TagsTagsMy hate mail has been really boring lately; it's been a while since I received a deranged, misspelled rant about burning in hell because I believe my granddaddy was a monkey. But this morning, someone in New York fired up AOL at about 6:49 am PDT and fired off this wonderfully ...
Little Green Footballs, Hate Mail, We Got Mail, wingnuts, Atheism, Homophobia
Bill O'Reilly doesn't understand how the sun rises and sets, or how the tides go in and out, and I have a feeling not even Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation will change that. [Video]
Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Bill O'Reilly, Atheism, Tides, Science
According to an interesting new Gallup poll, 70% of Americans say religion is losing its influence on American life. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean religion is losing its influence on America, just that 70% of Americans think it is. And they won't all be atheists either. A significant part of that ...
A new Pew Research survey finds that the people most knowledgeable about religion are atheists. Which shouldn't be a surprise, really; that's why they're atheists. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on ...
Visiting Britain, Pope Benedict frankly admitted something that's been nauseatingly obvious for many years, that the Catholic Church hasn't acted "swiftly" in cases of child abuse. Another big point of his speech, though, was an attack on secularism and atheism, hauling out the canard that the Nazis were "atheists:" Pope Benedict ...
catholic church, Sex Scandal, Child Abuse, Corruption, Pope Benedict, Atheism, Adolf Hitler
As of January 1st, Ireland has enacted an atavistic law that makes “blasphemy” punishable by a fine of up to $35,000. It’s amazing that a civilized country in 2010 is deliberately putting in place laws from the Dark Ages. An Irish atheist group immediately challenged this stupid and dangerous legislation by ...
Pat Condell’s latest video is a brutally direct and very powerful indictment of organized religion. [Video]
On the verge of weeping, Glenn Beck launches into one of his most bizarre rants yet, blaming godless atheists for everything wrong in America. And I do mean everything. [Video] UPDATE at 10/1/09 10:44:06 am: Beck claims that “In God We Trust” has been removed from US coins, but of course he’s wrong. ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Atheism, Fanaticism
Laurie Lebo (author of The Devil in Dover: An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America) has a piece at Religion Dispatches on a biologist’s effort to get clergy on board in the fight against fundamentalist creationism: Evolution Sunday: Pastors Celebrate Darwin. It’s been 150 years since Charles ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Atheism, Darwin, Lebo
When Barack Obama said, “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers” in his inaugural speech, he ran afoul of many fundamentalist Christians, who reject this kind of inclusiveness and think atheists are Satanic imps from hell: Obama’s Nonbeliever Nod Unsettles Some. With that one ...
Today’s creationist hate mail comes from a reader in Cleveland, Tennessee, who titles his rant “Atheism:” Do you still Not get it? Your Atheism is NOT OUR PROBLEM! IT IS YOUR PROBLEM! YOU DEAL WITH IT. NOT US! Your not going to convince us that ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Atheism, Hate Mail
In the holiday season’s next big controversy, the Catholic League is calling for a boycott of the film The Golden Compass. Yahoo! Movies has posted the first five minutes of the film (an appealing variation on the “trailer” concept).
Now here’s a theological argument you can get your teeth into, as Hitchens reviews Hitchens. Christopher is an atheist. I am a believer. He once said in public: “The real difference between Peter and myself is the belief in the supernatural. “I’m a materialist and he attributes his presence here to a divine ...