I want a pony

he's a big lad

2011-11-02T01:14:00.000-07:00

Top trumps

2011-09-30T05:52:00.000-07:00

Pitching Ditching Religion

2011-09-13T09:03:00.000-07:00

Australian TV show challenges agencies to make TV commercials about banning religion – Boing Boing

Do you think a network in the USA would run something like this?

Atheist Sees Image of the Birth of Planet Earth in Burnt Toast

2011-08-25T16:12:00.000-07:00

This genuine picture was photographed in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England by science atheist Dr. Terence Meaden earlier this month.
He could barely withhold his excitement.
“I was having breakfast when this piece of ciabatta toast got burnt,” he said. “Suddenly I was aware that the pattern of light and darkness across the toast resembled what could have been a visible manifestation of primeval events at the time that planet Earth was forming four and a half billion years ago.

read the original article

Homophobic Rabbi Thinks Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes

2011-08-24T18:57:00.000-07:00

Leap of Faith: The making of a Republican front-runner

2011-08-09T16:45:00.000-07:00

While looking over Bachmann’s State Senate campaign Web site, I stumbled upon a list of book recommendations. The third book on the list, which appeared just before the Declaration of Independence and George Washington’s Farewell Address, is a 1997 biography of Robert E. Lee by J. Steven Wilkins.

Wilkins is the leading proponent of the theory that the South was an orthodox Christian nation unjustly attacked by the godless North. This revisionist take on the Civil War, known as the “theological war” thesis, had little resonance outside a small group of Southern historians until the mid-twentieth century, when Rushdoony and others began to popularize it in evangelical circles. In the book, Wilkins condemns “the radical abolitionists of New England” and writes that “most southerners strove to treat their slaves with respect and provide them with a sufficiency of goods for a comfortable, though—by modern standards—spare existence.”

African slaves brought to America, he argues, were essentially lucky: “Africa, like any other pagan country, was permeated by the cruelty and barbarism typical of unbelieving cultures.” Echoing Eidsmoe, Wilkins also approvingly cites Lee’s insistence that abolition could not come until “the sanctifying effects of Christianity” had time “to work in the black race and fit its people for freedom.”

Read more and be sickened:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all

The Devil's dictionary

2011-08-05T03:49:00.000-07:00

atheist camp rules (votes tallied)

2011-07-28T09:50:00.000-07:00

Poll: 52 percent approve of God’s job performance

2011-07-27T12:48:00.000-07:00

"When asked to evaluate God on some of the issues it is responsible for, voters give God its best rating on creating the universe, 71-5," the polling report said. "They also approve of its handling of the animal kingdom 56-11, and even its handling of natural disasters 50-13."

read more here

Outlier

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George Carlin - Religion is bullshit.

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believe in god?

2011-07-06T06:25:00.000-07:00

A message so big, it breaks the blog!

2011-06-27T18:29:00.000-07:00

Miss USA 2011 - 51 Delegates Interview (Q2 - Evolution taught in school)

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Playing Favorites

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Bible-Style Marriage

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Texas Strangers

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'Psychic' tip-off sparks police hunt for mass grave in Texas

Police in Texas are investigating whether a tip-off from a woman claiming to be a psychic that sparked a hunt for a mass grave of dismembered bodies, including children, was a hoax.

Officers raided a rural farmhouse in Hardin, north-east of Houston, after receiving a report that up to 30 bodies were hidden inside. But police gave up the search hours later after nothing untoward had been found.

"There's no crime scene," said Liberty County judge Craig McNair.

Yes well there is one really big clue as to why no bodies turned up...

...can you guess what it is?

House!

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Franklin Graham: Second Coming of Christ will be on YouTube, Twitter

2011-04-25T17:17:00.000-07:00

"Social media could have a big part" in the Second Coming of Christ, evangelist Franklin Graham said in an interview that aired Sunday.

"I believe there's no question, I believe we're in the latter days of this age," Graham told ABC's Christiane Amanpour. "When I say latter days, could it be the last 100 years or the last 1,000 years or the last 6 months, I don't know, but the Bible, the things that the Bible predicts, earthquakes and famines, nation rising against nation, we see this happening with more frequency."

"So what will the Second Coming look like?" Amanpour wondered.

"Well, the bible says that every eye is going to see it. And, you know, I thought how is that going to happen? There's so many phones today. And just look at what's happening in Libya or Egypt and everybody has got their phone up, and everybody is taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you or -- and they get shown around the world. I don't know but he said they'll be coming on the clouds and the world is going to moan. They're going to groan," Graham explained.

