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Bible Belt Atheist (New York Times)

Started by Loren Miller on Thursday. 0 Replies 1 Like

The following showed up in my YouTube feed this morning, and I decided to have a look. Turns out, the New York Times has given us a reasonably even-handed look at a good friend of ours, being one Jerry DeWitt, former bible-thumper and now a pretty…Continue

Tags: Bible Belt, atheist, Jerry DeWitt

How would you respond?

Started by Christina Scribner. Last reply by Christina Scribner Apr 10. 5 Replies 3 Likes

So, this morning, I was at my local coffee shop as I am most weekdays between bus runs. I do the editing on my husband's books so I had my laptop with me. My wallpaper is a picture I found online sometime back of a double helix with the word atheist…Continue

The Fake Christian Busybody Show (Andrew Bradley)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Plinius Apr 9. 1 Reply 3 Likes

It seems as though there was a Gay Pride parade in some town somewhere and a Christian commentator, herein known as The Activist Mommy, apparently got her panties so in a bunch about it that she had to fire up her video camera and record a…Continue

Tags: gay, pride, The Activist Mommy, Andrew Bradley, America's Best Christian

America Held Hostage: Day 436 (MisterDeity)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 9. 1 Reply 3 Likes

Now that Sinclair Broadcasting has stated their position regarding fake news and its threat to our democracy, Mister Deity's Brian Dalton has decided to throw his $0.02 worth in as well ... though I don't quite think his presentation was really what…Continue

Tags: fake news, Deity, Mister, Broadcasting, Sinclair

Guns: Both Sides Now (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Christina Scribner Apr 3. 3 Replies 4 Likes

Oh, NO! The gun debate has gotten so heated that it has Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, TALKING TO HERSELF! Apparently, one of her has had a stroke or a serious breakdown in cognitive skills, as she does little more than parrot the NRA's…Continue

Tags: NRA, guns, America's Best Christian, Betty Bowers

how dogma pollutes discourse (qualiasoup & theramintrees)

Started by Loren Miller Apr 3. 0 Replies 2 Likes

"The Lord is our God; the Lord is One." "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, but by Me." "There is no god but Allah, and Mohamed is his prophet." Assertions, taught as fact, but without any form of corroborative…Continue

Tags: dogma, QualiaSoup, TheraminTrees

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Comment by Joan Denoo on July 18, 2014 at 8:58am: Hehehehe, the numbers begin to show the shift in demographics.

Americans Are Leaving Religion Behind and It Scares the Hell Out of...

Comment by kathy: ky on July 18, 2014 at 12:36am: Let's have a Warren/Sanders ticket.

Or Sanders/Warren. Either one is fine with me.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on July 17, 2014 at 4:38pm: I would vote for Bernie Sanders in a New York minute as well. I have mixed feelings about Hilary Clinton. At this point in time she is the apparent frontrunner in a presidential race, far ahead of any possible republican candidate. I would much prefer her in the oval office over any of the nutcases presented from the GOP side. Like they say: the lesser of two evils.

I'm quite impressed with Elizabeth Warren, senator from Massachusetts. I would love to see her as president. The problem with both her and Bernie Sanders is that they are virtually unknown to the vast majority of the ignorant public. They wouldn't have a chance against the usual superficial personality contests that permeate presidential elections amongst the general populous. I wish people weren't so intellectually lazy.

Comment by sk8eycat on July 17, 2014 at 12:30pm: I would vote for Bernie Sanders in a skinny minute! Mrs. Clinton lost me when she made an impassioned speech in the Senate (in Oct. 2002) favoring the despicable invasion of Iraq. If she really believed the WMD lies, then she's too stupid to occupy the Oval Office; if she knew they were lies, but favored the rape of Iraq anyway....SHE is despicable. (Plus she still has connections to the subversive Family Fellowship and their "prayer partners." Gullible twit.)

Comment by Randall Smith on July 17, 2014 at 7:30am: Barton is only one of many really ignorant politicians. Mercy! I see that Bernie Sanders (I, VT) is considering running for pres. I like him.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on July 16, 2014 at 6:03pm: Mindy, you're correct, my birthday is today, the 16th.

Sk8eycat, I love the TED video. Of course, I'm familiar with a clarinet being called a licorice stick, but a carrot clarinet? That was new to me. Cute and funny.

Thanks again to all of you for your wonderful birthday messages. You've made today extra special for me.

Comment by sk8eycat on July 16, 2014 at 12:36pm: I forgot to mention a classic SF short story by C. M. Kornbluth, titled "The Marching Morons," in which everything and everyone are being dumbed-down, and the few freethinkers left on Earth are wearing themselves out trying to keep the world working.

I think it was written in the late 1940s....scary.

Comment by sk8eycat on July 16, 2014 at 12:31pm: I like the late Steve Allen's term, "DUMBTH" As in "warmth." It might be a finite resource...if we let the stupids take over, and their wacky policies kill the rest of us.

Heartless Cheney, formerly semi-intelligent McCain, et al, want to get us re-involved in Iraq, again, and probably the rest of the Middle East.

I just wish the media would stop referring to that part of the world as "the holy land." There's nothing "holy" about any of it, unless living in a desert makes people delusional.

Comment by sk8eycat on July 16, 2014 at 9:30am: Flying A, a Belated Happy Birthday to You! And some silly music to start your next 50 years:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BISrGwN-yH4

Comment by Loren Miller on July 16, 2014 at 9:28am: What is even scarier is that he's on the energy committee. One would HOPE that means he knows and understands something about science in general and energy in particular, but apparently, all Barton knows about is who is lining his wallet with cash.

I can't laugh at that. It's too important to be laughed at. What I do hope is that whoever was being questioned by him came back at him HARD. "Congressman, do you know the least bit about the principles that give rise to wind? Can you define 'Coriolis effect' for me?"

I'd bet a C-note he couldn't.