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Spark: Atheist Moments on Colbert

September 20th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

Here. Including what atheists yell during sex, canoeing on a lake of fire for all eternity, the dangers of topiary, why we should have more atheists in the military, atheist storm troopers, the separation of church and town, the Gospel of Cadbury, and the Dead Faith Scrolls.
(the second Dawkins vid is a duplicate)
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Theocracy

September 17th, 2008 · by xJane · 7 Comments

*desperately trying to avoid typing “theoCRAZY!”*
I missed this discussion at school, but have been seeing flyers for a forum on asylum law that state:
HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR
FREEDOM OF RELIGION?
[…]
Come hear [asylum professionals] discuss asylum law and practice. In particular, they will discuss the plight of Christian converts in Iran and their attempt to get asylum […]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Charities · Christianity · Church and State · Depression · Ethics · Fiction · Getting over Religion · Gods · Islam · Judaism · Law · Musings · Personal · Politics · Reason · Religion · Skeptic · Society · Spiritual Progressives

Spark: from the “heh” files

September 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 10 Comments

I know I’m not the only one to whom this has occurred before, but the Pope thinks secularists are too materialistic (unlike the Church, of course). Some great comments on this over at Pharyngula.

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Gay Marriage

September 11th, 2008 · by xJane · 14 Comments

There’s a debate that addresses this at school today, which I shall attend. It is put on by the local chapter of the Federalist Society (the campus representative states that they are devoted to “honest & careful interpretation of the constitution” and are “never timid about debating”). Sometimes I feel like I’m surrounded by them […]

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Tags: Activism · Belief · Best · Church and State · Current Events · Dialog · Ethics · Feminism · Gender · Homosexuality · Justice · Peace; conflict resolution. · Politics · Reason · Skeptic · Society

Music Monday: Personal Jesus

September 1st, 2008 · by xJane · 4 Comments

This is one of my all time favorite songs. Depeche Mode (the peach, with ice cream?) wrote a haunting offer to stand in for a missing element:

Your own, personal, Jesus. A Jesus you don’t have to share with the rest of humanity.
Someone who cares A wonderful indictment against an indifferent Jesus.

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Moral Relativism

August 28th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

I was recently doing a survey recommended to me by BoingBoing. One of the questions involved a poor person giving money to a charity vs. a rich person giving the same amount of money to a charity. It reminded me of the parable of the widow’s mite.
Now, I have often been told, as a moral […]

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Tags: Bible · Bible Study · Christianity · Ethics · Getting over Religion · Reason · Religion · Skeptic

Pepperdinian Christians

August 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 8 Comments

Yesterday was my first day in the midst of the koolaid-drinking Pepperdinians. (Aside: I told my Apple-coworkers that I felt that the Pepperdinians were a little koolaid for me and one responded, “Didn’t you find that when you came here…?” I hadn’t, but I’ve been drinking the Apple koolaid for a while, so hadn’t noticed.) […]

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on Defining “Christian”

August 7th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments

I’ve recently been listening to Atheists Talk (iTunes link), spurred in that direction by PZMyers, who was interviewed by them recently. And then I stuck around to hear their next show, in which they interviewed two Christians.
While it was interesting to listen to them sputter when unable to answer questions, and relieving that the conversation […]

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Spark: Training

July 22nd, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

I’m sorry for all the sparks recently, but I couldn’t resist this one. Enjoy!

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More Fun Quotes for MoF

June 30th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

I’ve been collecting emails since the success of the last Fun Quotes post. Without further ado:
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
-James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)

This is definitely something I’ve believed in for awhile. It’s just nice to hear someone with authority say it (in this case, the […]

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