Posted in Freethought on Aug 10th, 2008
Religion can fuck up your brain in subtle ways. Even when you grow up and choose reason over superstition, little islands of irrationality and special pleading can linger and come up at odd moments. As evidence, take Robert M. Price. I first learned of him when Freethought Fort Wayne announced they were bringing him to [...]
Posted in Freethought, Web Videos on Jul 23rd, 2008
A few weeks ago, this lady was on Colbert:
The combination of faith in revealed knowledge and a lack of evangelical zeal struck me as damned odd. It’s a combination that I’ve seen in other religious moderates, and it’s always puzzled me. So indulge me while I piss and moan about it a bit.
Look, [...]
Posted in Blogging about Blogging, Free Speech, Freethought on Jul 14th, 2008
You’ll notice, of course, that in my pro-P.Z. letter to President Bruininks, I pretty much avoided the core issue. To a large extent, it’s irrelevant: P.Z. enjoys free-speech rights, particularly on a private blog that’s unaffiliated with the university, and anyway, he has tenure. Any organized campaign to pressure the university to take action [...]
Posted in Blogging about Blogging, Free Speech, Freethought on Jul 11th, 2008
So there’s a little kerfluffle over at Pharyngula about P.Z. making fun of some
crackers. Basically, Bill Donahue and the Catholic League got their dander up about some kid absconding from Mass with a Eucharist wafer (which is totally the body of the Lord Jesus, even though it seems to every empirical investigator to be [...]
Posted in Freethought, Music Post-off, Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2008
For my first entry I’d like to share with you all this recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana:
Lyrics with English translations are available at this companion site to an introductory Latin textbook by Gavin Betts.1 I recommend following along as you listen.
Carmina Burana is a cantata that Orff, a German composer, premiered in [...]
Posted in Freethought, Humor on Jun 24th, 2008
That’s my IMMORTAL SOUL!
Just found this movie on the Apple Movie trailers website. I was looking for Choke, the movie version of Chuck Palahniuk’s awesome novel by the same name, and I ran across this documentary, Religulous. Although I’m not really a fan of Bill Maher, I usually agree with him on some political and [...]
Posted in Freethought, Humor on Jun 23rd, 2008
Props to The Onion for this:
And I’m damned sad to hear about George Carlin. Think what a great place the world would be if everyone could laugh at jokes like this:
George Carlin – Religion is bullshit
Posted in Freethought on Jun 22nd, 2008
Yeah, I totally stole that from The Daily Show. Whaddya goin’ to do about it, huh?
Anyway:
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