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You Can't Touch Mormon Jesus

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Green Dragon, the New Anti-Christ?

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HOLY OTHER - YR LOVE

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did I say that out loud or just think it?

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Advice God

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many more

Texas Lawmaker Defends Bill That Would Protect Creationists On The Job

2011-03-21T15:25:00.000-07:00

Last week, I wrote about an unusual piece of legislation in Texas that would ban workplace discrimination against creationists. HB 2454 would make it a crime to "discriminate against or penalize in any manner" a professor or student based on his or her "conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design." On Friday, the author of the bill, Republican state Rep. Bill Zedler of Arlington, called me to defend it. Here's an excerpt from our conversation:

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Best flash intro ever!

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http://www.evangelcathedral.net/welcome.htm

it makes me want to find Jeebus. Or do a bitchin' solo.

Needs a rewrite...

2011-02-15T06:37:00.001-08:00

...but this could easily be re-purposed to apply to evangelical types.

The Passive Agression of the Christ

2011-02-14T14:08:00.000-08:00

C'mon. Flip the switch!

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Now do it 100 more times!

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Fact or Fiction: Miracles

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But You MUST Believe!

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mistaken identity

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Atheists never...

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A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist

2010-12-21T14:55:00.000-08:00

Why don’t I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God? Surely the burden of proof is on the believer. You started all this. If I came up to you and said, “Why don’t you believe I can fly?” You’d say, “Why would I?” I’d reply, “Because it’s a matter of faith.” If I then said, “Prove I can’t fly. Prove I can’t fly see, see, you can’t prove it can you?” You’d probably either walk away, call security or throw me out of the window and shout, ‘’F—ing fly then you lunatic.”

read the complete piece here

Brazos Valley Vuvuzela Atheist Marching Band - News Clip

2010-12-08T13:54:00.000-08:00

Also, this is the 300th post on this blog. Huzzah!

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Everybody talkin' 'bout heav'n that ain't goin' there
Everybody talkin' 'bout heav'n that ain't goin'
Everybody talkin' 'bout heav'n that ain't goin' there
Oh my Lord

Bah, Hanukkah

2010-12-02T07:05:00.000-08:00

The holiday celebrates the triumph of tribal Jewish backwardness.

"...to celebrate Hanukkah is to celebrate not just the triumph of tribal Jewish backwardness but also the accidental birth of Judaism's bastard child in the shape of Christianity. You might think that masochism could do no more. Except that it always can. Without the precedents of Orthodox Judaism and Roman Christianity, on which it is based and from which it is borrowed, there would be no Islam, either. Every Jew who honors the Hanukkah holiday because it gives his child an excuse to mingle the dreidel with the Christmas tree and the sleigh (neither of these absurd symbols having the least thing to do with Palestine two millenniums past) is celebrating the making of a series of rods for his own back. And this is not just a disaster for the Jews. When the fanatics of Palestine won that victory, and when Judaism repudiated Athens for Jerusalem, the development of the whole of humanity was terribly retarded."

Yay Barcelona!

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Like a pen is

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If it looks like a duck...

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church mice

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Engineericle!

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Blasphemy of the highest order

2010-10-06T02:10:00.000-07:00

"Every now and then we get some angry emails here at theChive for one reason or another. Sometimes we post the email exchanges and tonight we had a real live wire on our hands. I'm sure the fact that we're posting this won't help matters but this guy has it comin'..."

Apparently

This photo is seething blasphemy of the highest order

I hope it's 'cos he's all angered up and typing quickly... surely he doesn't actually think that's a photo of Jesus. Everybody knows all the photos of Christ were destroyed in WW2.

check out the response LINK

the glory hole

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Best anti-papal visit placard ever!

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An Objective Comparison

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Papal visit

2010-09-15T06:14:00.001-07:00

You may have heard that the Pope is coming over to Merry Olde England, we're just getting ready...

Wii Pray

2010-09-01T20:04:00.000-07:00

A family shouldn't have to wait for Sunday to go to church...

The Best Place for God to HIDE OUT!

