I love this girl. How could you not? And her story evoked my favorite quote from any media source this whole year: Religious extremists all make the same mistake. They all fail to understand that all of the foundational holy books of major religions -all of them- have really really crazy dangerous stuff in them; […]
A new meaning for right-brained vs left brained
I hardly have time to do or read anything anymore, so I haven’t read the associated study behind this article from Discover magazine, only the article itself. Past experience has taught me to cautious of conclusions based only on that. The interesting implication herein is that having more gray matter in the anterior cingulate cortex […]
Ultimate Blasphemy!
Lilandra here.According to the Bible, the ultimate, unpardonable blasphemy is rejecting the Holy Spirit. Apparently, rejecting the imperceptible and undetectable is unforgivable. Are you Unforgiven II? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Bn_kD6QN4
On Atheist Warm Fuzzies
By Lilandra I suspect atheists experience less warm, fuzzy moments than theists. A lot of us are philosophically opposed to something like bowing our heads with family, and friends in prayer before we break bread. A skeptical mind can be quite the buzz-kill to believer fellowship activities. In real life, I sense that I make […]
The Black Knight always triumphs!
Now that Pastor Bob Enyart has failed to defend a single one of the laughable claims he made while I was on his show, after admitting that he hadn’t even read the rebuttals he was supposed to respond to, and despite being unable to disprove me on any point therein either, I suppose it is […]
Are atheists really good without “god”
By Lilandra Of course we are. Then how could it be possible for Atheism plus social justice issues to possibly divide atheists? If atheism is simply restricted to a non-belief in God/s like some apparently orthodox atheists are insisting, then where does morality originate? God? Of course not! Morality has to be intrinsic, and undiluted […]
Offerings to the atheist dictionary
It seems to me that the rational and the irrational apply very different meanings to many of the same words. Thus we talk past each other. For the purpose of clarification, I submit my understanding and application of many of the words that are most relevant to our contrasted positions. Legend: An unverified story handed […]
Ray vs Ra
I just wanna promote our debate this Monday night on http://www.radio-paul.com/
What I think about Atheism +
Over the last week or so, several people have asked me to comment on Atheism(+). I don’t always know if they’re trying to find out what it is, or if they just want to know how I feel about it. Today someone sent me a message which made that very clear. He(?) described himself as […]
Light the Night
Every autumn, I get involved in a few charities. There is DPR’s BlogTV 24-hour charity for MSF -which is on right now. On November 18th, I’ll be riding in the Motorcops for kids motorcycle run, which I haven’t done since the 2009 run. Usually Skepticon is on the same weekend, but that’s on the previous […]