Russell's Teapot

See also: Flying Spaghetti Monster, Dragon in my Garage, Invisible Pink Unicorn.

Penn & Teller on the Bible

If You Could Reason with Religious People...

Science vs. Faith (A Flow Chart)

Intelligent Design Explained

Pat Condell: Why Does Faith Deserve Respect?

Christopher Hitchens

On Jerry Falwell:






I thoroughly recommend Hitchens' book.

Kissing Hank's Ass

I love "Kissing Hank's Ass."

http://www.jhuger.com/kisshank.php

This adaptation isn't awful, but I like reading the original better.


PDF version (for sharing on paper)

The Easter Bunny is Just Silly...

A Moral Pillar of Society

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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (Touched by God)

BBC documentary embedded below:

"Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy.

Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why people like Rudi and Gwen saw what they did has opened up a whole field of brain science: neurotheology.

The connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and religious feeling has led one Canadian scientist to try stimulating them. (They are near your ears.) 80% of Dr Michael Persinger's experimental subjects report that an artificial magnetic field focused on those brain areas gives them a feeling of 'not being alone'. Some of them describe it as a religious sensation.
"...a high probability [Ellen White] had temporal lobe epilepsy"
Prof Gregory Holmes, Dartmouth Medical School

His work raises the prospect that we are programmed to believe in god, that faith is a mental ability humans have developed or been given. And temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) could help unlock the mystery."

The Great Pumpkin

Christopher Hitchens on Q TV

"Writer, political commentator and author of 'god is not Great' sits down with host Jian Ghomeshi to kick around the idea of adding three new commandments to the ten commandments."

Tah-Dah!

Religion