A year and a half ago I decided to make a YouTube video about religion. I worked on and off for a few months, writing the narration, collecting images from the web, drawing cartoons for scanning and piecing it together. I bought Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements to create the film, started learning the software and began the process of ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago Cheryl made a comment about the end-of-days loonies marking May 21 as the beginning-of-the-end. I replied, "The Mayan thing? That's supposed to happen next year, 2012."  I stand corrected. Excuse me, an atheist, for being ignorant of whacky religious prophecies. I tend to ignore that shit.

I was unaware the world is coming to ( Read more... )

In recent weeks I've been reading far too much news and political commentary. This country is going down the drain. An average Joe like me is powerless to do anything about it. I should paddle away from the political news stream. It's depressing, frustrating, and annoying but I can never stay away too long. I always wade back in. I wish I could not ( Read more... )

I have not decorated for Christmas since my divorce. Why should I? I needn't explain that question ( Read more... )

I wonder how many young Christians were snagged in our heathen nets last night.

I believe 95% of atheists and people of pagan spirituality have no interest in luring the hearts and minds of children to our darkness. I'm good being left alone to my godlessness. We're fine with parents and clergy performing their ritual indoctrination of young souls ( Read more... )

There's no getting away from the nuttiness. It doesn't matter that I'm atheist. I don't have to seek out religion. It's right here, every day, in the media, influencing government, invading our lives. Whether we believe in god or not, we live in a world full of god and majority belief is ever present.

This morning I saw a link to a blog claiming  ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks back I was reading an online article about morality, religion, sin, laws, honesty and lying. It got me thinking. My musings stuck with me so I started writing them down. The article was about a study in Europe and in the states about how attitudes are shaped by culture, faith, or lack of. My favorite part of the piece was on the ( Read more... )

I had this idea for a post. I will ask questions and see who wants to play, by answering. The rules are simple. Many questions have only three answers.....yes, no or pass. Passing means you choose not to answer, which means I asked a question beyond your comfort zone. You're a chicken.

Other questions will have two answers, a quantity or frame of ( Read more... )

 Continued from the Obama post.....well, sort of.

What's an independent voter to do when he feels the two sides of our political system are misguided with one being no better than the other? There is no difference!

We have a pair of party conventions just around the corner and I just don't give a damn. At this time in an election year I'm usually ( Read more... )

I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the Invisible Sky Daddy, creator of heaven and earth, overseer and judge of all human souls as they ascend towards the pearly gates. I'm no absolutist. I cannot say with complete conviction there is no God because I'm merely a man, an uneducated man at that, who has only his faculties to guide him through life. My ( Read more... )