Posted on February 12th, 2010 by Staks
When it comes to science, so many Christians are quick to point out how scientists don’t know everything or how science gets it all wrong. They push to put their Creationist beliefs into science classes, argue against scientific research on stem-cells, and on global climate change. They just seem to hate science. Of course, not […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, culture war, faith, global climate change, miracles, Religion, science | 10 Comments »
Posted on February 9th, 2010 by Staks
One of the things, which really helped the gay community in gaining more mainstream acceptance is the portrayal of gay characters on television. Shows like Will & Grace were able to introduce many who have never met a gay person to that community and to show that gay people are just like everyone else. Today, […]
Filed under: atheism, culture war, Decline of Religion, Religion | 5 Comments »
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Staks
Recently, a Christian commented to me that the fundamentalist worldview makes more sense than the atheist worldview. The idea is that either people see the world with a fundamentalist worldview or they see it with the alternative atheist worldview. The interesting thing about this is that there is no atheist worldview. I think this stems […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, Atheism NOT Religion, culture war, Religion, science | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 5th, 2010 by Staks
I want to once again stress that I am not trying to defend Scientology, but I do think that Scientology performs a valuable service to our society for the moment. Right now, it serves as a comparison to show the dangers of Christianity. In a previous blog, I talked about why I think that Christianity […]
Filed under: culture war, Evils of Christianity, Most Dangerous Religion, Religion, Religious Manipulation, scientology | 11 Comments »
Posted on February 1st, 2010 by Staks
Since the only thing that all atheists must have in common due to their atheism is a lack of belief in deities, it is only natural that atheists will argue with other atheists over other issues. That makes sense and I don’t have any problems with that. However, there are too few atheists and far […]
Filed under: atheism, Atheism NOT Religion, culture war, People of Reason | 5 Comments »
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Staks
It is kind of funny sometimes when religious fundamentalists claim that America is an atheist nation. Sometimes they even say that in the same breath as when they tell me that America is a Christian nation. Of course I have to inquire. Sometimes religious people don’t understand the difference between atheism and secularism and as […]
Filed under: atheism, church/state, culture war, education, Religion | 4 Comments »
Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Staks
Many well reasoned atheists disagree on issues of taxation, foreign policy, states rights, etc. So I can understand why not all atheists are politically active and that all the atheists that are politically active may not all be Democrats. But what I can’t understand is how any well reasoned atheist could possibly be a Republican. […]
Filed under: atheism, church/state, culture war, evolution, free speech, Gay Issues, global climate change, palin, People of Reason, Politics, Religion, science | 22 Comments »
Posted on January 14th, 2010 by Staks
Yesterday Haiti was hit with a massive earthquake. It didn’t take long after the earthquake hit the news for televangelist Pat Robertson to say something stupid and insensitive in order to make money. The thing that gets me is that people seem surprised by this. What did you expect from Pat Robertson? After the 911 […]
Filed under: culture war, Current Events, pat robertson, Religion, satan, science | 8 Comments »
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Staks
While the holiday season is fresh in my mind, I wanted to talk about yet another aspect of Christian hypocrisy. During the holiday season, fundamentalist Christians often yell at the top of their lungs that if atheists are offended by Christmas crap, that’s too bad. O’Reilly friends have are happy to inform us that the […]
Filed under: Blasphemy, censorship, Christmas, culture war, free speech, Political Activism, Religion | 21 Comments »
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Staks
It seems that right after Thanksgiving, the winter holiday season officially begins. These days, the holiday season usually starts before Halloween is even over. The thing is that it seems that fundamentalist Christians and even a growing number of mainstream Christians seem to think that this season is the Christmas only season. For the last […]
Filed under: Christmas, culture war, People of Reason, Religion, Tree of Knowledge | 4 Comments »
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Staks
