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Last Sunday I was watching a Simpsons episode. It was a “Lisa” episode that night, involving witchcraft. It was kind of fun, watching Lisa doubt her usual reliance on fact based science. She starts to get sucked in to Wicca as a couple of eerie “coincidences” happen. She gets an easy A on a school [...]
The 9/12 Project is a political movement that claims to not be a political movement. It was started by quite possibly the most insane man in America who has a large audience who will listen to him: Glenn Beck. In short, the 9/12 Project scares me because it is the child of Beck, a known [...]
Today is International Blasphemy Day! And I support what it stands for 100%. Today is the (4 year I think?) anniversary of the Mohamed comic that outraged many Muslims. This outrage over the blasphemy of depicting Mohamed in a cartoon erupted in to physical violence and death threats. National Blasphemy Day was created to remember [...]
Inspired by a Facebook interaction, in which I was permanently self-censored by a friend, I have decided to do a list of ten things that I believe are better than Jesus. I believe that there are many things better than Jesus. You are free to disagree with me. If you don’t agree with me, I [...]
Coming up soon, sometime in October I think (definitely a few months before the new year), I celebrate my 10th year of rejecting the Christian God. Some may think, “Why is that such a big deal?” To me… it is a very big deal. I took Christianity seriously. I’m a bit obsessive. If you know [...]
Taking a break from my “turning old” series to think out loud again. Err… If you’d call this out loud. Anyway…
Just about everyone thinks of Christianity when the subject of morality comes up. You get looked down upon for doing immoral things and praised for avoiding immoral things. But… I’ve [...]
Yesterday morning I was talking with Janelle (6 years old, in KG) and she was telling me all about how school works.
“First there’s Kindergarten, which is in elementary school. Then there’s Church, Middle School, High School and then College.”
I laughed. “Ummm… Church?”
“Yeah, church,” she replied.
So I asked, “What’s Church?”
“Oh, it’s just one of [...]
Working in downtown Denver has been interesting this week, with the DNC activities going on. It’s kind of weird, but it seems to have made my commute to work easier (maybe because so many people are staying home?) and the commute home a bit longer. So no drastic changes yet in the commute.
The [...]
My wife participates on several parenting bulletin boards and sometimes shares the more interesting threads with me. The other day she let me know that, since we’re atheists, we have no morals. You evidently need to be Christian to have morals.
So I started to google about some bible passages I remembered from when I was [...]
Last night I stumbled upon a post on this dear-god website and found the conversation interesting.
The gist of the post is that everything in the world is going so wrong so where in the world is God? It’s very obviously talking to the Christian God, even though it is addressed to Buddha and [...]