April 2011
85 posts
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.29.11
“To a scientific rationalist, there is no distinction between believing in leprechauns, alien abductions, ESP, reincarnation, or the existence of a God — each equally lacks objective evidence. … Separating out the latter two beliefs and labeling them as religion — thereby exempting them from critical analysis — is intellectually dishonest… [Indeed] the most widespread and...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.28.11
“The vast majority of personal religious beliefs can be accurately predicted based solely on the beliefs of one’s parents or the culture one is raised in… Religionists should ask themselves, ‘Are my religious beliefs based on rationality and evidence or indoctrination?’”
-John Bice, American writer, religion columnist and noted beer expert.
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.27.11
“Every fact is an enemy of the church. Every fact is a heretic. Every demonstration is an infidel. Everything that ever really happened testifies against the supernatural.”
-Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899), American politician and atheist; the most famous atheist of his day. Known as the “Pagan prophet.” Son of a minister.
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.26.11
“Of all the great inventions and discoveries that go to make human life easier, happier, more rich and glorious, not one can be laid to the work of theology. These triumphs all belong to science… If mad had no knowledge except what he has got out of the Bible he would not know enough to make a shoe.”
-Lemuel K. Washburn, early twentieth-century American secularist activist....
It's not a workout...
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May 11th @ The Hotel Cafe W/ Kevin Devine
I am so sad that this in happening in LA. Next time you’re in NYC, do it AGAIN!! I <3 you both!
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My pal Kevin Devine will be in Los Angeles doing a Wednesday night residency for the month of May. He’s asked me to join him for a bunch of songs during his May 11th show.. I’ll cover him, he’ll cover me, we’ll cover things together and so on and so forth. If you...
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.25.11
“I wasn’t raised Catholic, but I used to go to Mass with my friends, and I viewed the whole business as a lot of very enthralling hocus pocus. There’s a guy hanging upon the wall… nailed to a cross and dripping blood and everybody’s blaming themselves for that man’s torment, but I said to myself, ‘Forget it. I had no hand in that evil. I have no original...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.22.11
“Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr’s death will send them straight to heaven. What a weapon! Religious faith deserves a chapter in the annals of war technology, on an even footing with the longbow, the warhorse, the tank and the...
3 Major Issues with the Latest iPhone Tracking... →
wilwheaton:
Today, two researchers for O’Reilly media published an article claiming discovery of a hidden tracking system on the iOS 4 operating system. Using simple techniques, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden extracted data off of an iOS version 4 device and wrote an open source software utility to effectively graph this data onto a map. As a fellow researcher, I champion their creativity and...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.20.11
“I feel that everyone has a right to be insane… If they want religious schools, build them! [Just] do not ask for the land to be tax-free… Do not ask for [government] money for teacher’s salaries, or more books, or anything else. Just go ahead and do your thing… Just exactly the same as if you were a nudist. Somebody doesn’t get a tax break for being a Mason, or...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.19.11
“We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a higher answer — but none exists.”
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I have benefits...
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.18.11
“If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it…the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.”
-William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879), pioneering English...
After some soul-searching...
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At this rate...
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Ricky on The Daily Show! →
Ricky was on The Daily Show yesterday and it was great, but they went over and had to put the remaining bit on the Comedy Central website. This happens more and more frequently lately, but…
I know it's a stretch...
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.15.11
“Since man exercises a sovereign authority over woman, it is especially fortunate that this authority has been vested in him by the Supreme Being.”
-Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), French author, philosopher, feminist. Long-time companion and doormat of Jean-Paul Sartre. Also had a lesbian relationship with one of her students.
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Cat Slaps Dog
This cat just owns this dog, all day every day.
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.14.11
“The appropriation of funds of the Unites States for the use and support of religious societies, [is] contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares ‘Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment.’”
-James Madison (1751-1836), fourth U.S. President and Christian. He and Jefferson defeated a bill in 1784 that would have given tax money to...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 4.13.11
“What happens when the same number of people pray for something as pray against it? How does God decide whose prayer to answer? … This spring when a small Kentucky town won the State High School Girl’s Basketball crown, the town’s newspaper, as well as the largest newspaper in Kentucky, gave credit for the victory to God’s answering their prayers. Why their prayers...
