made the prediction. One of the participants snarked that … Continue reading

Posted in Medicine, Questions, Science Fiction | 62 Comments

The Sense and Morality of Agnosticism

The following post is a selection from Divinity of Doubt: The God Question by Vincent Bugliosi I CAN SAY WITH RELATIVE CONFIDENCE (because what I’m saying, at least it would seem, has to be true) that there is only one … Continue reading

Posted in Atheism, Books | 65 Comments

Sam Harris on God and Japan

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. The only sense to make of tragedies like … Continue reading

Posted in God, Quotes, The Problem of Evil | 168 Comments

Quake Caused by Demonic Principalities

Most Christians have looked at the devastation in Japan and had no desire to lay that at God’s feet. Some have viewed it through the lens of Deuteronomy: God must be using the earthquake to punish the Japanese, or to … Continue reading

Posted in Videos, Weird | 8 Comments

Doing What for Jesus?

People want to combine the weirdest things with Christianity. I can kinda understand the whole “pole dancing as exercise” thing, though I’m not sure why you’d prefer it over other kinds of aerobics. I guess I can understand playing Christian … Continue reading

Posted in Christianity, Videos, Weird | 23 Comments