I hate football. I know that’s not a popular opinion to have, especially when about 70% of my visitors are Americans, but considering the average 3 hour game only has a total of about 11 minutes of actual play time, I find it both incredibly dull and utterly pointless. I can’t, however, deny that there [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 13, 2009
One of the crown jewels at the Toronto Film Festival this year was “Creation”, a movie depicting the life and struggles of Charles Darwin. The film focuses specifically on his family life, and the destruction of his faith with the death of his beloved daughter Annie. The film stars Paul Bettany (you might remember him [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 8, 2009
I’m tired of every Christian I speak to thinking that their religion makes them more moral than others. What bugs me the most is this stupid idea that the Bible is an adequate moral compass. It really isn’t. If one passage isn’t telling you to stone your children, it’s telling you not to eat shellfish. [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 23, 2008
There are casualties in the struggle to answer the fundamental questions about the Universe. For a long time, it has been powerful religious institutions that have burned, sliced, chopped, eviscerated and snuffed opposing world views that undermined their own. Some may claim that the Inquisition and Crusades were political in nature, but it cannot be [...]
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Monday, January 25, 2010
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