It's weird how the word kosher, which typically means "proper" or "legitimate", has become such an important part of our vernacular. It's especially weird that the concept of kosher is really a series of arbitrary rules that make little to no sense. For instance, according to Leviticus, animals that have cloved hooves and chew cud are clean, but animals that have only one of these qualities are not. Jews al ...

From the songwriter's own words: I wrote a song called GOD SAID after watching Pat Robertson declare that the earthquake in Haiti was because of a curse from God. After hearing A man named Rev Wiley say that he was praying for President Obama's death during the election (the prayer didn't work BTW). After hearing people fiddle around with the idea of a curse on Japan after their recent disaster. After heari ...

Hi Gang, You might have noticed that posting this week is a little light. That's because I'm helping Carisa with her Prop and Circus Arts festival called "Light and Motion". The event is this Saturday, so until it's over, we'll be posting sporadically for a little while. For those of you in the Calgary area, if you have any friends that want to learn fire breathing, poi spinning, or the business of show biz ...

This week we have an extra long show (clocking in at over 2 hours) to make up for the fact that this week I'll be taking a bit of a break as Carisa and I put the finishing touches on Light and Motion, Western Canada's Prop and Circus Arts Festival. I'll be doing the catering at the event, so posting and shows will be a little light this week. My special guest this week is Chris Tenz, who helped to score the ...

A few weeks ago I posted a video of a debate between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig. The video made it clear that Craig is no dummy, despite believing in absurdities. He's been particularly busy recently defending the faith, and one of his latest articles tries to justify the genocide and infanticide in the Bible. It's pretty messed up, actually: According to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the O ...

In a large Suffi shrine in Southern Pakistan, two young men with explosives strapped on their backs navigate nervously through a packed crowd. They are looking for an ideal place to murder as many of their fellow human beings as possible. The plan is surprisingly evil: the second boy is there to detonate himself the moment help arrives to care for the victims of the first attack. As chance would have it, Um ...

You've got to admire Bill Donohue - in a rather sick and twisted way - for his unique ability to always "up the ante" of shitty things to say. He's really an artist of sorts, effortlessly dispatching the truth whenever it seems to be inconvenient, and compensating by making outlandishly false statements, all in a futile attempt to defend what is arguably one of the most corrupt institutions in the world. To ...

The Evangelical world may not be as coherent and homogeneous as some would lead you to believe. For one thing, they can't seem to properly contain the apostasy of Pastor Robert Bell, who has been preaching from Mars Hill a theology that takes special efforts to exclude Hell. Bell credits a conversation he had about Ghandi. When a parishoner kindly reminded him he was slowly roasting in the fires of Hell, so ...

In general, I find atheists need a unifying tome about as much as men need nipples. I'm of the opinion that to properly educate yourself on morality, ethics and philosophy, you need more than what a single book can provide; you need a lifetime of education, thought and what some would call "soul searching"; the act of reflecting on one's actions. Our general dislike of sacred tomes hasn't bothered Professor ...

While America didn't make it into the 9 countries that are slowly losing their religion, you can rejoice at the knowledge church foreclosures are on the rise. Times have been hard for everyone, and when push came to shove, people chose to keep their money rather than to give it to purveyors of nonsense: Religious denominations of all kinds have suffered in recent years as donations have declined, with many ...