omniscience annex

Christians Fearing Women

2006-12-14T08:31:00.000+02:00

Hey, lookee here: Williams warned of Church anarchy Yup-anarchy Ah, yes-those secondary-citizens, those pieces of barter, those created-for-mankind's pleasure. Those women. It strikes me straight off that their supposedly omnipotent god is apparently powerless to protect his own church against these demons of the deep. Therefore, around 2000 evangelical ministers have started whingeing to

Midweek FeelGood Post

2006-12-13T08:46:00.000+02:00

Tim Boucher over at Pop Occulture has the definitive uplifting post on the therapeutic and other benefits of smashing your cellphone I mean, like taking a rock to it. The feelings flowing through me at that moment were indescribable and powerful. I began to feel shaky inside, and nervous and extremely happy and also powerful. It was a strange and exhilirating mix as I brought the rock down

A Couple of Religious Moments Before the Weekend

2006-12-08T13:10:00.000+02:00

In Somalia , the appropriately named Sheik Hussein Barre Rage threatens to behead anyone who doesn’t pray 5 times a day . Strikes me as a good old fashioned godly commandment actually. Meanwhile, across the globe in Virginia, Pagans have been snarkily using a forum intended for Christians , set up by the Rev Falwell, to further a completely different agenda. That one looks like fun. Indeed,

Wizz

2006-11-29T14:12:00.000+02:00

My Inner Hero - Wizard! There are many types of magic, but all require a sharp mind and a cool head. There is no puzzle I can't solve, no problem I can't think my way out of. When you feel confused or uncertain, you can always rely on me to untangle the knots and put everything back in order for you. How about you? Click here to find your own inner hero.

Jesus finally found

2006-11-16T21:58:00.000+02:00

Nuff said

Omniscient Sugar Rush!

2006-08-31T14:09:00.000+02:00

First up, the obligatory how-stupid-are these-theists-anyway post, featuring a Christian from Libreville, Gabon who believed what his Bible told him: "He told churchgoers he'd had a revelation that if he had enough faith, he could walk on water like Jesus. He walked into the water, which soon passed over his head and he never came back." Great candidate for a Darwin award, I'd say. Next, a

Not That Different

2006-08-10T13:51:00.000+02:00

From The Economist comes this article to which I crowingly,and not altogether seriously, now refer as backing for my long-held claim that males are the mutations of the species. Can we have this in blinking neon lights now? No? Oh well: Female is the default brain setting I Know.

Diagnose Your Disease Here

2006-07-04T11:44:00.000+02:00

Doctor Unheimlich has diagnosed me with Aquila ka Hecate's LurgyCause:influence of the DevilSymptoms:extreme blood in urine, bleeding gums, sudden arm numbness, sudden earacheCure:electroshock therapyEnter your name, for your own diagnosis:

Give Ratzi a Tin Foil Beanie for Gossake

2006-06-06T12:48:00.000+02:00

Some really serious scientists over at MIT have been busying themselves with researchon the effectiveness of tin foil hats. They find that, although most wavelengths coming from the brain-eating sauropods of outer space are actually attenuated by these devices, certain very specific frequency ranges are greatly amplified.The one ‘the government’ have reserved for their own use of course.

Preachers-Of-Profit

2006-05-20T13:17:00.000+02:00

Keeping abreast of the latest trends in the religious world has, once again, been made more difficult by the all saturating hype surrounding a current movie release. However, let us pray for some seriously blasphemous merchandise to follow. Speaking of merchandise, way back in 2004 I blogged about religious spam and since then the evangelicals discovered more ways of cashing in on people's

Film-suicide girl had cult ties

2006-05-15T18:49:00.000+02:00

I don't know exactly why, but I really don't get the way the media reports on bloggers. So this troubled teenager committed suicide... oh yeah and she blogged... check it out here is a few of here last posts, and a link to the site. All of a sudden a regular sad teenage suicide becomes cannon fodder for cheap and nasty newspaper reporting, and since she was a blogger we don't have to be

Return of the Gods

2006-05-08T14:33:00.000+02:00

Hellenismos is the reconstructionist religion of the ancient Greeks.It’s not unpopular amongst Pagans. But this group has actually gone one up. They’ve petitioned the greek government and won the right to practise their Old Time Religion in the country of its birth which up to now has ironically banned it. Here's the story in a nutshell Their demands? "What we want, now, is for the

Aluminium and Radical Goddess Thealogy

2006-04-24T08:18:00.000+02:00

There go my pots and pans Although to be honest, my Dad was convinced that aluminium was the cause od Mom’s early onset Alzheimer’s all along. "Once aluminium binds to proteins, it sticks for good," ... "It's like trying to use superglue to mend a Swiss watch." The fact that the village’s water supply was contaminated 18 years ago by accident notwithstanding, The only way to ingest

"Did Jesus walk on water - or skate on ice?"

