Poor Andrew Brown! He got left behind in the salvo of “Islamophobia” accusations leveled by his fellow journalists against the New Atheists. To make up for it, he has an especially nasty post in today’s Guardian, with the headling “Richard Dawkins’ latest anti-Muslim Twitter spat lays bare his hypocrisy” (Subtitle: “The celebrity atheist’s Twitter rant […]
Inquiring minds want to know. All over Africa, the Lord performs miracles on a regular basis, including healing of the blind and lame—and even resurrections! But here in the U.S.? Not so much. In fact, beyond the quotidian Jesuses in tortillas and tree stumps, I haven’t heard of a good old-fashioned miracle in ages. No […]
I swear—I thought this was an April Fool’s joke when I heard about it, but it’s not. The April Fools are the two North Carolina state legislators, Carl Ford and Harry Warren, who have written a bill trying to establish that states are exempt from the Constitution’s First Amendment prohibiting governmental establishment of religion. In […]
This exchange was posted on creationist Ray Comfort’s public Facebook page, and I also have permission from Leonie Hilliard to use it. Nothing really needs to be added save that Leonie is a member of Atheist Ireland: Oy vey.
National Geographic put up this video two days ago on Good Friday; it shows a Filipino man who, every year, allows himself to get crucified (nails driven through the hands, not the feet) to fulfill a promise he made to God when his wife and baby daughter survived a dangerous episode of childbirth. (Warning: very […]
Who is in charge of the Transportation Security Administration? Obsessed with security theater rather than real security, they’ve just made a decision to allow small knives and sporting goods like golf clubs and small baseball bats to fly with passengers in the cabin. As CNN reports: On Tuesday, TSA Administrator John Pistole announced that small […]
I’m not sure how famous or authoritative Peter Hitchens is in the UK (he’s virtually unknown in the U.S.), but after I wrote a piece on his dissing of Anthony Grayling’s new book, several readers informed me that P. Hitchens, unlike his brother, is a serious doubter of modern evolutionary theory. I don’t want to […]
Alert reader Grania sent me a link to a story about the Vatican along with the message: “Here’s a lolzy piece in the Telegraph: the mentally ill defending the morally bankrupt.” And that’s indeed the case: the title of the Telegraph piece is “World’s leading exorcist praises Pope Benedict.” I remember first learning that the […]
From the Tennessean we see a remarkable instance of how strong a hold Scripture has on the South. As we all know, 666 is The Number of the Beast, which I recently came across when I read Revelation. Here’s the sole reference in the Bible (Revelation 13:18; King James Version): 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath […]
Really? Catholic lions, tigers and bears? Oh my! Well, that’s the presumption based on the actions of a very foolish zoo in the Netherlands. Alert Dutch reader Gert sent me an email with the following content: According to De Volkskrant, a leading Dutch newspaper, next Wednesday the predators in the Zoo at Nuenen (in the […]
