Posted in Atheism, Blogs, God(s), Humour, tagged atheist bus, blog, food, god, guardian on November 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »
It seems news of the atheist bus has reached the foodie community. In a post on today’s Word of Mouth, the Guardian’s food blog, a commenter replies to an increasingly pretentious thread on the etiquette of cheese and biscuits:
There’s probably no etiquette God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your crackers.
🙂
Posted in Atheism, Rationalism, Religion, wingnuttery, tagged apology, church, Darwin on September 14, 2008| 2 Comments »
News reaches us from London that the Church – the Anglican Church, that is, not the One True Church – has apologised to Charles Darwin (right at the bottom of the page, after a screed of theological equivocation) for “misunderstanding his theory of evolution”. “About time, too!”, one might be inclined to say. But various commentators – including one of Darwin’s great-grandsons – have pointed out that the only conceivable reason for such an apology is to make the apologiser feel better. (more…)
Posted in Art, Atheism, Freethought, Rationalism, Secularism, Symbolism, tagged dawkins, merchandise, one god further, russell, t shirt, tea pot on December 1, 2007| 2 Comments »
Back when people were posting birthday wishes for Professor D on richarddawkins.net, I came across a post from Jo Swannell Owen with a design she’d done for the occasion. It was based on Richard’s quote, “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in; some of us just go one god further” combined with Bertrand Russell’s famous comment about the celestial teapot. I wrote to Jo suggesting the design would make a dandy T shirt or lapel pin, and she responded. And lo, it has almost come to pass! I got an email from Jo the other day to say the “Tea shirts” should be available from December 10th. To find out more, and to get a Tea shirt of your very own, bookmark onegodfurther.co.uk (motto: “Dunking the soft biscuit of religion in the hot tea of science”) and keep an eye out for the official release.
Posted in Atheism, Faith, Freethought, Rationalism, Religion, Religious on August 10, 2007| 1 Comment »
It’s been said by many people – and I used to agree – that religious belief on its own is harmless. But I’ve come to realise that the problem with beliefs – any beliefs, but the more irrational and strongly-held the belief, the more of a problem – is that sooner or later, in order to be validated, they have to be acted upon.
Effing the Ineffable 