"I live just north of Fond du Lac, WI and have actually seen the car in question. I think his license plate is something like "Bene XVI"
Stay classy, Father Strand."
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Matthew commented on Monica McGee (Monicks)'s blog post 'God is an atheist!'"Funny, but I would have preferred that the last panel showed that nothing changed at all. Life just goes on."
Matthew commented on Gaytor's video
NonStampCollector Quiz Show
"I actually laughed out loud (in real life) at several points. This is just hilarious."
Galen commented on Matthew's blog post 'Ironic Health Care Positions'"I've seen it and said nothing. The page clearly states that it's just a joke and they're not really praying for the president's death, merely using humor to express their disapproval of the current president.
I can't…"
Reggie commented on Matthew's blog post 'Ironic Health Care Positions'"Nice job, Sheila. Always best to respond with a cool head. Or not at all."
Reggie commented on Matthew's blog post 'Ironic Health Care Positions'"The Obama hatred is beyond reason. I've never seen such eagerness to abandon reality in order to loathe a man."
Lindsey commented on Matthew's blog post 'Ironic Health Care Positions'"The sheer hypocrisy of these people never ceases to astound me. Whenever I said something critical about Bush, they were the first to bitch about how un-american I am for disagreeing with the president, but now that the republicans aren't in…"
Chetan D commented on Matthew's blog post 'Ironic Health Care Positions'"Barack Hussein Obama. Thats why- they equate that hussein to Saddam Hussein
Hussein is a middle eastern name and a LOTTTTT of christians in the middle-east have "muslim" sounding names when they're simply arabic names.
Another…"
B. commented on Matthew's blog post 'Ironic Health Care Positions'"my sister joined a group on facebook that was something like, "I hate when I wake up in the morning and Obama is still president".
OMG.
yah my entire Mormon family LOATHES Obama and his anti-God (their words!) ways. I still remember my…"
Reggie commented on Matthew's blog post 'Ironic Health Care Positions'"I have seen that in an email. As much as I despised the GWB administration, I never once wished that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, or any other politician I found deplorable would die.
Not only are your friends' views on heath care reform ironic…"
Cara Coleen commented on Matthew's blog post 'Ironic Health Care Positions'"Yeah my brother is a fan of that group. It makes me mad because Christians have been told not to trust Obama; they've been told he's Muslim and Socialist, and that he can't be trusted. They don't hear his words, they only hear…"
Matthew posted a blog postIronic Health Care Positions
Has anyone seen this going around Facebook?DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOKMY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAELJACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACKOBAMA. AMEN.I'm not going to get into their picks for favorite actors and singers. I'm not even going to get into the fact that they are publicly praying for the death of a president (when I was repeatedly told to support our president -…See More
Matthew replied to Misty: Baytheist Living!'s discussion 'Meat Eating..'"I'm sure the transition would be slow which would allow for a gradual decrease in livestock as the, um, lab-meat took over market share."
Matthew replied to Misty: Baytheist Living!'s discussion 'Meat Eating..'"As a vegetarian that still has occasional cravings for meat (after 3 yrs? or so), I would love this and would have no qualms eating it. My main beefs with meat (see what I did there?) are the environmental, animal treatment, and human labor concerns…"
Matthew commented on Venus Lovejam's blog post 'Who Made Blood Red?'"http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/2008/04/why_are_veins_blue.php
Link fail. Hopefully this one works."
Matthew commented on Venus Lovejam's blog post 'Who Made Blood Red?'"I believe that your explanation of "who" made blood red is an urban myth. Blood is red. It doesn't matter whether it is inside or outside your body. It doesn't matter if it is oxygenated or deoxygenated. The myth comes from the…"
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- I'm a middle/high school science teacher and frankly, I'm still nervous to reveal myself openly as an atheist. I'm so unsure that I'm not putting anything very revealing about myself on this page. I'm currently job hunting and worry about the repercussions. This fear makes me slightly more than annoyed at American society, but not quite enough to jump out of the closet. Besides, it's easier to shape young minds to think critically about science and religion when they aren't scared of the big-bad-atheist-science-teacher warping their minds.
I don't think I really believed any of my religious education since about junior high/high school, but really started doubting in college. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I finally admitted to myself that I really was an Atheist after all. My acceptance of this can be contributed to "Misquoting Jesus," "The God Delusion," my wife, and some key friends.
I grew up Lutheran - Missouri Synod. My wife and I tried the Episcopal church for a while...they were nice and liberal, but still Christian. We then tried the UU Fellowship, but were turned off when the atheist sermon turned out to be a list of reasons why atheism is unreasonable. I also don't like how they focus on all the feel-good stuff about religions and pretend the negative things don't exist. I have been happily churchless for about 2 years now - a dream I've had since I was a kid.
Other than that, I'm married and have some pets. I think that's probably all you care to know for now.
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Ironic Health Care Positions
Posted on April 22, 2010 at 12:28pm 8 Comments 0 Likes
Has anyone seen this going around Facebook?
DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOKMY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL
JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK
OBAMA. AMEN.
I'm not going to get into their picks for favorite actors and singers. I'm not even going to get into the fact that they are… Continue
Jesus' "Sacrifice" Wasn't THAT Great
Posted on December 2, 2009 at 12:00pm 8 Comments 0 Likes
I was talking with my wife (also an atheist) the other day about Jesus. It suddenly dawned on me that his "sacrifice" wasn't really all that great. In fact, Jesus was kind of a jerk about it.
If you were told by god that you could save all of humanity that ever existed, exists, and will exist in the future from everlasting torture, wouldn't you be willing to do that? Then you hear the terms...by simply being tortured and humiliated for one day, and dying, you win everyone's… Continue
If you were told by god that you could save all of humanity that ever existed, exists, and will exist in the future from everlasting torture, wouldn't you be willing to do that? Then you hear the terms...by simply being tortured and humiliated for one day, and dying, you win everyone's… Continue
Holy Book Morality or Anarchy...I Choose Neither.
Posted on July 24, 2009 at 12:07pm 6 Comments 0 Likes
This discussion got me thinking:
http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/did-you-become-an-atheist-to
I have been having some trouble reconciling something in my mind. I do NOT think we need god(s) to keep us moral, but I DO think we need government and laws to do so. Someone once challenged me on this and said I may as well be an anarchist. I couldn't come up with a satisfactory response to explain why that was false at that moment.
Finally, this morning, it dawned… Continue
http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/did-you-become-an-atheist-to
I have been having some trouble reconciling something in my mind. I do NOT think we need god(s) to keep us moral, but I DO think we need government and laws to do so. Someone once challenged me on this and said I may as well be an anarchist. I couldn't come up with a satisfactory response to explain why that was false at that moment.
Finally, this morning, it dawned… Continue
We're on the F****ing Moon!
Posted on July 23, 2009 at 10:21pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I know this is late, but it's one of my favorites from The Onion.
Jonathan Park: The How-do-I-refute-ID-without-offending Adventure Begins
Posted on July 8, 2009 at 3:57pm 16 Comments 0 Likes
I'm teaching high school summer school right now. The kids aren't there because they have to be, they are there because they want to be. This program I'm in is nice because I can pretty much talk about whatever I want. I got an interesting question about evolution, so we discussed it for a while. It wasn't long before I spotted the religious student. He gave himself away when he tried to debunk all of science because of our lack of total understanding of the beginnings of the universe. It seems… Continue
Comment Wall (5 comments)
- At 6:53pm on December 30, 2009,
Gaytor said… - Have I flown over the Cukoos Nest yet Chief? He seems to only respond to doing this in letter form. Authors, what are you going to do with them?
- At 9:16pm on December 17, 2009,
Meg Gallagher said… - Hi Matthew! I go to Lawrence University, which is up in Appleton. Thanks for the welcome :) There seems to be a nice community on this site
- At 3:45pm on July 25, 2009,
Rhiannon Smith said… - Thank you, Matthew, I really appreciate it. Hope to be hearing more from you soon. :]
- At 5:20pm on July 4, 2009,
Misty: Baytheist Living! said… - Hi there,
I've read some of your stuff on chiropractic therapy and if you've got time, I have a few questions for you.
I've sent you a friend request so we can email. I'd attempt to catch you on chat, but one of the dogma of atheist life for me is 'no chatting unless properly intoxicated' Seriously. If I break this tradition, the sky might fall or the sun could forget to rise.
Anyway, give me a yell when you've got time!
- At 11:47am on May 19, 2009,
Johnny said… - Welcome to Think Atheist!!
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