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 [...]

The ranks of the religiously unaffiliated are growing. Good. We don’t have dogma, but I thought I’d list some benefits:

If you want to believe the world was created by a giant hamster, you can!
You don’t have to listen to people in funny hats
Abortions for everyone!
Don’t care about who begat whom? Don’t read the book
Everyone is [...]

This is less than inspiring:
Muslim medical students are refusing to obey hygiene rules brought in to stop the spread of deadly superbugs, because they say it is against their religion.
Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their [...]

UPDATE: Hey, so I can’t do anything on this blog at the moment. Login, comment, post, etc. I’m editing this in the database to see if that works. If you see this, try and comment.
I have three comments on this article:
“I was standing on a corner and turned around and there was this little old [...]

Thomas Paine. You should know who he is, but if you don’t, Wikipedia is your friend. Here’s a quote about the Christian doctrine of redemption, from The Age of Reason, his final book and the one that destroyed his reputation for good:
Since, then, no external evidence can, at this long distance of time, be produced [...]

Unless Jesus was nailed to a u-shaped cross, I’m not seeing it.
I’m going to go with a referee signaling a touchdown.

Pat Robertson is making predictions again:
Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, who has made predicting the future an annual tradition, predicts a recession and a major stock market upheaval are on their way for the United States.
Aside from a recession this year, Robertson suggested Wednesday that Americans will be paying much more for gas at the pump [...]

It’s almost Christmas and I will be in Wyoming for all of next week, so this place will be very quiet for that period.
At work today my boss handed out Christmas cards thanking us for our hard work. Not just generic, Santa Claus and snowmen cards, but full-on Christian, worship Jesus cards. Now, he’s a [...]