By the 1970s, however, liberals had changed the meaning to represent people who favored abortion and identical roles or quotas for women in the military and in society as a whole. Specifically, a modern feminist tends to: * believe that there are no meaningful differences between men and women (The most significant belief underlying contemporary [...]

Over the summer, I was convicted of anti-gay hate speech. The most incredible thing about it was that I never set foot in Canada. The conviction happened while I was in Colorado. But the offense took place almost 15 years ago. In the 1990s, a friend of mine announced that he was divorcing his wife [...]

God Dies God Dies by Frances Farmer (1931) No one ever came to me and said, “You’re a fool. There isn’t such a thing as God. Somebody’s been stuffing you.” It wasn’t a murder. I think God just died of old age. And when I realized that he wasn’t any more, it didn’t shock me. [...]

An interesting article I found. Dear Christian, I am an atheist… By Alegria – Dear Christian, I am an atheist, that is, from Greek, ‘a-theos’, meaning, ‘without a God’. I do not believe in your God, nor do I believe in the Son/Younger God, or the Holy Spirit/Deceased God(?). I do not believe in Hell, [...]

Music is an excellent way to express ourselves, isn’t it? And since I listen to heavy metal a lot, I felt like sharing this really cool song, from the long-halted thrash metal band Dark Angel. Quoted below the following video is the song’s lyrics — about how it is pointless to entrust ourselves with faith [...]

Welcome to the first edition of Fundie Ramblings! Every week from now, I, Greenworld, will compile some of the most outrageous things religious fundamentalists say on the Internet. I hope you’ll enjoy reading through these. Does this make it official that it’s no longer a democracy or was that an obvious  a long time ago? [...]

A Message to Those Praying for Christopher Hitchens On behalf of Christopher Hitchens, who thinks all of this skydaddy talk is ridiculous, thanks to all of you who wrote in to Goldblog to report that they would be praying for him as he undergoes treatment for esophageal cancer (you can hear him talk about his [...]

Gillard won’t play religion card Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she has no intention of pretending to believe in God to attract religiously-inclined voters. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd was a regular at Canberra church services and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is known as a devout Catholic. In contrast, Ms Gillard says that while she [...]

Militant atheist Harry Taylor hit with ASBO for offensive images in John Lennon airport A MILITANT atheist who put grossly offensive religious images in a prayer room at Liverpool’s John Lennon airport was hit with a five-year ASBO. But Harry Taylor, 59, claimed he felt faint and had to be given first aid after he [...]