One of the things that really riles me about religious institutions is how they try to play both good cop and bad cop roles.
Take the case of Barbara Johnson. Her mother died and as her lesbian partner of 20 years assisted her family and friends in [Read more…]
The Catholic church has this weird, one might say ghoulish, practice of preserving and displaying in churches the body parts of saints. Some believers ascribe miraculous powers to these relics.
Yesterday a bizarre robbery occurred in Dublin, Ireland in which thieves broke into a cathedral and [Read more…]
I have to say that Rick Santorum is the most interesting candidate, psychologically speaking, in the presidential race. And this is in the face of stiff competition from Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrich, all of whom would make fascinating studies of deluded thinking.
One thing that you must concede in favor of Santorum is that when it comes to his anti-women, anti-sex, anti-contraception, anti-gay, anti-secular agenda, he is [Read more…]
Tomorrow new atheist billboards will go up in neighborhoods that are strongholds of Islam and Judaism, Paterson, NJ and Brooklyn, NY respectively. So Muslims and Jews can now join up with Christians in getting into a lather about atheist billboards, proving once again [Read more…]
Via reader Norm, I learned of this site which posts the testimonies of those who have experienced the thrilling sense of freedom that is familiar to all who have managed to break free of the chains of their religious beliefs.
Here is one by Jack who speaks about how his gender identity issues [Read more…]
The absurd fuss over contraception in the US is a classic example of religions abusing the language of ‘freedom of religion’ to advance their anti-women agenda. It turns out that Israel is also experiencing a similar phenomenon. Orthodox soldiers are apparently objecting to having to hear women sing at military functions.
The army’s insistence on men hearing women sing is such a serious attack on religious freedom, according to one prominent far-right rabbi, that “we’re close to a situation in which we will have to tell soldiers, ‘You have to leave such events even if a firing squad is set up outside, which will fire on and kill you.'”
Some see a more sinister agenda at work than [Read more…]
Remember my post about a humorous suggestion to see if it was merely the fact that it was sponsored by atheists that made some people find atheist billboard ads offensive, rather that whatever content it contained?
Well, someone took up the idea and we now have some evidence that it is merely the word ‘atheist’ that is the problem.
The character of Abraham in the Bible is clearly a dangerous psychopath and why three major religions would proudly claim him as their common patriarch is a real mystery. Surely they would want to disown a man who was so insane that he was willing to kill his own child because [Read more…]
Scholarly articles tend to follow pretty much a four-step formula.
In order to make the case that their research is important, [Read more…]
Republican insiders seem to have suddenly woken up to something that others have been noticing for years, that their party has been taken over by open cranks. Hence it is hardly surprising that the Republican party establishment has begun attacking Rick Santorum in earnest. [Read more…]