A recent article on haveyoureadthebible.com on missionary work left me both angry and disgusted. If you've got the time, I highly recommend reading it if you want your blood to boil a little (especially the pictures of these morons on dune buggies and hiking trips). I never grew up in a particularly religious environment, thanks largely to my anti-theist father, so my interactions with missionaries occurred ...

When it comes to the right to practice their religion the way they see fit - which includes complaining whenever they aren't allowed to openly discriminate against gays - Conservative Christians take that shit pretty seriously. Unfortunately, they're also a bunch of annoying hypocrites who think every other religion is dangerous idolatry, even when it's a bunch of innocent people dressing up like characters ...

Watch Robby as he attempts to dodge every pertinent question from a real journalist who isn't content throwing him softballs. The best he can muster is this answer: "Christians have built whole dogmas about what happens when you die and we have to be very careful that we don't build whole doctrines and dogmas on what is speculation" Umm, you wrote an entire book that is nothing BUT speculation, dude! Even s ...

Apparently legislators in Arkansas are convinced the ills of society can be fixed if they ensure students are brainwashed into Christianity. In order to do so, they've passed a Bill that would lay out "guidelines" for public schools who want to offer elective classes on the Bible. Republican Rep. Denny Altes called the Bible the most accurate history book and says students could learn about its influence on ...

Thanks to the progressive beliefs of Christianity, citizens in the small suburb of Alabang will need a prescription to buy birth control pills or condoms. Violators of the ordinance's provisions will be fined an amount no less than P1,000 but not exceeding P5,000 for the first offense. A second offense will be fined not less than P5,000 and will merit imprisonment for not less than one month but not exceedi ...

Nigeria is currently the battleground between Christianity and Islam. Since last year, over 2000 people have died fighting. Despite communities trying to sign various peace treaties with one another, every once in a while they just start attacking one another again. It's a perfect example of the kind of division and strife that mutually incompatible beliefs cause. The latest incident involves 18 Christians ...

There's an article that appeared in the Guardian today entitled "Christianity: a faith for the simple", and while I agree with the premise of the article, I feel as though the author got everything precisely wrong on the subject. There was a recent study done in the US polling the religiosity of the country's scientists, which I'm unhappy to report is higher than in most other countries. Of course, the rela ...

It bothers me to no end religious people are convinced the only way to cope with difficult situations and circumstances is to believe in a higher power. It's just something they claim without any real evidence to suggest it's true. It merely sounds good to their deluded ears. So imagine my complete lack of surprise when I heard the US Army has devised a survey designed to test the relative spiritual "fitnes ...

There's an interesting Cracked article entitled "5 Ridiculous Things You Probably Believe About Islam", and while I thought it fair to point out religion hasn't always been a gigantic problem for this world, it fundamentally glosses over the fact in many parts of the world, the dangerous combination of faith and tradition leads to the suppression, torture and murder of women. It's true Christianity, on a wh ...

The best defense is a good offense, and no one knows this like the Catholic Church. The Vatican is busy trying to get everyone to forget they've been raping kids en masse, so they're going for the same strategy they've always employed when things get dicey: Find a scapegoat. The key to finding a good scapegoat is to first find someone who is less popular than you are. What's less popular than child molester ...