Double Standards

It’s no secret to non-Christians that Christians in the US (and religious people everywhere, for that matter) often have double-standards about what’s fair when it comes to religion. When they don’t get their way, they like to imagine that they are being discriminated against. Recently, Laura Mallory went to court to keep Harry Potter books [...]

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ExChristian.com: Conversion, Spiritual Epiphanies and Mystical Experiences

Thought this was a good podcast episode.

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Miracles prove God exists

There’s an interesting video over at ExChristian.net titled, “Miracles Prove God is Real”. It talks about the Hindu “milk miracle” that happened a number of years back. The “milk miracle” is that Hindu statues appeared to drink milk when a small spoon-full of milk was put up to their mouths. There’s really nothing to this [...]

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Intelligent Design: Sewell’s Law

In the past, I’ve posted comments on William Dembski’s pro-Intelligent Design site: UncommonDescent. Part of the reason I started visiting the site is to correct misunderstandings about evolution, and also because I wanted to see what kind of information IDists were presenting in their own words. There were a lot of times the blog would [...]

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Saint Matthew’s Churches: a scam

I received a letter in the mail today from “Saint Matthew’s Churches” in Tulsa Oklahoma. I’ve gotten a few mailings from them in the past, and have no idea how I got on their mailing list. Inside the envelope is several things: A “prayer handkerchief” that is a piece of paper printed with a handkerchief-like [...]

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Jerry Falwell, a Retrospective

So, Jerry Falwell is dead. As it’s customary to look back on a person’s life when they die, why don’t we take a look at Falwell? – In the 1960s, Falwell referred to the civil rights movement as the “Civil Wrongs Movement”, advocated segregation, and featured segregationist politicians on his television program. As recently as [...]

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Scientology

There’s been some news about Scientology on the internet lately. First, there was the BBC’s program on Scientology: “Scientology and Me”. The BBC reporter loses it and starts yelling at a Scientologist. When I first saw the clip (released by a scientology supporter), it just shows the reporter yelling, but there was no context to [...]

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Peter Popoff is back

I mentioned Peter Popoff a while back. Now he’s back. According to this report, not only had Peter Popoff restarted his ministry, but he’s making large sums of money doing it – taking in a salary of $600,000 a year, plus another $600,000 paid to his wife and children, and living in a two million [...]

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Comfort, Cameron ABC debate

The theist/atheist debate video on ABC is available. Zachary Moore links to some amateur video from the debate, which lead to some optimism about the results of the debate, and ultimately, some dissatisfaction with the end result when the editors at ABC got done with their editing. Overall, I’ve never been all that impressed with [...]

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American Conservatism as Victimization

One thing that I’ve noticed about the Republican/Conservative movement in the US is that their worldview revolves around their own victimization. In their view, they are the hardworking, self-sufficient, and god-fearing, but are constantly harassed, undermined, and underappreciated — in effect, victims. What forces are they victims of? The “mainstream media”, the big-city liberals (“who [...]

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