2006-04-07T08:47:00.000+02:00

The Bible says Jesus walked on water but could there be a less miraculous explanation? Was the son of God in fact skating on a hidden piece of ice?

Precambrian Archaeology

2006-04-03T16:25:00.000+02:00

I'm not so sure about God though, maybe we can slot the FSM in there? I have had an epiphany, you see I have realized the error of my "evilutionist" ways and have been born again. Since I don't have millions to donate to the church (I spent all my money trying to get an education in a vain attempt to deny GOD) I have decided the best way I can spread the message is through my blog. To that end I

Church meets kink

2006-04-02T21:40:00.000+02:00

Shame these poor religious buggers, still grappling with 'teh gay', and now they've been saddled with teh kink. What tickles me pink though, is, what exactly are the Biblical objections to the kinky lifestyle, for the Bible is the ultimate kinksters guide to religion. A South African dominatrix has given up her battle to live in a vicarage, telling the church's congregation they can "shove" the

Eulogy for Hank

2006-03-28T13:56:00.000+02:00

Echidne of the Snakes has a heartbreaking eulogy for her Labrador, Hank. I dare you to read it at work.

Physicists-Speak Up!

2006-03-28T11:57:00.000+02:00

...and now for something completely different.Seed Magazine reports that which we who have gone through a Varsity Physics course at Major level already know all too well: that Physicists and Mathematicians should be talking to each other a lot more than is customary. See, there's this nifty little function called the Zeta function , discovered by Riemann quite a while ago, which when fed

religious terminology

2006-03-27T19:06:00.000+02:00

Not so very long ago I found myself lucky enough to be labeled as a secular fundamentalist, hmm, evidently I found myself in the big leagues, being subjected to this kind of religious terminology and all. Time to catch up on the current nomenclature then, I thought. Thus I found an article, on an article that could supposedly be found on the Vatican’s site, (I’m not completely sure whether this

8-year-old preacher

2006-03-26T13:54:00.000+02:00

Though only 8, Terry draws crowds of worshipers eager to hear him preach the gospel, and praise the Lord. "The Lord makes you feel good," Terry wails from the pulpit. "He says, `Who am I? I am Doctor Feelgood.' Yeah!" Good god!

Creationst

2006-03-19T21:51:00.000+02:00

Oh, aren’t we just so very lucky, Dr Kent Hovind, the world class creationist preacher man is coming to town.

The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters

2006-03-19T21:43:00.000+02:00

Uhm ... whatever.

Let's hate some

2006-03-19T21:25:00.000+02:00

Like I mentioned earlier, I’ve been spending a lot of time on a Dutch Reformed forum, gawking as always. This particular forum is open to anyone, and it’s not to strictly moderated, so it has turned into a sort of a proselytizing clearinghouse, attracting religious crackpots from darkest corners of the Afrikaner cyberspace, all scrambling for the soapboxes. God did we have fun this week, we

God: I’ve lost faith in Blair

2006-03-14T09:00:00.000+02:00

From the good old Grauniad (British Readers' joke) A source says Gabriel has spent days trying to dissuade the Almighty from loosing a plague of toads upon the Blair family. Gabriel reminded God that Cherie and the children had nothing to do with Tony's decisions. God's response, it is reliably reported, was: "Blair says the Iraqis are lucky to have got bombed, so how can he complain if his

Point of Inquiry

2006-03-13T13:37:00.000+02:00

I found this site through the latest Skeptic's Dictionary newsletter. Point of Inquiry is the Center for Inquiry’s radio show and podcast, drawing on CFI’s relationship with the leading minds of the day including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, public intellectuals, social critics and thinkers, and renowned entertainers. Each episode combines incisive interviews, features and commentary focusing

flying spaghetti monster mosaic

2006-03-09T21:42:00.000+02:00

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2006-03-07T06:53:00.000+02:00

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Let Them Eat Archives

2006-03-06T10:44:00.000+02:00

There seems to be some kind of perception around the G8 that African scientists are living in shacks and begging at the traffic lights. I mean,how else am I to interpret this incredibly condescending offer from The Royal Society of Chemistry , in smug collaboration with the British House of Commons Not that the African scientists themselves are feeling condescended to, it appears. One

Get your JEsus Butt-plugs here!

