A Gallup poll released last summer suggested Americans are finally waking up to reality, although clearly they still have a long way to go. An article about this hopeful change in American thinking on Gallup’s website was titled, Belief in Five Spiritual Entities Edges Down to New Lows. Exciting as
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Scripturient: Musings on Atheism, Belief, and Statues
The website godchecker.com lists roughly 4,000 “weird and wonderful Gods, Supreme Beings, Demons, Spirits and Fabulous Beasts” which have been worshipped since the beginning of recorded history. Many are still being worshipped. It’s quite an amusing and exhaustive collection of deities, demons, and demigods like saints. All gods and demons
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on the Post-Xmas Days
I am glad to have reached the first week in January of 2024 without telling a lot of people to simply fuck off and leave me alone during the past month. The urge is, I’m afraid, great and growing stronger every year. The Xmas season does that to me, beginning
Continue readingwmtc: happy birthday to me: aging and mortality edition
I have been alive on this planet for 62 years. Somehow, inexplicably, it was June 13, 2023, and I passed birthday number 62. I find this fact stunning. I feel incredibly fortunate to be living the life I am. I’ve worked hard, taken risks, made choices, and had big assists
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – How Religion Should Work in Society
Works well for other fatuous belief systems as well (see gender ideology).
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – A Nice Buzz
Going to Church requires a little planning.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – How to Make Atheists Disappear.
It’s so darn easy. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Richard Dawkins on the ABC – Refreshing
We are moving toward this sort of frank discussion when it comes to the religion of gender identity. The days when we have a gender atheist the caliber of Richard Dawkins will not be here too soon.
Continue readingScripturient: Are Secular Nations Happier?
Are less-religious or more secular nations happier than religious ones? Studies suggest yes. Personally, I would certainly be happier in a more secular nation if it meant fewer angry, nasty, fanatic believers like the Westboro Baptist congregation (see picture, right), or the faux-faith anti-mask/anti-vaccine, pro-disease protestors,* or any of the
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Why Atheism Is A Bag of Hot Air
Atheism is decidedly unscientific, and anti-empirical, because it dogmatically asserts a claim that it cannot possibly prove or even empirically support. If they were truly empirical, or truly scientific, they would at least be agnostic. But they are neither empirical nor scientific. Besides that, and more importantly, atheism is the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Just like that.
Pretty much. Believing in the grand Ooga-booga is just too many steps outside of rational belief.
Continue readingScripturient: Can an atheist be a good citizen?
The answer to the headline’s question is no, at least according to the late Catholic priest Richard John Neuhaus in a podcast in the Socrates in the City series (Sept. 22, 2004; I came across it as one of the chapters in the 2012 book from the podcast, Life, God,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Ray Comfort being Ray Comfort
Such a preciously addled gift to the atheist community.
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