Tag Archives: Religion

A Brisk Business in Selling Hope by the Wick – New York Times

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 […]

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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 […]

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Celebrity : The Atheist, The Agnostic and The Ambigous | Digital Karma

http://digital-karma.org/culture/facts/celebrity-the-atheist-the-agnostic-and-the-ambigous It appears that David Cronenberg and I share an attitude towards religion: For me, it’s not even worth discussion. It doesn’t interest me. It interests me only to be discarded. If I start there, I’m mired in a discussion that is very unfruitful to me. I’m simply a non-believer and have been forever. To […]

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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://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_3896635 An article which, to those of us who refuse to follow the doctrines of any church, seems perfectly tame. Yet it was contentious enough in Mormon Utah to cost the writer his job at Brigham Young University. Note, too, that there’s a blank with the word “advertisement” in the middle of the piece – […]

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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.

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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!

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