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Friday Fundamentalist Farce File #8
I haven’t done one of these in a while! (They’re a lot of work!) With all the teabagging and heckling going on this week, I thought I’d take a look at what our good friends at OneNewsNow and...
View ArticleChristian Universities Struggle With Teaching Legitimate Science
With all the hubbub about Comfort’s upcoming distribution of his version of The Origin of Species on college campuses, Inside Higher Ed has an in-depth piece this week on the teaching of evolution at...
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Balloon Boy Demonstrates Challenge of Spreading Atheism
Like so many across our country yesterday, I was captivated by the live news coverage of the out-of-control helium balloon that supposedly was occupied by six-year-old Falcon Heene. I listened to...
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IL Parents Afraid of Their Kids Learning About the World They Live In?
If you haven’t heard this story yet, let me catch you up. An English teacher in Piasa, IL, Mr. Dan DeLong, was suspended for giving his Sophomore Honors students an article to read about homosexuality...
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Fallacy After Fallacy: The Flawed Paranoia of Marriage-Equality Opponents
This weekend, a column appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune attacking same-sex marriage, apparently without counterpoint (Hat tip: Towleroad). In the column, Katherine Kersten writes fallacy after...
View ArticleWhy I Have Mixed Feelings About Thanksgiving
Let me be honest, there are a lot of things I like about Thanksgiving. I think it’s nice to get together with the ones you love. I very much enjoy the food that is served. And I like the idea of...
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Society Is Better Off Without Religion: The Supporting Research
Yesterday, I saw a link on the Richard Dawkins Foundation page for an article called “The Chronic Dependence of Popular Religiosity upon Dysfunctional Psychosociological Conditions” written by Gregory...
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How The AFA Spins Creationist Propaganda
Apparently, right now as I write and post this, there is an exciting webcast taking place! I got an email alert as it started. That’s a classy way to attract audiences. I thought I’d just share with...
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What’s Your Favorite Atheist Holiday Tradition?
After two heavy days of IC Pianogate, I can’t think of anything better to get us back on track than some Atheist Holiday Traditions, courtesy of Big Fat Whale (hat tip Friendly Atheist). If Parson...
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Why Is It “Disrespectful” and “Offensive” To Challenge Religious Beliefs?
The question that is the title of this post is essentially the nature of this blog (and this blogger’s intentions), particularly because I don’t intellectually respect beliefs (ideas confidently held...
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Religious Universities: “Seeing the Light” Means Turning a Blind Eye
As I have written about before, I have three major complaints about religiously-affiliated universities (though they’re arguably more complex than how I’ll present them here): » Handicapping of...
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Oh, You Want Me To See All The Crap You Spout? Well, THANK YOU!
There’s a phenomenon that takes place in social networking that many are familiar with, particularly Twitter users. It’s when people follow you specifically because they want you to see their stuff....
View ArticleAppeals Court Affirms UC’s Right to Reject Insufficient Curricula From...
This week, a decision was handed down from an appeals court in California regarding a challenge from some religious high schools that the University of California was discriminating by not accepting...
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Prop 8 Trial Week 1 Weekend Updates (Sunday)
Here is another round of relevant articles about Perry v. Schwarzenegger. » MLK Day: An Opportunity for President Obama to Speak Out in Favor of Equal Rights by The Advocate’s Jon Barrett (Editor in...
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ZackFord Vlogs #7 – Moody Weather, Easter, and Trivial ZFb Updates
Here are some of the posts from this past week I mentioned in the video: » Dan Choi, HRC, The “Schism,” and Mixed Messages » I Saw Maggie Gallagher in Person! Nothing to report. Here’s a photo of me...
View ArticleScience and Religion Are Not Compatible: The Seminary Says So
I love a good ironic headline. I have a lot of questions about this article on Inside Higher Ed. The article is about Bruce K. Waltke, an evangelical scholar (oxymoron?) of the Old Testament...
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Zack Responds To Negative Feedback
I assumed when I started my blog 16 months ago that I was inviting torrents of hateful, angry email. Really, I haven’t gotten much. I don’t have a huge readership, so that makes some sense. People do...
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Covert Evangelism/Underhanded Generosity + The Vacation Bible School Ruse
They say that no good deed goes unpunished, so I guess today that makes me the punisher. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about evangelism in response to “Shelonda,” who had left a comment here on the...
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The Surreptitious Evil That Is Vacation Bible School
I wrote a pretty extensive post earlier this summer about Vacation Bible School, known to many as “Bible Camp” or “Church Camp.” These are week-long (or summer-long) camps designed to keep kids busy...
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The Children Meme: Two Can Play at That Game
What’s the most effective way to scare folks to the conservative side? Make them feel like their children are threatened. Their kids will be turned gay, or taught about gay sex, or taught by gay...
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