FIR against rationalist for questioning ‘miracle’ Man files complaint against Sanal Edamaruku who dismissed water dripping from Jesus statue as due to capillary action, saying he had made statements against the Church Jyoti Punwani Mumbai was the birthplace of the Indian Rationalist Association (IRA), founded in 1930 by Mumbaikar R P Paranjpe. Almost [...]
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Miracle Mongering Catholic Fascists Persecute Freethinker
Posted: April 22, 2012 in Catholic Fascists, Catholic Inquisition, Catholic Intolerance, Catholic Power, Catholic Priests, Censorship, Indian Rationalist Association, Religious scammers, Science, SuperstitionTags: capillary action, Catholic Church, divine flame, Giordano Bruno, Human Rights, Jesus, Mumbai, rationalist international, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Sanal, Sanal Edamaruku, Superstition, Television program, velankanni church
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How Prayer Really Works
Posted: January 25, 2012 in God Delusion, Religious Delusion, SuperstitionTags: Christian, Christianity, God, Irrational Thinking, Jesus, Prayer, Purpose, Record chart, Religion and Spirituality, Religious Delusion, Superstition
The Power of Prayer This simple chart provides a fairly accurate description of why prayer serves no real purpose. Assuming that the god at which religious believers are directing their prayers has some sort of plan for them, as most Christians insist, prayer is either redundant or futile. If one’s prayer happens to coincide with the [...]
Belief in Elves vs Belief in Gods?
Posted: January 7, 2012 in Belief in Elves, Belief In Gods, God Delusion, SuperstitionTags: Belief, Elf, Erlendur Haraldsson, Huldufólk, Iceland, Icelanders, Pétur Pétursson, University of Iceland
Belief in Elves vs. Belief in Gods – Is One More Reasonable or More Rational? Is Belief in God More Rational than Belief in Elves? By Austin Cline, About.com Guide Comparisons to belief in elves or fairies to belief in gods are frequently used by atheists either as an argument about why belief in gods [...]
Hitler Was God’s Chosen Hunter: Hunting Jews! Claims Crazy For God John Hagee!
Posted: October 12, 2011 in Christian Zionism, Dominionists, Fascists & Zionists, Fundamentalism, God, God Crazies, God nuts, Gullible Christians, Hitler, John Hagee, Nazi Style Propaganda, Religion, Religious Insanity, Religious Kooks, Religious Psychos, Religious Racketeers, Religious Right, Religious Right Crusaders, Right Wing, Right Wing Buffoons, Right Wing Zionist, Superstition, Theocon, Theocon Fascists, Theocons, TheocracyTags: Adolf Hitler, Christian fascism, Christian right, Christian Zionists, Fundamentalism, Jews, John Hagee, Kooks, Right Wing, Right Wing Culture Wars, Right Wing Extremism, Right Wing Populism, Theocon Fascism
The Religious Right habitually camouflages it’s nefarious Christian Nationalist Worldview behind a phoney “pro-Israel” facade. Religious fanatic John Hagee believes god sent Hitler to exterminate Jews and thus, as act and prophetic directive of his god, obviously a righteous and just genocide. Like Catholic Hitler, John Hagee believes that unless Jews are converted to his [...]
Religious Rights Republican Crusaders
Posted: September 14, 2011 in American Fascism, American Right, Religious Right, Religious Right Crusaders, Right Wing, Right Wing Culture Wars, Right Wing Extremism, Separation of Church and State, Superstition, Theocon Fascists, TheoconsTags: American Right, Fundamentalism, Right Wing Culture Wars, Right Wing Extremism, Theocon Fascism, Theocratic Supremacism
The Christian right‘s “dominionist” strategy By Sarah Posner Reuters/Richard Carson Rick Perry An article in the Texas Observer last month about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s relationship with followers of a little-known neo-Pentecostal movement sparked a frenzied reaction from many commentators: Dominionism! Spiritual warfare! Strange prophecies! All the attention came in the weeks before and after [...]
The Religious Mind; a Disgrace to the Human Species
Posted: February 5, 2011 in God nuts, Richard Dawkins, SuperstitionTags: Atheism, Evolution, God, Richard Dawkins, Species
A short video clip in which Richard Dawkins talks about evolution (about which he has written great books), and the utter impossibility of arguing rationally with a person who subscribes to religious credulity.
