Atheism as faith is to Baffled as Perculosis
I really get bugged when people start talking about atheism as a belief system or faith. It’s like people don’t want to think deeply about a concept at all. Not all concepts… just this one. They are (more…)
Pendantic antics (or “The White Robed Monks of St. Benedict)
I might be a pantheist, depending on who you talk to. Getting this obscure into beliefs is likely a waste of time.
Jesus is a zombie, *or* An Easter Brunch chock full of why irrational belief is silly
ID, and much more, is pretty dumd. So… a brilliant article, The Decline and Fall of Christian America by Jon Meacham, (more…)
SCIENCE IS BACK BITCHES!!!!!!! Obama’s Humanist Agenda!!!!! (Plus Pelosi’s SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE!!!!)
Mark my words – today was one of the most important days in the history of science, humanism, and non belief in regards to politics and science’s “rightful place” in our society. It was truly momentous. ——– Reprint (more…)
Global Warming – a skeptic’s question in place of a liberal’s question.
I don’t want to sound cynical in an attempt to be skeptical; but I have a problem with our current panicked mindset about global warming. Everyone is stating that it is happening. Not that I don’t (more…)
Agnosticism
Atheism is such an absolute lack of faith. I never had religion to lose, nor can I shake my lack of faith. But agnosticism, as a wise man recently told me (while musing that we are leaves of some (more…)
Santa killed God, Agnostic Atheism, and bittersweet mortality
I think I am agnostic as of late. “Agnostic Atheist†to be precise…. But it still means I am moving on that grand scale of belief systems. At the age of 6 or 7 when I figured out Santa, I simply (more…)
Centering the irrational, emotionally outraged skeptic. Shh… walk the centered path young one.
I want to start a group Markus. I am a nice guy, but I find myself VEHEMENTLY and DESTRUCTIVELY angry about people’s mindless belief systems that require little to no philisophical regard or verification. (more…)
SCIENCE! And some thoughts on popscience like The Secret, or What the Bleep.
I had a conversation with a guy that was talking about the metaphysical side Chaos Theory, IE *total bullshit*. Saying more scientists don’t visit it, as it is unknowable. I mean.. who is this guy? (more…)