Father Jonathan

I found myself laughing through this Fox News segment:
God Under Attack? Are Militant Atheists on the Rise?
1. Attaching the term “militant” to various viewpoints you disagree with has become pretty common. It’s a nice little way to demonize it. Originally, the term “militant” meant committing violence, and it still has that negative [...]

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Dick Cheney

There’s plenty of disturbing information out there about Dick Cheney. He has a very lawyer-esque way of getting what he wants (even though his arguments are BS). In many ways, I think the White House sees the public and laws overseeing the executive branch as silly limitations on their God-given right to rule. [...]

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YouTube Creationism

I found this video to be alternately hilarious and scarily ignorant. This young creationist manages to be both incredibly smug and ignorant at the same time. Funny to think that I was raised to believe in young-earth creationism, and was taught creationism in (Christian) school. What was Charles Darwin’s quote on this [...]

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The Skeptic’s Conversion

I saw the trailer for 1408 the other day, and had meant to write something about it – specifically, the tendency of the media to write stories involving the supernatural skeptic who experiences the supernatural and has no choice but to accept its existence. But, it looks like Chris Mooney and PZ Myers beat [...]

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Salman Rushdie’s Knighthood

I can’t really say I understand the reasoning for Salman Rushdie’s recent knighthood. Perhaps the fact that he was willing to stand up for his freedom of speech despite threats from religious fanatics? Whatever the reason for his knighthood, the Muslim world was pretty unhappy. Here’s a clip of what Mohammed Ijaz [...]

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The Bible you haven’t read – Part 3

Link to the earlier article: The Bible you haven’t read – Part 2
According to the Bible, there were ten plagues sent against Egypt when the Jews were trying to leave the country (Exodus 7-12). The tenth plague was death of the firstborn of every family.
Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn [...]

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John Stewart and Tony Snow

This is a great clip from the Daily Show involving Tony Snow’s claim three months ago that White House firings of eight US attorneys was based on performance:
“And it’s pretty clear that these things are based on performance and not on sort of attempts to do political retaliation, if you will.” – Tony Snow, [...]

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Gender ratios in the US

This is a map showing the disproportionate number of males and females living in different parts of the US. As a single male living in Denver, I was not happy to see all the blue in my area – that means there are more single men than women in my area, which means extra [...]

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The Bible you haven’t read – Part 2

Link to the earlier article: The Bible you haven’t read – Part 1
If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, “Let us follow other gods” (gods [...]

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Egnor’s dumb argument

I happened to see this argument put forward by Michael Egnor writing at the Discovery Institute. The Discovery Institute is the major group promoting “Intelligent Design” – essentially a heavily stripped-down version of young earth creationism that allows them to argue one and only one point: life is too complex to be explained by [...]

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