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Secular Sunday Sermon
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From the frontlines of the war on religion... an alternate sermon for those of us with nowhere special to go on a Sunday.
Recent Posts
On hiatus
I'm taking a brief break from this blog. Partly because I'm not feeling especially antitheistic these days and partly because I can't be arsed.I'm sure it'll be a brief break. Well, probably, anyway....
The universe
Whenever I have the chance to escape the city, I start to really understand where religion came from.I lie on the ground and look at the absolute forest of stars up there. I see, like a textbook illustration, the zodiac belt that some people invented...
The Message
No, not the Grandmaster Flash song.It's apparently the name of a Bible translation. Bible Gateway has it among its translations. I've never heard it before but it's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen... A few choice samples:Romans 1:24-25 accordin...
Love and the afterlife
I'm often surprised by how little Christianity has to do with the pop-culture religion that most North Americans are exposed to most of their lives. I mean, I got more of my knowledge of religion from Bugs Bunny than I ever did from the Bible, but i ...
On foxholes and prisons
The first time I heard the phrase, 'there are no atheists in foxholes' was also the first time I'd ever heard the world 'foxhole'. Unaware of its military meaning, I was intrigued by this aphorism-cum-koan and found my thoughts turning to fables of f...
A confession
It's been said before that it's not the finding in life that matters so much as the searching. By and large, I'm inclined to agree with this. For the past several thousands of years an uncountably large amount of people have gone on quests to find Go...
