ᘛ Know Beliefs ᘚ

A rationalist's spirited preoccupation with faith -- using a microscope, a telescope and a 10-foot pole -- watching the self-immolation of humankind with a bucket of water in one hand and can of gasoline in the other. This is written in mind of the audience who will be picking through those ashes.

Knowing Know Beliefs

▼

11.01.2013

Caught Up In The Rapture

This blog took a few dozen months off to recover from the Rapture. -- The Management via OBRag.org Just kidding, but we may soon resu...

6.28.2011

What would you ask, if you had one question?

This song, pondering a God with all the troubles of his creations, is kind of a throw-back to the Greeks' view of their Gods and their h...

6.16.2011

Pointedly Funny

Among the things that separate us from the animals is our drive to believe in the supernatural and our willingness to make fun of each other...

4.29.2011

God Wants Everything

from political cartoonist Barry Deutsch

4.27.2011

Seeking A Metaphor: Lazarus, Phoenix, Atlantis...

The Macho Response blog, recently put behind an "objectionable content" wall, has been removed by Blogger. Its publisher, The Cra...

"Who Are You Calling A Christian?"

At this point in the evolution of human development a majority of the tribalism that marked our pre-history is manifest in the sectarianism ...

4.26.2011

Beating Each Other With The Body Of Christ

Both sides of the political spectrum claim Jesus as a member, and here is an example of the tug-of-war. Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC di...

4.25.2011

Is it an evolution joke or a Bible joke, or both?

4.24.2011

Surfing Madonna, Surfboard At Your Feet

We should be aware that when the next evolutionary species that succeeds ours pieces together the few remnants remaining of our culture, if ...

4.18.2011

"Worship that?"

Sometimes in our fiction we put our most atheistic ideas in the mouth of a supernatural being, here a NSFW kinetic typographic excerpt from ...

4.17.2011

Missing The Boat

jpg via Biblical Christianity blog Biblical Christianity blog has a few comic panels on the extinction of dinosaurs, the top one is my ...

4.16.2011

"Isn't That Special?"

Since it's a violation of the country's most important document and against our core principles for governments to discriminate --...

4.15.2011

Q: "How Does A Mormon Screw In A Light Bulb?"
A: "That's Not Funny"

It may seem to those who look back at our religions that the older they are, the more willing its adherents are likely to have a sense of hu...

4.14.2011

Getting Nailed

There are many examples of higher and lower animals that hoard things that sustain them. Humans do it too. jpg via Time.com For millen...

4.13.2011

Two Songs About One Thing

Our popular music is filled with overt references to faith, and few pop tunes are more religious than "Get Happy," here by Judy Ga...

4.12.2011

Swimming With Sharks

Every poll says a vast majority of Americans are believers, yet this tale of making a movie about a person of faith getting resistance by th...

4.11.2011

Baby Steps

As this shows, it took 3.8 billion years for humans to evolve from the one-celled primordial stew and 200,000 years to get where we are now....

4.10.2011

No Hell Below Us?

I predict whatever the future equivalent is for a doctoral thesis will focus on how people of our time were afraid of not being afraid. j...

4.09.2011

First Guy To Clast An Icon

Oh ant/mollusk hybrid of the future, seeing how the 21st Century primate with consciousness still managed to implode under the weight of the...

4.08.2011

It Sure Sounds Silly, By George

Archeologists in the post-religious society that will dig through this society will not do much better to view things like this to explain t...

4.07.2011

Cracking A Whip

Niceness is the work of the devil, according to the dictionary-deprived logic-gymnast video blogger atop this post at The Macho Response , w...

If Moses Tweeted, OMG Would Really Mean Oh My God

4.06.2011

"The Evolution Of God" -- Book Review

In "The Evolution of God," Robert Wrigh t writes that God got more civil as civilization did, or in the words of the 2009 revie...

Nine Countries Could Grow To Be Virtually Religion-Free

I see there are benefits for some people to have faith -- not the least being that we know where people are on a Sunday morning -- but the h...

4.05.2011

"Does Religion Make My Butt Look Big?"

Some future investigator who looks at the country's faithful, will be able to discern that once churches were informed that their practi...

