Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Staks
You may have seen them on cars or t-shirts, the coexist message has become fairly popular with liberal Christians and other liberal religious people. On the surface, it sounds like a pretty cool movement, but I do have a few issues with it. Have you seen this Bumper Sticker: Each letter represents a different religion […]
Filed under: atheism, billboards, Coexist, conversation, culture war, Decline of Religion, free speech, Progressive Christians, Religion | 12 Comments »
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Staks
I don’t understand why Christians believe in Earthly justice. Why send a murderer to prison for 60 or 70 years when they will be sentenced to Hell for all eternity? Isn’t Hell enough? It seems to me that from the Christian perspective, human justice is somewhat meaningless. How can evil sinful humans compete with God’s […]
Filed under: faith, Judge God, Law, Religion, sin | 3 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 27th, 2010 by Staks
Yesterday was Boobquake and even though we don’t live in a Muslim nation and hopefully no one in America actually thinks boobs cause earthquakes, breasts are still considered dangerous. Yesterday facebook labeled at least some if not all of the boobquake photos indecent and pulled them from the site. For those who don’t know what […]
Filed under: Blasphemy, censorship, culture war, facebook, family values, islam, Religion, sex | 7 Comments »
Posted on April 26th, 2010 by Staks
Today’s blog needs a little back story. A few years ago when I was interested in working with progressive Christians on our shared goals, I read a book by progressive Christians and founder of Sojourners Magazine, Jim Wallis. After reading his book, God’s Politics, I realized that he wasn’t much better than the fundamentalists and […]
Filed under: Blasphemy, conversation, facebook, Progressive Christians, Religion, sex | No Comments »
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by Staks
The Catholic sex scandal continues and the Vatican has continued to blame everyone except themselves. Most Catholics in America don’t even agree with the Pope on a growing list of important issues and yet they continue to go to church and donate money which gets funneled back to the Vatican to fight for and against […]
Filed under: abortion, Catholics, culture war, morality, Religion | 1 Comment »
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 19th, 2010 by Staks
Over the weekend, I read an interesting article on Huffington Post by Roy Fitzgerald. The article was titled, “Should Richard Dawkins be Arrested for Covering up Atheist Crimes?” While there are many problems with this article, there is one issue in particular I want to talk about. Fitzgerald’s main focus is on Dawkins’s “selective campaigning” […]
Filed under: Catholics, culture war, journalism, logic, morality, Religion | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 16th, 2010 by Staks
When I was in grad school, I was already a vocal atheist and was pretty knowledgeable about the greater atheist community. One day a fundamentalist Christian friend of mine was excited to tell me that the most famous atheist in the world had just converted to Christianity. Antony Flew was so famous that I had […]
Filed under: Anthony Flew, conversation, de-conversion, death, deathbed conversion, Evils of Christianity, Religion, Religious Manipulation, Vague Higher Power | 33 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 13th, 2010 by Staks
I often break religious believers down into two categories fundamentalists or mainstream. There is however at least one other category that is important to talk about. That is the theologian or scholarly believer. I was reminded of believers in this category after writing my latest Examiner article dealing with Dispensational Theology. In any case, when […]
Filed under: Biblical Scholarship, conversation, Religion, the bible | No Comments »
Posted on April 12th, 2010 by Staks
PZ Myers had an interesting story on his blog this morning. Apparently the Connecticut legislature is pushing a bill designed to eliminate the statute of limitation on child sex abuse cases. Of course the Catholic Church is less than pleased. I wonder why? Connecticut’s three Roman Catholic bishops issued a join statement opposed to this […]
Filed under: Catholics, Political Activism, Politics, Religion | 3 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 April 8th, 2010 by Staks
One of the main reasons why the Catholic Church attempted to cover up the abuses that their priests where engaged in was because it would ultimately impact on the Church’s bottom line. The Catholic Church is after all a business. I read an article the other day which talked about how a lot of accused […]
Filed under: Catholics, morality, Religion | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 7th, 2010 by Staks
Last weekend two young Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked on my door. While most people would probably slam the door in their faces, I was happy to engage them in conversation. These two young women were probably college aged and they were happy to talk about their religion. When they asked if they could talk to me […]
Filed under: conversation, Jehovah's Witness, Preaching, Religion | 13 Comments »
Posted on April 6th, 2010 by Staks
I have been a vocal atheist for a long time and have had long and in depth conversations with people of many different sects of various religions. Christianity is of course the most prevalent religion in America and I have talked to many Christian sects. But until recently, I had never talked to a Jehovah’s […]
Filed under: conversation, Jehovah's Witness, Preaching, Religion | 13 Comments »
Posted on April 5th, 2010 by Staks
Yesterday was the holiest of holy days for most Christians. The funny part is that the story they celebrated, the Easter story, really celebrates the ridiculousness of the religion. We live in a Christian dominated world, so it is safe to say that we all know the basic story. Let me just give a brief […]
Filed under: blood sacrifice, Easter, god, Good Friday, Religion, sin | 28 Comments »
Posted on April 2nd, 2010 by Staks
Today is the Christian holiday they call Good Friday. Today Christians celebrate the alleged murder of Jesus. Christians think that Jesus was the greatest person/god ever. But if they love Jesus so much why do they call the day commemorating his alleged murder, “good?” Most Christians will tell you that the most important aspect of […]
Filed under: blood sacrifice, Easter, Good Friday, Religion | 8 Comments »
Posted on April 1st, 2010 by Staks
Due to the recent string of scandals plaguing the Catholic Church, Vatican Biblical scholars have been studying the Bible carefully to find out God’s opinion on rape. They can’t seem to find any passage which states or infers that child rape is a sin. Earlier this morning, the Pope met in a closed door session […]
Filed under: atheism, morality, People of Reason, Religion, science, sin | 9 Comments »
