With all the religious babble coming from DC in the middle of an election year, it might be surprising to hear that religiosity is declining and atheism rising in the US. But that’s what a new poll says (.pdf) and the change over the last few years is quite promising: [Read more…]
Yeap, all over the news sites, atheism turns up hundreds of hits today alone instead of the paltry dozen or so over the last week it usually does. But they’re all the same and we have Paul Ryan to thank for this. Like most Kochwhores these days, Ryan professes admiration for the fictional characters in an old novel called Atlas Shrugged. With one notable clarification: [Read more…]
On Monday Pat Robertson (R-Fraud) blamed the Sikh shooting on atheists, kicking off a round of well deserved criticism. But William Saletan rides to the rescue! [Read more…]
You know who’s to blame for a right-wing Christian lunatic gunning down helpless men, women, and children in a Sikh temple? Atheists, that’s who! At least according to Pat Robertson. Some of the comments on Youtube are at least hopeful.
My talented colleague, Tom Tomorrow, delves into the FTB world for today’s political cartoon.
It’s an old joke, punchline, politics. If those politics included things like social justice, income and marriage equality, beefing up programs for the poor and unemployed, stuff even a non believer like myself knows Jesus spoke about almost exclusively, the religious right might not take such a credibility hit. But instead it’s almost solely composed of causes that are either outright silly, or worse, restrict liberty and damage the economy, in the purported name of the Lord-eh. South Carolina’s GOP actually thinks their narrow conservative platform was inspired by God herself: [Read more…]
Author David Niose posts at HuffPo about the ascendent secular movement and illustrates his point with a short list of non believers of historic weight. The preamble is some sweet mind candy: [Read more…]
The Minnesota Saints have a proud tradition of innovative promotions. The minor league boys of summer once gave away Micheal Vick chew-toys so that local dogs could bite into his likeness! Next month they will change their name from the Saints to the Aints for one night of “unbelievable fun” complete with an atheist meet and greet: [Read more…]
If that header doesn’t grab you, then you my friend have bigger problems than sex and religion can solve. Unfortunately, I may not deliver on the headline. It refers to a new book, Homo Mysterious by evolutionary psychologists Davd Barosh, that I have on order. Female sexuality is one of the topics the author writes about, but there is another graf in the review that caught my eye: [Read more…]
If you’re not sure who David Barton is, think of Ken Ham or Kent Hovind: Barton is to history what old fashioned young earth creationists are to science. He peddles books and DVD’s riddled with fake quotes and other inaccuracies pushing the idea that America’s founders were really all about a Christian theocracy. Which is why Alabama Public TV recently passed on a suggestion to air two of Barton’s fake documentaries. I just got wind of what happened next: [Read more…]