I haz a theory
My new theory: “Cristina Odone” is Bill Donohue‘s sockpuppet. Exhibit A, from her latest column: I talked last night to one of the Catholic Great and Good. He’d been involved, he admitted rather sheepishly, with organising the forthcoming papal visit to Britain. And he despaired: not only because of the ineptitude of the organisers … [...]
LOLZ: Chuck Norris vs. the Secular Student Alliance
I still can’t quite wrap my head around the fact that Chuck Norris has somehow become a “cultural commentator”. Seriously? Chuck frakking Norris? This dude? He’s morphed from an ass-kickin’ action “star” (and “Action Jeans” spokesman!) into a creationist Tea-Partier. His rambling, cranky, and hyper-Christian posts at WorldNetDaily are always hilariously awful, but today’s is [...]
Not one, not two, but THREE Helen Lovejoys!
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you examples #570246279347, #570246279348, and #570246279349 of religious individuals attempting to reframe even the mildest and gentlest criticism of their beliefs into something extremely offensive, aggressive, and hostile. The Freedom From Religion Foundation recently started running a lighthearted and non-confrontational advertisement on Chicago city buses: The ads are fun and [...]
Cringeworthy hyperbole
Comedy Central is currently developing a show called JC, which they describe as: A half-hour animated show about JC (Jesus Christ) wanting to escape his father’s enormous shadow and to live life in NYC as a regular guy. A lot has changed in 2000 years and he is the ultimate fish out of water. Meanwhile [...]
Blaming everybody but themselves
This is a superb article: “Richard Dawkins: The pope should stand trial”. Just a few quotes from it: Lashing out in desperation, church spokesmen are now blaming everybody but themselves for their current dire plight, which one official spokesman likens to the worst aspects of antisemitism (what are the best ones, I wonder?). Suggested culprits [...]
Stop the servile deference, please
I’m really, really tired of skeptics who are committed to investigating and criticizing irrationality unless that irrationality is of the religious sort. I certainly commend anyone who devotes their time to combating irrational and baseless paranormal/supernatural claims, but there’s absolutely no excuse for excluding religious beliefs/assertions/practices from that inquiry and criticism just so that the [...]
A mess of an article
While we wait for Bill Donohue’s inevitable hissy-fit over the calls for the Pope to be brought to justice, we have this, from his Australian counterpart, Tom Craven, president of the Catholic League of Australia, to keep us amused/horrified. The article is so obviously and patently ridiculous, dishonest, and cruel that it doesn’t need or [...]
Memo to the Catholic Church: you’re not above the law
This is WONDERFUL. From Times Online: “Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI”: Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”. Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case [...]
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