Bad Puppy Love
You bring a puppy home. She’s adorable! You can see the love in her eyes. But she chews things. And she pees on the floor. You’ll tolerate that for a while. Because you can see the love in her eyes. A year later, she still pees on the floor and eats your shoes. She flunked […]
Please Follow Me To Utopia
We can all agree that people are great. Right? I know I’m pretty great. Most of the time. Unless I’m driving or shopping or conversing or interacting with other people. By myself, I’m great. Which is the central dogma of the Freedom From Religion people: Just ignore the first sentence about moral progress being brought […]
The Church of Hit You With A Club
This is probably my favorite scene from 2001. It’s got everything you really want from a movie… …if you want monkeys beating each other to death with bones. Every time I see this scene, I have the same thought. Wow! Religion makes all the difference! You look confused. So I’ll explain. Two rival […]
Deafness, Ear Candles, Breast Pumps and Celebrity Scandals
This Episode: The kids help me decide what to do about my hearing loss. Over at McKinney’s today we discuss hearing loss. I suggest we clean my ears immediately and they ignore me. There is talk of ear candles. Mandy drags out her breast pump and IT’S PINK! Mandy and I discuss the celebrity scandals […]
How To Build A Proper Straw Man
Most people don’t recognize a strawman. Here’s one: Okay, that one was pretty easy. There is another kind of strawman that shows up during disagreements… …or arguments if you prefer. A straw man is when you set up a distorted version of an argument to argue against. Here are some examples: Other Person says: “Gun […]
BOMBSHELL: King Tut Didn’t Exist
Remember King Tut? The alleged Egyptian Pharoah? When I was in grade school, I went on a field trip to see the artifacts recovered from Tut’s tomb. I thought King Tut was a historical person. But now I know better! He was made up by ancient Egyptians! Obviously. The Egyptians didn’t want to appear […]
BOMBSHELL: Nobody Invented The Automobile!
There is some disagreement regarding who invented the first automobile. On the short list are these names: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Robert Anderson Karl Friedrich Benz George Baldwin Selden Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler Charles Edgar Duryea Elwood Haynes This is a dilemma for sure! Fortunately, we can use atheist reasoning to solve the mystery. There is more than […]
Christian VIP, Crapholes and Artificial Intelligence
Peaches delivers her baby (not recorded on the podcast). We discuss whether or not there are VIPs in church. Donald Trump’s latest offense is discussed and we decide it’s not really that offensive. Collin buys a Tie Fighter. Then we veer into a discussion about artificial intelligence. Peaches sent me a video (which I didn’t […]
Nothing To Add To This
Found this post in an email this morning. I have no comments that will improve it. “My daughter Lydia was watching Bo while I was in the shower. Came out to this. If she didn’t have a guitar I don’t know if she would know how to babysit him. This is her go to. It’s […]
So Outraged
Trying to explain to myself why I’m upset with Donald Trump.