Who enjoys life more?
Continuing with my them of the popular Atheist slogan…
I think I handled the “There’s probably no God” reasonably enough in my last post. Now for an intelligent exposition of the second half…
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.
The phrase implies that those that believe in God… A) worry and B) don’t enjoy life.
It is said that the person with the [...]
There are probably no atheists…
The first of the Atheist Bus messages have now started rolling out across Britain, the most popular being:
“There’s probably no God so stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
The “probably” just cracks me up. It’s as if the non-theists responsible for the slogans aren’t totally convinced themselves. Imagine if John 3:16 read:
“God probably loved the world so much [...]
Free Willy?
Many years ago I watched old documentary footage showing a blue whale being slowly bitten to death by a pod of killer whales. It had a lasting impact on me as ever since then I’ve always regarded them as extremely dangerous (perhaps the 70’s Jaws ripoff ‘Orca’ influenced me a tad also).
I couldn’t find the footage on youtube but [...]
First they came…
“First they came …” is a popular poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I [...]
Evolution of vampirism: repulsive to romantic
There has been a modern revival of vampirism in recent years. Although AIDS has put a dampener on sucking your girlfriend’s blood, no one can deny there is a growing subculture which embracing everything vampish, and its popularity has spilled over into mainstream pop-culture.
What is modern-day vampirism? Simply, the party by night, sleep by day mentality. Dressing in [...]
