Cracked put up a fun article about 7 Ridiculous Things People Believe About the “God” Particle 1. My favorite quote from the piece:

When people ask, “What’s the point in understanding everything?” they’ve just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don’t understand and just continue existing ( Read more... )

The first particularly intriguing article I stumbled across this morning was about a blind man that sees with sound. He’s managed to teach himself how to “see” by clicking his tongue and using the reflected sound to analyze his environment. I find it astounding that a human being, with no particular biological organ devoted to the geometric ( Read more... )

For a while, my antireligious zeal has been abating. I've been quite busy, and it really just hasn't come up too much. Something happened a few weeks ago, though, that really upset me a great deal. I'm not going to go into details, but the short version is that someone who I thought was leaving behind the juvenile trappings of fundamentalism had ( Read more... )

This is entirely random, but I was reading the various wiki entries on Jesus yesterday (due to a discussion with dakabn). I had always known about the whole duality of Jesus as both the "son of God" and "God", and it was actually one of the things that I found rather laughable about the whole notion. But one particular passage in wiki clarified it in a ( Read more... )

Jerry Falwell is dead.

scha·den·freu·de -noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

The quote that is the subject line of this entry was recently said of me by a friend of mine. It struck me as quite curious, because it is 100% inaccurate from my POV, but I can see precisely how anyone else who knows me at all will nod and say "Yep, that's him." This, of course, represents a significant error in expression and behavior on my ( Read more... )

forelyse posted an editorial attributed to Ben Stein recently. It turns out that the editorial is actually cobbled together from several sources. However, the Stein portion of it contains something that stood out to me, to which I had to respond.

"I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around ( Read more... )

The world is far too depressing a place.

Though, I suppose I should modify that statement: humanity makes the world a far too depressing place. Heh, no, not really -- humanity would be a welcome change of pace compared to the typical actions of the human species. There are a lot of depressing things on my mind, so codifying them all might take ( Read more... )

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( Things CNN Will Never Tell You About Religion )

Watch this.

Short background: some atheists go to have some coffee with some Christians. Both parties have never met.

Atheist 1: "More than ten years ago, we started up the North Texas Church of Free-Thought, and we have an affiliate in Houston as well."
Atheist 2: "There's four thousand churches in Dallas-Fort Worth. There's one like ours. ( Read more... )