2010-08-30T15:12:00.000-07:00

I Appeal to those People who still have their Right Minds, even as Deceived as they might be by False Religions. Jesus said, "If you Love me, Keep my Commandments, and then I will Love you, and will Come to you, and be with you," which makes Good Sense to any Person who can Think and Remember. After all, would you be the Good Friend of someone who Hated the Truths that you Believe? Of course not! Likewise, we cannot Expect Jesus to Love us, if we do not Love his Commandments, and Love them Enough to OBEY them. Otherwise, our Faith is in Vain: beCause anyone can SAY that they Love God; but, the Person who Loves God Enough to OBEY him is Truly Loving him, even as an Obedient Child Demonstrates his Love for his Parents by Obeying them; whereas the Rebellious Child, who Refuses to Obey his Parents, is Obviously NOT in Love with them. Moreover, if an Employee does not Obey his or her Employer; but, does just the Opposite of what he or she is Asked to Do, is Obviously NOT in Love with his or her Employer or Boss. Therefore, we Employers can MEASURE the Amount of Love that someone has for us by how much they Love and Obey our Commandments, to put it in Biblical Terms. After all, a Hateful Employee, who Refuses to Do what we Ask of him, is NOT a True Friend by any Means, and is likely to get FIRED: beCause no Boss can Tolerate such a Rebellious Person. Therefore, if you Want to be Loved by some Boss, you MUST Obey him, even if you HATE him.

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Irish upbringing

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Who ARE You?

2010-08-17T22:15:00.000-07:00

Scripture I Can Get, erm, BEHIND

2010-08-16T16:23:00.000-07:00

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum.

2010-08-12T19:17:00.000-07:00

Gwad, spelt ack-bassward.

Show me one human being conceived, carried and delivered by apes.

2010-08-11T12:14:00.000-07:00

Eloquent, rational Creationist talk.

Atheism is a clown and it did not know it

2010-08-10T22:00:00.000-07:00

The Christian YouTube video producer shockofgod declared:

“I received another email about someone becoming a Christian and leaving atheism... Now as you guys know, the atheist community on YouTube and also on radio and TV...They are in panic mode. It is obvious. Everyone on YouTube can see that this question that we are asking atheists that they cannot answer is really panicking the atheist community....Here is the question and then we will get to these awesome emails of atheists leaving atheism because the atheists cannot provide proof and evidence that atheism is accurate and correct...The question is: What proof and evidence can you provide that PROVES that atheism is accurate and correct?...You see I left atheism because the lack of proof and evidence that it is accurate and correct. The proof and evidence is for Jesus Christ.”

Unlike Christianity, which is supported by a large body of sound evidence (see: Christian apologetics), atheism has no proof and evidence supporting its ideology.

Sounds like a plan!

2010-08-10T17:37:00.001-07:00

That which unites (most of) us all

2010-08-09T21:47:00.000-07:00

tap tap tap

2010-08-09T21:34:00.000-07:00

Is this thing on?

Anne Rice Re-Deconverts

2010-07-29T19:31:00.000-07:00

Anne Rice, best-selling author of Interview With A Vampire and many other novels, announced she was quitting Christianity on Facebook:

For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being "Christian" or to being part of Christianity. It's simply impossible for me to "belong" to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten ...years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.

The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense

2010-07-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

click for biggness

Always with You

2010-07-08T06:52:00.000-07:00

By now we all know that Jesus is constantly involved in the minutia of our lives*, whether we are french-kissing a child,

or even trying to uncover the location of the gold we hid before escaping the Allied invasion of the Fatherland.

But guess what? According to the latest issue of Playboy in Portugal, we now know that He is even there for us as we display our proud, firm breasts to passing motorists in some broken-down Medieval Mediterranean hellhole.

*We know no such thing.

well I'm all outta ideas

2010-06-21T07:18:00.000-07:00

click for biggerness - it's a real treat...

http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/16622429904

If your solution to massive industrial accidents is prayer, and furthermore you believe "man's efforts" are "futile" I cordially suggest that you don't get to have an opinion. Shush now, the grown ups are talking.

Wait a minute... wasn't she pushing the whole 'drill drill drill!' policy in Alaska? What were their plans in the event of some terrible accident, asking a passing thunderstorm to help out? Relying on Zeus coming back to his people in the form of a giant Red Adair?

Baby Dies After Mother Chokes Her With Bible Pages

2010-06-17T18:48:00.000-07:00

While it would be a mistake to ascribe the tragedy to religion rather than mental illness, it's interesting that authorities are applying special scrutiny to the intersection of mental illness and religious fervor: in combination, these things can indeed be a red flag.

According to the Daily Telegraph, when social workers initially met with David Lovemore for assessment in 2009, "when he was asked what he would do if Faith or her sister got into difficulty he said he would pray first. He never said yes or no to calling a doctor." Additionally, Julia's aunt told authorities that her niece's "religious fervor" had distanced her from her family, whom she denounced as "heathens." In combination, these things cannot be dismissed as "the practice of religious beliefs" - at least not where children's welfare is concerned.

