I have been asked, through email and through comments, why I, as an atheist, give a flying fuck about theists — about what believers do, or think, or believe. Why do I blog about religion and belief in god(s) if I am an unbeliever?
There are many reasons I blog. I blog to help me understand who I am. I blog to poke fun at political and religious absurdity. And I blog because I am scared abso-fucking-lutely shitless about the radical right. Read the rest of this entry ?
Christianity is a religion of, supposedly, love. The love of god (and if you don’t love him back in the right way, he will sentence you to an eternity torment. The love of children (and you can even let them starve while waiting for god to provide). The love towards one’s enemy (specifically, Christians would love them to die). Read the rest of this entry ?
Conservatives are the backbone of America. Their respect for the Constitution of the United States, their respect for the laws of America, their respect for the President of the United States of America (whether they agree with his political views or not), their battles for equal rights for all humans, and their Christian ethics, including a sense of love and respect for all life are the epitome of exemplars of good old fashioned Americanism to which we should all aspire. Read the rest of this entry ?
Today, I got an email from Tina Jane. I did not recognize the address, or the mailer, but, after doing a quick McAfee scan, I clicked. Then I clicked over to a Google document. And I realized that I was being witnessed via billytheatheist (at) gmail.com as I read: Read the rest of this entry ?
A small village in Switzerland has, collectively, spent the last 331 or so years praying for one thing. Now they are petitioning the Vatican to reverse their prayers (from Yahoo News (via the AP)):
Since the vow was established in 1678, the deal was simple: the citizens of the isolated mountain hamlets of Fiesch and Fieschertal would pledge to lead virtuous lives. In exchange, God would spare their homes and livelihoods from being swallowed by Europe’s largest glacier as it expanded toward the valley with heavy winter snows. Read the rest of this entry ?
When I was 12 years old, we moved from Grand Canyon, Arizona (a small (less than 3,000 year round residents) and educated (more than half the families had at least one member with a college degree) one) and moved to a small town in western Maryland. I moved from a school with 16 students per grade to one with about 200. And I moved from an ecumenically open and diverse community to a northern lobe of the Bible Belt. I felt a strong need to belong. Read the rest of this entry ?
Earlier today, while perusing PhillyChief’s excellent blog (I done casted aspersions ’bout his Chiefs, so I gotta get on ‘is good side), Quantum Flux, in the comment section, made a comment (the comment: “What next will the crazy holy rollups think up next!? Jesus causing female orgasms?”) which sparked a memory from my childhood. Well, not actually childhood, more like teenager-hood. And not a pleasant memory, either (thanks a lot). Read the rest of this entry ?
I found (well, I spotted the link over at Pharyngula) a web site which explains exactly how prayer works. Not to mention which prayer positions are best (kind of a Kama Sutra for the godbot).
Now I am not going to pick through the entire site. However, here are a few of the graphics:
Apparently, where you pray from changes who answers your prayer: Read the rest of this entry ?
I graduated from high school 24 years ago (it should have been 25 years ago, but I ‘enjoyed’ high school so much I stayed for an extra year). My high school, a public high school out in Western Maryland, was a bit redneck. And quite religious. I never fit in all that well — I wasn’t related to half the school, I didn’t go to the right church (or, really, any church), I didn’t have a German last name, I wasn’t racist.
When graduation came around, I felt an indescribable joy — I would be out of that place. I just had to go through graduation, and then I would be in college. Read the rest of this entry ?
A new group, The Faith and Freedom Institute, has decided to fill in the vacuum of evangelical leadership created by the semi-retirement of James Dobson. The FFI will combat “satanic wickedness” and will return America to a foundation of Biblical principles.
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