Religious Criticism

“11Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. 12I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.”

Is your donation to the Salvation Army supporting an evangelical church that hates homosexuals and Harry Potter..? Everyone knows the Salvation Army. Whether it’s the secondhand goods at their thrift stores or their collection kettles outside department stores, the Salvation Army is ubiquitous to the holiday season. However, the Salvation Army’s virulent opposition to gay [...]

From an episode of Sleek Geeks on Australia’s ABC, Rhys Muldoon and Benita Collings leave you with a reading from Revelations that will make you re-assess children’s television: This reading comes at the end of Episode 4 of Season 2, a show entitled “Apocalypse”. The episode dealt with popular apocalyptic predictions, such as the 2012 [...]

From The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black (aka Mark Booth) (pg 285): The two Gospels with infancy narratives, Luke and Matthew, give very different, indeed inconsistent, accounts, starting with the different genealogies ascribed to Jesus, the time and place of the births, and the visit by the shepherds in Luke and the [...]

This is the full speech by Richard Dawkins at the “Protest The Pope” rally, 18th September 2010. “Original sin means that from the moment we are born, we are wicked, corrupt, damned, unless we believe in their god, or unless we fall for the carrot of heaven and the stick of hell. That is the [...]

@guerillamonk Atheism shouldn’t be about insulting believers. It should be about empowering people to get off their knees and recognize their own potential @thesimonevans Poached eggs, toasted English muffin, Hollandaise sauce, concealment of paedophiles, ham. #EggsBenedict @CynicalAtheist If god is so perfect, then how would you explain Nickelback? @RickWarren Bookburning is cowardly act by those [...]

Not everyone is happy in their religion. Not every believer is at ease in the mosque or in the church or even in their dreams. They pretend to believe more than they do, for various reasons, but this is not the same as not beleiving at all. They doubt, but with that doubt comes fear, [...]

I try not to pay too much attention to American politics, primarily because I’m not an American, but also it’s just depressing. When you start getting into the fine print, it begins to look like a bad episode of The Simpsons. The current trending topic of ridiculousness is, of course, the California Marriage Protection Act, [...]

I was listening to a couple of Christians discuss science over the weekend, which is always entertaining, but in this instance, it did get me thinking. The pair weren’t all that sure on any of the specifics, but the gist of it was this: it’s a miracle that we exist here in this little corner [...]

I’ve found myself reading up on research into the origins of the old testament and I’ve made some pretty startling discoveries; discoveries that modern day churches either don’t want to tell their congregation, or they simply don’t know (or don’t want to know). I’m looking forward to sharing them with you here!   Genesis 1:26 [...]