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I don’t know about you but this kinda reminds me of the Legend of Bilbo Baggins.

Traci’s going to this one but, alas, I’m a man and I can’t go.  Maybe next year!

This is one of the main reasons why I’m voting for Obama.  A return to a secular America at last…

As I start out at the beginning of the Old Testament I feel it’s worth noting that I’m approaching this book as the irrefutable and infallible Word of God, and nothing short of that. The claim has been made by many fundamentalists, including the IBS, Falwell, and more that this book is the real deal. There is no in between. For example, Falwell said:

The Bible is the inerrant…word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.

This theme is repeated again and again among the Christian faithful. So from this point on know that I am not reporting on this so much with the mindset of a person learning how a people completely alien to our culture used to believe, I’m reporting on this more as a true reference of history and of God’s Word to us. I’m told this book is dependable and I can trust it completely so that’s how I’m going to play it.

That said, let’s jump into it.

We start out with the creation of the sun, the earth, the stars, and the entire universe. If I were looking at this from the perspective of a person who lived three or four thousand years ago it might be believable. But I’m alive now in 2008 with far more knowledge than these people had and this story is total bullshit. This should in no way ever be used by anyone, anytime to represent the actual process in which the Earth, the solar system, or the universe itself actually formed. This text was obviously …read more »

So today begins “The Bible Study Project”, a project I’ve been planning for some time but just now finally got around to.  Lately I’ve spent a lot of time reading both atheist and Christian books and articles.  Each of these make interesting points while quoting verses from the Bible.  I’m openly skeptical of the Bible, the message it sends, the actual morality it teaches, its followers’ actual piety, and of Christianity’s audacious claims of divinity.  I’m a science-minded individual, preferring proof to faith, and the Bible, quite frankly, just doesn’t provide me with adequate proof to support the incredible and miraculous claims it makes.  At least not what I’ve read so far which is limited.

David Mills says that one of the contributing reasons people believe science and religion can harmoniously coincide with each other is because neither side really understands the other.  Religious people generally don’t know a lot about science and scientists often don’t know much about religion.  There’s a hopeful ideology that the two can find a common ground that really doesn’t exist, at least in David’s opinion.

I think he’s right but I want to find out for myself.  I don’t believe I can accurately and effectively continue to …read more »

I was watching a particularly amusing video clip sent by a friend to me of Sean Hannity having his ass handed to him by Christoper Hitchens and Hannity, in true Fox News fashion, pulls out the same tired old list of atheist mass murderers in an attempt to vilify and dehumanize atheists across the world. O’Reilly does the same thing, as do a number of conservative ditto heads. He sites Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Joseph Stalin in particular. He refers to atheists as “good atheist communists” which is almost juvenile in its intended misrepresentation and blatant misdirectional “sleight of hand”. He’s pulling the same routine, attempting to imply that these people committed their heinous crimes because of their atheism, not because they were homicidal megalomaniacs.

The non-belief in a deity has little more to do with the motivation for these people’s crimes than their hair color or their favorite food. If someone is homicidal they’ll find a way to carry out their plans, regardless of religion. Religion can be twisted any which way; it’s not an impediment to immorality. It’s the same old tired argument, made time and time again to inextricably combine morality with religion. It’s a tactic fundamentalists have used for centuries and they’re still doing it today. It’s tired, it’s old, but, apparently, it’s effective.

Since Hannity has decided that all atheists are “good atheist communists” and are mass-murderers then I thought I’d present a list of other atheists to “watch out for”. You might be surprised by this list which includes the likes of Woody Allen, Lance Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Berkeley Breathed, Warren Buffett, Rodney Dangerfield, Jodie Foster, Bill Gates, Katharine Hepburn, Penn Jillette, Billy Joel, Angelina Jolie, Diane Keaton, Bruce Lee, John Malkovich, Barry Manilow, Julianne Moore, Desmond Morris, Jack Nicholson, Ron Reagan Jr., Keanu Reeves, Gene Roddenberry, Andy Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Teller, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, William Shatner, and Linus Torvalds, just to name a few.

I guess Hannity didn’t want to mention the …read more »

Ben Stein is back for more, this time again blaming the Holocaust on Darwin and accusing science of murder. Here’s a tidbit from his interview with TBN founder Paul Crouch:

Stein: Love of God, compassion, and empathy leads you to a very glorious place; and science leads you to killing people.

Crouch: Good word, good word.

Sound too stupid and irresponsible to be true? See for yourself:

I do find it odd that Ben was on TBN, a Christian network, since the Jews killed Jesus and all. Maybe what they have in common are their extremist, fundamentalist viewpoints. Fundamentalist Christianity hates science as we’ve seen from the persecution of Galileo to the preposterous idea that Darwin is responsible for the holocaust. If science differs from scripture, they reason, then scripture wins out, regardless of the facts. At least the Catholic church is behaving just a little better lately but it’s primarily because they don’t hold the power they once held. If they did I’d wager we’d see a significant rise in witch burnings and heretic killings. The Dark Ages 2.0, so to speak, but that’s my opinion.

Even the Anti-Defamation League doesn’t want to be associated with this lunacy. They’ve issued an official statement denouncing the association of Darwin to the Holocaust as presented by Stein in his film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. From the ADL’s site:

The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit the scientific community which rejects so-called intelligent design theory.

Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people and Darwin and evolutionary theory cannot explain Hitler’s genocidal madness.

Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry.

I have two schools of thought on how to handle delusional and potentially dangerous people like …read more »

I read an article while I was waiting to get my hair cut a couple weeks ago in AARP magazine that featured a survey of the religious opinions of people over the age of 50. They took 50 people and asked them basic questions about their belief in an afterlife, God, etc. Not surprisingly most of the people interviewed said they believed in God (more women than men did actually) but one interviewee surprised me a bit. This guy said that he did not believe in an afterlife although he went to Catholic church every Sunday and went through all the motions anyway. On the surface he looked just like everyone else but inside he was very, very different. Not surprisingly he did not provide his name for fear of reprisals, not uncommon to non-believers.

This guy was using Pascal’s Wager, which essentially says this: I’m not sure I believe but I’m going to pretend I do just in case. If I’m wrong nothing’s lost; I’m going to die anyway. But if I’m right then I have a wonderful afterlife to look forward to. Some have mentioned …read more »

Ben Stein is quite possibly the smartest idiot in the world. I just can’t figure this guy out. He was a Nixon speech writer and he’s obviously intelligent; I’m familiar with his credentials and have witnessed his remarkable memory at work. But the same guy who graduated at the top of his class at Yale said the 911 attacks were the result of “atheistic evil” when we know inconclusively that the people who planned and executed that attack were anything but atheists; they were devout and pious Muslims. Those attacks were a shameful example of “religious evil”, and were not atheistic in any sense of the term.

He’s either stupid or a liar and, as I said, I don’t think he’s stupid.

So the same guy who brought us the catch phrase “Bueller” and blatantly misrepresented atheism is now apparently doing the same thing with evolution and science. His film …read more »