Monthly Archives: March 2006

The Storm Is A-Brewing

Heroic Students Thwart Plot By Mexican Rebels Intent on Infiltrating America and Making it Mexico, Jr. Yeah, that’s what the headline should read.  Instead it just says: “Mexican [..]

Politics

Random Patterns

One of the things I enjoy about having to use public transportation (since I don’t own a vehicle of my own) is the fact that while I’m waiting [..]

Math and Logic, Philosophy

A Study on Prayer

Here’s a shocker.  That’s right, a study failed to find a link between prayer and healing. Could it be because A) healing isn’t the primary purpose of prayer [..]

Apologetics, Atheism, Theology

One

The following is a slightly edited version of a story I first wrote in 1999. They say there’s one for everyone. And not just anyone, but the one. [..]

Short Stories

Subliminal Morality

John Loftus is continuing his break-up. Now he has posted on hell. The title says it all: “Any View of Hell Needs To Pass the Moral Test.” Now [..]

Atheism, Ethics, Philosophy, Presuppositionalism , ,

Theological Wonkery

I had an interesting experience this morning on the bus.  There were two individuals who were discussing theology.  It quickly became apparent that neither of them had a [..]

General Humor, Theology , ,

A Study in Contrasts

Two men are willing to die for their beliefs. The first is a Christian in Afghanistan who refuses to submit to Islam. The second submits to that Islam. [..]

Ethics, Islam , , ,

It’s Nice To See Tolerance At Work

San Francisco condemns a Christian meeting. Yup.  The “most tolerant city” has no tolerance for Christian views. Not that we’re shocked by that.

Ethics

Who Art Thou, John Loftus?

Apparently, John Loftus over at Debunking Atheism has a problem with morality.  He insists he has a reason to state something actually is moral and another thing actually [..]

Atheism, Philosophy , , ,

My Deconversion Story

Everyone over at the Debunking Atheism website seems to have an interresting deconversion story, so I’m going to give you my deconversion story. It began when I was [..]

Atheism, Satire