Non believers who love Brokeback Mountain

[Jer009]

Magician Penn Jillette Says 'God, No!' To Religion

(snip)

Jillette tells NPR's Neal Conan that critics of atheism often assume non-believers are arrogant people, but that's not necessarily true. You may not have to be brave or smart to be an atheist, Jillette says, but you do have to be humble. Atheists don't have all the answers, he writes, but they do have the humility to admit they don't know how the world was created, where humans came from or many of life's other mysteries.

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139676171/magician-penn-jillette-says-god-no-to-god

[desertrat]

Great article! For once, the whole topic made me laugh rather than cry 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fg%2Fa%2F2011%2F09%2F21%2Fnotes092111.DTL

[Jer009]

Major Dowty, Christian, Bullies Non-Believing Subordinates

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As a devout Christian officer, Major Dowty has made it a practice to publicly attack and defame atheist and other non-Christian enlisted service members by name, knowing that they can’t respond to defend themselves because he’s an active duty officer, so it would be insubordinate for them to respond to him.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/11/theres-nothing-in-the-world-more-frightening-than-heavily-armed-men-who-think-theyve-got-god-on-their-side-a-great-many-such.html#ixzz1d2X4F89l

[Jer009]

Christopher Hitchens is Dead at 62

Journalist and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens is dead at 62 of pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer.

The NYT: "...a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq..."

Graydon Carter remembers him at Vanity Fair. Christopher Buckley remembers him over at The New Yorker.


Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/12/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62.html#ixzz1giH6ZMxq

[oilgun]

Christopher Hitchens is Dead at 62

Journalist and outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens is dead at 62 of pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer.

The NYT: "...a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq..."

Graydon Carter remembers him at Vanity Fair. Christopher Buckley remembers him over at The New Yorker.


Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/12/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62.html#ixzz1giH6ZMxq

He's with the angels now.    R.I.P. Christopher Hitchens, you and your excellent writing will be missed.

[oilgun]

Dog Spinning in Bulgaria.
I guess there are dumbfucks everywhere.

"This ancient ritual of pagan origin is performed in order to prevent rabies and is a part of the traditional Kukeri rituals.
"In dog spinning, which is practiced each year at the beginning of March, a man's "best friend" is suspended hight above water on a rope. The dog is wound up into a rope, then released so that the dog spins rapidly as rope unwinds, and the dog falls into the water".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZAYEtxYjSg