Bart Ehrman on the Historicity of Jesus
Archive for February, 2009
Holy Recession?
February 27, 2009The economy isn’t the only thing in the toilet, church attendance is taking a dump as well. In the 2006 to 2007 calendar year, the Catholic Church lost 398,000 members in the United States (0.59%). Out of the 25 top churches in the US, 21 are either stagnant or decreasing in membership.
But it’s not all [...]
Footprints, part 2
February 26, 20091.5 million year old footprints have been uncovered in Lake Turkana, Kenya (what a country, not only do they have good coffee, but great human origin finds). The footprints have been described as “Essentially modern human like foot anatomy”. How cool is that?
These footprints were probably left by a Homo erectus (hee hee … erectus [...]
Supreme Court Rules Against Summum Monument
February 25, 2009The US Supreme Court has ruled against the Summum religion’s request to place a monument in a public park. It may sound all apropos, except that there’s already another religious monument in the park, a Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments that the city did approve. That, is not so cool (favoring an establishment of religion).
The court ruled [...]
Questions for Creationists
February 24, 2009Biblical Morals Are Diametrically Oppossed to Real Morals
February 24, 2009Found this on Pharyngula, but it’s funny enough to be worth re-posting!
Your morality is 0% in line with that of the bible.
Damn you heathen! Your book learnin’ has done warped your mind. You shall not be invited next time I sacrifice a goat.
Do You Have Biblical Morals?
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Book Review: Atheism Advanced
February 22, 2009David Eller’s Atheism Advanced is not your run of the mill atheist tome, rehashing the old logical arguments against holding a god belief. It reads, instead, as an anthropological study, and it closely scrutinizes this thing that we call religion. I learned the answer to questions I never even thought of asking before; such as [...]
The Vatican: All For Censorship
February 20, 2009Apparently, we’re not allowed to come to your own conclusions about the Christian myths, church member or not.
The Vatican is upset about a TV show that aired in Israel that dared to mock a few goofy Christian stories (they should listen in on an atheist get together once).
In the program, the host farcically denied Christian [...]
Priest Fired For Being a Good Guy
February 20, 2009Father Peter Kennedy of St Mary’s in South Brisbane, Australia had the audacity to allow women to preach, to bless gay couples, and deny the Virgin birth of Jesus.
“In his decree, the archbishop said Father Kennedy had “caused harm to ecclesiastical communion in spite of frequent requests from me to do otherwise”. And in a [...]
Richard Dawkins Coming to MN March 4
February 19, 2009The Purpose of Purpose: A Lecture by Richard Dawkins
Wednesday, March 04 2009, 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN USA
Sponsored by CASH http://cashumn.org/index.php
Contact CASH or the Northrop Box Office for details
