Posted on December 6th, 2010 by Staks
For too long, Christians have claimed the monopoly on the winter season. While they have allowed Jews into the club despite the fact that Hanukkah is a relatively minor holiday. A few years ago many in the atheist community made our claim for inclusion in the winter season with the holiday of Human Light and […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, atheism, Atheism NOT Religion, Christmas, church/state, culture war, Current Events, free speech, humanism, Neighbor, People of Reason, Personal, Tree of Knowledge | 4 Comments »
Posted on November 11th, 2010 by Staks
Today is the day that everyone thanks all the veterans for their service and if you are a thoughtful person who doesn’t think that every single veteran deserves thanks, you are un-American apparently. Last year I wrote a similar blog and some people didn’t bother to read what I wrote and just labeled me a […]
Filed under: blood sacrifice, Current Events, Personal, Veterans Day | No Comments »
Posted on November 8th, 2010 by Staks
Last Tuesday was Election Day and I spent the entire day at the polls as Minority Election Inspector. Toward the end of the day after the polls had closed, I got into a short conversation with a Republican poll watcher who was hanging out waiting for the results. The topic was on the role of […]
Filed under: church/state, culture war, Current Events, Law, Political Activism, Politics | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 2nd, 2010 by Staks
Today I will be performing my duties as an elected official. Last year I won the race for Minority Election Inspector for my local precinct. I won this election by exactly one vote… mine. Let this be a lesson to everyone, if there is no candidate for a local office that you like, don’t be […]
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Posted on November 1st, 2010 by Staks
Over the weekend, Jon Stewart held the Rally to Restore Sanity and tomorrow is Election Day so I thought I would talk about this myth that both political parties are equally extreme. Toward the end of the rally, Stewart gave his closing speech in which he talked about how people from both sides of the […]
Filed under: church/state, conversation, culture war, Current Events, Election, End of Days, People of Reason, Political Activism, Politics | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Staks
Even though physicist Stephen Hawking has been an atheist for quite some time, this seemed to be breaking news yesterday. Don’t get me wrong, I think Hawking did make breaking news yesterday, but it wasn’t his lack of belief in a deity. The media has a really short attention span, because it was just three […]
Filed under: culture war, Current Events, Decline of Religion, First Cause Argument, god of the gaps, science | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 6th, 2010 by Staks
Yesterday, the United States Senate confirmed this nation’s newest Supreme Court Justice, Elana Kagan. But while many of my progressive and freethinker friends are celebrating, I remain skeptical. For starters, the Court is still middle of the road at best. We have four extremely right wing Justices who will nine times out of ten support […]
Filed under: church/state, Current Events, Politics | 4 Comments »
Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Staks
I am pretty well established vocal atheist. On the scale of atheism, I am often lumped in with Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris as a “New Atheist” or “militant atheist.” I prefer to see myself more as a “bad cop” of atheism. So imagine my surprise when I found out that on at least one issue […]
Filed under: atheism, Current Events, de-conversion, People of Reason | 4 Comments »
Posted on May 20th, 2010 by Staks
That’s right bitches, it is Everyone Draw Mohammad Day. I love this holiday. It is right up there with Everyone Blasphemy Jesus Day. Seriously though, I have already written my take on this subject for the Examiner (because they pay more). So check out my article on why it is Immoral to criticize Draw Mohammad […]
Filed under: Blasphemy, censorship, culture war, Current Events, free speech, image of god, islam, Religion | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by Staks
Last night, Obama made his pick for the replacement of Supreme Court Justice Paul Stevens. His pick is Elena Kagan, the current Solicitor General. Is it a good pick? Should we as atheists be supporting her? Earlier today I wrote an article of the Examiner page talking about Elena Kagan’s record on church/state issues. It […]
Filed under: atheism, church/state, culture war, Current Events, Law, Obama, People of Reason, Politics, Religion | 18 Comments »
Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Staks
Professor Stephen Hawking recently stated that aliens almost certainly exist and that it is probably unwise for humans to attempt to contact them at this time. Sure, in the context of his Discovery Channel television series such a statement seems innocent enough, but what the smartest man on the planet didn’t foresee was that every […]
Filed under: culture war, Current Events, ignorance, palin, Religion, The Future | 9 Comments »
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Staks
Last night I wrote a great blog for today’s Dangerous Talk continuing the whole South Park controversy. Then, I posted it to the Examiner page instead. So now I can talk about how ridiculous the Muslims are and the Catholics. Both religions are now feeling to the heat from the mainstream religious-ass-kissing media. The media […]
Filed under: Blasphemy, Catholics, censorship, culture war, Current Events, Decline of Religion, free speech, islam, journalism, Religion | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Staks
It is pretty well known that Muslim fundamentalists freak out when anyone criticizes their religion or even depicts an image of their prophet Mohammad. In fact, Muslims are even known to get violent about it. Their severe reactions to such trivial things have frightened the media and the entertainment industry. Yesterday, I published an Examiner […]
Filed under: Bears, Blasphemy, Current Events, free speech, islam, Religion | 14 Comments »
Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Staks
There is a terrible double standard going on in the world today. Could you imagine how society at large would respond if the headlines of the morning newspapers reported that the largest atheist group in the world had allowed members of their group to molest children? What if the atheist group used member donations to […]
Filed under: Catholics, Current Events, journalism, Law, morality, Religion | 11 Comments »
Posted on April 15th, 2010 by Staks
