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I Think, Therefore I Scribble (Or: Cogito, Ergo Ducky)
I think, therefore I am. How about you? Do you think? If not, what makes you think you exist? Oh, I guess if you thought you existed, that would be you thinking. It was a silly question anyway. I guess what … Continue reading
Dinner with Hitler and Other Moral Issues
Welcome back to The Moral Argument. We’ve reached the lighting round, where in you, the atheist, post modernist, relativist contestants get to answer some easy questions for fabulous prizes! In round one we’ve determined that everyone knows that some things are … Continue reading
John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever”
Happy 4th of July my friends! Play this as loud as you can from 9pm until midnight. AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Why can’t we all be right? (A Not-a-Mormon misses the point)
I was listening to an enraged caller trying to attack the host of a TV show for saying Mormonism is wrong. After a few minutes it was clear that she wasn’t really sure what Mormons believe, and while she claimed … Continue reading
Big White Whale (Not a post about dieting)
Lately, the church attenders in our nation have wondered how, if it’s so obvious to people like me that Genesis 1-3 are meant to be read as literal history, that so many people with college degrees have decided that it … Continue reading
For the Love of Pigeon Poo
A lot of people tend to be very offended by people like me, because I compare different ideas and then judge some of them true and some false. A disproportionate number of these people tend to be female, and often … Continue reading
Teaching Kids there is a Hell
A famous, As-Seen-On-TV atheist once said that teaching children that there is a hell is child abuse. Naturally this means that every Christian parent, pastor, or Sunday school teacher is an evil criminal who needs to be rounded up into … Continue reading
Why I Don’t Believe “Believe” Means what You Believe it Means
People all the times be saying, “Faith means believing in things which ain’t so.” Or sometimes, “Faith means believing things without, or sometimes in the teeth of evidence.” And from these quotes, we can learn that some people, despite having been born … Continue reading
Is Luke Skywalker a Moral Monster?!?!?
Whenever dealing with deep theological and philosophical issues, all wise persons tend to let their minds wander toward Star Wars, especially the original trilogy, Episodes IV, V, and VI (that’s 4, 5 and 6 for those of you who don’t … Continue reading
2 + 2 = 7 (Because sometimes what you DON’T know matters)
Anyone who knows any math will know that the single most certain truth on earth is that the Cubs will never win the pendant. Or this was true for 108 years… Wait, no, I was going to say, the single … Continue reading