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I like being angry, thanks

Friday, May 14, 2010

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I asked a friend of mine a few days ago if she felt I had changed in the past 5 years of knowing me. She replied by saying she felt I was a lot less angry than I was before. I suppose that’s true (to be fair, back then I wasn’t really getting laid [...]

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5 “challenges” to atheism

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Someone sent me a link to this video and wanted me to answer his 5 challenges. Since I’m relatively bored and feeling productive, I though I’d give it a try. 1) Is chance the same as “God in the Gaps” when explaining the origin of life? If you can’t accept probability and chance, than you can’t accept [...]

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City council tries to change Good Friday to “Spring Holiday” and fails

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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“Good Friday” is creepy. As a holiday, I’d say it ranks pretty high up on the weirdo-meter (the biggest one in my book is the cryptic and disturbing celebration of Passover, where Jews celebrate God killing the first born children of Egyptians and “passing over” their own kids). For starters, millions of Catholics celebrate the [...]

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America, you still crazy

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Normally, if you hear about a plot by an armed civilian militia trying to kill government officials, you figure it’s happening in some unstable developing country. It’s hard to believe that in this day and age, the most powerful and wealthy country in the world also seems to have similar problems with armed maniacs trying [...]

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Glenn Beck blames gang violence on atheism, and Obama

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Here Glenn decides that random and isolated acts of violence have, as their root cause, a secular leaning. In the video a young man is tragically beaten and killed. In Beck’s eyes, he sees too few tears in the eyes of witnesses, something he blames on the fact that young people are less religious than [...]

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Pope Thinks Condoms will make AIDS Epidemic Worst

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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In the Western world, we are mostly isolated from the deadly effect of the AIDS virus. Those who have it usually don’t make much publicity for themselves, and some hide it completely. In Africa, however, the disease is a plague that is slowly killing off their population. It makes orphans of children who then starve [...]

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An Atheist Life: Simon’s Story

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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Simon was one of the first people to write to me about his story, and was one of the inspiration behind this whole “atheist life”section. I wanted to understand what it was like growing up in Northern Ireland. Here’s his story: For 18 years of my life, I lived in Northern Ireland. Most people don’t even [...]

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On Conspiracy Theories

Monday, December 8, 2008

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On November 22nd, 1963, the president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was shot and killed during a parade in Dallas, Texas. It was a gorgeous clear day, one few expected would forever change the lives of so many Americans. Though he was rushed to the hospital, Kennedy died immediately from a fatal shot [...]

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