anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: Praying For A Discount
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2014/08/praying-for-discount.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Praying For A Discount. On the BBC web site caught my attention. It seems a diner in North Carolina was offering 15% discounts to customers who visibly prayed over their meals or before being served. While some Christians might think this is such a wonderful thing, I can't help but think what's to stop nonreligious customers, once they hear of the discount, from engaging in phony prayers just to knock 15% off their tab? Dispatches Fro...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: August 2014
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2014_08_01_archive.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Ebola The Gay and Atheist Away. Via Right Wing Watch comes this report. Of a Christian wingnut named Rick Wiles, who has a radio program called Trunews. While I am sure I have heard of him before, nothing he said stuck in my memory. Well, I will certainly remember him now. On his program, Wiles said ". 8221; He then went on to say, among other things, “. I just looked a moment ago on his website. To see if perhaps there was a press re...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: The Importance of Skepticism
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-importance-of-skepticism.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Sunday, August 03, 2014. The Importance of Skepticism. The atheist/skeptic community quite naturally focuses the majority of its attention on religious claims, and for good reason. However, a healthy skepticism is vitally important on other facets of our lives as well. Several years ago, we received a letter in the mail from the People To People Ambassador Program. We, along with other parents and children in attendance, entered the auditorium and listened to ...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: Shit Anti-Choicers Say - The Gift From God
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2012/10/shit-anti-choicers-say-gift-from-god.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Saturday, October 06, 2012. Shit Anti-Choicers Say - The Gift From God. The October 2, 2012 edition of Newsday, Long Island's major newspaper, featured a letter-to-the-editor from a Marc de Venoge, who decried what he refers to as "[d]ecades of values-free. government and school policies" that "fail to treat the root cause" of teenage pregnancy. The solution, according to de Venoge, is "to teach the basic notion that. any pregnancy is a God-created gift. A man...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: The Baby Jesus Was Watching Over You
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-baby-jesus-was-watching-over-you.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Sunday, August 03, 2014. The Baby Jesus Was Watching Over You. As I have mentioned before, Facebook is a gold mine of religious silliness for an atheist blogger. Some months ago, a friend from high school shared on Facebook a traffic incident that she had experienced. She was driving on a dark road somewhere out in eastern Suffolk County in inclement weather when the car ahead of her lost control, spun around, and narrowly avoided colliding with her. What gets...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: October 2013
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2013_10_01_archive.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Friday, October 18, 2013. The Dauis Church Part 2. Those of you who follow the news may have saw or read about the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. This past October 15, with the epicenter of the quake being the center of the island of Bohol. The good news, to cut to the chase, is that the family there are safe and unhurt. The house of my sister-in-law Mia and her husband Stuart was badly damaged and is un...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: The Dauis Church
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2008/01/dauis-church.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Wednesday, January 23, 2008. My wife's sister Mia was married in this church on June 26, 2004, and I took this photo after the ceremony was concluded, if memory serves. Unfortunately, the church being over 200 years old, it did not have air conditioning! My son, who was only three at the time, had a major tantrum after the mass had ended, having to suffer through the ceremony in a tuxedo. 8:39 AM, January 24, 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Open Thre...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: The Dauis Church Part 2
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-dauis-church-part-2.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Friday, October 18, 2013. The Dauis Church Part 2. Those of you who follow the news may have saw or read about the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. This past October 15, with the epicenter of the quake being the center of the island of Bohol. The good news, to cut to the chase, is that the family there are safe and unhurt. The house of my sister-in-law Mia and her husband Stuart was badly damaged and is un...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: More Shit Anti-Choicers Say and Some Shit Pro-Choicers Say
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-shit-anti-choicers-say-and-some.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Sunday, March 23, 2014. More Shit Anti-Choicers Say and Some Shit Pro-Choicers Say. This picks up on a post I did. About a year and half ago about the anti-choice line that pregnancies are a "gift from God.". In reading comments that anti-choicers leave on posts that deal with the subject of abortion, there are a number of common arguments I see them make that are flat out dishonest or wrong. Here they are with my response to them. What if the woman were in an...
anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Exercise in Futility: January 2014
http://anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html
Living the active outdoor atheist lifestyle. Sunday, January 26, 2014. Dealing With An Even More Figurative Grenade With The Pin Pulled Out. Sorry, but I couldn't help making an allusion to a now infamous post by PZ Myers on his Pharyngula blog in which he shared allegations from a woman who claimed to have been raped by a famous person in the skeptic community a few years earlier. That broke out there in 1998. How could the Indonesian-Chinese community be sure that such a terrible thing couldn't hap...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT