The recent Cectic webcomic hits the nail squarely on the head: (click the link at the bottom for a better version) 
Go down to Cectic and read away. All the comics are excellent. Also, EDTheFuture.com does exist, unlike evidence for Parentism… 
Links:
The ED Comic: ED: The Future
The Comic main page: Cectic
ED The Future Homepage: ED: The Future
This is the continuation of my previous post about the Popes recent encyclical, covering sections 6-10, and maybe more.
More below the fold.
I’m an Atheist, and I Love Christmas. Continue reading ‘A Note on Christmas, and also the Pope’
I am sick and tired of people railing on books that they’ve never read.
Have any of you Christians actually _read_ His Dark Materials?
I am, currently (on chapter 11 of the golden compass, can hardly put it down).
You know, when Narnia came out, I was excited, I loved those books. Just because they have _blatent_ christian overtones, I didn’t complain, I didn’t whine that it was going to “teach kids a pro-God message.” I didn’t complain about it- I enjoyed the movie, the work of fiction.
It’s a book! It talks about a fiction version of the Catholic church, in a fictional world. At the very least, it’s about what could happen if the church went awry.
It’s about what happens when people blindly subscribe to dogma and superstition. It’s not about killing God. It’s about a God whose blanked out, and left the world alone, and the crap that happens when he doesn’t do anything to stop it.
They don’t kill God in the books, they kill Metatron, God dies in the crossfire. God is an innocent, not a malcontent. Unless you worship Metatron., but none of you do that, right?
Metatron is a despot, a cruel demigod/angelesque being akin to another malcontent we know from you’re superstitious dogma, Christians, Satan.
So let me ask you this, don’t you want Satan to be fought?
Next time, before you complain about my beliefs, think of this, the God you believe in is logically impossible, non-unique, based on stories and anecdotes out of a book written by a bunch of men about a man who probably didn’t exist. You’re faith in this “God” fellow is blind, at best, stupid on average, and childish, at worst. Wake up to the world you’re living in, it’s worse than “God is Dead.”
Your God never existed in the first place.
Normally, I don’t care what you believe, I’ll let you be. You have your faith, I have mine. So what, you preach at kids. So what, you teach biblical fiction as literal fact. Okay, so you ignore things like “evidence” and “reason.” Hell, I’ve been accused of Satan worship, just because I don’t agree with your dogmatic dander (to which I reply, How can I worship something that doesn’t exist?). Just because I realize that I was wrong to believe in all this superstitious nonsense, and that the evidence, in fact, points to a more logical conclusion than deity. Doesn’t give me the right to tell you what to believe.
However,
If you want to attack a movie- a work of fiction- as promoting my beliefs, insodoing turning me into a villian, a liar, and apparently, a satanist. A movie which, honestly, doesn’t do that, because they’ve purposefully toned down the mild atheist undertones. Just like they did in the Narnia movie. In fact, the book is not about atheism, at the least it’s about deism. If it were about atheism, it would show that God doesn’t exist, not assume him at the outset. You can’t kill a man who doesn’t exist.
Idiocy, pure idiocy.
~~Joe Fredette, an proud atheist, devout skeptic, and freethinker.
‘Sans Deus, mundo mea cupla.’
First of all, Welcome to Humbug! This first post will not be tackling any woo, but it will be dealing with something I think is really cool. Magic.
Magicians are often skeptics, a tradition started by Houdini, one of the finests illusionists ever to astound us. He devoted a large portion of his time to countering the bogus, silly, and oftentimes harmful claims of so-called psychics and media. Houdini was an awesome guy. After his death, many more illusionists and magicians took up the same cause, notable among them are men like James Randi, Penn and Teller, and others. Today though, I want to talk about a particularly amazing trick done by Derren Brown, on his television show “Mind Control.”
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