I take SSRIs. They keep me stable, but there are downsides. For one, they make me fuzzy and easily distracted. The best description I’ve ever heard is that it’s like thinking through cotton. It makes it hard to quickly recall facts, it makes me slower to solve puzzles. However, the benefit of not being controlled [...]
God loves a good practical joke
April 11, 2012 By 11 Comments
With Rick Santorum announcing the conclusion of his bid for the Republican nomination, all three candidates who assured us that god wanted them to run have now dropped out. There can really be only two explanations for this. 1. God loves a good practical joke. 2. People assign the will of god to their own [...]
Day of comments #4: The value of human life
April 10, 2012 By 44 Comments
I did a post earlier featuring a comment by Icy Cantu. Icy didn’t feel moved to provide evidence for why Christianity is true, but he did threaten everybody who didn’t believe the same way he did. I pointed that out. Icy came back with more of the same. I live in a farming community. If [...]
Oh look, public schools in TN can teach creationism.
April 10, 2012 By 8 Comments
Christina here.. A bill you might object to in TN just became a law. This happened. Gov. Bill Haslam has declined to sign Tennessee’s so-called evolution bill, which protects teachers who criticize evolution, global warming and other scientific theories. The Republican governor did not veto the measure or sign [...]
Prison sentences for insulting Islam.
April 10, 2012 By 3 Comments
Christina here… A Christian teenager in Egypt was sentenced to three years in prison. His crime: Posting cartoons to his facebook page that mocked Islam and Mohammad. CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old Christian boy to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his [...]
it's not all bad
April 10, 2012 By 5 Comments
DrB- Your week filled with nothing but dreary? Here’s a 9 year old who made a cardboard arcade in his dad’s auto parts shop. “….and then the internet happened.” AWWWWWWWWWYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH. also to round it off, here’s a picture of a cat in a hat. You can find me on twitter, @DrDavidBurger I [...]
Day of comments #3: …Free will?
April 10, 2012 By 16 Comments
Here’s another one from Rebekah. I’m not sure what to say. That is true but only if one attributes all types of “bad” things to God. Instead of trying to comprehend the value of free volition. Your right to choose of which you obviously hold highly. The only issue is does “God” do all of [...]
Comment #2: Hell
April 10, 2012 By 61 Comments
Next up on day of comments is this gem from Icy Cantu. You have no idea what you are rejecting. You spit upon God’s mercy and grace that was paid for through the death of His only-begotten Son. When you expire, or when He returns (whichever comes first) it will be too late to say [...]
Comment #1: Tone
April 10, 2012 By 5 Comments
Today is going to be a day of ‘interesting’ comments from yesterday. This one comes from Rebekah. again your attitudes prove the point perfectly… the majority of Christians don’t take this attitude at all. There are much worse persecutions out there but face it seriously you have become as judgemental and snobbish as those christians [...]
A child crossed my path and lived
April 9, 2012 By 8 Comments
For Easter I had the opportunity to plant my swampy ass in church and listen to someone who has no better reason to think he knows squat about the will or existence of god than any other believer of any other religion. The other option was to go with Michaelyn to hang out with her [...]
Zvan on psychology as a science
April 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
Last week I posted an email from a grad student in psychology detailing their efforts to document which schools are teaching bullshit under the guise of science in that field. It’s a noble and necessary endeavor. Psych grad and fellow FtBer Stephanie Zvan wrote up her own experience and posted it. It’s a tremendous read [...]
This weekend is the big debate in Dallas!
April 9, 2012 By 9 Comments
My April speaking schedule kicks off this weekend with a team debate at the North Texas Secular Student Convention. I’ll be pairing up with Matt Dillahunty to take on Dr. Robert Sloan Lee and John Ferrer over the question “Does God Exist?” I’m ready! I’ve been waking up every morning to do logic squats and [...]
However do Christians get through their dreary days?
April 9, 2012 By 39 Comments
Someone found this on a table in a restaurant and left it on my facebook wall, asking me to comment on 4a and 4b.
Cadbury eggs: the real public enemy #1
April 8, 2012 By 14 Comments
Michaelyn loves them, but they are evil. They are a scourge upon the face of the planet. “But they taste so good!” That’s because they’re full of things that will go straight to your ass. You see, when god was making the world, he decided to make food that’s good for you taste bad and [...]
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