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Simple Graphics Monk
It had to happen sooner or later. SGM was set upon so frequently by life’s insults that taking refuge in the Tao plainly offered the best option. The least you could do is give up your seat for him....
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Eppur si muove
I snapped this sign in front of St Paul’s Cathedral, in inner city Melbourne last week. The duplicity of the intent here is only eclipsed by its inanity. Professor Nancey Murphy is the author of ‘Did...
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Thank GOD for God!
OK, as I said a couple of days back, in this post, and possibly the next, I’m going to take a critical look at the Transforming Melbourne document entitled ‘The Vital Role of the Church and Christian...
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Researchers at the Cornell Creative Machine Lab came up with the brilliant idea of getting Cleverbot, their ‘intelligent’ chat program, to engage with its own doppelganger. Clever Clogs: meet Clever...
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Misinforming Melbourne Part 2
OK, well, as I hinted in the first part of my examination of Transforming Melbourne‘s hysterical Christian diatribe, I’ve saved the most misleading and offensive portion of it until last. As I’ve been...
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How Religious People See Atheists
Atheists are the most hated minority group in America. From About.com: Lead researcher of the University of Minnesota Study on American Attitudes Towards Atheists & Atheism, Penny Edgell said that...
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[...Deconstructing the Transforming Melbourne document - continued from here. This is the longest post, but also contains the nastiest material. Charitable Christians? Not in this town.] Their...
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They’re Out There Man!
You’re right, there’s no proof… but there’s no proof of Jesus… Sometimes I just love teh internetz!
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Jesus and the Fig Tree
Tetherd Cow Ahead Presents: The Baffling Bible Episode #5: Jesus and the Fig Tree When I was a kid in Sunday School, I learned lots about the life of Jesus. I knew the stories of the Sermon on the...
View ArticleFright Factor 10
As you know, Faithful Acowlytes, I am quite fond of Halloween, and I like to do something a little… ‘spooky’, for you all each year as the holiday approaches. This year I have spooked even myself....
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Matthew 7:3
Still (briefly) on the topic of the disintegration of the world’s political and financial structures, I note that the media is carrying a story this morning about the Vatican’s concern about global...
View ArticleThunderbirds are Go
You know, I reckon that if Jesus could have looked forward in time to all the things for which he’d be responsible, he’d have stayed in the carpentry workshop and carved out a career making sideboards...
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It Ain’t Necessarily So
I am genuinely curious about how human minds work. I am particularly curious about how religious minds work, because they seem to be able to quite easily hold multiple contradictions simultaneously,...
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Religion’s Big Whimper
CERN, in Geneva, has been holding over the last few days a conference called ‘The Big Bang and the interfaces of knowledge: towards a common language?’ Decoding this for you: it’s a convening of...
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Oh My Goodness – the Chips!
Yesterday I was blissfully unaware that I was living in dire peril of Saurians chipping my heart. Today, the scales have fallen from my eyes. Yes, my friends, the Infernal Saurians want control of...
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The Lie of Pi
Like a bunch of other people I recently saw Ang Lee’s screen interpretation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. I thought the film was pretty good – a decent cinematic imagining of the tale, even if it did...
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