Quick Hitts

As promised, here’s the second half of the TADD list from 2009.  This are culled from the second half of last years leftover bookmarks.  They document all kinds of things things done by believers, from the horrific to the hilarious.
A group of 35 clerics in Saudi Arabia has declared that no woman should ever appear [...]

Someone asked this question on Ask The Atheists.  This was my answer:

A skeptical viewpoint that will make you much less susceptible to scams and rip-offs. You won’t be as likely to risk your health on alternative medicines, fall prey to con-men, swallow the latest pseudoscience scare, etc.
Time. The religious waste an enormous amount of time [...]

I love this guy. After you’ve watched this video, check out the others in his series.

Today is Blasphemy Day because, well, just because.  The religious have a plethora of holidays to choose from, so why shouldn’t atheists, apostates and blasphemers have their own day as well?
The Capital Region Atheists & Agnostics meetup group will be celebrating, of course.  Our dinner table will be decorated with butter sculptures of Christopher Hitchens, [...]

I’ve been collecting these for a while, and there’s so much nonsense and evil done in the name of religion I’m thinking of setting up a separate blog for it.  But until/unless I do, here’s a very incomplete list of things superstitious people have done in the name of their religion, from the silly to [...]

I deal with Christmas differently than most atheists.
I celebrate it. I put up lights and a tree and give gifts and say “Merry Christmas” and mean it. I’ve played Santa Claus on several occasions, with the full costume, enjoyed it, and will probably do it again.
Devout Christians rail against how secular the holiday [...]

Here’s a list of things atheists didn’t do over the past month or so.
An Atheist did not set fire to his 11 year old niece for wearing lipstick. She has burns over 90% of her body and is not expected to survive.
No atheist decreed it was OK to kill the owners of Satellite TV [...]

I recently signed up as a writer for Ask The Atheists, a place for theists and non-theists to discuss the issue like grownups.  Rather than use my moniker “Hittman,” I decided to use you real name to give my replies the appearance of credibility. 
Most of the answers given by most of the writers are [...]

I like to buy from sites that feature lots of customer reviews.  It’s one of the reasons I buy most of my electronic stuff from NewEgg.  (The other reasons: their selection is great, their pricing is excellent and their shipping is amazing.  Hint: pick the very cheapest shipping, and it still usually arrives the next [...]

I was sitting in downtown Atlanta, having a smoke and watching the people go by. This was even more interesting than usual, because it was the middle of DragonCon and quite a few people were in costume.
A man and his daughter walked by wearing this t-shirt:

…which looked much better in real life than it [...]

In this article a fundy evangelist expresses the fear that Atheists are coming after his children. There’s no place on the site to add a comment, so I’ll do it here.
You think we want to convert your kids to atheism? Are you that afraid of us? Well, guess what, Sparky . [...]

Found Here

According to this article by Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, the smarter a person is, the less likely they are to believe in a god
Lynn makes quite a few assumptions in his paper, which compares belief among academics to the general population. The idea that academics are smarter than [...]

Pretend, for a moment, that you don’t believe in Thor, God of Thunder. A columnist, who believes in Thor with his whole heart and soul, does an interview with a well known whack job. The whack job, who also doesn’t believe in Thor, recommends killing babies by clubbing them on the head, then eating [...]