I want to make a trailer for a Jesus Resurrection movie. Jesus rises as an evil zombie, and his former apostles must put a stop to the undead horror before all of Israel falls prey to the growing undead horror.

Mostly, I want a scene with Peter slapping one of the other disciples, "Matthew, we have to! That's not Jesus anymore!"

(apologies for that egregiously long intro)
The only religious movie I'd see. Well, that and this one, and this one. Maybe might include Dogma, but I don't think it's held up well over time. Maybe it should get a pass for George Carlin as clergy (alone, worth the price of admission).

This calls into question everything you think you know about reality.

You do realize, this is how religions start, right?

Finally, a reason to go to church.

Now, I don't like to single out specific religions. When ranting and raving about the perils thereof, the dangers of faith-based 'thinking', I don't like to pick on just Christians (picking on Creationists doesn't count- they're aggressively stupid).

But these questions were too good to pass up. "Why does neither Mark nor John know anything about ( Read more... )

Kent Hovind isn't the most mentally stable person on the best of days. For those that don't follow his "ministry", "Doctor Dino" is one of the more public(ly moronic) advocates of Young Earth Creationism. He runs museums, sells DVD lectures- I mean, the guy's made a great racket out of being mentally disabled. So great, in fact, that he made the ( Read more... )

( SMBC strikes again )

I once thought that, no Young Earth Creationist will ever have a paper supporting Creationism printed in any peer reviewed journal ever. There's many reasons for this- mainly the small scraps of evidence they can come up with are either invented or explained better by the far more realistic multi-billion year old Earth model. There is no physical ( Read more... )

An interesting story about the true origins of Mormonism:
The actual story of the imposture is almost embarrassing to read, and almost embarrassingly easy to uncover. […] In brief, Joseph Smith announced that he had been visited (three times, as is customary) by an angel named Moroni. The said angel informed him of a book, "written upon gold plates ( Read more... )

Having recently farted around in a FARK flamewar on the topic, I'd like a centralized place where I can document the misconceptions I notice about what people think atheism means, versus what it doesn't.

Atheism requires faith. An agnostic is the rational person.

This is quite possibly one of the most common misconceptions. Few atheists claim ( Read more... )