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Sunday School APRIL 25, 2010

Christianity and the inversion of morality.

US women are less pious, more progressive than at any time in the past.

faith-based treatment plus probation ordered for… Continue

Added by Nelson on April 25, 2010 at 9:00am — 8 Comments

Sunday School APRIL, 18 2010

ok, let's see...

lots of reaction to a federal court declaring The National Day of Prayer unconstitutional! FFRF, Howard Friedman, Hemant Mehta,… Continue

Added by Nelson on April 18, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

the ongoing Catholic Church abuse scandal features heavily again this week: the Associated Press has uncovered evidence that the pope was fully in the loop (PZ Meyers comments) when it came to keeping… Continue

Added by Nelson on April 11, 2010 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Sunday School APRIL 4, 2010

lots of continued discussion on the latest Catholic Church abuse scandal: there's more evidence that the pope failed to protect children from predatory priests. an abuse hotline set up by the Vatican was shut down when almost 4,500 people called in on the first day to seek counseling and advice. meanwhile,… Continue

Added by Nelson on April 4, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Sunday School MAR 28, 2010

physicists use underground lab to detect rare particles and peek into the earth's center.

lots of discussion around the internet on The National Academy of Science hosting the Templeton Foundation's award ceremony. commentary too on the award recipient Francisco Ayala. check it out here,… Continue

Added by Nelson on March 28, 2010 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

Sunday School MAR 21, 2010

more accomadationism from Michael Ruse

check out this 6 part series of videos on youtube covering Genesis as the ancient Hebrew understanding of cosmology. how can such an absolutely wrong understanding of the universe be divinely inspired???

complexity explained:… Continue

Added by Nelson on March 21, 2010 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Sunday School MAR 14, 2010

Church of Scientology cries foul over new German film, wants it banned. meanwhile, still more defectors from the church say that the church hides its abuses.

lots of reaction/discussion on the 9th Circuit court's decision upholding the pledge of allegiance against an… Continue

Added by Nelson on March 14, 2010 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

Sunday School MAR 7, 2010

Christopher Hitchens revises and updates the ten commandments.

insects are crustaceans.

L. Ron Hubbard: “humanitarian and philosopher”???…

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Added by Nelson on March 7, 2010 at 12:00pm — 5 Comments

Sunday School FEB 28, 2010

hey all! my apologies for missing last week's recap. my computer caught a nasty cold and required some time in the shop. i'm going to do my utmost to catch us all up by including links to content that would have appeared in last week's edition. bear with me!

morality and religion: are they genetic adaptations?…

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Added by Nelson on February 28, 2010 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Sunday School FEB 14, 2010

before we get to the links i wanted to let everyone know that there's a new "contact us" page on TA. you can now reach the Think Atheist administrators by email and by phone (and a snail mail contact is being worked out). i'm eager to see a new feature in use- voicemails left at the contact number can be embedded as an audio file. should be hilarious the first time someone leaves an ignorant message of hate! :)

i also… Continue

Added by Nelson on February 14, 2010 at 12:00pm — 8 Comments

Sunday School FEB 7, 2010

let's get right to it!

Jerry Coyne calls out New Scientist for once again irresponsible coverage of idiotic evolution critical tripe.

tiny galaxies reveal how the first stars formed. …

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Added by Nelson on February 7, 2010 at 5:26pm — 11 Comments

Sunday School JAN31 2010

first off, congrats to newly featured members (top of the page) Angie the Anti-Theist and Carolanne Fernandez!

now, how 'bout some links?!

Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy has posted on this cool… Continue

Added by Nelson on January 31, 2010 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Sunday School JAN24 2010

lots of good stuff for the second edition so let's get to it!

-Tom Rees at Ephiphenom blogs on Darren Sherkat's soon to be published paper that shows that science education inoculates against religion.

-… Continue

Added by Nelson on January 24, 2010 at 3:00pm — 5 Comments

(Introducing the new!) Sunday School Jan 17th 2010

so we all know about Johnny's fantastic Sunday Morning Service. you've no doubt noticed Johnny's clever play on church ritual with the name of his weekly blog series. well, since i follow a lot of blogs and news feeds on atheism, skepticism, and science Johnny and i decided we'd put our heads together and do separate "services" under the same theme of a Sunday ritual. the new Sunday School series will follow… Continue

Added by Nelson on January 17, 2010 at 3:00pm — 8 Comments

Richard Dawkins- The Greatest Show on Earth (an excerpt)

not sure if you guys saw this already but Times Online has posted an excerpt of the first chapter of Professor Dawkins' new book The Greatest Show on Earth. it's due out on September 10th in the UK and September 22 in the US. Amazon is taking pre-orders. if you plan on purchasing the book why not order it via Think Atheist's Amazon store? you get… Continue

Added by Nelson on August 25, 2009 at 1:43am — 4 Comments

examples of how apologetic interests caused scribes to revise the gospels...

excerpted from Wayne C. Kannaday's "Are Your Intentions Honorable?": Apologetic Interests and the Scribal Revision of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels. online here

Matthew 27:35

Original" Text:

"And having crucified him, they divided his garments by casting lots."

Modified… Continue

Added by Nelson on July 14, 2009 at 7:55pm — 4 Comments

in defense of Paul: the development of the role of women in the early church from equality to marginalized

very often i have seen the objection made regarding Paul's attitude toward women. this perceived attitude has been used to condemn Paul as a misogynist, hateful of women. indeed, I have seen a number of women, and some men as well for that matter, writing to say that this misogyny in the New Testament (NT) led them to reject their faith in Christianity. my aim with this post is to show that the perception of misogyny in the NT is both in a sense accurate but also inaccurate insofar as the text… Continue

Added by Nelson on July 3, 2009 at 8:00pm — 3 Comments

on Zeitgeist the movie... (stop recommending it!!!)

ok, guys, we need to stop talking about this movie. we need to stop recommending that people watch it. in the last week i've seen mention of the movie contributing to one member's abandonment of their faith and another person recommending that a Christian watch it. why am i saying that we need to stop? because the film is total bullshit and rarely, if at ever, intersects with scholarly consensus or reality at any time. you recommend this movie, and someone takes the suggestion and watches it,… Continue

Added by Nelson on May 17, 2009 at 4:00pm — 28 Comments

on the Tower of Babel and the character of God...

the Tower came up in a recent conversation and James made the great point that God doesn't seem very omniscient or omnipotent in the story. let's find out why.

it's related to Sumerian mythology. first of all, the tower was likely just a Babylonian ziggurat temple. the story appears in the J document and uses a pun based on the name of the city. supposedly,… Continue

Added by Nelson on May 5, 2009 at 2:02pm — 5 Comments

on the two biblical flood stories...

one of TA's brightest and best regulars, Pam, posted a response to a recent thread where she mentioned the two contradictory flood stories in Genesis. Pam told us that she had brought up the two flood accounts to a person who had done some religious studies and that this person then invoked the classic inerrantist dodge by saying that the… Continue

Added by Nelson on April 20, 2009 at 1:39pm — 17 Comments

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