http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/business/22candle.html People-watching in Paris’ many churches, you quickly notice how many coin-based thunks and clinks emanate from the votive donation box. A quick calculation of the varying sized (and priced) candles burning reveals that there’s generally about 200 Euros burning uselessly at any given time. The atheist entrepreneur’s dilemma: Promoting religion and magical thinking in […]
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Latter-Day Republicans vs. the Church of Oprah – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/opinion/16rich.html?_r=1&em&ex=1198040400&en=3cdef71ea89edc86&ei=5070&oref=slogin Frank Rich makes a good case about the ill suitability for public office of Mitt Romney in particular, and “Under God” politicians in general. Anyone who buys into the concept of God’s Will is unlikely to be terribly proactive on issues like global warming or peace in the Middle East. Mr. O’Donnell then raised […]
Mithraeum – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraeum Word of the Moment: Mithraeum. Mithraeum is a place of worship for the followers of the mystery religion of Mithraism… The word has come to be used in the context of any secret place used for secret rituals.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_re_us/obit_tammy_faye_messner_10;_ylt=AvEaLxieIQ6za_QVg5dpCWsE1vAI Man, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Tammy Faye Bakker, all dead in the space of a few months. If I wasn’t an atheist, I’d swear God was sending a message to fundie nutbars everywhere… **EDIT** Somehow, I thought Pat Robertson had been added to the rolls of “No Longer Making the World a Worse […]
I’m an atheist, BUT . . . – Richard Dawkins – RichardDawkins.net
http://richarddawkins.net/article,318,n,n I’m starting to harp on this, but since he seems to be omnipresent these days, I feel compelled to restate my dislike of Richard Dawkins. I love his message, I love his determination, but the man is a droning bore without an iota of humour. His cause would’ve been much better served if his […]
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http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/clerics_and_ana.html You’d never know it from his anticlimactic comic strip (seriously, I never bother reading the last panel of a Dilbert cartoon) but Scott Adams can be pretty funny. Here he takes on the poor-analogy Muslim cleric, whose 15 minutes are about up: Like you, I am highly offended by this comment. He compared men […]
Giving Kiosk – At Church, an `ATM for Jesus – Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-holyatm28sep28,0,6671307,full.story “It’s truly like an ATM for Jesus” As an atheist, there are few things that frighten me as much as the SuperChurches of the United States – fantastic (see #6, above) palaces dedicated to the worship of blind obedience and wealth. They’re led by Type A con men whose mission in life seems to […]
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StumbleUpon.com: SU: Religious Intolerance
http://religious-intolerance.group.stumbleupon.com/ Leave it to IconoclastUK to come up with this group, as well as such a fitting avatar therefore.
Skeptics Annotated Bible / Quran / Book of Mormon
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/ God’s hatred of foreskins laid bare!
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http://edkrebs.com/herb/toons3/ Ok, I *NEED* one of these for my door!