Apr

30

Fark Theist Fun

April 30, 2009 by Brandon | 6 Comments

If you have some time on your hands, check out this thread I’ve been posting to. Specifically, we’re looking at a guy named “kerpal32″. We have about 10 pages of dialogue with him… well, if you want to call his comments a dialogue.

The link is to the second page of the thread, where kerpal32 jumps in.

I’m skinnyartist on Fark.



Apr

28

Switching Religions Is Pervasive

April 28, 2009 by Brandon | 7 Comments

In America, a study has shown that about half of the adult population has changed their religious faith at least once in their lives.

The article discussing the study is pretty cut and dry, but it has some interesting statistics in there.



Apr

26

Apparently since 2006, it’s been a requirement in Germany to take secular ethics classes in schools. Great idea.

But that didn’t make some people happy, and so they proposed giving students the choice of taking secular ethics or a religion course. Religion is most areas in Germany is a mandated course, and I’m all for that, actually. I think it’s important to teach people about religion; not just Christianity, obviously, but all the world religions. The more people know about the history of these religions, the more I think they’ll be able to see them for what they are. Berlin, it appears, is worried that a religion course could be hijacked to teach predominately Christian values, and that doesn’t go over well with the strongly secular city, not to mention the large Muslim and Turkish population that resides there.

The proposition was defeated, though, and in this case I do agree that it should have been defeated. I don’t think the religion course should be able to be taken in place of the secular ethics course. They should be taught side by side. More over, I agree that the odds suggest that this class would have been used as a launching pad for teaching just Christianity rather than a platform for discussing the differences and histories of the various world religions.



Apr

26

It’s In The Dictionary

April 26, 2009 by Brandon | 2 Comments

batshit crazy [bat-shit krey-zee] -zi⋅er, -zi⋅est, noun, plural -zies.

–adjective

1.    A level of insanity that “crazy” alone cannot justify, requiring a nonsensical prefix to illustrate just how crazy it is.

2.    Utah County Republicans.



Apr

23

A Wisconsin school has been hit with a lawsuit from several students and parents due to the fact that the school holds its annual graduation ceremony in a local church.

The school has been doing this for the past nine years without so much as a peep, but now a group of students and parents, along with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, are pressuring the school with legal action if they hold the ceremony in the Elmbrook Church.

Apparently, this isn’t your simple little local church. Their site, www.elmbrook.org, describes the church as “non-denominational.” It’s classified as a megachurch, too, and it even has its own Wikipedia article that states, “Weekly church attendance averages 7,000, making it the largest church in Wisconsin and one of the 100-largest churches in the United States.”

In any event, I’m not even sure why this is up for debate. It should be obvious, without complaints from students and parents, that a megachurch is not the place to hold your high school’s graduation ceremony. Even if the school doesn’t explicitly say that it endorses the church’s beliefs, it suggests it when you force your students to graduate under a massive cross while forcing the family and friends to sit in church pews with Bibles and hymn books in front of them.



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The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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