A friend of mine gave me a box full of "The Sudbury Star"  WEEKEND MAGAZINE from 1970 to 1979.  I came across this article.  I'll just give some of the juicier aspects of it, since it's several pages long. 

Resignations from the priesthood have become epidemic. Paul.... (I won't give his last name)..., a former Basilian Father, today is married and a father of three. " The Church is not a spiritual institution" he told Stephen  ..........., "it's a multinational corporation."…

Imagine an angel galloping towards you on an white unicorn and halting infront of you and telling you, "I have come to take you to the heaven".

Previously I mentioned I was going to see Stephen Fry live in Feb. Well, that was today. 

From my blog:

I just attended Stephen Fry's acceptance of the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, given by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard.  His speech was quite different than the one he gave for the Intelligence² Debate.  The main…

Bill O'Reilly has attacked atheists calling us names pinheads etc and asked us a lot of questions these are some of the answers for his latest questions. I guess most of the answers to his questions can be found by googling but here are a few answers I found ....

How did Moon get here?

Moon is the remnant of the collision of Earth and Mars sized object. For more information about it we can checkout the wikipedia article…

They'll say a prayer then kill you

Let the conditions be right and a red moon in sight

Holy books used for carrying teeth

Proof of another rogue…

I wish her love would stand still

I'm tired of trying to be in focus

And she wants me to follow the line

Say I accept her Jesus for all…

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/clash-of-the-gods/

So for anyone interested in watching a doc about greek gods and the such, please visit that site. They mention the parallels of Christianity to this, coincidence? I believe this takes from Hesiod's Theogony, which is the Greek's equivalent to Genesis. Have fun!

Edit: The narrator and some of the speakers also think this stuff happened! lovely, just…

Ex-apologist pointed to two new papers by philosopher Wes Morriston, one against god as a grounding for morality and the other against the Kalam on the subject of actual infinities. (pdf's at the link)



just because something's unexplained doesn't mean it's supernatural.…

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The Ancestor's Trail - Sunday the 29th May 2011.

Religious folks certainly know how to throw a party; festivals, ceremonies, feasts, sacrament, Hajj, Vesak, Bar Mitzvah and the list goes on....

But what if your beliefs are rather more down to earth? In 2010 a small group of Humanists ran our very first 'biological pilgrimage' on the Quantock hills in Somerset UK ~ a secular celebration of our shared origins, based on Richard…

“Where is it?

Who took it from me?

I want it back!

Who stole my thread?

They will outcaste me!

Please give it back to me!

I want the thread back around my throat!”

The thread around my Throat

So a guy gets Leviticus 18:22 (“You shall not lie with a male as one does with a woman. It is an abomination.”) tattooed on his arm cause he’s obviously against homosexuality and lives by the Bible.

But in the next chapter Leviticus 19:28 (“You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.”) forbids tattoos. Maybe he should have kept reading?

Dumbass!

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Hi, I see that I can add video - which I should probably do at some point. Anyway, I wanted to start a "favorite atheist YouTube channels and videos" thread. Forgive me if it has been done recently.

Some of the best channels:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheraminTrees#g/u

http://www.youtube.com/user/QualiaSoup#g/u…

Just a few examples:

I've hinted to my mother (but only gently, because I'm not yet ready to catch those pieces) that I'm an atheist. And yet she sent me a holiday card…

Every so often, someone will tell me that atheists are impossible to debate, because they think they know it all.  Someone will tell me that I am dismissing their claims before I have even heard them.  They accuse me of shutting out the “evidence” they have to “prove” god’s existence.  They say I am doing what I accuse them of doing:  sticking fingers in the ears and screaming, “La-La-la! Can’t hear you!”

Well, they may have a point.  I…