The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a Scientology front group that has put out a documentary called Making A Killing: The Untold Story Of Psychotropic Drugging.
The CCHR also runs the infamous “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” museum in Hollywood.
The documentary, much like the museum and it’s travelling display version, are full of ad-hominems, non-sequiturs, straw-man arguments and various other logical fallacies.
Enjoy the crap-ola.
We’ve recently been introduced to Derek Chatwood, having accidentally appropriated his artwork for a Topic Agnostic story on creationism. That’s how authentic his vintage-style comic book artwork is; it appears to be an honest-to-god hilariously Jesus-loving kid’s colouring book.
Turns out you can buy high quality prints of some of this artwork online; we’re fond of Jesus! vs Darwin! and Beginner’s Bible Coloring Book, the aforementioned pilfered image.
It’s been pilfered into the big time of street art as well - check out what looks like a back alley wheatpaste in Bellingham, WA, of the iconic ‘Jesus Riding a Dinosaur’ image. In the vein of Shep Fairey, this image stands on its own even without the context from which it came, but the impossible creationist juxtaposition communicates & provokes more thought than a baleful Andre.
Phil Plait shows why science is so cool. What has religion given us lately besides suicide bombers?
Richard Dawkins shows how the too-common argument that atheistic “values” leads to acts such as those perpetrated by people like Hitler and Stalin, is one big, huge, non-sequitur.
The nation’s capital is locked in a battle over Canada’s eternal souls. OC Transpo rejected the Freethought Association of Canada’s “stop worrying” bus campaign last week, though brave and fabulous “transit committee chairman Alex Cullen had attempted to overturn the decision and pledged to bring it to city council in early March as a separate motion.”
Ottawa’s dedicated humanists will keep fighting the decision.
Fears are the ads will spark community debate. Of course, that’s what they’re intended to do. The real problem is that religious folks can only hold on to their power if no one thinks about god’s existence.
To be clear, the ’stop worrying’ ads are intended to console and inspire nonbelievers who feel intimidated andoppressed by their workplace, family, friends or society into keeping quiet about their atheism. That camaraderie is the point of the ad: “stop worrying and enjoy your life” is intended for atheists who are struggling with social isolation.
Suggestions that this is ‘hate’ are kind of ridiculous, kind of not. No, the public statement that there is no god isn’t terribly tolerant, but it’s not ‘hating’ \ on the religious; it merely points out that they’re unlikely to be right in their worldview, so don’t worry about it. Acknowledging an error in reason or information is not hate, it’s knowledge.
Donations are accepted through AtheistBus.ca, and you can talk about the situation on their forum.
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To mark Darwin’s birthday, AM640 radio in Toronto had a quick discussion about evolution and creation between evangelical minister Ray Comfort (the atheists nightmare banana guy) and Scott Campbell, a member of the Centre for Inquiry.
Scott hammered it home, and really showed that Ray has no idea what evolution really is.
Why Ray Was Wrong
Why Scott Was Right
You can listen to the discussion here…
Seriously, this is the 21st Century!
A recent bushfire disaster in Australia has been blamed on, get this, legalized abortion.
Yep, this is another one of those whack jobs that equate any natural disaster with the vengeance of God.
The Catch the Fire Ministries has tried to blame the bushfires disaster on laws decriminalising abortion in Victoria.
The evangelical church’s leader, Pastor Danny Nalliah, claimed he had a dream about raging fires on October 21 last year and that he woke with “a flash from the Spirit of God: that His conditional protection has been removed from the nation of Australia, in particular Victoria, for approving the slaughter of innocent children in the womb”.
Here’s my question for someone that makes a claim such as this… PROVE IT.
And they will try, with their Bible. After all, the Bible is full of examples of the vengeance of God, killing innocent children (first born of Egypt) and demanding obedience or he’ll bitch slap you to hell.
But the Pastor doesn’t stop there, oh no…
He had previously said drought and the world financial crisis could be partly blamed on human sin.
At this point shouldn’t we just blame every random thing on human sin? How about hangnails, how about back pains; are those punishments from your “just” God because of human sin? What about that whole Jesus thing where he forgives sin? Guess that doesn’t apply here. Howe about those faithful people that are affected by Gods wrath because of other peoples sins? Can’t God tell the difference between the good people and the bad people? Even Santa has a list!
If this is the way your God operates, I want no part of it.
While we mainly focus on news stories here at Topic Agnostic, occasionally a blog post will catch out attention.
A self-described “Recovering Mormon” wrote a story that she swears is true, relayed to her from her homosexual friend. This friend recently had a conversation with a former female high school acquaintance. She is in her thirties and unmarried, which carries somewhat of a stigma in the Mormon culture since marriage is so heavily emphasis.
It seems that this female friend, called “Molly”, had been having dreams about this former friend “Tommy”, and that she had talked with her bishop about these dreams. Mormons believe in modern day, personal revelation, and sometime a dream can be taken to be as such. The bishop encouraged her to talk to Tommy about it.
The ensuing phone call is quite interesting, and you can check out the blog for full details. Tommy tells her that he is gay and in a happy relationship, and that’s when the cognitive dissodence kicks in. After hearing this new information about who she thought was her eternal companion being gay, she says this…
I really think we are meant to be. In my Patriarchal Blessing it says that I met my eternal companion in the pre-existence and that if he doesn’t make the right choices I will be alone. Are you willing to make the right choices, Tommy? Are you willing to use the Atonement? Are you willing to erase your sin so that we can be together? Because… I’d be willing to help you work through it.
For the uninitiated, a Patriarchal blessing is kind of like a custom tarot card reading. The Patriarch for the area, usually an elderly male, puts his hands on the persons head and gives a blessing, which is supposed to be a revelation from God that the person receiving it can and should guide their life by. It is looked at as authoritative and very sacred, so it has to be right! God has decreed it!
Unfortunately for Molly, this Blessing is no more authoritative than any other cold or warm reading done by a pretend physic “talking to the dead”. While the participants in these blessing are no doubt sincere, the sincerity doesn’t make up for the true nature of it; a nice fuzzy message made up by the person giving it.
I had personally given many blessing during my time in the church, and I was sincere in everyone of them. Sometimes I felt like it was coming directly from God, sometimes not. The mind is a mysterious machine and if we really want something to be true, it can manifest that for us; that has been shown over and over.
So this nice lady, Molly, is guiding her life and basing her happiness (in this instance anyways) on a dream and on a blessing; neither of which can be shown to be the product of any supernatural being giving messages to his children. It is a product of our own minds, which can be influenced by our wants and desires.
How much better would it be for her, instead of finding someone that fits this preconceived notion of a mate set out in a blessing, that she would be open to all possibilities when looking for a suitable mate. How much happier would she be.
Long legs and skittish behavior are recently evolved traits that allow fence lizards in the southeastern U.S. to co-exist with lethal and invasive fire ants, according to a new study.
Over the course of about 70 years, these fence lizards evolved to have longer legs to protect themselves from the fire ants, which would attack their under belly. The longer legs allow them to shrug the ants off.
Observable, verified evolution over the course of only 70 years. I thought that God created all creatues as is?
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