Featured Blog Posts – December 2010 Archive (9)

Going. Going. Gone

I was raised in the "Deep South", where the existence of God isn't up for debate. It is beaten into your brain from the very beginning. If you have any questions, you should just keep them to your self. Despite all that, it's petty fair to say that my existence, up until the past couple of years, has been a see-saw of varying degrees of belief. Some years I would recognize that no evidence of a god existed and that prayer was 50/50 at best. Other years, I would…
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Added by Thew on December 30, 2010 at 3:30pm — 16 Comments

The Failure of Modern Christian Apologists

I often try to corner theists on theology. I face them with what their Bible says literally and/or at it's base. For example, your spiritual leader promises to come back as a mass murderer. He's the child of a rich man whom promises you a mansion if you'll just give up all of your money today for a promise. Where is it that TV Evangelists get it from again? More often than not, I'll get a disingenuous side step and they'll say that you need to listen to theologians or read a specific book.…

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Added by Gaytor on December 28, 2010 at 11:50am — 2 Comments

Sunday School DEC 26, 2010

Santa lives! Richard Carrier has this hilarious and clever post arguing that Santa is real. replace "Santa" with "god" at any point and you'll see how clever it is.

Greg picked his favorite arguments from Carrier's piece while linking to an older post by Eric Steinhart arguing for…

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Added by Nelson on December 26, 2010 at 9:00am — 8 Comments

Celebrating "Kitzmas" or the rebirth of hope against ignorance and creationism

(ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN SU NOMBRE EN VANO)

Yes, Kitzmas. Its been 5 years from the Kitzmiller v. Dover case. According to the National Council for Science Education…

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Added by Diego Lecca on December 20, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Sunday School DEC 19, 2010

EDIT: i'm adding this link to today's edition because it's got some excellent information- including viewing times around the world- on Monday's eclipse and will be useless come next Sunday.

 

first, to all those members who…

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Added by Nelson on December 19, 2010 at 9:00am — 28 Comments

Sunday School DEC 12, 2010

-lots of anthropologists and scientists in general are upset over the American Anthropological Association's decision to drop all mention of "science" from their mission statement. The New York Times has the story.…



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Added by Nelson on December 12, 2010 at 9:00am — 13 Comments

Sunday School DEC 5, 2010

after child abuse accusations, Catholic priests often simply vanish.



past research into the happiness of religious versus non-religious people has tended to show that religious people are happier. but… Continue

Added by Nelson on December 5, 2010 at 9:00am — 10 Comments

Sunday Morning Service - 05DEC

Sunday Morning Service

05 DEC 2010



Links of Interest



Religious Do Not Have Monopoly on Virtue, Queen Tells Synod



Musings of the Spheres…



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Added by Johnny on December 5, 2010 at 5:00am — No Comments

Harvey Milk Still Speaking to Me



This weekend I attended a Harvey Milk Vigil because I was in San Fransisco being a tourist. It sounded like an interesting event and it was. There were multiple speakers talking about different issues facing the Gay Community. Really, all of the issues face all of us in the fight for equality. But I did take issue with one of the speakers on one point. Gay or straight, I think that it would apply for many of us that are… Continue

Added by Gaytor on December 1, 2010 at 1:45pm — 6 Comments

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