It’s not only white coats and Coke bottle glasses, that’s for sure. It’s also not a religion.
Science in everyday life seems to have an odd place in religious communities. Like everything in the world of religion, its inhabitants pick and choose which parts of science they are prepared to acknowledge and which not. If a [...]
My mate Spankermatic over at Reality Dysfunction writes about a retaliation ad campaign launched in the wake of the NZ Atheist Bus initiative. The words “desperation” and “hypocrisy” spring swiftly to mind, as they so often do with modern religion.
A minister of the church was quoted as saying: “See? We can be hip, cool, funny [...]
Seems like a simple question, right? It is. The answer is equally simple: An atheist is someone who does not believe in a god.
That’s all.
And that’s a problem.
The problem is that the word atheism only tells us something about what a person isn’t; it doesn’t tell us anything about what that person is. It doesn’t [...]
Since the Atheist Bus project was announced on Stuff this morning the comments section on the project’s latest blog post started going pretty wild. The religious crazies were out in full force, with their irrational cannons fully loaded and firing away. To counter this I’ve committed to donating an additional $1 per uneducated, irrational religious [...]
December 14, 2009 - 10:40 AM
Good to see NZ Athiests being a bit more vocal about their position on religion.
I think its great that NZ leads the world in the total number of people who subscribe to no religion, but its always disturbing to see the creepy religions trying to worm their way back into places in society they have no right to be in.
State funded schools are bombarded every week by letters and “teaching material” from religious institutions trying to get back into the mainstream curriculum. Following the old adage of “get em while their young”, they are hoping to convert enough young people so that their gravy train continues.
Thankfully, a majority of school administrators see it for what it is (tripe) and dump it before its even opened.