Tag Archives: Atheism

Religulous

By probabilityZero | October 26, 2008

I saw it yesterday and loved it. Not only is it hilarious, but it has an important message. I think we need a movie like this right now, when people like Sarah Palin are wearing their ignorance like a badge and evangelicals have so much influence on our government.
I went to see this movie with [...]

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Evolution is both fact and theory

By probabilityZero | June 16, 2008

No, that isn’t a contradiction. Evolution is both fact and theory.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote a paper called “Evolution as Fact and Theory,” and it sums up the issue quite nicely:
In the American vernacular, “theory” often means “imperfect fact”–part of a hierarchy of confidence running downhill from fact to theory to hypothesis to guess. Thus the [...]

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State legislator rants about atheism during committee hearing

By probabilityZero | April 9, 2008

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, “What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!”
Yup, this actually happened. This [...]

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Frank Zappa on churches and religion

By probabilityZero | March 15, 2008

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
Tax the FUCK out of the churches!
Get smart and I’ll fuck you over — sayeth The Lord.
The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of [...]

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14 year old Jehova’s Witness turns down treatment and dies

By probabilityZero | December 18, 2007

These sorts of stories really bother me. This kid, raised as a Jehova’s Witness, decides to turn down a blood transfusion that would have saved his live, on the grounds that it would make him “unclean and unworthy.”
Of course, when I say “he decided,” I’m simplifying things a bit. There’s no way a young teenager [...]

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More bigotry towards atheism; letter to the editor

By probabilityZero | February 19, 2007
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