Monthly Archives: July 2011

Free Science

Open Culture has put together a list of its top 125 science videos. These range from full science lectures, to documentaries, to the short time-lapse videos I like so much. Here’s one of my new favorites: Earth-rise as seen from … Continue reading

Posted in Astronomy, Science, Videos | 7 Comments

Pastafarian Headdress

Niko Alm is an atheist, and the co-founder of the Austrian group “Volksbegehrens gegen Kirchen-Privilegien” (The Referendum against Church Privileges). In his most recent driver’s license picture, he had himself photographed wearing a colander on his head. (Apparently it’s a … Continue reading

Posted in Humor, Pictures | 23 Comments

Thoughts on Driscoll

For those of you who missed it, Mark Driscoll stopped trying to explain why pop culture is a product of Satan long enough to post the following on Facebook: This created a blogstorm. Starting with Dianna Anderson contributing to Jesus … Continue reading

Posted in Religion, Sexuality | 50 Comments

Does god Make Us Moral?

The following post was submitted by Jeremy Wells, AKA the Not So Friendly Atheist, who blogs about the logical flaws in religious arguments. Many religious people tend to claim the moral high ground. There is no doubt that many religious … Continue reading

Posted in God, Morality | 258 Comments

Reading List

I’ve gotten a couple of questions from folks who are just starting to get into biblical criticism or atheistic philosophy and are wondering what books to read. Rather than answer individually, I thought we could share the books that made … Continue reading

Posted in Atheism, Bible, Books | 32 Comments

Donohue on The Ledge

Matthew Chapman is the writer and director of The Ledge, a movie that opened last week that is being heavily marketed to atheists. Via Chapman’s blog I see that Bill Donohue is irked that atheists have produced a movie with … Continue reading

Posted in Atheism, Catholicism | 22 Comments

The Church Has Done it Again . . . but this time, it’s OK

The following is a guest post submitted by Shelley Branine, who tells of her experience being kicked out of church, and how that turned out to be a good thing. “God told me that I have done nothing wrong.” A … Continue reading

Posted in Christianity, Religion | 122 Comments

Jesus' Brother Bob

My wife recently offended someone with this song. In solidarity, I leave it here to offend all of you.

Posted in Music, Videos | 14 Comments

A New Battle for Bothwell

You may have heard about Cecil Bothwell. He’s an atheist who won a seat on the city council of Asheville, NC. He became national news when his opponents tried to prevent him from being seated because of his atheism. Now … Continue reading

Posted in Atheism, Politics | 3 Comments

On free speech, religion and blasphemy

I think I’m just going to let this speak for itself. Freely. Enjoy. The rest of this series of speeches can be found on The Independent’s website. Edit: As a sensible counterpoint, I thought I’d add Max Mosely’s speech. While … Continue reading

Posted in Atheism, Current Events, Politics | 18 Comments