It always surprises me how little religious people actually understand atheism. I believe it has something to do with the fact they can't possibly imagine why anyone would choose to reject the notion of God. It must be doubly confusing if your entire life is defined by your faith. It's this fundamental lack of understanding that's behind the latest claim from Jake the Evangelical, who says atheists can't po ...

Well, here's something I never thought I would actually write: Bristol Palin actually seems to understand abstinence teaching is "not realistic at all". Yes, those are her words. The unwed mother and daughter of the most embarrassingly stupid and incompetent Vice Presidential nominee ever, Gov. Sarah Palin, revealed this tidbit of wisdom during an interview for Fox's "On the Record". The family is trying ha ...

I normally don't care about YouTube reaction videos, but this one is simply too awesome not to put in. It helps that this guy totally pwned his opponents. ...

I'm tired of magazines continuously talking about how faith is good for your health, or how it makes people feel better. You almost feel like there is a salesman at work, trying to coax you into going to church. I've already written on the notion being religious makes you live longer. So does cutting off your testicles. I don't know about you other fellows, but I'd rather die with a smile on my face. Time i ...

Here's something that will make you smile. A professor is claiming he can prove the existence of God using what he calls 'hard core science'. Yea, I know you're all impressed with his nomenclature, but there's more. He also claims quantum physics can prove the birth of Jesus, and the resurrection story. It seems like everyone under the sun loves to use quantum mechanics to justify their crackpot ideas. The ...

Scientologists Try to Explain how Psychiatrists caused 9/11 and the Holocaust from Chris Doyle on Vimeo. Scientologists love to attack psychiatry. They believe it is responsible somehow for all of the evils in the world. They deride all prescription drugs, which they view as fundamentally changing someone's personality. This coming from a group whose main intent is to make money, and to mentally enslave peo ...

Looks like our nation's capital is the latest city to say "Hell no" to the atheist bus campaign. Now my first instinct was to assume the reason for the rejection might have been prejudicial, but the transit advertising policy seems to frown on any advertising they deem controversial: Religious advertising which promotes a specific ideology, ethic, point of view, policy or action, which in the opinion of the ...

Imagine you're Muslim, and you want to show people that your religion isn't the violent, backwards faith the mainstream media portrays. Starting your own English TV station centering on your religion is probably a reasonably good start. Bridges TV was such a project. It featured shows such as Democracy Now, a cooking show called Veggie Table, and the saccharine sounding Talking Peace. In a twisted bit of ir ...

Last week on the podcast, I spoke about poor Kara Neuman and her tragic death resulting from her parents praying rather than giving her insulin. While doing so, I mentioned a site that chronicled the deaths caused by superstition. I finally found the url, so if you want to know the kind of harm faith can do, then you need to visit this site, www.whatstheharm.net Depressing to say the least. ...

The guy tearing up at the end is what made it so funny. Not bad, Louis, not bad... ...