Hysterical!

I haven't even read the article but I had to share the illustration - this is so funny on so many different levels.  And who are the blue guys in goggles on the lower left?  If home schooled kids are taught this - heaven (so to speak) help us!

Religion Does Not Make You More Generous

Somehow I am not surprised by this study which shows that faith doesn't make you more likely to be generous, love your neighbor, etc.

The Least Bible-Minded City in America

Damnit - Portland Maine beats Portland Oregon - but 65 out of 96 isn't too bad I suppose.

Christians are all Vegan Right?

Leviticus 17:14

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁴ For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.


And thus why Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood donations:



If an adult JW wants to refuse a life saving transfusion that is their (foolish) choice.  But when they refuse life saving treatment for their children, that is criminal child abuse and their children are safer under care of the state, as imperfect as even that care is.

Does The Universe Have Purpose?

Does the Universe Have a Purpose? An Animated Version of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Response

Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked by the Templeton Foundation (Wait! Don’t leave!) to answer the question, “Does the Universe Have a Purpose?”

His answer, as you might expect, is wonderful — and it’s fun to watch thanks to this animation from MinutePhysics:

Hate Abortion? Give Out Free Birth Control.

This study confirms what I've always believed, if you hate abortion, make birth control widely available.  As this Scientific American article points out, when birth control was made zero cost the rate of abortions was half of what it was expected to be.

It is such a sad irony that the religious right advocates a policy - abstinence - that increases what they dislike the most - abortions.  Their position has no grounding in facts or reality.

Einstein & Religion

Albert Einstein was, and even is today, often misrepresented on religion.  Believers claim that Einstein believed in God but in a letter to a correspondent he stated his views clearly:

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”  Albert Einstein