August 2009
He's back! →
JC is back and living and preaching in Siberia.
Prior to his “awakening”, Vissarion as he now likes to be called, was a traffic cop in Minusinsk.
Expect Christians to be whisked up in to the sky soon.
Another Faith Healing Death →
atheismcentral:
17-year-old Zachery Swezey died of a ruptured appendix a few months ago… his body got warmer, he began vomiting, and he suffered from severe diarrhea.
What did his parents do about all this?
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Penn and Teller - Bullshit - The Vatican →
(via Atheist Media Blog) Penn & Teller discuss the Catholic Church and their involvement in anti-homosexuality efforts, condom use, and the cover up of the priest abuse sex scandal. They talk with an Italian comedian that was punished for criticizing Pope Benedict the XVI.
WatchAtheists’ Armageddon pet rescue -(viaThe Sydney Morning Herald)
Atheists have started a pet rescue for Christians worried about what will happen to their pets when The Rapture occurs and they are whisked up to heaven.
Fool, money, separated.
Update: Sorry about the Ad at the start.
“The evidence from Portugal since 2001 is that decriminalisation of drug use and...”
– Portugal’s drug policy: Treating, not punishing | The Economist That’s the glorious tagline from the glorious Economist article. FUCK YEAH VISIBILITY IN VERY WELL RESPECTED NEWS SOURCES! (via katharinec)
Religion and schools don't mix →
Bjorn, of ABBA fame, thinks that Sweden has it bad with religious schools. He should visit Oz.
The Australian Federal Government is in the process of handing out AUD$2.6 billion to Australia’s religious schools. What many Australian’s don’t realise is that most of these schools, because of their religious status, as exempt from many state and federal anti-discrimination laws, so...
Pope says atheists are responsible for global... →
retropolitics:
National Secular Society
The Pope has claimed that atheism is responsible for the destruction of the environment. In a speech at the Vatican on Wednesday, Ratzinger said: “Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where his existence is denied? If the human creature’s relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to...
Simpson Desert Cycle Challenge →
A mate of mine is going to ride his bicycle across Australia’s Simpson Desert … for fun.
He’s looking for sponsors; but not for himself, the money will instead be donated to the Royal Flying Doctors Service. With luck he won’t need their services himself.
If you can spare a few bucks for this worthy cause, please visit Alan’s web page and make a donation.
Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into... →
Hans Larsson of McGill University thinks that by flipping certain genetic levers during a chicken’s embryonic development that he will be able to reproduce dinosaur anatomy.
Hackers target Christians on Facebook →
Hackers targeted a Christian dating site to get users passwords and then found that many users used the same password for their Facebook accounts. The hackers then logged into a number of these compromised Facebook accounts and did a little updating of their own. Some of which was funny but a lot was just vicious and hurtful (and also funny as long as you don’t think about the effect of the...
The Wire is one of the best shows ever!
freckledawesome:
Srsly!
And it’s finally comming to Oz: ABC 2 next month.
Italian City Bans Muslim Swimsuit →
We in Oz are bit confused by the recent French and Italian decisions to bar the burqini from local pools. Here in Oz most pools are the open air type so the kids (and some adults) are nearly always covered in legionnaire style caps, rash shirts and pants to protect them from the Sun, so women wearing the burqini would blend right in. If the concern is the spread of germs just add more chlorine.
A Conservative's Road to Same-Sex Marriage... →
“They don’t have a church. Or clergy. Or parishioners. Or a doctrine. Just...”
– Catherine Denvey on what she discovered about the Quakers.
Australian Government increases funding to... →
Of course what the Brethren get is just a drop in the ocean compared to what the Catholic and Anglican schools get. In Australia we don’t quite get what separation of Church and State actually means.
Pi to 2.5 trillion digits →
A Japanese supercomputer took 73 hours and 36 minutes to calculate Pi to 2,576,980,377,524 decimal places.
First Discovery Of Life's Building Block In Comet →
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft has discovered the amino acid Glycine in the comment Wild 2. Glycine is one of the fundamental building blocks of life.
Sydney priest 'groomer' caught on web cam, court... →
10 Worst Evolutionary Designs →
Creationists would have you believe that some guy in the sky designed all life on Earth. The guy is also supposed to be infallible. Which begs the question how come he stuffed up these ten animal designs so badly?
Kepler telescope should soon find Earth sized... →
What caused the Ice Ages? The Earth got the... →