So yesterday two Jehovah’s witnesses came to my house whilst I was out front having a smoke. I took the time to talk to them while I finished my cigarette and my cup of tea. It was quite fun.
I made it clear when they asked right at the start that I was an Atheist who [...]
I found this wonderful and astonishing website with a timeline of the major events in human history, called MacroHistory and World Report. There are sections on specific regions or time periods but I was just browsing my way through the whole timeline when I found this interesting piece on the origins of Christianity.
25CE : Since [...]
In all the recent news about abuse in the Catholic church that has been some speculation that even if direct blame could be placed at the feet of the Pope then he would not be arrested or tried for it. As a head of state he would have diplomatic immunity. The only heads of state [...]
Did you see the story about the pope being knocked down last night?
Imagine that… A mentally unstable person managed to get close enough to afront an 82 year old man in the richest most well guarded city in the world!? Begs so many questions!
Like doesn’t it seem convenient that the person who assaulted Silvio Berlusconi [...]
While browsing for news on Christmas day I found this little ensemble of stories on religious expression over at the BBC.
Of course I’m against all religion on principle but I found it quite upsetting that a government can ban one religion’s activities (publishing bibles with the word Allah in them) because it might upset another [...]
Jumile recently blogged about Pascal’s Wager, here and here, and I read the comments on his thread with some interest. It seems the phrasing of the wager caused some confusion. Distinguishing between ‘a god’ and ‘God’ seems to be at the root of it.
I thought I might rewrite the Wager using ‘a deity’ and ‘The [...]
Any frequent visitors will have noticed the addition in the sidebar of the Atheist Blogroll. This list is tirelessly maintained by Mojoey here.
He has his own excellent blog here.
And contained within that blog is Hypocrisy Watch – an evergrowing list of religious leaders who are arrested and/or convicted. The sheer number of updates on this [...]
The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused Members of Parliament of treating religious faith as an “eccentricity” practised by “oddities”.
He then goes on to refer to the Catholic church as an “eccentric option”.
Pot…Kettle? Kettle…Pot? That’s some awesome hypocrisy!
Anyway he claims that all three party leaders have a moral sense of some “spiritual flavour” which is wrong [...]
When the guy next to you orders the Halal meal and a vodka, it’s hard to supress your cynicism.
When you’re tired and hungry, four glasses of wine and a cognac in under an hour make it very hard to focus on the six inch screen only eighteen inches from your nose!
Sitting on an aisle [...]
Science cuts away yet another Intelligent Design objection to Evolution: Wired Science
A great Atheist Blog with some really interesting commentary on he Bible. Some very similar points to my own articles on Free Will (and better written!): Daylight Atheism
Chris Brown’s assault on Rihanna is really God showing his goodness says Chris’s mum: Friendly Atheist