Religion (Slave Morality)
“My books are about killing God”
“By the third written text,
it’s very explicit that God needs to be ‘taken out’“
Philip Pullman author of His Dark Materials, a series of children’s fantasy novels, is coming under fire from Christians for his anti-religious fantasy written to counter the C.S. Lewis’ Narnia saga…
“I hate the Narnia books,
and I hate them with a deep and bitter passion”
Creationism out of the classroom
“Creationism and intelligent design are sometimes claimed to be scientific theories. This is not the case as they have no underpinning scientific principles, or explanations, and are not accepted by the science community as a whole.”
– Excerpt from the UK’s new guidelines to teachers on what to teach about creationism and intelligent design in science classes
Hopefully the U.S. will follow their lead. From the Guardian.
(Untitled)
“The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death
constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God
is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the scapegoating barbarism
that has plagued bewildered people throughout history.
Viewed in a modern context, it is an idea at once
so depraved and fantastical that it is hard
to know where to begin to criticize it.”
I don’t get it
“God deosn’t believe in atheists.”
…and neither do toothpicks, skateboard wheels, valkyries or any other non-sentient or non-existent creature.
Am I supposed to be offended, amused or come to some knee buckling self realization?
“What on earth is a bright?”
“A bright is a person whose world view is free of supernatural and mystical elements. The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic world view.”
Read more from Richard Dawkins here.
And check out The-Brights.Net
An Adversary Of Reason
Falwell drew the ire of many people, regardless of their their political leanings, when he said that the terrorist attacks on 9/11 were caused by abortion providers, feminists and what he called a morally weak nation that grants too many rights to gays. – CNN
“In a very Christian way, as far as I’m concerned, he can go to hell!” – former President Jimmy Carter
“In the 1980s Jerry Falwell was an outspoken supporter of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. When president PW Botha was elected President by the White South African minority, Reverend Falwell went to South Africa and made statements supporting the government there and urging American Christians to buy Krugerrands, a coin issued by the South African Government. He drew the ire of many when he called Nobel Peace Prize winner and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu a phony. He later apologized for that remark and claimed that he had misspoken” Read more…
“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals.” – Jerry Falwell
The Rev. Jerry Falwell
August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007