Archive for November, 2009

Atheist Review: Paranormal Activity

What is there to say? It wasn’t scary in the slightest, save for a few beginning moments. Overall, however, it was a pretty slow moving movie and the ending was pretty anti-climatic. The movie follows a young couple who are disturbed by strange happenings in their house. It seems the girl has been followed by [...]

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Who Cares about the Constitution’s Framers?

What’s the role of government? What does government do? It seems that there is a huge gap between the Right and Left on that issue. Conservative ideology tends to view government as an aloof entity that only intervenes when it comes to issues of national security. Liberal ideology tends to look at government as a [...]

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What is the sum of human destiny?

Why are we here? What are we doing? What’s the end result? Where does it all lead? Religion often hijacks these deep questions and answers them in shallow, meaningless ways in an effort to swell their ranks and increase their power. They prey on the fact that these questions don’t have meaningful answers to begin [...]

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Jesus: Queen of Heaven

A play came out in Glasgow which brought some protests from a few Christian activists. That in of itself is not terribly interesting, but what is interesting is we find yet another Christian practically pining for the zealous fervor of radical Islam: “If this play had treated the prophet Mohammed in the same way there [...]

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Birther Hypocrisy

The whole birther movement seems to be dying down. But I had one thought about it while browsing the internet and saw a random thing on birthers. If only birthers applied the same level of scrutiny they place on the birth of Obama on the birth of Jesus. I can only imagine they’d reach a [...]

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