1. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #76656 by exegesis_saves on October 6, 2007 at 3:47 pm

It's just as well that someone cut it short...I can't fathom who gave that nasal clown of a radio host a microphone and paid him to talk into it.

2. LA Church 'agrees abuse pay deal'

Comment #56454 by exegesis_saves on July 15, 2007 at 9:00 pm

Earlier this year, Cardinal Mahoney told parishioners in an open letter that the Church would sell its 12-storey administrative building and was considering the sale of about 50 other non-essential properties to raise funds.

3. American Taliban on the warpath against evolution

Comment #56223 by exegesis_saves on July 14, 2007 at 2:24 pm

Sometimes I wish religion was true so the Rapture would finally come and whisk them all away so they can leave us alone.

4. Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World

Comment #56117 by exegesis_saves on July 13, 2007 at 9:03 pm

If I were an American, living in America, I'd be much more concerned about what was in my food, than the religious opinions of my fellow Americans.

5. The US map of faith

Comment #55667 by exegesis_saves on July 12, 2007 at 12:19 am

Another issue to consider...

I am originally from the great state of North Dakota, which currently sports a population of approximately 600,000 people (yes, the city of San Jose, CA has more people than live in my entire home state).

I know for fact that one of those maroon counties in the Northeast corner contains a town called Russo.

Population: 9.

Thus, if six or seven of those nine is a god-licker, then that whole geographic tract turns maroon.

Not to say that this is not an interested graphic...but lets read it for what it actually says.

6. Antarctic 'treasure trove' found

Comment #41916 by exegesis_saves on May 17, 2007 at 9:48 am

Carnivorous sponges?

CARNIVOROUS F#*%@*G SPONGES?!?!?!

Horrors like this are the perfect ammunition against the Argument from Design, I guess.

CARNIVOROUS SPONGES???????????

7. Hitchens on Falwell

Comment #41904 by exegesis_saves on May 17, 2007 at 9:33 am

Regardless of what else you may think of Christopher Hitchens...

he managed to use the phrase "Chaucerian frauds" on what would otherwise be a vapid American 24-hour news channel.

Well played, sir.

8. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41153 by exegesis_saves on May 15, 2007 at 2:54 pm

Let us not forget the gravest of the late Reverend Falwell's crimes:

9. Christopher Hitchens Explains It All for You: Move over, Sam Harris; another atheist wants the pulpit

Comment #41034 by exegesis_saves on May 15, 2007 at 11:30 am

The single thing I love the most about "these" kind of book reviews is that the final paragraph always makes the following point:

"Surely rationality isn't enough by itself."

Subtext:
HOW AWFUL WOULD IT BE IF THERE WERE NO GOD?!?!?!

Which, of course, is water-tight proof for his existence.

Next, please.

10. The Creation Museum: Prepare to believe

Comment #41031 by exegesis_saves on May 15, 2007 at 11:24 am

Jerry Falwell just died?


Wow.






He must have been a fag.

11. Atheist offers to send letters post-Rapture

Comment #38853 by exegesis_saves on May 9, 2007 at 10:23 am

These guys had better not steal my idea for Rapture Insurance.

12. Better God-fearing than sneering

Comment #38645 by exegesis_saves on May 8, 2007 at 10:18 pm

Again, even if we assume that religion does the warm and fuzzy things for people that this woman claims it does...none of that makes it true.

If that were all it took, whiskey WOULD IN FACT make me funnier and more charming than those around me.

Wait...that means it doesn't... :(

13. God Exists. A Formula Proves it.

Comment #37647 by exegesis_saves on May 5, 2007 at 12:21 pm

News Media: Can you prove the existence of God?

Crackpot Hack: Sure I can! LOOK AT TEH (sic) EQUAL SIGNS!

News Media: I don't get it...IT MUST BE GOD!

Crackpot Hack: EXACTLY!

Seriously...were there really no sectarian murders in Iraq that we could be reporting instead? No grotesque abuses of the Constitution by our elected officials? When it comes to the banality of the media and the public, I'm not sure which came first.

14. The Case for Teaching The Bible

Comment #27814 by exegesis_saves on March 26, 2007 at 11:01 pm

Here's a fun fact:



This, in short, captures why I worry that my people in the USA are no longer fit for representative government. Thank you.

15. UK Christians 'suffer for faith'

Comment #26375 by exegesis_saves on March 19, 2007 at 1:24 am

Though I can only speak from an American perspective, I think the underlying problem is the same on both sides of the water.

Christians in the United States who claim to be persecuted do so based on the fact that many a vocal, civilly-minded non-theist has been behind the lawsuits to take prayer out of public schools, remove displays of the Ten Commandments from public buildings etc.

Essentially, this boils down to feeling "oppressed" because you are no longer able to use the machinery of government to forcibly expose your religious views to others. Such brazenly oxymoronic thinking would be funny if it weren't so widespread.

Where does it come from? Many Christians in the United States feel that the majority should have the right to do what it likes in matters of faith because the US is a "democracy" where the majority voice rules in matters of taxes, economic policy, etc. Thus, we in the US are faced with the unfortunate task of not only defusing the Christian persecution-complex, but also helping them realize that a "free" society must sometimes protect the individual at the expense of the majority.

Oh, by the way, this is my first post! Hello everyone.

E.S.