2006-03-03T09:46:00.000+02:00

Web-based Divine Productions goes out of its way to promote products that clearly offend and mock Christianity and the Catholic Church.

A Field Guide To Evangelicals

2006-02-27T14:43:00.000+02:00

Looks like my atheism just got kicked up a notch or two. The last couple of months I’ve been rubbernecking over at an Afrikaans forum of the church I used to attend, and after 250 odd posts I started becoming slightly milder in my approach towards the superstitious crowd. However this weekend I found myself violently relieved of my delusion, when I saw the reaction to what they viewed as

The Religious Policeman

2006-02-22T09:13:00.000+02:00

This is really a comment on the post below, but I think the Religious Policeman’s site deserves its own post. It’s the blog of a Saudi guy commenting on life on the wrong side of Islam with caustic cynicism. Do read his archives.

Boycott..err..Egypt!

2006-02-22T07:44:00.000+02:00

Of interest to me was something SandMonkey blogged on February 8th. …they were actually printed in the Egyptian Newspaper Al Fagr back in October 2005. I repeat, October 2005, during Ramadan, for all the egyptian muslim population to see, and not a single squeak of outrage was present. Al Fagr isn't a small newspaper either: it has respectable circulation in Egypt, since it's helmed by known

ID FAQ, FSM Pr0n and the Texan Taliban

2006-02-05T09:40:00.000+02:00

Cool! Check out the Intelligent Design Society of Kansas Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Then go and get some FSM porn. If you're still there see the latest Christian fad in Texas ... turning like all Taliban on us, OMFG!

Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Na-Na

2006-02-04T16:44:00.000+02:00

South African courts, I'm deeply ashamed of you.

Zombie

2006-02-03T14:16:00.000+02:00

The Zombie31% aliveness, 42% benevolence, 43% intellectualism Graaah! Aaaargh! You are the Zombie! You once lived, spoke, and loved, but now you stalk the earth, terrifying the living. You exist only to devour brains. Sweet, delicious brains. You are unstoppable, a force of un-nature. You also smell bad. Link: The badass apotheosis Test written by inhumandecency on

The French does it again!

2006-02-01T15:20:00.000+02:00

*no religious dogma can impose itself on a democratic and secular society* Great words!

Non Sequitur

2006-02-01T13:27:00.000+02:00

Bad bisexual Barbie

2006-01-16T11:20:00.000+02:00

Another old but rather amusing post via Gloria Brame’s blog. The iconic Barbie Doll has become another tool for promoting gender confusion among children. On the Barbie Web site, www.Barbie.com, there is a poll that asks children their age and sex. The age choices are 4-8, but as Bob Knight, Director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, notes children are given three options for their choice of

How to Hear God’s Voice … and pay for it

2006-01-16T11:13:00.000+02:00

Christian Author Mark Virkler is offering a money-back guarantee on his latest book, How to Hear God’s Voice. His years of success teaching this method around the world and the biblical promises that we can hear from God are the driving forces behind this audacious move. Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) January 6, 2006 -- Rev. Mark Virkler, Ph.D., president of Communion With God Ministries (http://

The God F.A.Q

2006-01-13T22:05:00.000+02:00

Visit this site for answers to all your God questions.

The Lion, the Therianthrope and the Fruitcake

2006-01-13T12:20:00.000+02:00

Warren and I went to the cinema for the first time in years last weekend, to see the Chronicles of Narnia-the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , which I remember fondly growing up reading. The film didn't disappoint either-it was so lightly Hollywoodised that I hardly noticed, and all the characters were pretty much as I had imagined them so many years ago. What did take me by surprise was

Science Must Destroy Religion

2006-01-03T07:18:00.000+02:00

Another Goody from Sam The distinction between science and religion is not a matter of excluding our ethical intuitions and non-ordinary states of consciousness from our conversation about the world; it is a matter of our being rigorous about what is reasonable to conclude on their basis. Truth there-I have some ideas and experiences with non-ordinary states of consciousness but I lack enough

The One Commandment

2005-12-23T01:59:00.000+02:00

Patently Absurd

2005-12-23T00:51:00.000+02:00

See how many of these you can go through without splitting sides. I have just killed myself; my innards are now laid out on the floor in a neatly arranged but manly mess.

