Tom Short: Still an Asshole

Even the worst people among us think they’re good people. Tom Short is a great example of this. In his blog, he responds to a group of FSU students who rightfully point out that he once compared a woman he knew to be Jewish to Hitler because she was pro-choice. I now felt we had [...]

Bad Religion: Won’t Somebody?

I make a big deal of Bad Religion on this weblog because I think they’re the quintessential athiest band. They make many, many good arguments against religion through their music in a diverse set of genres which ranges from hardcore punk to some songs which I would consider pop (The Process of Belief…entire album). A [...]

Merry Christmas!

Even as an athiest, I totally celebrate Christmas. I love the idea of getting together with your family at a set time of year, especially one near the end of the calendar. This holiday has no religious significance to me, instead I view it as a secular mid-winter celebration. Sure I’m ripping off the predominant [...]

Why does this not surprise me?

If you’re interested in biology…if you watch documentaries, you’re familiar with David Attenborough. Turns out that he gets hate mail for not accrediting everything to an invisible man. Sir David Attenborough has revealed that he receives hate mail from viewers for failing to credit God in his documentaries. In an interview with this week’s Radio [...]

Leave mine to me

I think this song pretty accurately describes how I approach the world as an Athiest. Live performance by Bad Religion, lyrics from the album version below the fold.

If only Chuck was as intellectual as he thought he was…

So who didn’t love Walker, Texas Ranger when they were ten? I sure as hell did…no point in lying about it. But as you grow up, these things lose much of their appeal. When I was in high school and middle school, you were cool if you listened to the Offspring. Nowadays, they’re like a [...]

And once again, we have an idiot unable to understand Athiests

Ray Comfort laments about how Athiests don’t have their own music. I was listening to the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel’s Messiah recently and thinking about what atheists have as an equivalent. An equivalent? They don’t have a Bible, they don’t belong to a Church, they don’t have a relationship with God, and they don’t have [...]

Putting Intelligent Design in it’s Rightful Place

I love B-movies. You know…low-budget, science butchering horror movies. They take something relatively harmless like a tick or a mosquito and turn it into something horrid and evil. Or they might simply take a normal biological phenomena like the parasitoid lifestyle and put it in a different perspective by putting us on a completely different [...]