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My beefs with my ex-religion

Posted in atheist, personal, rant, religion on November 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »

For an atheist, I tend not to talk much about religious matters anymore.  When I first came “out” as an atheist, it was an interesting topic of discussion for me, but I quickly bored of it. Still no evidence for god? Okay, move along.  I’m much more interested in the immediate harm of anti-vaxxers and [...]

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Keeping the Faith

Posted in politics, religion on February 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’m going to get political once more, so bear with me here. Much fluff was thrown around in the recent Presidential election about how Obama’s Muslim roots would be a threat to our nation. However, the Obama family were certainly practicing Christians, and much more was thrown around in the media regarding their [...]

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Purity in Religion?

Posted in atheist, culture, labels, morality, religion, vaa on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last week at the meeting of the Virginia Atheists and Agnostics, we had a fascinating talk by Chris Bell, titled “When are Tibetans not Buddhist?” Chris is working on a Ph.D in religious studies with a focus on, of course, Tibetan Buddhism. I won’t even pretend to recap the incredible depth of detail, [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Posted in Doctor Who, holiday, religion on December 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I know it’s so not-PC to say Christmas, especially around atheists, but as far as I’m concerned, I love my secular Christmas traditions! I’ve been saying Happy Holidays all season, since I prefer that greeting and to be all inclusive, but today, I’ll say it… Merry Christmas!
And, for those of you in the land [...]

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An invitation…

Posted in atheist, religion on December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I got this message in my YouTube inbox the other day, probably in response to my old and only video in response to the Blasphemy Challenge (no I won’t link to it, I hate myself on video!)

Just saying…

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Religious Nuttiness: Not just for Westerners

Posted in religion, stupidity on October 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Several bloggers have brought this up today, the case of 3-year-old Matani Shakya who was declared a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday. You might hear women say to their menfolk, “I want to be treated like a goddess!” But do you really?
To these Hindu and Buddhist clerics, with the approval of [...]

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Religulous

Posted in atheist, movies, religion on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Which, I may add, is pronounced with a soft “g.” I had been saying it wrongly.
Okay, so the fabulous and wonderful VAA trekked out to the Vinegar Hill Theatre in CVille to see Religulous on it’s opening night. This is the “guerrilla-style” documentary by Bill Maher and Larry Charles which aims to reveal [...]

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Stuff I read

Posted in atheist, medicine, picture, religion, science on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For lack of any original thought over the last few days, I’ll continue to quip about articles that have come across my Google Reader, either on their own or from my favorite blogs (off to the right, see them there?)
Get Inside the Vaccine-and-Autism Scare with a review of Dr. Paul A. Offit’s new book, “Autism’s [...]

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Carnival of Space, and more fun things to read!

Posted in carnival, religion, science on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Busy working, climbing, dancing, and doing chores the last few days, but taking small breaks to read:
Carnival of Space #71,
The epic fail of the Vatican trying to do science,
The very sad news from the LHC, which is shut down for two months due to a glitch (ah, such is instrumentation),
How “Religulous” aims to destroy religion [...]

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Mixing science and religion, in an artistic way

Posted in art, religion, science on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Artist Jonathan Keats is debuting the Atheon, a religious-like tribute to science. So I have to wonder, what do science and religion really have in common? Both can inspire a sense of awe and wonder. However, science inspires awe in the natural order of things, whereas religion adds in awe in a [...]

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