Wow the Colgate Twins are dumb
July 13, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under religion, stupidity
Recently, Ophelia Benson has been giving the Colgate Twins a bit of a hard time about the fact that they had banned her from commenting on their blog, while they let another commenter call her a liar for months and only banned him once they realized he had been engaging in sock puppetry to boot. [...]
Continue Reading »How many people actually think socialism is a good idea?
July 1, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under politics, stupidity
I’m scratching my head over a libertarian-bashing post by PZ Myers. The current political environment in the U.S. is so strange to me: when I think about the recently health-care reform, I mostly think about how no one opposed publicly funded education and how Europeans and Canadians seem pretty happy with their system, even if [...]
Continue Reading »How stupid do you have to be to be a Christian apologist?
June 24, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under history, religion, stupidity
From Vic Reppert:
I talked about this in an earlier thread. With Islam, you have to take Muhammad’s word for it that he was touched by an angel. Same with Mormonism and Joseph Smith. With Christianity, you have a pre-crucifixion story where Jesus is supposed to have performed miracles in public. Did these miracles happen? [...]
A perfect coincidence
June 21, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under religion, stupidity
Two things that showed up in my RSS feed reader today. One a quote from Karl Popper:
Faith in reason is not only faith in our own reason but also — and even more — in that of others. Thus a rationalist, even if he believes himself to be intellectually superior to others, will reject all [...]
Most US Protestants belong to creationist denominations
May 11, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under biology, religion, science, social and literary criticism, stupidity
Jerry Coyne criticizes a study that makes a big deal of the fact that 63% of believers in the U.S. belong to religious organizations that are officially pro-evolution. Coyne rightly points out that even in pro-evolution denominations, lots of believers in the pews have creationist sympathies. He only briefly mentions, however, the fact that “This [...]
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