Doonsbury

2005-12-19T21:15:00.000+02:00

Deck the Halls

2005-12-19T15:05:00.000+02:00

I am most surprised that South Africans’ (and South Americans’ and Australasians’) heads don’t explode from the overload ofCognitive Dissonance they must be labouring under at this time of year. There’s the Holly.And the Ivy. There’s the reindeer The Tree And all those bloody Christmas carols going on about In the Deep Midwinter, Rejoice the Son is Born. Whose Son? Her’s,maybe: It

The Neo Pagan Right

2005-12-15T07:52:00.000+02:00

Big Fat Whale posts this send up of the Christian Right, with the rider “This is not an endorsement of neo-pagan hippie bullshit.” attached. I thought it was fun, appropriate and in time for the holidays. Apologies if the strip isn't too clear.You can go read it on the original. Thanks to Jason Pitzl-Waters for the link.

What is Your Animal Personality?

2005-12-09T06:54:00.000+02:00

What Is Your Animal Personality?

The Menace of Faith-Based Unreason

2005-12-08T07:18:00.000+02:00

Sam Harris is at it again He opens in characteristic Harris fashion, with a jab to the guts: Somewhere in the world a man has abducted a little girl. Soon he will rape, torture and kill her. If an atrocity of this kind is not occurring at precisely this moment, it will happen in a few hours, or days at most. Such is the confidence we can draw from the statistical laws that govern the lives of

The Solar System is an Alien Humidor

2005-12-02T07:59:00.000+02:00

2003 EL61,a cigar-shaped object orbiting our sun in the Kuiper Belt- a trans-Plutonian region of the solar system- has thrown up a couple of further surprises. It has at least two moons, one of which is revolving around its primary at an angle of 40 degrees to that of the first, larger moon. 2003 EL61 also rotates on its axis once every 4 hours or so-which may or may not be responsible for

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

2005-11-30T12:39:00.000+02:00

When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory. This is the best idea I've heard. Ever!

Truth be Told

2005-11-28T14:51:00.000+02:00

hypnosis

2005-11-25T10:29:00.000+02:00

Here's an interesting perspective on a NYT article on hynosis. Get your NYT login here.

2005-11-25T08:58:00.000+02:00

All the world is a current

2005-11-23T12:45:00.000+02:00

All theories can be presented, but if somebody jumps up and profess that THE BIG BANG theory is false, the hair on my neck stands up - there are so many assumptions that make up the BBT, that I am going to swallow very hard on such a statement. He does not have a substitute theory for the origin of the universe which makes me wonder how he propose to determine that the BBT is false. I'm not

The Devil is in the Details

2005-11-22T12:16:00.000+02:00

Apparently, it’s not just me who’s noticed an overabundance of Satanic Panic in this country An Aussie newspaper gives a bewildered-sounding account of our demonically-inspired countrymen in Satanism in South Africa The only thing worse than having an enemy is not having one," says University of the Witwatersrand psychologist Gavin Ivey, who has published a paper on the phenomenon. "These guys

Braintec

2005-11-21T20:28:00.000+02:00

By partnering with the leading manufacturers of brain implants, Braintec has been an active participant in the advancement of bio-chemical storage. Neurological leaders identified the need for more accurate stimulation of the amagdale and hypothalamus-area to improve our knowledge of the human brain. Braintec provided the solution through the development of two unique brain implants. By combining

I found Jesus!

2005-11-18T15:56:00.000+02:00

Now you can find him too. Go to the link and make sure you have sound to enjoy the full religious experience.

Malevolent Design?

2005-11-11T12:31:00.000+02:00

Found an interesting online resource todayThe Revealer is concerned with news of the religious. From our perspective, mostly. ‘Us’ being people who think that, frankly, the religious nutjobs are in danger of ending it for all humanity. the possibility of an Evil Designer The Designer who so Intelligently Designed our world, in theory, could be malevolent or capricious just as easily as he

Kul Wahad

2005-11-03T10:22:00.000+02:00

I am profoundly moved. By some musicians, no less. Since this is very unusual for me, I thought I'd better blog it. Gaia Consort . Music for Freethinkers and Pagans. I have purchased their excellent CD 'Evolve'. Actually I bought it for Warren's birthday, but it failed to arrive in the post. Christopher was a gent, and sent me another, which we've just got, in time for my birthday. And

tribalism

2005-10-31T22:37:00.000+02:00

A good read, especially if you’re a disillusioned South African. I had to steal a snippet; At the ethical center of both tribalism and totalitarianism was the ideal of unity, of conformity, of groupthink carried to a point where the interests of the individual barely existed. In his discussion of “totalitarian justice” Popper pointed out that for both Plato and modern totalitarians there was

Darwin Award winner in training

2005-10-31T11:15:00.000+02:00

Oi, we nearly had a Darwin award here, when this poor woman got her face bitten off by a seal. The seal was lying among the rocks and hissed when my mother stroked its face and head," Louise Eliis, 25, Van Tonder's daughter, said from their flat in George on Sunday." "We thought the seal was dying and my mother suggested that we should roll her onto my one-year-old baby, Elouise's blanket and

Terri's Halloween Lecture, Abridged

2005-10-28T09:05:00.000+02:00

This is how a Maypole should look-note the obvious sexual symbolism of it. So, while most of out fellow Seffricans are ignorantly celebrating a festival meant for the start of winter hoarding, we will be out in the woods all night, a-summoning summer in. Just to rub it in, here's a pic of Happy Pagan Dancing, With Clothes On. Warren and I will be aknowledging the marriage of the Goddess and

Prepare to be truly scared ....

2005-10-26T15:01:00.000+02:00

....by thisremote control device for humans recently unveiled in Japan. A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at an NTT research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my ears through my head — either from left to right or right to left, depending on which way the joystick on a remote-control was moved Apparently,

exorcism

2005-10-24T21:56:00.000+02:00

I wrote this for this blog, and I then ended up using it on my personal blog, because I kept getting time-out errors on bloody Blogger, but here it is now, a cross post So I’ve been rather lucky the last few months, in not having had to write too much about the superstitious folk, till yesterday that was, when I caught a glimpse of an article about the 20 year old Farhana being brutally whipped

Bible Krip Notes

2005-10-20T13:08:00.000+02:00

Wondering which religion to turn to for spiritual guidance? Fear no more! Salvation has been summarized into Life’s Little Instruction Book . Now you can understand any religion without having to read its divine scriptures... Not that we thought the religiously inclined ever read anyway....

Desert Faiths Cast Long Shadows

2005-10-18T12:02:00.000+02:00

I know I keep making this point: America, and maybe some of the rest of this poor Pale Blue Dot, is heading for a Theocracy. Unless we of No Good Faith take some kind of stand, that is. Our Liberal upbringings are liable to convince us to stand by while mad religions usurp all power bases, anywhere-as that is what mad religions are particularly good at. In another century, wars were fought

poker

2005-10-11T21:05:00.000+02:00

For nearly two weeks now, I’ve been wondering about these bloody spamming poker sites, and about Google happily classifying their pathetic little press releases as news. This link will take you to one of many (read spam) press releases, apparently the new thing apart from comment spam, RSS feed spam, referrer spam and email spam, is controversial domain name pollution. So for the past few weeks

There Is No God (And You Know It)

2005-10-07T17:08:00.000+02:00

What can I say? The man's good. Go read. There Is No God and You Know It

Fiddlestats

2005-09-21T15:36:00.000+02:00

Murder dropped by 5.6 percent in 2004/5 from the previous financial year, attempted murder by 1.8 percent and serious assault 4.5 percent, it announced in Pretoria. Robbery with aggravating circumstances was 5.5 percent lower and burglary at residential and non-residential premises dropped by 8.1 percent and 13.6 percent respectively. However, Rape increased by four percent over the two

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

2005-09-20T08:02:00.000+02:00

Your Brain's Pattern You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy. You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts. People may say you're hard to read, but that's because you're so internally focused. But when you do share what you're thinking, people are impressed with your imagination.

FluffBunnyAtheist

2005-09-20T06:13:00.000+02:00

Somtimes we forget that the American people have a hell of a lot worse to contend with from their shameless theists. Some days, I can see a very strong picture of the States as painted by Heinlein in his novella part of 'The Day After Tomorrow'...'If This Goes On..."(no, I'm not getting you the link-go find it yourself.It's worth a read.) This 'soft and fuzy atheist' as she describes herself, is

Blasphemy the lesser of two evils

2005-09-19T15:33:00.000+02:00

Goerge Claasen receives hate mail every day. He is the only columnist on Media24 to tackle the insanity referred to as 'religion' by pop culture. He writes about all the things the irreligious love to hate.... Why do people believe weird things? Too many led by 'blind faith' Who says humans are special? Surprisingly, he only received 8% of the votes when readers were asked: 'Which

A Bit Late, I Know...

2005-09-13T11:52:00.000+02:00

1. No Deities Exist 2. A Deity Exists and He is Evil 3. A Deity Exists and He is Incompetent 4. A Deity Exists and He is Irrelevant 5. A Deity Exists and He is Some Combination of 2-4

Teenage Mutant Homo Sapiens

2005-09-09T12:34:00.000+02:00

A collection of mutations-‘variations’ in GeneSpeak-in the locii of a couple of genes may be responsible for much of Mankind’s culture, science and environmental dama…err…dominance. So says Bruce Lahn, a University of Chicago geneticist whose studies appear in Friday's edition of the journal Science. But wait-there’s more! Apparently, we don’t all have the same level of mutated-ness.

re-Discover Science

2005-08-31T19:19:00.000+02:00

I'm not easily impressed, as you all well know. But this site has redefined science for me. Geocentrism rules! Oh, and gravity sucks.

Holy Meatballs, two in one day!

2005-08-29T23:04:00.000+02:00

There must be something in the Sauce. I consumed two plates of the divine food, drank the holy beverage, and I'm posting my second blog entry for today. This is double my previous output. Anyway, click the link to witness the evolution of cretinism. The power of Sauce compels you. The power of Sauce compels you…

Some more info on Him

2005-08-29T21:14:00.000+02:00

While busy with my evening prayers I was suddenly overwhelmed by an incredibly Noodly feeling of love and peace and the need to post this link so that I can share with the world the joy that He has brought me. May the Sauce be with you, Andre

FSM: Give us this day / our daily noodle

2005-08-26T11:57:00.000+02:00

I feel like such groupie, I could not stop myself, I just like so had to report on this boingboing Flying Spaghetti Monster linkfest. Be touched by His Noodly Appendage.

Down Memory Lane

2005-08-26T07:47:00.000+02:00

Being the daughter of a Top Scientist did have it’s advantages. For one thing I got to spend some of my childhood in gorgeous places like Binfield Here’s the village store I used to buy my Dad’s cigarettes at: and here’s the parish church I went to school at: This little memory jag was prompted by the thrilling tale of a haunted house in Binfield, complete with 2-headed-snake –wraith, as

NGK to rule on homosexuality

2005-08-25T14:13:00.001+02:00

On 1 April 2005 the tabloid Die Son published private pictures and allegations of promiscuity in a story supplied to them by Douw Wessels, the ex-lover of NG Church minister Laurie Gaum. That Sunday, sister paper Rapport took the story mainstream, splashing similar pictures of Gaum on its front page. By Monday evening Wessels was dead, having overdosed on pills, and Gaum's personal and

2005-08-25T14:13:00.000+02:00

Civility vs Human Nature

2005-08-24T15:55:00.000+02:00

Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics of All Time

2005-08-24T10:49:00.000+02:00

I wonder if these outfits are religiously inspired?

The Flying Spaghetti Monster

2005-08-23T19:17:00.000+02:00

Can't believe we have not even mentioned my new savior on this blog! Yes that's right I've converted and I'm taking all of you with me. BTW, Boing boing is really getting into this.

Culture Jamming with an Edge

2005-08-23T14:25:00.000+02:00

Is it wrong to vandalise a wall if the wall is illegal in the first place?

The Start of the End of Faith?

