Positively Non-Religious: Archive

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Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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Noah's Ark theme park to Feature Dragons and... →

er… wait what?!! I know we have posted a few stories on this so I wasn’t expecting to do anything else on it for awhile. Our group took a trip to the Creationist Museum last summer, so I knew about the dragon thing. I even got a dragon mug. It always makes me laugh when I see it. But Unicorns? WTF?

Dec 31st

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Religion's influence declining? →

“Worldwide, America is identified as a religious country but a new Gallup poll suggests that Americans in near record numbers say that religion’s influence on their society is declining.” Its a happy thought for 2011…

Dec 30th

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Mom kills son in botched exorcism. →

When people say, “Religion wants to help people. Why be against it?” Well this is a good example…

Dec 30th

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Dec 28th

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Are there more atheists than people think? →

This article asks the question how many people would be considered de facto atheists, but due to cultural upbringing respond to surveys by filling in Christian. I am not sure if I consider those who go to church, but don’t actually worship in any meaningful way, to be atheists. Regardless it would be interesting to see some finer grained numbers regarding the varying degrees of...

Dec 27th

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Kentucky approves tax incentives for Noah's Ark... →

Update since we did the first post on this story. Preliminary approval has been granted. Final approval is still pending. What would such a park entail? “The theme park would include an ancient walled city, a petting zoo, live animal shows featuring giraffes and elephants and a replica of the biblical Tower of Babel.”

Dec 27th

Dec 23rd

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I H8 RELIGION: Things Atheists Didn't Do: Harry... →

Harry Potter Actress Beaten and Branded a Prostitute by Her Family After Dating a Non-Muslim The only thing notable about this story is that it’s being reported. And the only reason it’s being reported is because Ms. Azad is an actress in one of the most popular franchises in movie history.

Dec 23rd

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Meteor contains building blocks for life (and... →

NASA has discovered amino acids that survived a superheated entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s an interesting article, but the surprise was reading the comments at the end. It was all creationists attacking the article. I was always of the opinion that accepting scientific facts doesn’t mean you can’t believe in crazy crap, but I guess it threatens some of the...

Dec 22nd

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Dec 20th

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Break time

So I’m back in Indiana after finishing up finals last week. If anyone was curious about my lack of activity here, it’s because I was working on finals pretty much non-stop last week. From Tuesday night to Friday morning, I managed to push out more than 10,000 words between a take-home final and a paper. Needless to say, I required some recovery sleep afterwards. I think I’m...

Dec 20th

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Stephen Colbert: Jesus is a liberal democrat

Dec 20th

nolitetebastardes asked: A little plug for you on my I H8 RELIGION Blog:

http://ih8religion.tumblr.com/post/2353992963/here-are-i-h8-religions-blue-ribbon

... well deserved!

Dec 18th

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Playing with google's word counting app. Reason... →

God vs logic http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=god%2C+logic&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 Faith vs Reason http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=faith%2C+science&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 I am hoping the trend upwards in faith is a fluke…

Dec 17th

Study 'measures' global religious intolerance →

New study released showing various religious levels on religious tolerance in countries around the whole.. Here is an excerpt. “Public tensions among religious groups were found in 87 percent of countries, and 64 percent (126 countries) experienced hostilities that involved violence. In 49 countries, civilian people or groups used force or threats to push adherence to a religion. In 17...

Dec 16th

Dec 13th

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Dec 12th

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Dec 12th

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Religion and Happiness related? Not necessarily. →

I’m sure people have heard studies things that religion is correlated with a long happy life. I think its been easy to dismiss any such relationship by arguing about all the negatives of religion, but I don’t think I’ve seen a study that really gets at the root of this correlation. Thankfully a new study dug a little deeper. “Religious people are happier than...

Dec 10th

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Noah's Ark Tourist Attraction Sparks Debate →

More news on the proposed Ark Encounter. Clearly i’m not the only one who is outraged that Kentucky’s taxpayers may be paying for this monstrosity.

Dec 9th

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Dec 8th

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The Creation Museum, The Sequel →

They have GOT to be kidding me about this.

Dec 7th

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Dec 7th

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Colbert Report The Blitzkrieg On Grinchitude - Atheist Billboard & Capitol Christmas Tree Atheists attack religion outside the Lincoln Tunnel, and the official Capitol Christmas tree has a Twitter account.

Dec 7th

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