Jonah Goldberg is offended by Darwin Fish car magnets.
Because it’s mocking a symbol of Christianity. The mean atheists are making fun of poor Jonah’s beliefs.
Religion’s funny. People like Jonah want special status for their nonsense, so they don’t have to hear people make fun of it. I mean, they can’t make racist and misogynist comments [...]

This is kind of a like a do not disturb sign. Except it keeps away thin skinned religious people.
The company that owns the billboard says it was put up illegally, but that seems…difficult.
It does kinda suck for that restaurant by it.

So I was thinking about my last post some more today and I don’t think my assessment lines up with the survey I posted about a while back, where the ranks of unaffiliated believers were growing, as was changing religions. I realize we’re talking a survey in the exception to religious decline in the Western [...]

I thought this was interesting:
That triumphal barnburner of an Easter hymn, Jesus Christ Has Risen Today – Hallelujah, this morning will rock the walls of Toronto’s West Hill United Church as it will in most Christian churches across the country.
But at West Hill on the faith’s holiest day, it will be done with a huge [...]

Some guy was tortured and murdered (maybe) on this day, sometime in the first century. Makes sense in the current climate that we’d call this “Good Friday,” I guess.
I prefer to think of this as a university day, MSU’s (and probably some other schools’) excuse for giving students the day off. I can pretend today [...]

I’ve filled out an NCAA tournament bracket on espn.com every year since 5th grade. And yet I just can’t muster the interest this year. It’s not like I pay attention to college basketball during the season, but still.
Obama’s speech on race was very very good. That hasn’t stopped the silliness, though. Did you know you [...]

So says some Israeli researcher:
High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.
Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the [...]

Mark T made a comment on a post a couple back saying this:
Thing is, I don’t think any of us know enough to make the leap. OK? I’m cool with humans being a cosmic blip of no consequence, but the larger questions - we’re not equipped for answers. We can only speculate, and to speculate [...]

Accused witch gives birth in tree
A PREGNANT woman in Papua New Guinea who was hung from a tree after being accused of sorcery gave birth to her baby while struggling to free herself.
You might expect me to quote more of the article, to explain that event, but there’s really not much to explain. I’m sure [...]

Last week, Paul Campos wrote an article in the The Rocky Mountain News entitled “The Atheist’s Dilemma.” When I see a title like that I tend to think the article is going to be a train wreck, which this one is.
The first issue isn’t really an issue, but more like something I just want to [...]