Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout From: North Coast Brewing Co. in California, United States Style: Russian Imperial Stout overall: 3.2 appearance: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | mouthfeel: 4 | drinkability: 3 A- A nice, rich opaque black pour. Not too thick of a head, but a nice soft tan. Doesn’t last long, [...]
READ MORE »Someone close to me reminded me, again, and rightfully so, that I’m an angry person when it comes to debunking religion (Christianity in particular), and it appears as though I revel in it. Sincere soul-searching leads me to honestly say: maybe a little. Yet not because of the subject matter, but whatever pleasure I get [...]
READ MORE »John W. Loftus has a post today over on Debunking Christianity in which he highlights a site by a former seminarian: Craig Lee Duckett: 25 Reasons Why I Am No Longer a Christian As for me, only about 5 of those reasons were enough to bring me away from being a true believer to a [...]
READ MORE »The Friendly Atheist has a recent article: Questions Your Pastor Will Hate He links to this site that has a list of questions and typical but altered for humor answers that will drive a pastor crazy. The author of this page is a former pastor himself–former fundamentalist and now an advocate for helping people recover [...]
READ MORE »The blog “Classically Liberal” has a post regarding referendums in Massachusetts regarding their same-sex marriage law: Applause for Massachusetts! The hook for Romney. He discusses how the supporters for overturning and banning same-sex marriage laws want a general vote of the issue of what’s fair for other human beings. I like this take: The argument [...]
READ MORE »Two interesting blog entries I read this week, one with some old news put in a very compelling way, but another that took the topic of secular “belief” and closely examines it. But first, the fundamentalism topic to get that out of the way…. Valerie at Debunking Christianity has a short post: Harris Hedges Debate [...]
READ MORE »I’m coming to the end of tirades against superstitious religious beliefs. If you notice, there were weeks not long ago I didn’t say anything–and there were many opportunities to do so: Jerry Falwell’s death, the Creation Museum opening, the stoning of a girl in the Middle East just like the Jews were commanded to do [...]
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(I’m posting a few things today, so be sure to scroll down and take a look at my other posts today: The existence and morality exist w/o the need for deity, Religion and deteriorating societies, and Steampunk magazine.) So last night was the first episode of the new reality show: “Pirate Master“, from the makers [...]
READ MORE »(I’m posting a few things today, so be sure to scroll down and take a look at my other posts today: Religion and deteriorating societies, and Steampunk magazine.) A couple of recent posts on The Friendly Atheist are rather good–and both are content from other people, so this is like 3rd level hearsay. From: Oh [...]
READ MORE »Speaking of ideologies harming the world (see my last post: “bush’s stubborn ideology tearing the world down“), a recent article in the UK’s Times Online: Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’ RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to [...]
READ MORE »A “Dallas News” op-ed piece called: “A spreading terror” … But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness. . Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made [...]
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I recently discovered a magazine on the genre of steampunk, which looks really interesting: http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/ I’ve had a vague interest in steampunk for some years–probably when I first read William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine, which is a mystery that takes place in an alternate history of 1885 when a computer age hits [...]
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