Religion

  1. What is Morality?

    Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
    (via irReligion.org)

  2. The “New 10 Commandments” According to Christopher Hitchens

    Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in Vanity Fair called The New Commandments. He makes a compelling case–using scripture against itself to defend his action in a tongue in cheek fashion–that it’s time to replace the old commandments with new ones.
    The New Commandments

    Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or color.
    Do not ever [...]

  3. Is Imposing Religion on Children Abusive?

    Atheist Revolution asked the question (actually, they made a statement), is imposing religion on children abusive? They gave the example of a seventeen-year-old that was forced to go to church.
    17 year-old being forced to attend church and told that he belongs to a particular religion by his parents. He’s wondering whether this is legal [...]

  5. My Imaginary Friend Jesus

    When I first started seriously questioning the validity and truth of my now past faith, I created a list of hard questions. These were questions that I didn’t have the answer to, and most, if not all of them, held the potential to dislodge my world view. One of those questions was:
    “What’s the difference between [...]

  6. Focus on the Family Could Have Spent 2.8 Million On…

    Christine Vyrnon had a productive rant about Focus on the Family spending 2.8 million dollars on a subtle pro-life, anti-choice commercial during the Super Bowl. She proposed that they could have spent:

    2.8 million dollars on single mothers in poverty.
    2.8 million dollars to lobby for the end of wars that kill or internally, externally maim sons [...]