A fascinating article on MSN today which continues my thinking about the mind, how it affects the person, how it’s your reality: What It Feels Like … to Have Amnesia I’m reading “The God Delusion” right now, and there’s a section I just read where Dawkins talks about how the brain perceives reality. There is [...]
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What is life? When to die?
An interesting article on CNN regarding the issue of medicine’s responsibility to keep the body alive: Death and dying: When is it time to let go? And interesting quote: “The ability of medicine to keep people alive for such long periods of time — despite their best efforts to die — has changed the way [...]
READ MORE »Goodbye religion. (In more ways than one.)
I’ve been compelled to stop being negative about religion, so it’s going to have to be cold-turkey. I tried as a New Year’s resolution, did well for a while…then utterly failed. Now I have new reasons, and that means I’m going to have to stop talking about religion altogether. Because right now in my life, [...]
READ MORE »Address: Catch 22 Drive, Washington, D.C.
Marc Fisher has a blog on the Washington Post site: Secret Buildings You May Not Photograph, Part 643 Seems as though you can’t know what buildings you can photograph, but if you photograph one of these places you aren’t allowed to know you can’t photograph, you’re investigated by the Gestapo and have a permanent federal [...]
READ MORE »Beer Review: Double Dragon
Double Dragon From: Felinfoel Brewery Company, Ltd. in United Kingdom (Wales) Style: English Pale Ale overall: 4.2 appearance: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | mouthfeel: 4.5 | drinkability: 3.5 A- Deep rich amber. Clear, but rich! Beautiful thick tan head. Stays a good couple, few minutes. Leaves a nice lacing on the glass [...]
READ MORE »They were BOTH framed.
This is my penultimate religious post. Meaning, I have one last post in the works that deals with religion, after which, I hope to stop outright and focus on other areas of interest. Not long ago I posted a link to John Loftus’ postings on the problem of evil, and how “evil” in the world [...]
READ MORE »The Big Brother State
Thanks to “Classically Liberal,” and their post: Stop the Big Brother State, I came across this great video that gives a clear look at the true nature of the surveillance state we’re living in–getting worse all the time.
READ MORE »What use is the Holy Spirit?
Lee Randolph at Debunking Christianity has an interesting post today: Reasonable Doubt About the Holy Spirit In it he establishes what the general Christian belief in the Holy Spirit entails. What the Holy Spirit is, what its “job” is. And according to scripture, one of its jobs is: P1a. The Holy Spirit is God P1b. [...]
READ MORE »The development of morality.
Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist has a post today that started a really fascinating, thought-provoking thread: The Trolley Problem He doesn’t say much in the post; the importantly thing is that he links to a clip of an episode of The American Life dealing with moral choices. Here’s what he links to: Link. The [...]
READ MORE »Public hypocrisy vs. private tragedy.
A Republican Congressman, Sen. David Vitter, was recently outed as a customer of prostitution: Prostitute degrades self by banging moralistic Senator (That article has a fantastic essay on the way in which fundamentalist Christians view sexual morality and the disconnect between ethics and “purity”.) CNN article on Vitter Sen. Vitter has been an outspoken proponent [...]
READ MORE »Non-religious charities.
When one remarks, as I have in past blogs and on others’ blogs, and more educated and intelligent people such as Christopher Hitchens remark, that religion is fundamentally harmful and the world would be better off without it *, one of the few counters I hear is how religion is responsible for charity and food [...]
READ MORE »Science isn’t a matter of belief.
Lee Randolph at Debunking Christianity has a brief post today regarding “the scientific method is just common sense formalized”, You Don’t Need Faith to Believe The Principle of Evolution It’s a brief little post, but does a good job debunking the idea that evolution, or any scientifically proven principle, needs to be believed or taken [...]
READ MORE »Why do Christians believe?
Quite some time ago I wrote an entry: Faith or Delusion, discussing some of the reasons I see why people believe in religion–specifically Christianity. John W. Loftus over at Debunking Christianity has a new post: Why do Christians believe? He deals in this post primarily with the upbringing/programming aspect I write about in my post. [...]
READ MORE »Talk about chutzpah!
White House spokesman Tony Snow recently claimed Bill Clinton had a lot of chutzpah (the ability to kill your parents and then beg forgiveness from the court because you’re an orphan) for criticizing King George about him clemency of convicted perjurer and CIA agent exposer “Scooter” Libby. The point being Clinton had also granted clemency [...]
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Christian “free will” is a sick illusion.
I’ve blogged about the absurdity contradiction and hypocrisy of the Christian idea of “free will” before. Here’s a video I got from Ex-Christian.Net that does the job quite well. (Although there are a couple of unnecessary curse words, fair warning.) Addendum: I forgot to mention the other half of the absurd “free will” component of [...]
READ MORE »Love the father and hate the father.
One of the comics I put up in my last post: points up one of the many foundational conflicts within Christianity: Luke 14:26: “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My [...]
READ MORE »God should have a sense of humor.
A recent post on The Friendly Atheist: Perfect Happiness made me aware of a pretty funny, and thought-provoking, Web comic: Russell’s Teapot (The reference is obviously to Bertrand Russell’s famous orbiting teapot argument.) Here are my favorite comics: Click the thumbnails below to go to the full comic:
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