Last night, I was watching a rerun of The X Files, and the Smoking Man said something that started me thinking. Here is a snippet of dialog from the episode I saw:
Smoking Man: “Well that doesn’t matter. Most of them have ceased to believe in god.”
Jeremiah Smith: “Why?”
Smoking Man: “Because god presents them with […]
Since I started writing this blog, I’ve begun to see religion everywhere. It’s in the politician’s speech. It’s in the tiny gold cross around a stranger’s neck. It’s there when someone sneezes. It’s the basis for half of the stories on the evening news. Well, last night I watched three […]
A few months ago, I read a fabulous article entitled “Are the Desert People Winning?” in Discover magazine. I then totally forgot to post about it. I remembered it today, so here it is. If you are a subscriber, it can be read on the Discover site. Since most of you […]
I would assert (and I’m certainly not the first to say this) that the only effective way to combat the teaching of intelligent design in science classes is to clearly demonstrate that it is not science. The rational are overwhelmingly outnumbered by the superstitious, so attacking the truth of the theory will get us […]
It’s less than two months now until the night on which the devil turns America’s children into ghouls and goblins and inspires them to viciously mutilate poor unsuspecting pumpkins with sacrificial knives. I’m speaking, of course, of Halloween. This characterization is right in line with the views of Jack Chick, cartoonist for the […]
