Posts tagged Religion

What is Science?

It’s not only white coats and Coke bottle glasses, that’s for sure.  It’s also not a religion.

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Auckland Church Fights Back… Kinda

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 and sexy too!”.  OK, that’s not a real quote, but you just know they’re thinking it.

What is Atheism?

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.

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NZ Atheist Bus, 1st Religious Donation

So, it’s the first day into my donation commitment and the grand total committed thanks to religious and otherwise ignorant commenters comes to:

$31

The biggest contributor was Thomas Christopher, with a grand total of $17, so I’d like to thank him specifically for his support in ignorance.

Being a Saturday I suspect today’s “debating” won’t be as heated as yesterday’s, but I will post tomorrow’s total at around the same time anyway.

NZ Atheist Bus Donation Commitment

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 comment posted, and have been joined by at least one other fellow Atheist.

Every morning until the project reaches its (revised) goal of $20,000 I will post the total of the previous day’s religiously-inspired donation amount after I’ve made the donation.

Hopefully it doesn’t get too out of hand, my poor wallet is already cringing at the thought!