By Irreligiosity on Mar 17, 2008 in Eschatology, Featured, Fundamental Hubris | 1 Comment
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. The Westboro Baptist Church has branched out into making music videos! I always figured that music videos would be considered a tool of the devil in their circles, but I suppose they’re just fighting fire with fire.
Normally I would have some sort of snarky commentary, but the people […]
By Irreligiosity on Mar 7, 2008 in Around the World, Christianity, Featured, Politics, Rational Thought, Religion, Religious Freedom, United States | 4 Comments
Readers might recall me ranting about California fundamentalists pulling their children out of the public school system due to a bill that made it clear homosexuals were protected by state anti-discrimination laws. You can read the full story by clicking on the link, but there is a new development in this situation.
A ruling in a […]
By Irreligiosity on Mar 5, 2008 in Abortion Debate, Around the World, Basic Biology, Christianity, Featured, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Rational Thought, Religion, Science, Secularism, United States | 2 Comments
The Wisconsin Senate is thinking of passing a bill that will force “conscientious objector” pharmacists to provide contraceptives and the morning after pill to individuals no matter their own personal beliefs on the matter, and boy are Christian groups in that state annoyed.
These Christian groups are trying to turn this into a complicated morality debate, […]
By Irreligiosity on Mar 4, 2008 in Atheism, Christian Living, Christianity, Creationism, Eschatology, Featured, Fundamental Hubris, Islam, Politics, Rational Thought, Religion, Religious Freedom, Secularism, Snark | 5 Comments
I came across this page in my random surfing yesterday and it got me to thinking. The page is maintained by a born-again Presbyterian who looks to have a slightly left-leaning political view judging from a glance around his site (Thanks to Riker from Prose Justice for pointing this out to me, I’d originally identified […]
By Irreligiosity on Mar 3, 2008 in Around the World, Christian Living, Christianity, Featured, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Religion, Secularism, United States | 1 Comment
Simmie Williams, a gay-identified 17 year old, was shot and killed in Fort Lauderdale last week. It’s entirely possible that the crime wasn’t motivated by anti-gay sentiment, although Simmie was dressed like a woman when he was shot and there has been a rising tide of anti-homosexual rhetoric in the Fort Lauderdale community from […]
By Irreligiosity on Mar 2, 2008 in Irreligiosity | 0 Comments
Well now. I get off to a strong start in the first week on the site and then go silent for the next few weeks. For that I apologize. I’ve had a busy time at school as well as searching for a new job, but I’ll be updating here again now that things have calmed […]