Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland has reported today that Senator Jim Walsh of Fianna Fail made the following sweepingly inaccurate comment about Atheist Ireland and also about atheists in general when he was speaking on the floor of the Irish Parliament. “We’ve got a lot of representations from liberal groups, and particularly Atheist Ireland, and … Read more
Michael Peroutka is a well known right-wing religious nut in the US who once tried to get elected as US president. A “nutter” … really? OK, you be the judge, here he is claiming that teaching evolution is an “act of disloyalty” to the United States … So this is how it plays out, his logic … Read more
Westboro Baptist have been criticised by a store sign and they are really unhappy about that fact … so much so that they are having a protest outside next Saturday (5th April) Oh the irony … in fact, I think this just broke my industrial strength irony meter. OK, so what is the story here? … Read more
If you are going to make a compelling argument then you really do need to be familiar with the subject matter. Rather sadly (for him), Pastor Wallace Henley once again demonstrates in his latest article within the Christian Post that he lives in a bubble of mythology that is uncoupled from reality. In the article … Read more
Is it “International Weird pastor” week and somebody forgot to tell me? After Pat Robinson’s suggestion that it is demons that motivates non-believers refusal to convert, we have yet more weirdness popping up. This time it is Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church, and yes, this is the same chap who back in … Read more
For some reason Pat Robertson just keeps popping up. He has a remarkable gift for coming out with some truly weird and wonderfully whacky stuff that leaves you perhaps wondering, “Nah, he just can’t get any weirder” … and yet give him a few weeks and sure enough, up he pops to robustly verify that … Read more