During the 2008 primary, I strongly opposed Barack Obama as the candidate. I didn’t buy into his message of Change and Hope. While I voted for him in the general election, I still think that he was full of shit. As a point of fact, he hasn’t changed the healthcare system or any other policy […]
Filed under: atheism, Current Events, education, Hope, Obama, People of Reason, Politics, science, The Future | 17 Comments »
Posted on April 14th, 2010 by Staks
The Pope is the leader of the largest single religious organization in the world. The Catholic Church prides itself of their strong faith in God, their Lord and Savior. Now that the Pope and the Church are in the middle of a worldwide scandal and literally a billion people are praying for them, I have […]
Filed under: Catholics, Current Events, faith, god, Law, Religion | 16 Comments »
Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Staks
YouTube has become one of the largest websites on the internet. It gives people a voice and allows for the free flow of ideas. This is one of the main reasons why atheism dominates YouTube so much. But there are some concerns in regard to censorship. While I understand YouTube’s concerns in dealing with copyright […]
Filed under: atheism, censorship, Current Events | 16 Comments »
Posted on March 31st, 2010 by Staks
Over the last few weeks, more and more of the mainstream media have been talking about the “crisis in the Vatican” or “Pope-gate.” More and more of the general public including Catholics are becoming outraged. The systematic cover-up and protection of child rapists and sexual assault on children is not easy to defend against. But […]
Filed under: Catholics, Current Events, Religion | 8 Comments »
Posted on March 29th, 2010 by Staks
For a long time now, the people of the world have known that many Catholic priests have been sexually assaulting children. This happens so often that it has become a frequent punch line to jokes. Sadly, sexually assaulting children is no laughing matter. It is a crime. In fact, as far as crimes go, it […]
Filed under: Catholics, Current Events, Evils of Christianity, facebook, Law, Religion | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Staks
Last night, the House of Representatives passed President Obama’s Health Reform Bill. Of course none of the Republican’ts voted for it. When it was passed, Obama triumphantly declared that, “this is what change looks like.” Oddly enough, it doesn’t seem to look much different. I remember when Obama gave his big health care reform speech; […]
Filed under: Capitalism, Current Events, healthcare, Obama, Politics | 9 Comments »
Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Staks
Project Reason has officially launched their video contest. The goal of the contest is to have people make videos which help to spread scientific thinking and secular values. Nine videos have been nominated, but only one is really any good. When you go to the voting page, all the videos are randomized and every time […]
Filed under: atheism, culture war, Current Events, People of Reason, science | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 1st, 2010 by Staks
Despite President Obama’s rhetoric about transparency in government, the White House has made the delegates from the Secular Coalition of America (SCA) take an oath of secrecy. I have talked about this more in my Examiner article which I hope everyone will check out. But I want to say a bit more about this issue. […]
Filed under: atheism, church/state, culture war, Current Events, Obama, People of Reason, Political Activism, Politics | 12 Comments »
Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Staks
The Liberal Lion has been tea-bagged. At the time of his death, Ted Kennedy was the second most liberal Senator and now he is being replaced by someone who may turn out to be the most conservative Senator. How is that possible? It’s easy. The Democrats have no balls. President Obama in particular has been […]
Filed under: Current Events, healthcare, Obama, Political Activism, Politics | 25 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 5th, 2010 by Staks
Apparently, this weekend there will be a meeting of atheist leaders. I didn’t even know there were atheist leaders, but I digress. I’m sure my invitation must have been lost in the mail. In any case, one of the topics on the agenda is whether or not to have one huge massive atheist unity convention […]
Filed under: atheism, Current Events, People of Reason | 6 Comments »
Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Staks
I am sure by now everyone is aware of the death of evangelical televangelist Oral Roberts. The man was a legend. He was considered by many to be the father of televangelism and the inspiration for Jerry Falwell and James Dobson. Last night I wrote my very polite and politically correct perspective on his death […]
Filed under: Current Events, Oral Roberts, Preaching, Religion, sex | No Comments »
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Staks
It seems that Sarah Palin’s 15 minutes of fame is not up just yet. It is pretty well established that she was picked to be the 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate largely due to her strong fundamentalist views. The McCain campaign had hoped to get the Religious Right energized about his campaign through her. While McCain […]
Filed under: Current Events, End of Days, palin, prophecies, Religion | 8 Comments »
Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Staks
Yesterday, I got the H1N1 vaccine. But for weeks now, I have been hearing about all the conspiracies and concerns in relation to this vaccine. Some seem perfectly rational and understandable while others are as ridiculous as the Abrahamic God. The more ridiculous concerns about this particular vaccine deal with the evil Illuminati. Apparently, they […]
Filed under: Current Events, education, healthcare, New World Order, Vaccines | 20 Comments »
Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Staks
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Today is of course the anniversary of the day when the Catholic plot to blow up the Protestant controlled Parliament went astray. This year, I think we need to take this holiday a little more seriously than we normally would. First, it is of course a reminder that Christians […]
Filed under: Catholics, Current Events, Obama, Politics, Religion | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Staks
This wasn’t the topic I was planning on writing about today, but I think I would be remiss if I didn’t. President Barack Obama has already joked about being born on Krypton and talked about ridding the world of all nuclear weapons and now we has become a symbol of peace for the entire world. […]
Filed under: Current Events, global climate change, Obama, Politics | 6 Comments »