Purely in the interests of science, the quietAtheist is going to attempt to eat this for lunch:
Archive for March, 2009
And now for something completely different
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Tax payer funding
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009It appears that some of the religious types are up in arms because the British Humanist Association (which helped organise the recent Atheist Bus campaign) was given money from the government ‘Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund’.
French protest over Popes Condom fallacies
Monday, March 23rd, 2009French activists have been protesting over the Popes recent ‘Condoms aren’t the answer for AIDS in Africa’ stance.
UN and anti-blasphemy laws again
Thursday, March 19th, 2009I posted a short message about the UN trying to outlaw blasphemy a little while back.
Well, now Pat Condell has covered this subject in a video.
Britain persecutes Christians
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Conservative opposition MP Arkadiusz Czartoryski says Christians are being persecuted in the UK and has heralded the “end of British civilization” as we know it.
How exactly does that work? Given that most surveys still show that Christians (although there is a suggestion that many are just cultural Christians) are still in the majority in this country, how exactly are they being persecuted?
The Pope, Africa, and Condoms
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009So, the Pope is on a little trip to Africa, and just can’t resist spreading some mis-information.
Happy St Patricks Day
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009As anyone who lives in the British Isles (of which Ireland is a part, even if they’re not too keen on it), and several other places (most notably New York) will no doubt be aware, today is St Patricks Day.
Why do Atheists care about Religion?
Monday, March 16th, 2009I posted this a while back on another site, I figured I should re-post it here:
To all those theists who wonder why us atheists care…
We care for many reasons.
We care because we don’t like seeing people waste their time praising a God that doesn’t exist and looking forward to an afterlife that they will never find when they would be better off spending their time enjoying the all too short time that we are given on this world.
Death threats sent to Colorado scientists
Monday, March 16th, 2009It appears that some evolutionary biologists at the University of Colorado have been receiving death threats from some religious nutter. Apparently, which ever coward is issuing these threats, is so insecure in their own beliefs that they think that someone unrelated to their every day lives working in a field of science is so absolutely evil that they should die!
All this, just for little old us?
Thursday, March 12th, 2009According to some religious doctrines, all this was created just for us.
Space, Stars, and Galaxies
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Hardly seems likely now does it?
Apocalypse or STFU!
Thursday, March 12th, 2009There seem to be many religious nutters who continually spout on about the end of the world, or the second coming, or some other such nonsense. They often seem to think that we are currently living in The End Days. Most recently David Wilkerson has decided that New York is about to burn to the ground or something.
Well, lets have some accurate results please!
Tanzanian Witch naming
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009No, this isn’t a competition where you come up with the best name for a Tanzanian witch and win a funky prize. This is a scheme introduced by the Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete to name those responsible for killing albinos for ritual purposes.
75 year old woman sentenced to 40 lashes
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009A 75 year old Saudi woman has been sentenced to 40 lashes and 4 months imprisonment simply because the met with two men who weren’t related to her. The two men also received similar punishments.
Could we* become gods?
Friday, March 6th, 2009Imagine sometime in the future someone manages to invent a time-machine, and then uses it to take herself, and a few modern, everyday devices back 2000 years or so. What would be the reaction of the local humans to such things as a gas-lighter, a motorbike, a walkie-talkie, or even a gun?
