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Occupy Heaven

Mr. Deity’s captives beloved subjects are unsatisfied for a number of reasons: I examined arguments that hell is God’s favor to those who just don’t want to be with him in my post Hell as the Absence of God (a fictional dialogue between my characters Jaime and Robin). Although I think there are ways to [...]

The Argument from the Bible in the Briefcase

Last night James Croft attended a lecture by famous Christian apologist (and Oxford Professor of Mathematics), John Lennox. James was struck by the especial susceptibility of the American audience to emotional appeals, which led them to give a charming but intellectually shallow, evasive, and unoriginal defense of belief a standing ovation: This shows us something [...]

Patton Oswalt on Arguments Against Gay Marriage

Pretty hilarious: From Patton Oswalt’s Finest Hour. In the same show he is as funny as can be on romantic comedies and on “gay friend” tropes in movies. The DVD is coming soon. (Thanks to Leanna for the video.) Your Thoughts?

Christian Children: The True Victims of the War on Christmas

This is so well done: War On Christmas PSA Your Thoughts?

Dan Barker Makes Sense of the Gospel Message

I know Dan Barker claims to be only a former Christian minister but he still has a gift for bringing the Gospel message alive in a fresh, new way that makes powerful sense of it. It’s weird it would take an atheist’s description to make me see angles in the story of salvation which I [...]

Satanic Smurfs and Hilarious Unintended Sexual Double Entendres Galore

This just has to be seen to be believed. Via Unreasonable Faith which also relays a video on the dangers of Pokemon while they’re at it. Your Thoughts?

Lady Gaga Caught In A Bad Romance With Satan

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I&ob=av3e For those of you who enjoy crazy religious conspiracy theories involving Satanism, the Illuminati, the Freemasons and Lady Gaga, get out your decoder rings because have I got a forward for you (sans the pictures that interspersed the crazy text):

William Lane Craig’s Origin Story

Deacon Duncan, our Freethought Blogs neighbor at Alethian Worldview has a post at his original site, Evangelical Realism, where yesterday he analyzed William Lane Craig’s cosmological arguments for the existence of God by William Lane Craig. In setting up he recapped part of Craig’s journey to his place as America’s most popular Christian apologist:  As we saw [...]

When Religious People Accuse Us of Being Religious, As An Insult

Don’t you hate it when anti-atheist pro-faith religionists ridiculously claim, as a put down, that atheism (or evolution) is a dogma or a faith or a religion or that it treats something as holy and as its “god”, etc.? Hank amusingly sums up the absurdity of such attempts to defend dogmatic faith-based religions from atheists and [...]

Boy, Theology Is Hard: Archbishop Dolan Says God Used 9/11 To End Atheism In New York

We atheists are often accused of not taking on any serious theological arguments but picking on the low hanging fruit—the superstitious mythical obviously false bullshit that actual ordinary believers actually believe. We are assured that if only we engaged the serious thinkers of the great faiths we would have to respect the depth of what [...]

Suing The Devil

Nobody makes terribly blunt and bluntly terrible propaganda movies like the Evangelical Christians: Not a bad cast selling their souls in this one. Surprising how many mainstream actors have been appearing in these preachy schlocky un-self-aware imagination-free self-parodies the Evangelicals make. The kind of pathetic thing is that I remember watching Devil’s Advocate as an [...]

Too Pitifully Doleful and Delusional To Hate

Okay, so the whole theocratic, historical revisionist, mythologizing, founding-father-worshipping, flag-waving, warmongering, posturing, self-righteous, faux-libertarian, white resentment-based Christianist identity politics of the “Tea Party” usually completely repulses me. But there is something about the pitiful dolefulness and delusional foolishness about the corny song below (“I Heard George Washington Weeping”) that I find peculiarly endearing. Maybe it’s [...]

20 Christian Academics Speaking About God

So many religious believers I encounter want to cite the existence of smart religious people as proof enough that their beliefs are rational. Below is a video just demonstrating how unintelligible, contradictory, or explicitly anti-reason many otherwise brilliant and highly credentialed scholars sound when they start actually explaining the religious beliefs that laypeople want to [...]

Scientists Examine Evidence For Scientology

The results are shocking: Your Thoughts?

“Typing in Tongues”

Televangelist Juanita Bynum is on the cutting edge of religulousness:

Bill Maher's Challenge To Those Expecting Jesus To Return May 21

Your Thoughts?

David Cross on Perceptions of Heaven

Hilarious (angry) stand up. He essentially starts at 0:50: via Godless Girl. Your Thoughts?

"Gay Demon" "Possesses" Man

Sad. Your Thoughts?

Poe or No Poe: "Prayers For Atheists Answered"

Okay, it’s another installment of our series wherein we try to determine whether religious craziness is either genuine or a spoof which is so hard to distinguish from the real thing because the real thing is so insane to begin with already. So, is this real morally bankrupt, self-absorbed superstitiousness or just satire of it? [...]

Sundaily Hilarity: Carman's Revival In The Land and A Witch's Invitation

I’ve been doing a little reminiscing this afternoon about the insanely cheesy contemporary Christian music I was into at 14 years old.  Though I was never a pentecostal and never particularly into “demonology” or other “spirit”-based superstitiousness, these two songs were as cool and edgy as it got for my young fundamentalist Christian brain: Your [...]

Trainwreck of the Day

A couple Christian kids with a nauseating, badly performed anti-atheist song set to “My Humps” (via Greg Laden, whose categorizations of the video say it all about the video’s contents): And then there’s “Don’t Cha Wish Your Savior Was Right Like Mine”: Your Thoughts?

Daily Hilarity: God's "Unconditional" Love

This pretty much sums it up: As I have argued before (in Conceptual Problems For The Ideal of Unconditional Love), I think anyone, not just the Christians, would have a hard time making a theory of unconditional love coherent. Your Thoughts?

Christians vs. Muslim in Front of the White House

Ah, faith-based religion. A video like this shows how we desperately need it for moral guidance. What else could make ordinary people like these behave in such admirable ways? Your Thoughts?

Poe or No Poe? "Heaven Sex"

I have been inspired to introduce a new series on Camels With Hammers which I am entitling “Poe or No Poe?” and which will run however frequently or infrequently as proves necessary.  In “Poe or No Poe?” posts, I will offer you lunacy riddled statements from apparent fundamentalists and other extremists around the internet and [...]

Cheesus Toast

Your Thoughts?