Joe’s Grand Fantasy, Part One
I’ve written about Joe Cienkowski on a previous occasion. Some of you may already be familiar with Joe and his ideas about evolution and atheism. I’ve had brief exchanges with Joe on Twitter, and...
View ArticleIndignation and Projection
A newspaper column was brought to my attention the other day. I had never before heard of the newspaper, The Daily Star of Oneonta, New York, nor the author of the column, Tom Sears. Mr. Sears writes a...
View ArticleLiving in a Delusional World
Terry Hurlbut (@Temlakos on Twitter) authors a column for Examiner.com called Creationism Examiner. On December 30th, 2010, Terry published an article entitled Creationism and science: wider...
View ArticleWhy Do Atheists Seem So Angry?
I sometimes see comments and questions wondering why atheists are, to some people’s eyes, very angry people. When I see those comments and questions, an excellent blog post by Greta Christina, Atheists...
View ArticleWhy Do I Even Bother?
Sometimes I have an exchange of words, comments, ideas, etc. with someone, and I am left wondering why I even bothered. I’d like to show you just such an exchange so that you can get an idea of why I...
View ArticleChristian Supremacy Rears Its Ugly Head
Damon Fowler, a senior at Bastrop High School in Bastrop, Louisiana, is graduating this evening. Many people in his community are wishing that he weren’t graduating, or that he kept his mouth shut, or...
View ArticleShit Stains on the Underwear of Humanity, № 1
This is the first in a series of posts regarding entities I encounter on the Internet which are egregiously ignorant, wantonly egotistical, stupendously ill-informed, and other descriptive terms I...
View ArticleSorry, Pastor: Atheists Neither Need Nor Want Your Faith
I saw a link posted on Twitter the other day that highlighted something I see all too often regarding faith and atheism. The link was to an opinion piece in the Nipawin Journal, titled “How much faith...
View ArticleOn Atheism: So Many, So Wrong, So Often
I’m writing this post in response to a blog post that was published at two different places on 2012 July 10. That post was penned by Elad Nehorai, a writer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The title of...
View ArticleIn Which I’m Not Convinced to Follow Islam, Part 1
By way of a conversation on Twitter, I was introduced to a gentleman, Tariq, who proposes that The Quran is a miracle in itself which is “proven” by scientific evidence. Those who use logic and reason,...
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