Monthly Archives: April 2010

My unremarkable loss of faith story

Posted on April 28, 2010 by

I have been unofficially appointed “God columnist” for this magazine. Don’t ask me how that happened, because I don’t even believe in it. God, that is. It’s not quite right for me to use gender-specific pronouns when speaking of what, … Continue reading →

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I’m getting my daughter one of these when she’s eight

Posted on April 26, 2010 by

BlagHag’s Atheist Barbie (ok the no pants thing we can discuss).

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Some of the old tricks

Posted on April 25, 2010 by

I used to play around on ramps like this when I was a tyke. Then gave up skating when I went to college, like so many, and never went back to it. I was even embarrassed by my past as … Continue reading →

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National Day of Prayer is such a bad idea

Posted on April 24, 2010 by

I’m not even sure I can find the words – without offending almost everyone I know – to describe why this is such a bad idea. “What is so offensive about God?” It’s this kind of question that creates atheists. … Continue reading →

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Mario Dell’Arco

Posted on April 23, 2010 by

No, I haven’t stopped blogging. But I do have a life. Among the many things I manage to pack into the twenty-four measly hours of a day, I translate poetry. Since I’m working on a manuscript, the blog logically goes … Continue reading →

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I don’t usually do this, but…

Posted on April 19, 2010 by

…I’m going to now, because this is so damn funny I want everyone I know and don’t know – Democrat, Republican, Dino, Rino – to read it. Spot on, as they say in the UK. Via Tom Bissell. A day … Continue reading →

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James Randi on Homeopathy

Posted on April 18, 2010 by

I confess I didn’t realize it was World Homeopathy Awareness Week 2010. The Amazing Randi has the story.

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Leaving the Flock

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

Paul Constant has an enraged plea for excommunication in The Stranger. Constant writes: I demand to be excommunicated because I do not believe women are second-class citizens. I demand to be excommunicated because your missionaries are informing impoverished citizens of … Continue reading →

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L’Affaire Babini

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

An interesting development in the Babini affair is the content of the monsignor’s retraction. He denies having ever said anything anti-Semitic. “Certain words have been attributed to me which I never said…about my brothers the Jews.” There is fuzziness surrounding … Continue reading →

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A Zionist Plot to Bring Down the Church

Posted on April 11, 2010 by

It just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. After Father Cantalamessa’s embarassing blather about the Church being the victim of anti-Semitism, now it’s Monsignor Babini of Grosseto’s turn to make the Vatican turn red. In an interview with the medieval website … Continue reading →

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