Buddhist word salad
I’m pretty sure that I’ve discovered the love child of Andrew Brown and Mark Vernon (he of The Holy Rabbit fame). His name is Ed Halliwell and his piece in today’s CiF, “Buddhism in education: Buddhist meditation is justified in schools by its practical benefits. But there’s more to it than that” is a big [...]
Sneaky sneaky sneaky
Remember Francis Phillips of the Catholic Herald, who recently wrote a nasty and sanctimonious article about Christopher Hitchens? That article was entitled “Perhaps throat cancer will move Christopher Hitchens to a change of heart”. I wrote about it here. Anyway, I just noticed that the Catholic Herald has changed the title of her article to [...]
No, Francis Phillips, cancer is not a blessing
Oh holy crap. Someone may have out Cristina Odone-d Cristina Odone. That someone is Francis Phillips, a writer for the Catholic Herald, who yesterday posted a piece entitled “Perhaps throat cancer will move Christopher Hitchens to a change of heart”, subtitled “The ‘Scourge of God’ has my sympathy, and prayers”. SERIOUSLY? Would someone really use [...]
Ben Stein = total Juggalo
Check out Ben “Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people” Stein’s 4th of July commentary (which aired on CBS’s Sunday Morning), in which he informs us that American democracy is now completely free of racism, sexism, discrimination based on economic class, etc. [...]
Memo to Cristina Odone
You know what, Cristina Odone? Christopher Hitchens’s illness is not about you. I realize that this may be difficult for you to wrap your self-obsessed and hateful little brain around, but try. Try to understand how despicable it is to use someone’s personal health crisis as an excuse to self-righteously pontificate about your beliefs and [...]
Any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it
Andrew Brown, the Guardian’s Fool in Residence, has written another painfully ridiculous excuse for a column: “Richard Dawkins’s backwards logic over atheist schooling,” subtitled “Richard Dawkins’s belief that any properly brought up child will naturally be an atheist leads him into absurdity.” Some choice bits from The Fool: But “evidence”, tends to be defined backwards [...]
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 [...]
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