DisComforting Ignorance

For over a month now (since August 9, to be exact), Japanese (I think) spammers have been commenting on my blog between 9pm and 10pm. As such, I've enabled word verification for commenting. H...

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The Update I am a bit stunned to see how long it has been since I last posted. Updating this blog and interacting with everyone was always an enjoyable part of the day. I have, however, had the p...

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Something I've been encountering a lot recently with other people is the topic of gay adoption. (Could it be from the recent election wherein the various electorates voted against children in th...

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While browsing Facebook to try to find some horribly offensive anti-Christian group title* (as payback for the barrage of Christian Right status updates Tuesday night), I came across a rather int...

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I'm not sure when my schedule will first allow for this, but I wanted to throw it out there. I frequently hear atheists -- and I want to stress frequently -- claim that you can't be a thinking a...

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I was reading AiG's article today on posters and their messages. It concluded with the author discussing how most professors are anti-Christian and textbooks having a heavy anti-Christian bias. I...

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To make up for the absence over the past two weeks, I have been preparing a series of posts entitled Common Christian Contradictions. Although I haven't been able to post recently, I have been fo...

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So, I promised this week I would make up for my lack of posting last week. I lied! Most of you probably believed me, and most of you are atheists. And quoth the Bible: "The fool has said in his h...

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Agnostic: The Atheists' Four-Letter Word At the Texas Freethought Convention, Terry McDonald (chairman of DFW Metroplex Atheists) took a polling of people in the room on labels for their beliefs,...

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I googled extraordinary claims and you'll never guess what popped up as a top result A Christian apologetics website: CARM. Humor. I was googling it for a t-shirt I'm designing. The link tha...

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson "Hey, the first rafflin...

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Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I'll make it up to you this week :-) I've been spending the past week working on several events. And now (one of the) fruits of my labor: I will be atten...

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In The People vs Joe the Plumber earlier this week, I looked at Ray's claim that the indication that God has high standards of justice is his severe punishment for even minor infractions (e.g. i...

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While checking out Beliefnet, I saw this advertisement they had for Expelled: Sorry Ben Stein. Faith loses out to facts once again as Religulous is the #1 documentary of 2008 . Religulous, w...

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I started a series on Religulous posts starting with a criticism of the quotes Maher uses in the film. I discovered Steven Waldman over at Beliefnet started a Case Against Religulous series, beg...

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And unlike Patrick, I have a legitimate claim: copyright infringement. Ray Comfort has announced he has written a bible for atheists . I have already completed a bible for atheists: This len...

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So, Ray seems to think he has a list of ten questions atheists can't answer. This atheist can, though. Observe: 1. What was in the beginning? Nothing 2. How will life on earth end? The Flying S...

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Ray Comfort has argued that God has a high standard of righteousness and justice. To support this claim, he points out that lying gets a death sentence, he considers hate to be murder, and lust ...

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Submitted by: Brittany Summary of Challenge: Pray for five minutes, daily, for a month. Status as of Oct. 18: Accepted As readers will be familiar with, I have an open request to Christians to ...

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MrFreeThinker writes in response to a post about the many denominations of Christianity: > What about allthe different type of atheism? Weak atheism ,strong > atheism , Agnostic At...

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GermanMike over at the Raytractors speculates that the reason Ray fights so hard for Christianity is because he would be out of a high-paying job. He wonders what job Ray would have if Christian...

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I'm currently making my way through another one of Michael Shermer's books, Why Darwin Matters. In his discussion of Paley's watchmaker argument, it reminds me of the modern analogies creationist...

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By science we understand the knowledge of facts to be meant, and not speculative theories on the meaning of such facts. Only too often are such theories in the minds of some confounded with the ...

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Several weeks ago I prepared a presentation for my atheist group on religion and science in the 2008 election. At the time I had decided not to vote. I know that many active atheists, certainly ...

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