Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This is simply hilarious. A chap named Jasen Dixon in Cincinnati, who is the manager of the local “13 Rooms of Doom”, has created a nativity display that is getting rather a lot of attention. He has apparently done this before. Last year, he was ordered to take it down, and so this time around, he applied … Read more
I’m not really a 4chan fan, but I do confess that I find the ISIS Ducks to be rather amusing, it comes via the UK’s Independent … 4Chan is far from the safest or friendliest corner of the internet – but sometimes it comes up with the goods. On a private board on the site this week someone posted … Read more
Let’s make this 100% clear, this is not a commentary on John Lewis in any way, but rather is about how people sometimes react to the mainstream media. So the context is this, every Christmas in the UK, John Lewis produce a heart warming advertisement that is designed to tug at the heart strings and … Read more
Hey, now this is cool, Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland has a list of 200 songs that all conform to a specific theme … Here are video links to over 200 songs relevant to atheism, gods, religion, science, secularism or skepticism. They don’t all promote atheism, but they should all make you think or laugh … Read more
Being religious is about investing in an idea emotionally, and sometimes (I really do mean sometimes for a minority) that happens to such a degree that the person doing so is completely oblivious to what has happened to their ability to think clearly about specific things. While within this post I am thinking specifically about creationism it can … Read more
You might, or might not, remember that John Oliver did a segment on the property gospel fraudsters who basically use religious belief as their very own get-rick-quick scam and happily prey upon the desperate and the gullible (I pointed you at the clip on that a couple of weeks ago). His show is one when he … Read more
