"I don't think these doctrines are right, but I love Christmas carols."
While I would never submit to using a term as naff as Atheism 2.0, I do think Alain de Botton is on to something here. I don’t subscribe to theism […]
Category Archives: Religion
Attention America
You have officially jumped the shark.
Useful anger
I’ve written many times before about the West Memphis Three. In case you weren’t paying attention, here’s the nickel version: in 1993 three teenage boys were charged with killing three […]
I hope he remembered before he dropped the suit off at the cleaner's
Did you hear about how Stephen Harper may have been wandering around with a piece of Jesus in his suit pocket? The Telegraph-Journal explains: A senior New Brunswick Roman Catholic […]
"That doesn't take courage."
Last week Nellie and I were among hundreds who flocked (ha) to see Christopher Hitchens deliver a lecture about the ten commandments at the Royal Ontario Museum. Attending lectures at […]
"Kids had never been attacked in this kind of way"
Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of Columbine, the familiar title given the killings at the Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado. CNN yesterday ran a piece about the release of […]
Let's get ready to rumble!
Welcome to this bout for the superheavyweight ridiculousness championship of the world. In this corner we have the Canadian minister of state for science & technology, Gary Goodyear (who obviously […]
I, for one, find the Harbor Hopper ads very offensive
Just when I really start to like Halifax again, it goes and does something goofy like reject the Atheist Bus ads. (Full disclosure: I donated to the Atheist Bus campaign […]
Seriously, the human genome is 3×3, max
I recently finished reading God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. I loved reading it, partly because he was (heh) preaching to the choir, but also because of how eloquently […]
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum
A few notes before I slip back into MBA mode (last assignment woooot!): .:. I’ve acquired a metric shitload of reading material: I just bought And Then We Came To […]
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