Hmmm . . . just $14.95 will get you on of every Jack Chick Tract currently in print. That’s like bargain basement kitsch right there. I think I’m going to get two: one to keep, and one to randomly hand out pamphlets to the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses who keep bugging me. Plus I wonder…
Tag archives for Christianity
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The Brick Testament is the Bible illustrated with Legos. For example, check out the nice illustrated version of Jesus’ teachings on divorce. Many of the Old Testament ones are especially compelling.
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I found this image in the RSS feed of a popular atheist multi-author blog. When I went to visit the site, however, the image and its post had gone 404. Apparently someone decided it was a bit too offensive for the tone of the site. Me, I don’t have any such compunctions (plus, seriously, its…
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I’ve been an atheist literally just about as long as I can remember — since sometime when I was 6 or 7. My family was neither particularly religious nor particularly irreligious, and I remember concluding at a very young age that God was just one of those stories like Santa Claus that people passed on…
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The other day I noted a Pew poll where 1 in 5 self-identified atheists said they also believed in God, and likened it to similar number of vegetarians who say they occasionally eat red meat — these folks aren’t atheists or vegetarians, but rather clueless. Anyway, the Secular Coalition for America has a slightly different…
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The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently published the results of its survey of 36,000 people regarding their religious views. Unfortunately, the report doesn’t break out what percentage of respondents were atheists but rather lumps them into the 16.1 percent of Americans who didn’t express any religious affiliation. Of those who do call…
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While the Pope decries such modern scourges as in vitro fertilization and gay marriage, the Washington Post reported in February that it is pushing a resurgence of modern day demon hunters and exorcists. According to the Post, Exorcism — the church rite of expelling evil spirits from tortured souls — is making a comeback in…
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Like most student newspapers, the one at the university where I’m pursuing my Master’s degree in is pretty lousy, but this editorial to kick off the start of the semester was a new low in pathetic quotient. Ever since I can remember (at least back to the mid-1980s), several times a year a number of…
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I had to laugh a bit when I was surfing the web and came across audioblog Scar Stuff hosting Mike Warnke’s 1979 spoken world album, A Christian Perspective on Halloween. In the 1973, Warnke co-authored a book called The Satan Seller in which he claimed that he had been a “high priest” in a satanic…
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Knight Ridder’s Faye Flam has an interesting survey of different religion’s views of whether people in heaven/paradise/whatever have sex. Of course we’re all now aware Islam’s promise of many perpetual virgin-like Houri to devout adherents. Not surprisingly, Christianity, especially in pre-Protestant forms, was not especially kind to the idea of getting it on in heaven,…