Alas! (in which I pay poetic tribute to a religious figure)
I forgot about “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”! I was away from the internet in an alternate reality in a plane of existence where you can still like things, but there is nothing you can click to share...
View ArticleInterefering with the Divine will of God!
I read this story from history and it got me thinking. Actually, read it first (or the TL;DR below the link) and come back. I’ll wait here for you....
View ArticleSource of Morality
Occasionally people accuse those with no gods as being amoral. “If you have no supreme authority,” they argue, “You are accountable to no one and have no source from which to pull morality.” I have...
View ArticleStupid Questions
It has been said by many a schoolteacher that, “there are no stupid questions.” I respectfully disagree. There are plenty of stupid questions, far more than there are intelligent ones. For instance: If...
View ArticleThe Impossible God
What happens when an unstoppable force crashes into an immovable object? Is the unstoppable force stopped or is the immovable object moved? With the question written that way, both outcomes are...
View ArticleNot of This World
I was recently sitting in traffic behind a large SUV with one of those NotW stickers in the back window. I remember when I first saw those things I had no idea what they meant. It looked like it said...
View ArticleScience Journalism
Exactly (SMBC) I know it’s just headline writers that are more familiar with marketing than science, but titles like “Was Darwin Wrong?” drive me up the wall. I wish we had more honest news in this...
View ArticleSLC Punk
I was in Salt Lake City, Utah for work this week and I promised myself that I would do something blasphemous while I was there. I spent most of the time working so I didn’t have much time to do...
View ArticleFaith is Not a Virtue
There seems to be a pervasive belief in America that it is better to believe anything than to be faithless. Atheists consistently rank as the most untrustworthy group of people in polls and telling...
View ArticleIndependence Day
Hope you are all having a good Independence Day. Celebrate the Independence of America from the British empire by lighting of some fireworks (responsibly of course), drinking some booze with friends...
View ArticleNot Immune
I’ve been paying a lot of attention to my car lately. First I was worried it was about to break down because it is rather old and has a lot of miles racked up. Since I had that idea already in my head,...
View ArticleA Terrorist in Norway
I’m not going to take the easy route of labeling the tragedies in Norway as Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism because I don’t think they are. Did this dickhead (I don’t give people like this the...
View ArticleCold Turkey
My Name is The Archangel Michael and I am a Caffiene addict. It has been 21 Days since my last Drink of Soda. I’d like to talk about quitting Cold Turkey. A few months back, I decided to not drink soda...
View ArticleWe All do Science, Some of Us in the Bathroom
Many people think of Science as something that nerds do. The Scientists do all the experiments and boil purple and green chemicals in Erlenmeyer flasks on bunson burners and out pops products, or...
View ArticleCruci-Fucked Math
On my way to work this morning I saw a bumper sticker that appeared to be a jumble of letters and numbers. When I got closer, I could read the following: 1Cross+3Nails=4Given Aside from my general...
View ArticleCalloused Knees
Don’t ask me why, but I recently found myself in a large church in the presence of many different leaders of various Christian churches. One of the guys was wearing shorts and I could see that he had...
View ArticleTrained Incapacity
One of the many problems I have with religions is this: The religious are trained to believe they can’t do things by themselves. When they face a crisis they are trained to run to a church official or...
View ArticleAccommodationism
There seems to be a bit of a divide in the atheist community between those that think that we should confront those who believe silly things, and those that think we should only intervene when someone...
View Article“Only god can judge me.”
I have seen plenty of people wearing shirts, with stickers, or sporting tattoos that say this phrase: “Only god can judge me.” I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what they are actually trying to...
View ArticlePrayeradox
Why do people bother to pray? If you don’t get what you prayed for, why is that? Often people say that it’s because it was not “god’s will” for that outcome to be realized. If you asked for something...
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