“Ex-Gay” Adam Hood Argues That Homosexuality Is A Sin

To understand how this kind of self-loathing is manipulated into being please read A Gay Blogger Undercover At “Love Won Out” and for insight into how it can be overcome, watch Rejecting The Ex-Gay Movement. Your Thoughts?

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The Hard Evidence Against A Literal Adam And Eve

Jerry Coyne explains why the proposed idea of a single pair of original human ancestors is refuted by what we know of our evolutionary ancestry: Over at the Templeton-funded BioLogos website there has been a lot of discussion about the historicity of Adam and Eve. This is a problem because scripture claims these two were […]

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The Thing That Made The Things For Which There Is No Known Maker

Strictly deriving belief in the Christian God logically from the problem of where everything comes from: It’s amazing how the problem of how something comes from nothing leads to so many obvious and unavoidable truths, isn’t it? Your Thoughts?

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Noah’s Ark: God, Giraffes, & Genocide

Thanks to Gordon for the video. Your Thoughts?

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Is This What Lesbian Wedding Vows Might Sound Like?

By Kirk Anderson, via United Atheist Front Your Thoughts?

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The Christian Logic Of Power, Pride, Humility, Free Will, Original Sin, And All-Consuming Divine Narcissism

Pride has traditionally been disparaged by Christianity as not only a vice but as the chief vice and gone so far as to recommend humility as one of the highest virtues for a human being. The theological reasons for this begin with the way that traditional Christianity understands human beings primarily relationally, as in an […]

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True And False In Adam And Eve

Yesterday I replied to Mary Midgley’s article out this weekend, which claimed that evolutionary theory does not refute Genesis since Genesis was not meant to be a literal description of how God made the world. In reply I revisted remarks and videos that I posted last fall which overviewed the ways that even if we […]

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How Genesis Is Not Only Literally False, But Metaphorically False

Mary Midgley argues that only the views of fundamentalist literalists are refuted by the fact of evolution: Appeals to evolution are only damaging to biblical literalism. Certainly the events described inGenesis 1 are not literally compatible with what science (from long before Darwin’s day) tells us about the antiquity of the Earth. But this is not […]

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Bertrand Russell’s “Why I Am Not A Christian”

Russell reads his classic, Why I Am Not A Christian.  I find his reading and his rhetoric riveting. Your Thoughts?

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Missionaries of Hate

Do American evangelical leaders really oppose Uganda’s “Kill The Gays Bill”?  What exactly is the extent of their responsibility for the creation of this mercilessly unjust, religiously motivated law?  Mariana van Zeller’s documentary Missionaries of Hate explores the question: Jim Burroway has more interview footage with Ugandan MP David Bahati, who introduced the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill”, including […]

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Do Atheists Believe In Fairy Tales?

Brett Palmer patiently distinguishes the difference between a hypothesis and a fairy tale: Your Thoughts?

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Biblical Scientific Inaccuracy

Some of these biblical scientific inaccuracies are really eye opening, not merely things which can be chalked up to “metaphors” but portions of the text which plainly mean to be taken literally which are absurdly wrong.  Oh, and the opening is hilarious: Thanks to Victoria for the great find! Your Thoughts?

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Creationism Propaganda For Children

Some footage of wholly expected and routine, but nonetheless wince-inducing, brainwashing: Your Thoughts?

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If You Know The Bible, You Know It Is Riddled With Clear Contradictions

NonStampCollector provides a hilariously fun, rapid-paced, guide to biblical contradictions through a cartoon quiz show.  This video is, in short, a great resource which every Christian should take to heart and every atheist should memorize and have available for making the case against biblical credibility as in any way divinely guaranteed: Here’s a handy list […]

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On Reading Biblical Texts “In Context”

NonStampCollector came back with a new, typically solid, video during my virtual hiatus from blogging: Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Mr. Deity and the Quitter

It might be just me, but this is one of my favorite episodes in a while: Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Mr. Deity & The Baptist

The new Mr. Deity: Your Thoughts?

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Daily Hilarity: Mr. Deity’s Promised Land

The new Mr. Deity, brilliantly exposes the insanity and moral repugnancy of a certain allegedly “good” “divinely inspired” book of “moral guidance” from a “good God”: Your Thoughts?

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The Logistics Of Noah’s Ark

A really terrific video from DarkMatter2525 which spells out the numerous impossibilities involved in the Genesis flood story: Daniel Florien has helpfully typed up the major points for easy reference here. Your Thoughts?

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A Challenge To Christians To Unqualifiedly Condemn Genocide

Christians who defend the Old Testament genocides are guilty of either relativistic authoritarianism (anything can be okay as long as God wills it and His will has simply changed from the Old Testament days to the New Testament one) or, possibly worse, theoretical agreement with all the normal justifications of genocide as long as God […]

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Do As Jesus Says, Not As He Does…

Your Thoughts?

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“NASA has an underground bunker with life support, the human race does not. Don’t euthanize the human race by bombing planets!”

PZ Myers relays an urgent plea to NASA from a courageous prophet. Your Thoughts?

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Maine And Abominations To God

Blaghag is impressed with Maine’s biblical stance on homosexuality and can’t wait for them to follow through on the implications of these verses from Leviticus and Deuteronomy next: 9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, […]

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Daily Hilarity: Eve Just Wants To Be Friends

Hilarious: From College Humor, via Atheist Media Blog Your Thoughts?

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Jessica Lea Mayfield’s “Bible Days”

I’m always scouring for great women singer-songwriters, here is my latest find, the twenty year old Jessica Lea Mayfield: Your Thoughts?

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