Today is the day that Christian evangelist Ray Comfort and his same-sex heterosexual partner Kirk Cameron were supposed to give out copies of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. The Comfort Edition of the book contains a 54 page introduction written by Comfort which basically Glenn Becks Darwin. The funny thing is that part of Ray […]
Filed under: culture war, morality, ray comfort, Religion | 9 Comments »
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by Staks
Fundamentalist Christians constantly say that God has been banned from public school. That is a lie. God has not been “banned” from public schools at all. If a child wants to pray to God, Jesus, Allah, Xenu, or Ringo Star before, during, or even after a test, they are absolutely free to do so. While […]
Filed under: culture war, education, free speech, prayer, Preaching, Religion | 28 Comments »
Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Staks
Yesterday, the Friendly Atheist posted a story about a new bus campaign going up soon in Washington State. Here is what the ad will look like: Hemant thinks that this is an “inaccurate” ad and that religious people will use it “against us.” I take issue with this. First, it is not inaccurate. As a […]
Filed under: atheism, Atheism NOT Religion, billboards, culture war, People of Reason, Religion | 7 Comments »
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Staks
While there is a large atheist community on the internet and some of us have atheist friends and see fellow atheists at local group meetings and meet-ups, we tend to think that everyone in the general public are god-believers. For the most part they are, however that is starting to change. Earlier in the week […]
Filed under: atheism, culture war, People of Reason, Religion | 14 Comments »
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Staks
Why is it that religious people feel the need to insert their religious views into seemingly every conversation? If an atheist inserting his or her lack of belief into seemingly every conversation we are criticized by the religious for “pushing our atheism.” Yesterday, I was out with my 8 mouth old son and a woman […]
Filed under: conversation, culture war, discussion, miracles, People of Reason, Religion | 8 Comments »
Posted on September 29th, 2009 by Staks
I’m a little disappointed in the greater atheist community. Atheists are notorious for not uniting together and for not supporting fellow atheists. We really need to fix this problem. While not all atheists agree with each other on anything necessarily except for the lack of belief in a god or gods that is no excuse. […]
Filed under: atheism, culture war, People of Reason, Political Activism, Religion, Tree of Knowledge | 13 Comments »
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Staks
During the Bush years I heard a lot of people telling me that America was getting so bad under religiously wacko Republican rule that they were seriously considering leaving the country. Even today, I hear some of my more progressive friends tell me that with Health Care the way it is and the Religious Right […]
Filed under: culture war, Most Dangerous Religion, People of Reason, Religion | 9 Comments »
Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Staks
Today, President Barack Obama went to the United Nations to give one of his signature speeches. This time, his speech was on the Global Climate Change problem. As always, the President was articulate and inspiring. He talked about the great threat that the world faces and even quoted John F. Kennedy. Dealing with the Global […]
Filed under: culture war, Current Events, End of Days, global climate change, Obama, Politics, Religion | 8 Comments »
Posted on September 18th, 2009 by Staks
The Republicans really do need a game show. It used to be that Republicans just had a token stupid person in office like former Vice-President Dan Quayle but that just wasn’t stupid enough. So then the Republicans elected America’s stupidest President, George W. Bush. Some Republicans however claimed that Bush Jr. was actually a secret […]
Filed under: culture war, palin, Politics | 22 Comments »
Posted on September 15th, 2009 by Staks
There was a time in American history when our society reached for the future. People were excited to explore space, to see what the latest technology was coming out, and what technology companies were working on for the future. People were curious about what a positive future for humanity might look like. In the 1960s, […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, culture war, Religion, The Future | 26 Comments »
Posted on August 27th, 2009 by Staks
Recently I have gotten into conversations with multiple Christians who claim to be liberal and progressive. These are the Christians who mistakenly think that Jesus was this peace and love hippy. These are the Christian who are always telling me that the fundamentalists are not real Christians, but are “misusing” the Bible (despite no solid […]
Filed under: conversation, culture war, discussion, Religion | 13 Comments »
