Ever wondered what mischievous genius looks like? Eyes left. This is Dr. Maarten Boudry, a research fellow at Ghent University’s Department of Philosopy & Moral Sciences, and although I’m nearly two years late in on this story, he’s my new hero. In one finely tuned act of disciplined madness this magnificent package of humanist kickass demonstrated … Continue reading
Tag Archives: batshit crazy
Think about it…
You’re just too damn handsome… Now kindly fuck off!
It takes a very special kind of crazy to inspire me to do a rubber-hits-the-road Newser post; the type of crazy that out-crazy’s even the extraordinary crazy practiced by young earth Christian creationists. I’m talking here about that rarefied brand of crazy that leaves Ken Ham looking like the reasonable one standing at the Bonkers … Continue reading
Faith, wrapped in plastic
Faith, to put it politely, is unjustified belief. To put it not so politely, faith is the deliberate jettisoning of reason and adult sensibilities. It is a form of organised insanity; a sanctioned madness that is (presently) promoted to the level of virtue. It is a neurosis, a delusion, a senselessness which adults are free … Continue reading
Listen up, Christians; I gonna learn ya’ somethin ’bout Personhood-hood
A woman’s unencumbered, secular right to make decisions concerning her own body. That’s where the subject of contraception/abortion begins and ends with rational human beings. It proceeds no further. There is no debate, and there certainly is no controversy. The Christian right are not, however, rational human beings. Like their fundamentalist Muslim brothers they forfeited … Continue reading
Brain orgasm, anyone?
I’ll admit it, I’ve been driving this point home relentlessly in the last few posts, but it’s a score (I think) well worth repeating: apologetics only exists because theism is conclusively fraudulent. There isn’t a single validity test (hard or soft, cosmological, philosophical, or scientific) that any religion on the planet has ever passed. If … Continue reading
Theists, help me… I want to be a better atheist
Theists (particularly those of the off-coloured fundamentalist variety) have a rather large, somewhat embarrassing problem… and I want a piece of it. It has nothing (as some might suspect) to do with defending the patent lunacy of scripture, their inability to meet the Burden of Proof, or even the awkward fact that their gods’ last … Continue reading
Us, mentally ill?
Ordinarily I don’t dip my toe into the delirious, brain-bleeding world of Right Wing Christian conspiracies. There is no victory to be had in pointing out the fact that they’re insane. Stating the obvious is like salad dressing: it tastes good in the moment but only makes you fat, lazy, and ultimately dependent on a … Continue reading
The Secularists Playbook: Part 2, the Courtroom
Like all good daydreams this one concludes in triumph and something like this New York Times headline: “Archdiocese Humbled, Court Concedes No Evidence for Heaven.” The same daydream begins earlier that same day as the chief justice of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Alice M. Batchelder, hears opening remarks in Michigan Secular Student Alliance … Continue reading
Brain farts
Brain farts, to be fair, aren’t limited to just those of the religious persuasion, but it can be said that those of the religious persuasion have dominated the global market of memorable cognitive fuckups. Sure, it’s not a monopoly, but it’s sure as shit close to it. Case in point: Grand Mufti Sheik Ibn Baaz … Continue reading
