20 posts tagged Religion makes you stupid

So a girl dies of undiagnosed diabetic ketoacidosis because her parents decided to play mumbly-peg with the magic man in the sky instead of doing like God told them and helping themselves...to commonly available and reliable medical treatment.

Not directly, at least. Fortunately, Wordpress keeps an accurate list of inbound links. He has his own blog, and has decided to issue his response to my latest reply to him there. That’s just as well; he wasn’t doing all that well via the contact form.

Jonah comments on a phenomenon that is getting a bit on the old side by now — the “Darwin Fish”. You know, that “clever” little modification of the classic “Jesus Fish” that you see tacked onto the bumpers of some cars, that has taken the classic fish shape and added legs to it, with either “Darwin” or “Evolve” replacing the traditional texts one finds printed in the “Jesus Fish”?

I don’t usually cruise atheist websites all that much — few enough of them are designed well enough for my tastes, and at any rate I don’t much enjoy having to switch off large portions of my brain just to be able to successfully navigate through one irrational tirade after another.

Hey look at that…it’s nearly Easter You know what that means, right, O Reader? Yup…it’s time for another movie about how the Gospels don’t tell us the truth about the life of Jesus and/or his disciples! The BBC is to screen a new drama about the final week in the life of Jesus Christ which appears to exonerate [Judas Iscariot] and Pontius Pilate.

Reader Mail: Remember when? GuyInCT writes in with a wistful reflection on the current state of freedom of expression in Canada. The thing you have to realize is that the Leftists are basically cowards and bullies. Like any bullies, they capitulate in the face of bigger bullies.

Simple truth When we’re fed the lie that you can separate sex from procreation, we make up other lies to convince ourselves that the evil being done as a result isn’t really evil, and even more, is a “right” and a good worth fighting for.

I’m dead tired this morning, so this will kind of just be a list of things that I noticed on my morning browse through a few parts of the internet. Regular posting will resume tomorrow, ideally. Apparently, the Milky Way is twice as thick as was previously thought — 12,000 light years, instead of 6,000.

The Pope’s supporters More than 100,000 people filled St Peter’s Square on Sunday in a show of support for Pope Benedict XVI after protests by scientists forced him to cancel a university speech.

Italian political leaders have expressed their dismay that a noisy protest at La Sapienza university in Rome prompted Pope Benedict XVI to cancel his planned appearance there. Italian president Giorgio Napolitano released a statement condemning the “inadmissible intolerance” shown by the campus