A tactic often used to discredit a person or a group is to try to associate that group with someone or some activity that is universally reviled. Comparing someone to Hitler is probably the most common attempt at this. This is so common it has a name “Godwin’s Law”. This law says that if a […]
Month: May 2019
Atheist Jokes
1.George Carlin – When it comes to bullshit, big time, major league, bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No contest. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there is an invisible man […]
Before “You Got Mail”
I have a fuzzy memory of the first time I sent an e-mail. It was March of 1977. I was working on my second B.A., this time in Computer Science because my first bachelor’s degree in Psychology was like a firecracker that goes “pffft” instead of the bigger bang I was hoping for. I think […]
Atheist Songs
Contra Steve Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogta8alHiU there are songs for the atheist. Not many. You have to come up with a dozen contemporary songs to equal Mozart’s Requiem and that’s just based on time. But some atheist songs do exist. In March of 2019 I did this search “Music for atheists humanists” in YouTube and got one […]
Closed-Minded?
Sometimes a god believer will say something like “you are just too closed-minded”. And maybe that’s true. I have been an atheist for 50 years and I can’t even imagine being tempted to believe in a god. Ricky Gervais says he wishes there was a god. I don’t. The world and everything I see would […]
Easter vs. Christmas
In an issue of Time magazine, pastor Rick Warren from the Saddleback church was asked which of the two major Christian holidays is more important: Christmas or Easter. The pastor did not take the bait and said both were necessary and equal. This gives a good place to compare atheism and theism, at least for […]