Bay of Fundie

I just discovered a great short story over at Atheist Ethicist, entitled “A Perspective on the Pledge”. It puts the Pledge controversy in a different light. I highly recommend you check it out. He also has a PDF version you can download and pass out to all of your annoying relatives. Here’s just one of [...]

In light of the Catholic League’s “successful boycott” of The Golden Compass, I thought it would be worthwhile to see this parody of a controversy that arose over The Life of Brian (via Pharyngula): (YouTube page is here.) For more background on the controversy over the earlier film, here’s a good excerpt from Always Look [...]

The Pope can stop this movie! (Image from Comic Book Resources) The Golden Compass got mostly negative reviews. I haven’t seen it myself, but the consensus, even among freethinkers, is that the movie is at least somewhat disappointing. That’s too bad. The commercials looked good. I wanted to see that Coca-Cola polar bear kick some [...]

Lowe’s Holiday Trees in 2006 (Image from the incorrectly-named Religious Freedom Coalition) I heard recently that Pat Robertson had told his minions to not get so upset over Christmas trees being referred to as “holiday trees” and other ridiculous terms. I actually disagree with him. It’s not surprising that I disagree with Robertson. It’s just [...]

(Image from Silly Puppets) Thanks to PZ Myers for pointing me to an article on the website of Archaeology magazine. It’s called “Raiders of the Faux Ark” by Eric H. Cline, who is a real biblical archaeologist. The article addresses the problem that the field of biblical archaeology has many crackpots, cranks, and kooks. The [...]

Chronic fundie doofus Bill Johnson was on CNN last Friday talking about under-dressed mannequins. You can see the video here (You’ll have to watch a 15-second commercial first.). BJ matches wits (if it can even be considered a match) with Debbie Wolf. CNN says she’s with “Americans Against Censorship”. No such group exists. That’s one [...]

(Image from That’s Life in the City.) Fundie “news” site One News Now is always reporting one moral outrage or another. A recent article is titled “Family activist says studies show damaging effects of porn use”. Legal adult pornography, in most cases, appears to have little in the way of negative consequences to society. Therefore, [...]

Stan Smith sharing a tender moment with the couch. Last Sunday’s American Dad was custom made to piss off the fundies. I expected to get an irate email today from BJ, popping a blood vessel in his brain over the episode. He disappointed me. Not a word. Maybe he was too busy being seduced by [...]