Tag Archives: atheism

Is Jay Michaelson ignoring the Bible, too?

by Zinnia — 5 May 2012

In his now-infamous remarks at the National High School Journalism Conference, Dan Savage made two crucial points: that the Bible says some terrible things, and that we can choose to ignore these things because they are terrible. Though the resulting … Continue reading →

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The false dichotomy of the afterlife

by Zinnia — 8 March 2012

It's fairly straightforward to point out that belief in an afterlife can have the effect of devaluing this life, causing various misconceptions about its purpose, and influencing people to act for the sake of an imagined eternity that will never … Continue reading →

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A Morality Tale

by Zinnia — 8 February 2012

If you're not a believer, you may be perplexed When you see how they treat their most sacred of texts Interpreted, twisted, distorted, and flexed, Their exegesis leaves us feeling quite vexed For whenever you quote what their holy book … Continue reading →

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Let's stop appropriating Jesus

by Zinnia — 19 January 2012

Whenever a self-proclaimed Christian says or does something that's particularly ignorant, hateful or inhumane, it can be pretty tempting to reply: "So that's what Jesus would do?" I know I've done it before. It's quite a satisfying thing to say, … Continue reading →

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I bet I can find at least one good reason for what I do

by Zinnia — 19 September 2010

Hi, Aaron. As you've probably come to expect of me, I'm just going to jump right into analyzing some of the things you said. Your central point appears to be that my videos make no difference - that they fail … Continue reading →

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