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POPSFalse Premises I often come across people attempting to argue that atheism is some sort of a creed or even a religion. This clip touches on why this simply isn't the case. The article itself goes into much greater detail.
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POPSA Bad Law The recurrence of offense by rapists and pedophiles is well documented. But what about the multitude of teens that are branded with the scarlet letter of sex offender? The present laws make no distinction between a rapist and an adolescent experimenting with sex. Yet the consequences are the same regardless of the "crime". This is foolhardy and a tremendous waste of taxpayer money to say nothing of the devastating consequences of teens being caught with their pants down. What began as a law to protect children has turned children into lifelong pariahs and that is not right.
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POPSSentient Beings Protected I'd say it's high time that we got off our high horse and recognized other sentient beings that we share the earth with and grant them limited rights such as freedom from torture. Ethically, it is the right thing to do. In part, we can blame religion for this ethical blunder.
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POPSPZ Myers and Weekend Religionists This short 34 second clip made me imagine future church goers more as civil war reenactors. They are mildly entertaining to watch but you wouldn't base your whole life on their hobby.
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POPSMy Hat's Better Than Your Hat And so begins the strange tale of the alien traveler from the Planet of the Hats. Click on the main link for the meat of the article. You won't be disappointed.
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POPSCatholic League Crack Up Once again, the Catholic League, under the direction of Bill Donohue has started a campaign to have a biology professor at the University of Minnesota ousted because he had the termerity to poke fun of a news story of a man who held a Communal wafer hostage (see my previous clip). It seems this was a great insult to the church administrators. PZ Meyers wrote some comments on his blog which further angered the offended Catholics and that's when Donohue stepped in. To hear his take on this issue you'd think the Cracker blasphemer was the anti-Christ! What absolute foolishness.
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POPSChrist Crackers Held Hostage! This sounds more like a Monty Python skit than a real life occurrence. I can imagine top scientists at the Vatican working on a Magic Cracker scanner so the faithful can be scanned before leaving the church to make sure no more Sacred Ritz are abducted.
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POPSGod to visit on July 17 Oh boy! Only a few days to go and the world will be infused with this "Grace Light" that will infuse everyone with a spiritual glow and change everyone's life. If that doesn't work out, please contact me directly and I'll send you my special "Grace Light Enhancement Kit" for $19.99 which will enable you to be ready for the next Full Moon of hte Guru. It also doubles as a swell red/green 3D viewer.
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POPSGathering of the Loonies And remember, you're promised a "dazzling array of world class speakers"!!! Such as Ken Ham, the creator of the Creationist Museum in Kentucky. I suggest anyone within a 100 mile radius of this event stock up on flashlights and candles as you witness the advent of the Dark Ages.
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POPSHere We Go Again This somewhat disappointing position by Obama may be simple politics or it may be a sign of increasing involvement by religious organizations in government. Already we've seen the problems this can cause, mainly in the realm of churches to discriminate according to religion. If the rumors are true, churches will be able to discriminate in hiring if "certain conditions are met". I can't help but wonder if this is a ploy to garner the "evangelical" vote. Of course this still doesn't make McCain any more disirrable as a candidate.
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POPSOne More Time for the Learning Impaired It always helps to reiterate for the scientific challanged among us (and in the US that's a majority of the population) the difference between law, theory, guess and wishful thinking. Pay attention people, my patience is running out. And yes, you'll have to read the whole article to reap it's rewards. Learning does have it's costs so ante up! Don't let ignorance keep you sounding like a complete idiot.
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POPSWould Garlic Protect Us From the Courts? More insanity from Texas which seems to have more than its share. This superstitious stupidity really needs to end. This religious immunity from critical scrutiny has existed for too long. It's time to begin shinning a light on these barbaric practices practiced by this death cult.
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POPSCrazy Phelps Rants On Be warned. This is not pretty. This demented hater of the ages spews his venom. And he backs it up with scripture so it must be true!
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POPSSmall Steps Are a Start No one has ever suggested that I am a friend of religion. Yet, for positive progress in the Middle East it apparently needs people that share that mindset to take a positive approach to deal with this issue.
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POPSPEW Survey Prompts Questions As I noted in a previous clip the PEW Survey claims that 1 in 5 atheists believes in god. I remarked at that time that this simply doesn't make sense. In this clip (and the appended comments) several people suggest reasons why this might have happened.
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POPSWhere We Stand I was stuck by the ambiguity of by which the respondents of this survey viewed religion. It seems that if they were better informed of their own faith they would be forced to abandon their present views of tolerance. Among high profile religious leaders we see lip service towards tolerance but a solid underpinning of a them versus us mentality. "We are the true faith" seems to have become blunted somewhat in the roll your own religious climate of today. The main article seems to be pretty fair and objective. Take a look for yourself.
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POPSFood for Thought One statistic that stood out to me was the strange 1 in 5 self professed atheists that claim to believe in God. Atheism is conventionally defined as holding no belief in a god or gods.
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POPSUN Bows to Muslims So, the UN has determined that without "religious scholars" present they are FORBIDDEN to discuss matters of faith. How strange that the concept of free speech stops at religion's door. Will non-Muslims next be held accountable to Muslim law. So, religion is off limits to criticism. How long before we resurrect blasphemy laws? Get your stones ready.
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POPSBargain of the Week This is a real site! What a strange world we live in. I imagine they'll draw enough wackos to make a tidy sum. P. T. Barnum would be proud.
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POPSChristian Zealot Faces Firing Once again we're witness to an attempt by a Christian fundamentalist to indoctrinate school children into his cult. The interesting point was made that 1) for eleven years people have complained about his classroom behavior and 2) other science teachers have testified that they had to reteach students that took this loon's class. Now the school board is finally looking into sacking this "teacher".
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POPSSC: Land of Gawd? Are these folks so brain dead that they just don't get it? Evidently not. They keep trying to inject their own particular superstition into government and they keep failing. Reminds me of the adage of the crazy person persisting in the same activity and expecting differing results.
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POPSAnother Story of Religious Child Abuse More bone headed tales of misguided cult followers believing muttering pleas to their invisible friend will magically cure disease. Unfortunately, in this case, the recipient of the "prayer treatment" died for no reason. And because of religious brainwashing the 16 year old agreed to this non-treatment. Sad indeed.
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POPSBranding for Christ A "science" teacher in Ohio is under scrutiny for mixing religion and science. This miscreant not only is a fundy nut but a liar too. I'm sure the kids in his class are getting the latest in science education (if they lived in the bronze age, that is).
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POPSLunatic Logic Ken Ham is one crazy dude. This intellectually stunted founder of the Creationist Museum in Kentucky evidently is regarded as a person of value by the deciders at the Pentagon who choose who is to officiate at these prayer meetings. The implications are disturbing.
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POPSScientific Framing - Do We Need It? Recently there's been a controversy in the scientific community concerning scientific framing. That's framing in the sense of presenting views and facts in such a way that they appeal to a larger percentage of the population. We hear this mostly in the political realm but it applies equally in the scientific realm particularly where science and politics intersect. Is it the right thing to do? Is it too Orwellian?
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POPSMcCain - Another Repub Panderer Just like the majority of his republican collegues, McCain just doesn't get it (though in all fairness, too many Dems also jump on this particular wagon). BTW, I'm still waiting for anyone to explain how this will "ruin" marriage. Any takers?
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POPSCreationist Science Teachers Would administrators sanction teaching alchemy in place of chemistry? How about palmistry in lieu of statistics. How about replacing basic meteorology with the Thor hypothesis? These people have no business in a science class teaching science. Either move them so they do no harm or fire them.
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POPSJohn "Christ" McCain? Showing the eloquence demanded by the head of the Georgia state GOP, Sue Everhard, demonstats the strange reasoning of religious politicians. She makes the direct comparison of McCain to Jesus Christ and then denies making this comparison immediately afterwards. Oh well. :-(
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POPSWomen as Appliances Should women be regarded as incubators by the state? Can the idea of "souls" be used in a legal venue to justify such treatment?
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POPSRural America - Bastions of Hate` What's up with rural Americans? They can't be this easily led or this abjectly ignorant. Or can they? Yes, racism and bigotry are alive and thriving in America.
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POPSHonor Killing - Religion at Work We always hear of cultural preservation. Maybe we ought to hear more of cultural castigation. Aspects of some cultures are so primitive, so mired in backwards, ignorant superstition that they deserve to be derided and scorned by all peoples of more enlightened cultures. This story sickens me on many levels.
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POPSReligious Intolerance Again we find an example of religious bigotry, this time related to homosexuality. You can bet that Ms. Beasley's hatred comes directly from the Middle East and from several thousand years ago.
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POPSReality Intrudes Most rational people will see through Ben Stein's false argument as portrayed in his failed "documentary" Expelled. For those poor souls that still buy into his Intelligent Design BS, here's a bit of a reminder that the entire basis of the ID movement is founded on lies, half-truths, and religious dogma.
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POPS800 lb Gorillas Since I've been on this earth there has been conflict here. I applaud any efforts to bring peace but know that it is failed from the start if Israeli complicity in exacerbating the situation with their expansionism is acknowledged and brought to a halt.
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