Wrath of God FTW!

2010-06-15T10:44:00.000-07:00

Touchdown Jesus, Touch-Me Jesus, whatevs: game over.

Oilpocalypse Now

2010-06-14T18:47:00.000-07:00

A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse?

About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Broadly speaking, these Christians subscribe to a theology called "premillennial dispensationalism." In this world view, they are warriors on the side of God: a cosmic battle—culminating in apocalypse, judgment, and, finally, the reign of Jesus in “a new heaven and a new earth”—will come soon. The most determined of these believers mine the Book of Revelation for signs that the end is near. A text of terrifying and mysterious prophesy, Revelation forecasts the apocalypse in coded language; Christians have spent lifetimes trying to break that code by correlating its verses to current events. (A New York minister named William Miller used Revelation and other sources to predict that the world would end on Oct. 22, 1844. He had previously predicted—wrongly, obviously—that the date would be March 21, 1843. The Millerites, once a powerful and fast-growing sect, quickly became extinct.)

RSA Animate - Smile or Die

2010-06-14T12:40:00.000-07:00

check out their other videos... lovely stuff

2010-06-02T15:49:00.000-07:00

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

2010-05-28T04:18:00.000-07:00

I've always been intrigued by the fact that given a universe of possibilities and a mind that is spinning rapidly in the roiling waters of psychosis... why do so many mentally ill people share very similar delusions?

Perhaps it's reflection of that old saw that there are only seven types of joke or something along those lines - there are only a few 'core' delusions, I dunno I'm not a psychiatrist. It kinda disappoints me that if you're gonna go through the terrible experience of suffering from a mental illness, mind careening from one free association to the next in an unfettered pinball game, what a shame that your visions and revelations are just so... hack.

A popular delusion is that the patient believes they're Jesus. In the late fifties psychologist Milton Rokeach had a plan. One assumes that in the good old days you didn't need to bother with such distractions as ethics. He got three patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for two years in Ypsilanti State Hospital to see what happened.

The early meetings were stormy. "You oughta worship me, I'll tell you that!" one of the Christs yelled. "I will not worship you! You're a creature! You better live your own life and wake up to the facts!" another snapped back. "No two men are Jesus Christs. … I am the Good Lord!" the third interjected, barely concealing his anger.

How Do Christians Become Conservative?

2010-05-11T20:22:00.000-07:00

Judeo-Christian scripture is a rich and complicated work of literature. Written over the course of (at least) several hundred years by dozens of different authors, there are a variety of perspectives and many times outright contradictions in the theology and the politics of the writing (if it's all inspired word for word by God, He seems to have changed his mind a lot). But one thing is extremely certain: the poor seem to be who God is most concerned about. Yes, there are a few quotations (four, if I remember right) trashing gay people, along with quite a few more about the right way to do animal sacrifice and to be careful about eating shellfish and hanging out with women who are menstruating. But mercy, kindness, and concern for the poor and the weak and the outcast seems to matter a lot more, with literally several hundred verses referencing those agenda items. If you are a progressive, that is a pretty good ratio.

500+ Atheism vs. Theism Debates

2010-05-10T21:01:00.000-07:00

For those who enjoy atheism vs. theism debates, here's the most complete list you'll find on the web (528 of them and counting).

Lord Jesus Christ suffers minor injuries in downtown Northampton crosswalk mishap

2010-05-06T20:53:00.000-07:00

NORTHAMPTON - A 20-year-old Pittsfield driver was cited by police Tuesday after she ran down Lord Jesus Christ in a marked crosswalk at Main Street and Strong Avenue, police said.

Brittany E. Cantarella was cited for a crosswalk violation, said Northampton police Capt. Scott Savino.

Christ, 50, of Belchertown, was taken to Cooley Dickinson Hospital for treatment of minor injuries following the 3:30 p.m. accident. He was treated at the hospital and then released.

Cantarella was making a left turn from Strong Avenue onto Main Street when her car, a 2005 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, struck Christ.

Christ was in a marked crosswalk at the time of the accident, Savino said.

Savino said officers checked Christ’s identification at the scene and confirmed it was his legal name.

Christoga

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contains swears

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I'm-a let you graduate in a minute...

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WTF, JC?

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...In Heaven

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When you put it like that

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it makes perfect sense. Oh no wait... nope its insane.

www.passiveaggressivenotes.com

Jesus Christ in the Name of the Gun

2010-04-04T08:36:00.000-07:00

The artwork reminds me of a young Jamie Hewlett at times.
Check it out

I hope those are abs

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Via Jesus of the Week