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Exercise in Futility: Praying For A Discount
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Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Praying For A Discount. On the BBC web site caught my attention. It seems a diner in North Carolina was offering 15% discounts to customers who visibly prayed over their meals or before being served. While some Christians might think this is such a wonderful thing, I can't help but think what's to stop nonreligious customers, once they hear of the discount, from engaging in phony prayers just to knock 15% off their tab? Dispatches Fro...
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Exercise in Futility: August 2014
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Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Ebola The Gay and Atheist Away. Via Right Wing Watch comes this report. Of a Christian wingnut named Rick Wiles, who has a radio program called Trunews. While I am sure I have heard of him before, nothing he said stuck in my memory. Well, I will certainly remember him now. On his program, Wiles said ". 8221; He then went on to say, among other things, “. I just looked a moment ago on his website. To see if perhaps there was a press re...
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Exercise in Futility: The Importance of Skepticism
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Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Sunday, August 03, 2014. The Importance of Skepticism. The atheist/skeptic community quite naturally focuses the majority of its attention on religious claims, and for good reason. However, a healthy skepticism is vitally important on other facets of our lives as well. Several years ago, we received a letter in the mail from the People To People Ambassador Program. We, along with other parents and children in attendance, entered the auditorium and listened to ...
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Exercise in Futility: Shit Anti-Choicers Say - The Gift From God
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Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Saturday, October 06, 2012. Shit Anti-Choicers Say - The Gift From God. The October 2, 2012 edition of Newsday, Long Island's major newspaper, featured a letter-to-the-editor from a Marc de Venoge, who decried what he refers to as "[d]ecades of values-free. government and school policies" that "fail to treat the root cause" of teenage pregnancy. The solution, according to de Venoge, is "to teach the basic notion that. any pregnancy is a God-created gift. A man...
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Exercise in Futility: The Baby Jesus Was Watching Over You
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Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Sunday, August 03, 2014. The Baby Jesus Was Watching Over You. As I have mentioned before, Facebook is a gold mine of religious silliness for an atheist blogger. Some months ago, a friend from high school shared on Facebook a traffic incident that she had experienced. She was driving on a dark road somewhere out in eastern Suffolk County in inclement weather when the car ahead of her lost control, spun around, and narrowly avoided colliding with her. What gets...
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Exercise in Futility: October 2013
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Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Friday, October 18, 2013. The Dauis Church Part 2. Those of you who follow the news may have saw or read about the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. This past October 15, with the epicenter of the quake being the center of the island of Bohol. The good news, to cut to the chase, is that the family there are safe and unhurt. The house of my sister-in-law Mia and her husband Stuart was badly damaged and is un...
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Doubting Eric: Happy International Blasphemy Rights Day!
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Sunday, September 30, 2012. Happy International Blasphemy Rights Day! Today is International Blasphemy Rights Day. In the United States, our speech is protected, and this allows us to say whatever we wish about religious figures, doctrines, holy books and the like. Here is a list of some of the countries that not only disregard this freedom to blaspheme, but often punish blasphemers, sometimes by execution. Russia (lawmakers are considering anti-blasphemy legislation). Posted by Eric Burton. Racism and V...
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A-Deistic: 10/10
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Yale - Hebrew Bible course. Illustrated : Yale University course on the Hebrew Bible presented by Professor Christine Hayes ( playlist. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A-Deism is a rational view based on all the evidence that points to the nonexistence of supernatural entities. Department of Silly Ideas. 8226; critical thinking. 8226; fallacies of logic. 8226; inverse correlation between IQ and religiosity. Yale - Hebrew Bible course. Don't want to be turned on?
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A-Deistic: 06/04
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Of evolution seek to explain the mechanisms of the observable fact. Yes, organisms have indeed evolved over time – most former species are now extinct, many species remain much as they are in the fossil record, and new species continue to evolve. Before the discoveries of science, it was intellectually excusable to believe that a God planted all those bones, but to believe so nowadays is a sign of ignorance. Scientists observing biological evolution first sought to explain observed morphological. As R...
