The museum of the Bible recently opened in Washington DC. A big chuck of the $500 million in change to fund real, artificial, and fake artifacts came from China via the Hobby Lobby. Gross. In 2010, the Museum of the Bible was formed as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the intent,…
A decent video. Evidence can undermine religion. It’s not that there is not evidence of religions doing good or have some place in history, or science for that matter, but bad and conflict are certainly evidenced in pletiude when religions enter the equation of “society.” As stated elsewhere, The reality…
…or theist for that matter video version (uncut) cut with imagery more on religion:
While I like some of what Richard Carrier has written, I have to say I am a little disturbed by his attempts to use Bayes Theorem with history. R. Joseph Hoffmann has a nice synopsis of the issues with Carrier’s logic, or the lack of it, here.
For the first time, atheists and other nonreligious persons are explicitly named as a class protected by the law. President Barack Obama has signed into law the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act. The new law protects atheists, humanists, and other freethinkers around the world from religious persecution. Congress passed the…
If you have come here for the religions conflict sticker you have come to the right place. Yes, the design is in in protest of the ubiquitous “coexist” iteration of various religious symbols. While we might be able to coexist, cults and religions come into being because they occupy…
by Bernard Leikind Adam’s IQ was 1500! How do I know? I read it in a pamphlet I found at the Institute for Creation Science. Why does Adam’s IQ concern creationists? Because Adam named all of the animals. Leave aside the interesting question of how the duckbilled platypus got from…
This pattern is based upon The Hero: A study in Tradition, Myth and Dreams by Lord Raglan First identified by Otto Rank in 1914 and elaborated by Lord Fitzroy Raglan in 1936. Otto Rank’s basic model for mythic heroes can be summarized is 6 steps: Prophecy surrounds birth Divine, aristocratic,…
