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A Texas Christian couple fled the country after failing to raise a starved child from the dead

In Texas, two church members have fled to Mexico after an anonymous tip was called into the local police that church members had been trying to resurrect a child from the dead. The child reportedly died a week earlier according to NBC News. According to a witness who called the police, [T]old investigators that a [Read More...]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should not be executed and America must abandon capital punishment

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a monster. There is no doubt that this young man is responsible, along with his brother, for the death of four innocent men and women and injuring countless other and ruining an unprecedented amount of lives.When the Tsarnaev brothers set off bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon and then later killed a police officer that resulted in a manhunt and shootout, they endangered the lives of so many Bostonians and the world watched on and wanted these men caught.

Could the recent handling of controversies spell the end of Food Babe? Let’s hope so

Vani Hari, better know as The Food Babe is a fraud.Plain and simple, the work she does is dishonest, not based in science, profit driven and downright dangerous.Armed with nothing more than a degree in computer science, Hari acts as a biologist, nutritionist, toxicologist and medical doctor all while holding zero degrees or training in any of them.

Resurrecting more garbage in A.D. the Series

So last night we saw the second installment of “A.D.”, the TV series dedicated to spreading the myth and half-truths of the biblical account of Jesus of Nazareth’s death, resurrection, and, I’ll have to assume, spread of his ministry. I’ll start by saying a lot of the issues I had with last week’s episode are [Read More...]

Von Daniken’s Delusion: Yahweh the Space Alien

Finally, Von Daniken enters a world I’m quitefamiliar with. In his chapter Was God An Astronaut? heprimarily focuses on the bible, particularly the book of Genesis. As hispast chapters have gone, it’s to no surprise that he takes a very hard, literal understanding of the text in order to develop his arguments. In other cases, [Read More...]

Pepsi and the Creation Museum: Should we care?

So over on Reddit this week a user spotted something funny about an ad for the Creation Museum on the back of a truck.

A.D. the Series is a mishmash of nonsense

I started watching the series A.D. the other night as I was falling asleep. I only caught about fifteen minutes of it, which was enough for me to take to Twitter and voice some complaints. And, upon the suggestion of my friend Dan Arel, I decided to add some more in-depth commentary on the series.About two minutes after the part I fell asleep to, I started to regret that decision.

Atheists are not the most hated group in America, but no one really likes us

Recently, especially since the CNN special on Atheists in America in which American Atheists President David Silverman claimed that atheists are the most hated group in America, a heavy debate has picked up to either support or negate this claim.As it happens, back in July of 2014, I wrote such a piece for AlterNet titled, America's Overwhelming Contempt Toward Atheists and Muslims, and in the piece I looked at a recent survey done by PEW Research that looked at religious demographics and Ame...

The Ark Encounter is hiring again and still discriminating against applicants

Some lessons are never learned.After losing $18,000,000 in tax rebates because of discriminatory hiring practices (and then deleting the said job opening which led to the loss) the Ark Encounter is once again hiring a CAD designer.

Washington Times columnist says Common Core is an ‘Islamic Infiltration Of America’

The Washington Times is a hotbed of conspiracy theory nuts, in fact I had a spat with them last year during the Cosmos series when they believes the show was nothing more than a left-wing conspiracy.Now it seems as though they wish to take on Common Core as an educational standard. The Washington Times published a piece back on April 7, by Fox News Radio analyst Bethany Blankley titled, "Common Core ties to Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia," in which she claims that Common Core standards are an "Is...