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Thursday
May272010

Things Atheists Did Not Do...

A pedophile priest, not an atheist, claimed he was only giving his victim anatomy lessons.

Muslims in Pakistan stoned a Christian man to death.  His crime?  Drinking tea at a roadside stall that was designated for Muslims only.

When a Christian church that tortured a gay teen via an exorcism to rid him of his faggy demon was criticized for their stupidity, Dr Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission slammed the critics, accusing them of intolerance.

An Oregon couple let their 15 month child die of pneumonia, refusing medical treatment and praying for her instead.  If her parents had been atheists she would be alive right now.

A orthodox Jewish couple are suing their neighbors, claiming that an automatic hall light, which is triggered by people entering the hall, imprisons them in their apartment.  This, they claim, prevents them from leaving on the Sabbath.  If they were atheists instead of idiots they could leave whenever they want.

Eight people drowned a 22 year old mother of two trying to lift a curse from her.  She would have been much better off with atheist friends.

An Islamic woman starved one of her children to death, after torturing her, because she thought she was possessed.  Her other five children were seriously malnourished.  Too bad her mother wasn’t an atheist.

Fr. Alphonse de Valk has declared that Atheism is a threat to civilization.  If he were an atheist he’d be smarter than that.  Not to be outdone, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor has declared that atheists are not fully human.

Opening a dialog between religions may not be a good idea.  Ernest McCullough, a Christan, got into an argument about religion with a Muslim, who ended the debate by shooting him in the leg.

In Maryland, a woman starved her son to death because he wouldn’t say Amen.  She’s expecting him to be resurrected.  That hasn’t happened so far.  Yet another child who would have been much better off with atheist parents.

In India at least 50 people went blind staring into the sun looking for an image of the Virgin Mary.  Atheists are never blinded by the light.

When a woman with an atheist boyfriend asked Pat Robertson for advice about finding a middle ground with her atheist boyfriend, Pat told her to break up with him because he’s “serving the devil.”

In India a “Hindu Taliban” is attacking women for drinking in bars and dressing inappropriately, including those wearing bathing suits at the beach and t-shirts with pictures of their deities on them.  There are no reports of atheists beating up women over religion.

In Afghanistan a Mullah who spoke out against suicide attacks was murdered by other members of his "religion of peace".

In Russia two Jehovah’s Witnesses went on a murder spree killing 13 people to rid the world of sin.  (They should have just become vampires.)

In India two seven year old girls were married to frogs to prevent the disease outbreaks in the village.  Atheists don’t advocate girl-frog marriage.

A pretty sixteen year old girl was stabbed to death by her Muslim brother for listening to rock and roll and wearing makeup.  He stabbed her 26 times.  He was preserving the family honor.
Tuesday
May252010

Loony Professor Claims Equation Proves the Existence of God!

The President of the First Coast Freethought Society and Northeast Florida United Coalition of Reason media representative, Earl Coggins; as well as JAM member and Northeast Florida United Coalition of Reason media representative for the St. Augustine Atheist and Freethinker group, Shawn Liu, were both recently interviewed by Chauncy Glover of Action News Jacksonville.

The story revolves around the Tulane University Professor who claims to have a mathematical proof for the existence of god. Dr. Frank Tipler is a Mathematics Professor at Tulane and his preposterous claim was published in an underwhelming book (The Physics of Christianity)  in 2007.
"We have a simple very straight forward proof of the existence of God," says Dr. Frank Tipler.  He claims he has made a divine discovery.

"It is not possible to divorce theology from science without throwing out Christianity," added Tipler.


Dr. Tipler explains his theory by saying "The singularity is outside of space a time is the ultimate uncaused of everything. therefore the initial singularity is God. Christianity has a way to say that this quote in time, is at this point God, the father will be all and all, the whole universe is moving into God."

Which is clearly a lot of Pseudo-scientific gibberish to anyone with even the most remote understanding of Astrophysics, math or logic. I will say kudos to Chauncy Glover for being unbiased enough to present a fair and balanced view of the story.  (Imagine having two nonreligious views represented!) Still, I hardly see how this ridiculous claim should be deemed news worthy. Personally, I feel anyone who could seriously pose such an absurd theory should not only be removed from the University, but stripped of his Ph.D and his teaching credentials. I am sure he'd be able to find a fine job teaching mythology as a Priest or a Pastor with the other loons, but such patent nonsense has no place in an institution of higher learning.

See the interview below: