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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.
[Charles Darwin]
Category: Religion
So why is the University of Edinburgh Christian Union pushing to have Bibles put in the students' rooms? It seems like a slippery slope to me—before you know it, they'll have verses emblazoned on the caber, you won't be able...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:05 PM • 142 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
At first glance, I thought this story was good news: Oklahoma is going to build a Christian prison! About time, I thought, I can think of a few Christians who deserve a few years for faith-abuse. But no…it's a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:49 AM • 139 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
The vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University has compared atheists to Biblical plagues, which is quite nice of him. He seems to have forgotten that, in his mythology, those are usually sent by his god to chastise people and get...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:49 AM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Apparently, if you die for Allah, the bullets ripping through your body will feel like angels' kisses, and the first thing that happens when you pop into heaven is that a horny black-eyed virgin (or two! Or 72!) will jump...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:35 AM • 135 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Jerry Coyne missed one: he lists a few annoying columnists in the Guardian, Andrew Brown and Madeleine Bunting, but I guess he didn't notice that Michael Ruse just posted a whine about Dawkins and other atheists. Well, a few of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:48 AM • 137 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Someone tell him that that is no status to which one should aspire. He's just written a brief, cranky complaint about Dawkins' righteous smackdown of the Catholic church. Here's the totality of it. Richard Dawkins's latest attack on the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:25 AM • 97 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
At least, that's the outcome of a court decision in France, where Scientology was guilty of fraud and got slapped with a few fines, which they'll scrape out of the pockets of their gullible followers. It's nice, I'm not going...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:56 AM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Apparently, the Sunday brunch-after-church crowd has an awful reputation for being bad tippers. Somehow, I'm not surprised. But even fellow Christians have noticed and find fault with them. Take, for example, how Christians tip and behave in restaurants. If...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:54 AM • 387 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Paul Haggis, a Hollywood bigwig, has publicly renounced and rebuked $cientology. His reasons: they lie, they disregard basic ethical concerns, they smear their critics. Hasn't everyone known this all along? The anti-reality field at those scientology centers must be very...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:54 PM • 105 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Christopher Hitchens has been debating a Christian pastor named Douglas Wilson on the subject of whether Christianity has been a force for good in the world. These debates were recorded, and assembled into a film called Collision. I haven't seen...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:44 AM • 188 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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