Atheism Day

That God doesn't exist.

Read here.

[remember, Friday 30th June 2006 is Atheism Day]

Following on from a story about a church giving away iPods to draw new members, we've decided to have a brain storm and see if there's a section in the bible to reflect the holyness of this.

There isn't, so we thought we'd write our own...

The Book of Jobs

1-1: And on the eigth day, God invented AAC and lo, it was OK.
1-2: And lo, Jesus did recruit his disciples with the promise of everlasting
techie gadgets.
1-3: And the disciples cared not about their afterlife for they had the ability
to listen to over 3000 tunes.
1-4: Many with pictures.
1-5: And they danced.
1-6: Although the non believers were unable to sync their sony media
players.
1-7: And they were vengeful.
1-8: So they cracked open the skulls of the holy and feasted upon their
brains.
1-9: And they starved

We cleary care for these poor souls being taught to covet materialism.

[remember, Friday 30th June 2006 is Atheism Day]

Further to one of our previous posts (and ensuing discussion), I've found a nice article that touches on the subject of the anthropic principle while discussing a cyclic universe. The ideas regarding the cyclic universe are pretty out there, but the rebuff of the AP is nice and clear: "Relying on the anthropic principle is like stepping on quicksand".

[remember, Friday 30th June 2006 is Atheism Day]

"Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism".

Wow. That's a pretty strong statement and it's coming from a Vatican astronomer. Read the full article here.

[remember, Friday 30th June 2006 is Atheism Day]

Have a read of the following article. It's a really good article about why the current Christian uprising in the US is fundamentally flawed as it doesn't actually teach the message of love and forgiveness that is central to the whole Jesus / Christianity movement.

Personally, I've been saying this for years. There's a huge gulf between what the biblical Jesus taught and consequently what should be expected as a doctrine for Christians to follow and what most Christians, especially the more vocal contingent, perceive as the rules for entry into 'heaven'.

I feel that the problem with this is that the majority of these vocal Christians don't read the bible or study its message and make their own decisions about the message of the text, they rely on a 'preacher' to tell them what to think about what' in the bible and these preachers have their own agenda to push as the 'word of God / Jesus'.

[remember, Friday 30th June 2006 is Atheism Day]

There's quite a nice article about homicide rates amongst people of varying depth of religious association. Have a read.

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Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution.

I think the title says it quite nicely. Yay for perseverence. As I've said before, just because we don't have the answers right now doesn't mean that the answer automatically is "God did it". It just means that we don't have the answers right now.

[remember, Friday 30th June 2006 is Atheism Day]

A nice article regarding how evolution is littered with examples of something called 'cross-cutting concerns' which is a fundamental part of Aspect Oriented Programming. So this one's mainly for the atheist programmers out there!

[remember, Friday 30th June 2006 is Atheism Day]