It’s been great to get feedback from so many readers! I appreciate the time and effort you’ve taken here. One shared concern is that I’m trying to compel people to believe some abstruse doctrine. I’m not — at least not yet! All I’ve said so far is that an atheist has no reason to object [...]
I’ve been doing a little reminiscing this afternoon about the insanely cheesy contemporary Christian music I was into at 14 years old. Though I was never a pentecostal and never particularly into “demonology” or other “spirit”-based superstitiousness, these two songs were as cool and edgy as it got for my young fundamentalist Christian brain: Your [...]
A couple Christian kids with a nauseating, badly performed anti-atheist song set to “My Humps” (via Greg Laden, whose categorizations of the video say it all about the video’s contents): And then there’s “Don’t Cha Wish Your Savior Was Right Like Mine”: Your Thoughts?
This pretty much sums it up: As I have argued before (in Conceptual Problems For The Ideal of Unconditional Love), I think anyone, not just the Christians, would have a hard time making a theory of unconditional love coherent. Your Thoughts?
Ah, faith-based religion. A video like this shows how we desperately need it for moral guidance. What else could make ordinary people like these behave in such admirable ways? Your Thoughts?
They don’t get much more famous than these: Which is the most famous you didn’t hear? Your Thoughts?
Apparently in France the legal concept of defamation treats attacks on honor as a form of assault. Karin N. Calvo-Goller, an Israeli author, is taking a German book reviewer to court in France over a four paragraph long negative review on Global Law Books, a New York Web site associated with The European Journal of [...]
I have been inspired to introduce a new series on Camels With Hammers which I am entitling “Poe or No Poe?” and which will run however frequently or infrequently as proves necessary. In “Poe or No Poe?” posts, I will offer you lunacy riddled statements from apparent fundamentalists and other extremists around the internet and [...]
Colbert gives it to O’Reilly straight: “You’re like St. Thomas Aquinas–in that your understanding of the world is also from the 13th Century.” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Crisis in Egypt – Anderson Cooper & Bill O’Reilly<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive My own [...]
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after hearing the devastating argument in this video: I just don’t know what to think now, guys. Your Thoughts?
via Unreasonable Faith. Your Thoughts?
“There must be a God because I don’t know how things work.” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Video Archive PZ Myers quibbles interestingly over Colbert’s decision to compare Silverman’s facial features to the Devil’s: the reason Silverman looks like Satan is that the standard renditions of Satan are based on stereotypes [...]
Via AbeBooks. Reminds me of my favorite song and video from my childhood, which has always stuck with me. In this episode of the Muppet Babies the muppet babies overheard Nanny discussing which one from the nursery she was going to get rid of. The horrified muppet babies assumed she was planning to get rid [...]
I hope vorjack can forgive me but I can neither set up nor follow up this video better than he does so I’m going to reproduce the whole thing: You may have heard about the strange case of the mass bird deaths in Arkansas. As part of the coverage, Anderson Cooper brought on noted expert, Kirk [...]
Many thanks to vorjak. Your Thoughts?
These are so hilarious but I feel obligated and embarrassed to admit a good handful of the more melodramatic lines were ones I rather liked when I first saw them. Your Thoughts?
File this train wreck under “has to be seen to be believed”: (via The Village Voice) Your Thoughts?
Whatever works, I guess: The best comment on YouTube: interestingly enough, this was the entire vocabulary of my ex-wife. And this video takes it in a whole other hilarious direction: As another astute YouTube comment puts it: So it’s proper etiquette to take a Japanese woman to a porn movie on a first date? [...]
Behold our new peer upon the Earth: I think this momentous moment in animal history would be a bit better served with a little Also Sprach Zarathustra, but, alas, you still got the point. No, actually, on second thought, I take that back. You don’t and can’t get the point without the Also Sprach Zarathustra. [...]
I found this amusing: As a cleaner flits about, I ask him if he is surprised at his popularity, particularly among the young. “My God, I am the last person to know the answer to these questions,” he says, looking genuinely dismayed. “But, really, I am now thinking there is so much pressure on me [...]
The absurdity of religious ceremonial pretensions are clarified a bit: Thanks to Heather for the link. Your Thoughts?
Apparently this is a vintage 27 second TV spot for an actual 1960′s exploitation film: via postbourgie (which also has a good post on the cop video from earlier). Your Thoughts?