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Disappointing Authors
If you’re a fan of HP Lovecraft, as I am, you eventually have to face up to one thing: Lovecraft was a racist. (You also have to face the fact that he’s overwritten, pseudo-British, etc. But that comes later.) You … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Sexuality
23 Comments
Cindy Jacobs and the Evil Natives
Cindy Jacobs seems to be talking about “spirit mapping” here, the NAR practice of finding areas that have become tainted with demonic energies and praying them away. She’s talking about the areas that have become tainted by the murderous, blood-thirsty … Continue reading
Posted in Videos, Weird
19 Comments
Great Moments in Freethought: Allen's Inoculation
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1764, two men presented themselves before the crowd leaving a Congregationalist Church in Salisbury, Connecticut. The older of the men would have been well known to the congregation, since he was one … Continue reading
Posted in History, Medicine, Religion
22 Comments
Modern Temple Prostitution
Via The Wild Hunt, I see that the Phoenix Goddess Temple in Arizona has been raided, apparently under the suspicion that it is a house of prostitution. According to Tracy Elise, the mother priestess, “its tenets connect spirituality and sexuality … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Sexuality, Videos
25 Comments
What is Prayer?
When I was a child, prayer was a type of negotiation. I made promises to God for good behavior, and in return God would ensure that nice things happened to me and mine. My view of prayer wasn’t that different … Continue reading
Posted in Questions, Religion
29 Comments
Supermassive Black Holes
Here’s a short (~20min) documentary about ultra-massive black holes, which formed early in the universe’s history and contain the mass of billions of suns. The documentary explains how the new understanding of these objects is altering our view of how … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Videos
2 Comments
Bloody Hudson
A couple of months back there was some fuss on the ‘net over a reservoir in Texas that had turned to blood. Of course it hadn’t, it had just taken on a red coloring caused by a bloom of a … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Humor
11 Comments
Selling the End of Religion
The Gruen Transfer is an Australian television show that focuses on advertising. One of their regular segments is called “The Pitch,” where “ad agencies compete to sell the unsellable.” In other words, ad agencies are challenged to put together an … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Religion, Videos
20 Comments
Picture Perfect
I can hope that this is true… The book is real, and available through Amazon. The image is from Dangerous Minds
Posted in Humor, Pictures
26 Comments
Fake Lead Codices
Back in the spring it was announced that a number of lead codices were discovered in Jordan, and that these might be some of the earliest Christian writings ever found. Not long after the announcement just about every word of … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, History
5 Comments
