The latest Carnival of the Godless is up over at Disillusioned Words. Go check it out.

Unlike past carnivals, I didn’t submit anything of my own. Instead, you’ll find ParrotLover’s “God Did Not Make Klingons”. It’s the best thing to appear on this site in the last two weeks, so read it if you haven’t already.

My favorite article of this carnival is “Let There Be Light” at A Dark and Sinister Force for Good. I had never seen this site before. I knew I was going to love it when I read the About page. The blog’s author, who goes by the nom de plume “Archvillain”, says this about himself:

Among many other unpleasant traits, I am extremely intolerant of stupidity. I have no problem whatsoever heaping scorn upon inexcusably stupid ideas — or even good ideas poorly or stupidly presented.

That’s when I knew I’d found a good blog.

Archvillain writes in “Let There Be Light”:

Pointing out the ignorance and stupidity of the willfully ignorant and stupid is not impolite or cruel, it is a necessity. It is also a survival mechanism for our civilization. Allowing outspoken stupidity to go unchallenged is to be complicit in its ascendancy. I, for one, will not be a party to the destruction of our civilization and society at the hands of the religious barbarians in our midst.

I would also like to draw your attention to “Random Book Review: What Do You Care What Other People Think” over at Frank the Financially Savvy Atheist. He reviews one of Richard Feynman’s autobiographies. Feynman was a huge influence on me (through his first autobiography, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman) at a critical age. Even though I never met him, he’s one of the few people who largely shaped who I am today (but please don’t blame him for Bay of Fundie. You can thank my extremist relatives for that!).

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