No Punchline For This One
Will eating pancakes with your fellow Christians alleviate your addiction to pornography? Skeptics across the world are curious!
Religion
Atheism Debate
An interesting debate at Donklephant about the existence of God. Not the usual stuff for that site, which is usually about separating the pressure of partisan politics from determining good public policy. The question is whether reason and faith are… Continue Reading
300 Against 70,000,000
Hollywood as apparently succeeded in inadvertently doing what even a hawkish Bush Administration has failed to do: turn Iranian public opinion against the West. I suppose that the visuals in the movie were all put in just to make things… Continue Reading
Religious Ignorance
Religion is always a hot topic here, so I was interested in this article. It includes a test, and I got 49 points. How did you do, Loyal Readers?
Minority-Group Presidents
An interesting survey found via Instapundit: Given a choice between Presidential candidates from the following set of minority groups, which do you think fared best, and which fared worse: Catholics,* Mormons, atheists, people over the age of 72,† Latinos, Blacks,… Continue Reading
First and Second Thoughts About A Sad Story
A 29-year old man who lives in Malaysia has discovered that he is actualy the descendant of Chinese parents. All well and good, except now he wants to renounce Islam and become a Buddhist. My first reaction is, “It’s an… Continue Reading
Not Much Of A Joiner
An attorney at the firm asked me today if I’d found any groups in the area since moving here that I wanted to join. The Wife has done well in this regard, having found a Toastmasters group that she likes.… Continue Reading
Like Rain. On Your Wedding Day.
Another botched job by right-wing religious nutball lawyers calling themselves “Liberty Counsel”. After successfully suing to open up grade schoolers’ “backpack mail” to advertisements for a Christian Bible study camp, Albemare County, Virginia religionists now must deal with that same… Continue Reading
He’s Going To Serve; He Ought To Swear
Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, has recently been elected to Congress. This is not so remarkable — we all know by now that there are going to be a lot of Democrat freshmen serving in the next Congress. It… Continue Reading
Going Back To The Well One Last Time
I wanted to leave the Ted Haggard thing alone. I mean, I’d done more than enough already. But then I saw the story on FARK. Ted Haggard, who fell from an astonishing height of power and prestige after confessing to… Continue Reading