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This website. Whatever they are, it’s hilarious. I give up. KIDZ: ATHEISTS MIGHT EAT YOU! RUN AWAY! Click on the goat’s head for some funny comments. “Hey kid, wanna read some Ayn Rand?” I don’t *think* I look like that in the morning, but I do love sleeping in on Sundays! And this cute little [...]
Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. What’s the point? 1. Evangelicals are constantly mischaracterizing non-theists. We need to listen and [...]
What are they doing to these poor kids (besides early indoctrination) down at the Tacoma Rescue Mission?! I mean, I appreciate that they help people, but why is that help always with the requirement of religion? Why are they not just selflessly helping, rather than making these kids recite scripture, proselytizing to them, and indoctrinating [...]
Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. The circles I run in include a fair number of recovering fundies — people [...]
Usually, I have a lot of respect for Charles Blow. But I think he misses the point. Is choir singing, the picnic, and the holiday play really worth snuggling up to a lie? Incidentally, we do have picnics. We also have community. We have monthly breakfasts, movie nights, book clubs, charity events (book wrapping, blood [...]
Now don’t all run out and get them — leave some for the rest of us!
How come no one tipped me to this, which I found on FriendlyAtheist? I teach public school at the 8th grade level in Tacoma, WA. Yesterday after school, I noticed a number of older men outside the school handing out Bibles to my 10 to 14-year-old students as they left the building, many of the [...]