2005-08-17T10:44:00.000+02:00

Congregations are losing their religious belief even faster than churches are losing their congregations, according to research published today. That’s according to this article in yesterday’s Grauniad Good news: In houses where only one parent had strong feelings about faith, children were much less likely to believe. On the other hand, two non-religious parents had no trouble passing on their

Strange News in BlogSpace

2005-08-17T06:41:00.000+02:00

Strange news in BlogSpace. My weird and utterly delightful acquaintance, Morbid Muse, has started a blog Miffed Muses , which looks entertaining and particularly Joburg. Go check out the Urban Adventures of Lady Lithium and Princess Prozac, although, there as over here, some people do more blogging than others. On that note, Andre the Awesome Atheist, Morne du Toit thought that I was you

Theories of humour

2005-08-09T19:03:00.000+02:00

Here's a well written article on humour. Indeed, humour is one way of dealing with the fact that humans are “excrement-producing poets and imperfect lovers”, says Appletree Rodden of the University of Tuebingen. He sees religion and humour as different, and perhaps competing, ways for people to accept death and the general unsatisfactoriness of the world. Perhaps that is why, as Dr

...::: QUEST :::...

2005-08-09T18:21:00.000+02:00

Well, Andre, this was your post, really. A groupthink-reprogramming site for Christians, this is, with a plus minus 450-page e-book download, telling the truth about the Bible and Christianity.

hug-a-thon

2005-08-04T20:25:00.000+02:00

I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but we’ve been sharing an infinite amount of divine amusement here at the Annex, for just over a year now. So happy birthday, handjobs all around! I’ve also noticed the stats, and the mind-expanding search terms, like “aphrodisiac moist towelette”, whoa classy! Another round of handjobs! Naturally some people go apeshit when you mention birthdays.

Cheap parlor tricks taken way to serious

2005-08-04T09:15:00.000+02:00

Now Jacaranda FM has an on-air trickster during prime time. She's perfectly credible and was confirmed to be very accurate by all listeners. How on this great rock to you check the credibility of a psychic?

Gay organist sues NG Kerk

2005-08-03T20:14:00.000+02:00

The last ten years we've been living in a democracy, I have, I know, for, as a previously advantaged individual, it meant sacrifices, and we’re not quite there yet, but despite this I feel we are living in a much better environment. Then this kind of bullshite transports me right back to the 80’s when we treated some people as lower life forms: A gay organist is suing an NG Kerk congregation

I'm a Grandmother

2005-08-01T05:35:00.000+02:00

Scylla gave birth to 8 beautiful pups on Warren's birthday, on Friday.

Happy Imbolc (2nd or 7th August 2005)

2005-07-27T06:35:00.000+02:00

Flowing from what Supergirl had to say below, I have to add that most pagans today are fully aware that their gods are created by themselves, and insofar as religion goes, this is pretty healthy. The gods are archetypes and extensions of ourselves-with all the good and evil that that implies. Right, now-Imbolc From the Irish Gaelic meaning in the belly,it is also known as Oimelc, meaning ewe’

What is the difference between the fantasy world of Harry Potter and the fantasy world religions hold up every day to their followers?

2005-07-25T15:12:00.000+02:00

That time again. Glad to see that the Afrikaans (nogal) media has found a rational gem in Chris Claasen.

more of the same

2005-07-17T15:55:00.000+02:00

Seeing Jesus in everyday items is so passé, I mean, like get real, get the internets, get Google Maps!

Woman sees image of Jesus set in stone

2005-07-17T10:57:00.000+02:00

Now I know this is not how it’s done, but I couldn’t help myself I simply had to steal this entire article. This is standup comedian material, expertly composed, with a knee slapping punch line in virtually every paragraph. Woman sees image of Jesus set in stone Sarah Viren Published July 17, 2005 SEABROOK — Cathy Zinante laughs about the woman who spotted

Loon

2005-07-15T06:57:00.000+02:00

I howled like a maniac this morning, seriously disturbing my colleagues. The cause was a comment from Infidel epepke on page 2 of this discussion about..well you'll have to read it for yourselves.I'm not clever enough to try explaining it. You can't be the whole universe, because I'm the whole universe, and I don't want any competition. And if you don't like that, then I'll just sit on you,

It's The God, Stupid!

2005-07-13T09:21:00.000+02:00

Here I was, wondering how long it would take most of us to get the message that religion is an evil we really, really don’t need, when the London bombers handed me this neon sign, complete with whirling crescent-moons. The silly excuses about people born and brought up in extreme poverty shouldn’t still be washing, I think-most suicide bombers appear to hail from middle or upper-middle class