The Atheist Blogroll Photo Contest Ends Soon
The Atheist Blogroll Photography Contest ends September 15! If you have not entered yet, you still have some time. Via Deep Thoughts: I am pleased to announce the 2009 Atheist Blogroll photography contest. This year’s contest is open to any member of the Atheist Blogroll, their family, friends or significant others. By request, I’ve also opened the contest up to members of the Atheist Nexus too. We have five categories this year. Atheism/Religion Travel and People Self-Portrait Altered...
Read MoreOh my Saturn!
I mentioned my father passed away and that my hubby and I moved to Miami from LA to aid my mother for a bit. We stopped in Vegas for two days to break up the trip. We flew and shipped the car. As you can see below, my Saturn is no more: The truck’s hydraulic breaks caught on fire and my car and six others all burned. Luckily, we only had a few things in the trunk (that no one will cover anyway). Now, I’m waiting on a check from my insurance company. Though it still won’t be...
Read MoreThe Friendly Atheist is under attack! Oh noes!
Our neighborhood Friendly Atheist is under attack by a hateful Christian extremist group. Via the Portland Humanist Examiner: Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist, is under attack by a right wing Christian hate group. The Illinois Family Institute, led by Laurie Higgins, is harassing celebrity atheist Mehta. According to Mehta, a high school math teacher, Higgins emailed his boss, his high school’s entire administrative staff, and every school board member to inform them about Mehta’s...
Read MoreMedicine? Can’t the Rabbis just fight off the swine flu with a Shofar?
Rabbis attempt to fight off swine flu by blowing shofars. Accompanied by prayer, of course. Via BBC News: A group of rabbis and Jewish mystics have taken to the skies over Israel, praying and blowing ceremonial trumpets to ward off swine flu. About 50 religious leaders circled over the country on Monday, chanting prayers and blowing the horns called “shofars”. The flight’s aim was “to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it,” Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri was...
Read MoreMove Over Evolution, Texas Board of Education Has Other Enemies
Like what, you ask? History. Evolution smevolution. That’s just a piece; there’s a whole lot of recent history the Texas Board of Education would like to remove and alter. If any question remains about the religious and political motivations of certain members of the Texas Board of Education, one need only read the words of their social studies curriculum experts. Rev. Peter Marshall, for example, one of their appointed academic experts, wants to restore America, according to the...
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