By Skeptic on 4/8/2008 1:52 PM

All honest people are agnostic.  This is the statement I am making. Whether you are a believer in god or not, if you are honest with yourself you are an agnostic.  The following is pulled from Dictionary.com:

By Skeptic on 3/27/2008 2:13 PM

Madeline Kara Neumann is dead beacause of of religion. This is the only reason.  I am disgusted when I hear stories like this. In the past it has been Johova's  Witnesses refusing blood transfusions on behalf of their children in the name of some imaginary friend.  These morons who this girl had the misfortune of being the daughter of chose to put their faith in...well, faith. Faith, what a stupid premise.

I do not have faith in anything. I do not have faith in science or in the love of my children or in the sun coming up tommorrow. For these things and all others happenings I have evidence. My children tell me they love me, that is my evidence. The sun has come up on roughly 24 hour intervals for billions of years, that is my evidence(it is repeatable). Insulin was discovered through science and it has saved thousands of lives over most of th Read More »

By Skeptic on 2/15/2008 2:17 PM

In the province I live the government is proposing to remove the Lord ’s Prayer from daily proceedings.  While this is a move which I fully support I cannot help but wonder why is is still being recited as it was removed from public schools 20 or 25 years ago. Of course this move has created much debate among the talk radio crowd and has further highlighted the blatant discriminatory position that many Christians who advocate for the status quo assume. 

Christians, in great numbers seem unable to mount a rational discussion on issues of faith. I guess if you don’t think rationally it would be hard to debate rationally as well.  As faith requires faith and by definition really means accepting something in spite of what anyone else says or contrary evidence it would therefore seem rather diff ... Read More »

By Skeptic on 10/26/2007 7:37 AM

I have a new cause. It may not seem overly important but it is becoming my pet project and it was in know way a conscious decision to take this on but it is a thing that has always kind of bugged me so I am going to mention it when it happens.

I always come across atheists who say things like I became an atheist at the age of 7 or 11 or 25 or even 40.  While this may seem like a valid statement and it correctly implies that the believer has likely given up on a faith based life because of rational thought; here is what bugs me.  This statement puts atheism in the position of choice; it implies that you have always believed because that is the natural state and after much time you have chosen to abandon those beliefs. You made a choice to be an atheist.  This is wrong, you made a choice to be a believer or in many cases the choice was made for you through indoctrination. The fact is atheism is the natural state. Atheist is how you w ... Read More »

By Skeptic on 10/24/2007 9:04 AM

Ben Stein talks nonsense on Bill O'Reilly.

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By Skeptic on 10/10/2007 9:06 AM

So, let me make my somewhat seditious proposal explicit: We should not call ourselves “atheists.” We should not call ourselves “secularists.” We should not call ourselves “humanists,” or “secular humanists,” or “naturalists,” or “skeptics,” or “anti-theists,” or “rationalists,” or “freethinkers,” or “brights.” We should not call ourselves anything. We should go under the radar—for the rest of our lives. And while there, we should be decent, responsible people who destroy bad ideas wherever we find them. -Sam Harris

Recent comments by Sam Harris have made for much discussion in the atheist bloging community. I am wondering what Secular Earth members position is on this.  Where I stand currently (and I am a Sam Harris fan) is against his position. I could be persuaded howev ... Read More »

By Skeptic on 9/28/2007 9:18 AM

defending Dawkins and atheism against an uniformed christian. Read More »

By Skeptic on 9/28/2007 9:13 AM

The cool thing about having administrator permissions on this site is that I get to see what pages people came from.  It is good because I can see what sites are linking to me and then provide reciprocal links. A lot of the visitors to Secular Earth come directly from Google.  One such visitor that occurred yesterday caught my eye.  Somewhere in Canada somebody went to www.google.ca and searched on “secular view of the flood”. Surprisingly Secular Earth comes up number 4 on that search.

Now I am glad to see that somebody may be questioning their faith to the point that the ... Read More »

By Skeptic on 9/19/2007 7:25 AM

The HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine is now beginning to be offered to all grade 8 girls in Ontario public schools and this would of course be with the permission of the parents. HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer so it stands to reason that this vaccine could prevent most cases of cervical cancer later in life. Although to most readers this would seem like common sense, it is not because the catholic church has gotten involved and when religion is involved common sense takes a back seat.

While listening to a talk radio show this morning on my commute I heard this vaccination program described this way: “Once again the secularists are forc ... Read More »

By Skeptic on 9/19/2007 7:00 AM

John Tory the leader of the opposition and aspiring Premiere of the province made a statement about his full funding for religious schools proposal that is disturbing to say the least. Don’t get me wrong, I would defend anyone’s right to believe in god or worship as they see fit. While I don’t think it is entirely rational; you can think what you want. However, belief in god does not need to go hand in hand with a ridiculous story like Genesis, Adam and Eve, seven days, a giant boat and a flood. Not to mention humans coexisting with dinosaurs like some Flintstones episode. Read More »