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POPSNo More Gridiron Warriors for Christ The administration at this school did the right thing. But if it wasn't for someone speaking out their arrogant practice of public show-boating of their religion would have continued.
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POPSDan Brown's New Book Highlights Freemasonry in Washington D.C. The Founders and Washington D.C.'s symbolic construction. Much truth included in Brown's new fiction. The National Geographic article shows the Scottish Rite Temple, which shows the incorporation of Jewish-Egyptian symbolism that looks almost Pharoah-like in their superstition. (Jewish because there is an "Ark of the Covenant" inside the temple). Note the inclusion of factor-11 numerology in what they do, as in the 33-degree. Thomas Paine wrote that Freemasonry traces back to Druidism.
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POPSPangolins - On the Red List of Endangered Species "According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, all eight pangolin species are experiencing decreasing populations. Due to an unfortunate superstition throughout China that pangolin meat, scales, fetus, and body parts have medicinal properties, the Chinese Pangolin and the Sunda Pangolin are now classified as endangered."
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POPSTwelve-Step Program For Recovery From Mormonism
3. I make to myself a firm promise to listen in the future only to reason, rationality, and factual evidence in making decisions about how I should live my life, rejecting all emotional appeals, guilt-inducing threats, myths, pretty stories, promises of castles in the air, and superstition. 4. I make a searching and fearless moral and intellectual inventory of myself with the purpose of recognizing in myself those weaknesses which induced me to remain Mormon for so long. 5. I itemize (preferably in writing) to myself and to a trusted loved one (and to a higher power if I believe in one) the specific reasons why I can no longer be Mormon. 6. I make the decision to do what is right, and to accept whatever the consequences may be for acknowledging the truth and living accordingly. 7. I begin working through each of my Mormonism-related problems of mind, body, relationships, and (if I believe in such a thing) spirit. 8. I make a list of those for whom it would be im
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POPSThe 10 mysteries of human behaviour that science can't explain Scientists have split the atom, put men on the moon and discovered the DNA of which we are made, but there are 10 key mysteries of human behaviour which they have failed to fully explain. The New Scientist magazine compiled a list of the everyday aspects of life which continue to confound the world's greatest brains, including the reasons behind kissing, blushing and even picking your nose.
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POPSRichard Dawkins - The Virus Of Faith An intellectual approach to religion. "People sometimes say "There must be more than just this world, than just this life?" But how much more do you want? We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones, most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here in my place, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara, if you think about all different ways in which our genes could be permuted You and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. We are priveliged to be alive and we should make the most of our time on this world." - Richard Dawkins ------------------------------------ I'm sorry if you're religious. I'm not sorry if I've offended you. I'm just sorry if you're religious.
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POPSAtheists Need Better Liturgists "Both meanings are very suitable for the presentation and contemplation of Christian doctrine and there are many more meanings to these Christian symbols. A good symbol also requires no label, unlike the atheist hairdryer labeled "Reason". The symbol for "Reason" should be obvious and powerful enough that it requires no label. But there is no clear connection between a hairdryer and "Reason". Someone who labels things is more of a sloppy editorial cartoonist than a powerful image maker. Isn't that one reason we hated those 70s felt banners? Leaving that aside, what does a hairdryer do? It blows hot air. Umm, on second thought maybe they picked a revealing symbol for atheism after all."
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POPSRepublicans Block Obama's 1st Judicial Nominee over Religion It was Obama's first judicial nominee, but the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have temporarily blocked him over religion. The Judge "ruled that prayers used to open the Indiana State Legislature must be nonsectarian." Oh, horrors, this judge, the son of a minister, didn't rule that no prayers should go on in the legislature (which should have been the ruling if real separation of church and state prevailed) but that sectarian prayers shouldn't occur. How could we preserve the illusion that the USA is a Christian nation with such a ruling? Superstition prevails again.
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POPSBut Creationism Is Nonsense Don't get me wrong, I think everyone has the right to be ignorant but to make it official and impose it on school teachers is just wrong. Science deals with reality. Creationism is based on religion. End of story.
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POPSEgypt's Swineocide largely due to their superstition about eating pork, now the swine flu provides their pretext and justification (even though it is entirely irrational and unrelated to swine flu). Pig farmers will suffer the loss of their entire business from this government tyranny.
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POPSFresh Growth: It must be spring...and PLAYOFF HOCKEY! This time every year the run for Lord Stanley's cup brings about a wonderful tradition (or is it superstition?) among hockey players...scraggly playoff beards. These interesting (read: nasty) facial adornments typically remain until they lose, or win it all. Since the NHL resonates with only a very small subset of sports fans, most think the Red Sox "idots" featuring Johnny Damon and co. ushered in this idea. Not true. Baseball players definitely cornered the market on superstition, but this one belongs to the NHL. Here's a great example of the Niedermayer brothers followed by the '94 Rangers cup team that won despite going against the playoff beard tradition. Note: their way of breaking a jinx dating back to 1940 was to go clean shaven...it worked.
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POPSSeeking Help From A Saint "Some religious leaders, however, are less than enthusiastic. Father Pat Lee, lead pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Chicago, regularly pleads with anxious parishioners to pray for divine aid -- not to bury their church's namesake in the dirt. When a nearby religious goods store started carrying the St. Joseph kits, he chastised the staff for encouraging "a ridiculous superstition." "You are burying a saint and holding him hostage in the ground until you get what you want," Lee said. "This is not magic. This is ridiculous."
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POPSRandom Quotes The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein
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