4.04.2011

Having The Many Pay To Underwrite the Faith Of A Few

When the history of this time is written, they'll point to issues like this as an example of how our social core was eaten from inside b...

4.03.2011

Who Wrote The Book of Love? Or Even The Rest Of It?

Whichever culture follows us in the evolutionary cycle will be dismayed by the fact that our single-most influential book was written by lia...

4.02.2011

Cognitive Dissonance Of Newt Gingrich

Aliens sifting through the wreckage of planet Earth will see that we chose our leaders for their physical gifts, like twisting their heads t...

4.01.2011

Pagans Have A Right To Be Discriminated Against Too

Note to the archeologists in the future: After our armageddon, it should be obvious that our fear is based in stupidity not knowledge. MSN...

3.31.2011

What Would They Call The Sequel?

We called them "movies" wherein we told fanciful stories: This week saw the release of the Blu-Ray edition of Cecil B DeMille'...

3.30.2011

There'd Be Less Outrage If They Called It "Jacob's Ladder Dancing"

Not only do some people think their faith is about not having fun, they think it's about no one else having fun either. The Pole Dancin...

Coffee Cups In Hell

Who ever gets the odious task of wading through the detritus of our culture after we destroy it will be a little confused to discover that a...

3.29.2011

"Either God Is Responsible, Or He Isn't In Control"

In light of the post-quake poll ( Smitten By God ) saying most Americans don't blame God for natural disasters (though most Evangelicals...

Mr. Anonymous Sure Talks A Lot

It seems as if a quote has come from an unknown source, it renounces the supernatural. I find irony in that. God is innocent. Noah built in...

3.28.2011

Smitten By God

No, really, they say he's a loving God. Really. They're not kidding. jpg via CTV.ca Most Americans don't blame God for natur...

3.27.2011

One Nation, Under Canada

You might ask, "who is stronger willed, the one who defies facts or the one who accepts them?" When asked if humans evolved throu...

3.26.2011

Why This Man Is Scary To Islamophobes

... because he's not frightening. He's an American-born Orthodox Muslim cleric whose AlMaghrib Institute has classes, seminars and ...

3.25.2011

Book by Joseph Smith

"The Book of Mormon" (NYT advance story on musical that opened Thursday) is the work of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the duo behin...

3.24.2011

Burn, Bury or Bestow

It may seem that only people who love a book are allowed to burn it. It's hard to argue against that presumption. How to dispose of a...

3.23.2011

Closer To God

I always suspected this Indigo Girls song (as catchy as any song about angst and despair could hope to be) was, at its roots, religious. C...

3.22.2011

Is Comet A Cleanser?

There's a comet coming; so of course there's goofy assertions about it. A dizzying collection of doomsday predictions have been l...

3.21.2011

Pretty Big Love

Some species in the distant future discovering our society might well ask if faith were really so important why doesn't our art reflect ...

Mayor Gives Open Door To Religious Leaders

Art Madrid , mayor of La Mesa, Calif., in San Diego County, met with an interdenominational group that included Wesleyans , Mormons , and Ro...

Animism As A Narrative Device, But Inverted For Movie Plot

Amid this essay about a cinematic trend of animals as metaphor, it's not just cute animals acting like humans. “Rango,” so thoroughly s...

3.20.2011

Cults Of Many Flavors

5-part video series (aprox. 50 minutes) published at the blog The Macho Response looks at some women ensnared by groups purported to be cu...

Praying They Stop Violating The Constitution

From the Associated Press, a Minnesota lawmaker is asking State Senate leaders to allow only nondenominational prayers to open sessions, af...

3.19.2011

5 Things About The Bible

If you weren't paying attention, or were paying attention to something else, the writer pegs five vitally relevant if arguably unimporta...

3.18.2011

Forcing Sectarianism Onto All Americans

Rep. Randy Forbes (R- VA ) pushes the idea that only monotheists deserve to be franchised in America. Congress voted in 1956 to make “In G...

3.17.2011

"The Unbelievers" -- A Book Review

"The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism," by S.T. Joshi When the priest asks him why, with his days numbered, he still...

3.16.2011

Religion's Impact On Governance

A number of essayists address the issues of private belief overlapping into public policy, in the context of the House of Representatives...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.