Mike Tidmus

“Recently, atheists met at a conference in Copenhagen and released what they call their “Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life,” which really means they released their statement of faith and their declaration against Christianity … These atheists think they can indoctrinate the public by their statements, but many are awake (and hopefully this blog [...]

Welcome to United States of Jesus Christ (video: iloveJesus420 at YouTube) Real smart. Teaching American students to neither think nor reason is such a good idea. This pervasive aversion to critical thinking might explain stuff like this: “[A] new Marist poll finds that more than a quarter – 26 percent – of Americans polled couldn’t [...]

Instead of giving the evidence for evolution, Richard Dawkins wants to see the evidence for God (video: Colbert Nation)

Rachel likes her evolution with a side of carbs … (Video: YouTube, via Greta Christina’s Blog) It appears Rachel Maddow has been touched by His noodly appendage, because Ms Maddow devoted a portion of her Darwin Day show to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), including a shout out to the Prophet, all praise [...]

Sir David Attenborough presents Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, a BBC special (Video: NatureVideoChannel via YouTube) RichardDawkins.net points to the video above, in which legendary British television presenter and naturalist Sir David Attenborough explains how the Bible has placed the planet in peril. Readers might recall that Attenborough has been receiving threats and hate mail from angry [...]

Sir David Attenborough in a still from Life in Cold Blood (Photo: BBC/PA) Riazat Butt, the Guardian’s religious affairs correspondent, reports this morning that noted naturalist and beloved BBC television presenter Sir David Attenborough receives hate mail from those who believe Earth is a mere six thousand years old and Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs. [...]

The Beast has taken a big old bite out of a whole bunch of really distasteful people who made its 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2008 list. I could easily have come up with several substitutes! Bounce on over and find out who made Numero Uno, you might be surprised because he/she/it doesn’t rhyme with [...]

Here are two more must-reads on the publicity-driven pop-pastor. Nobody turns a phrase or twists a knife quite like Christopher Hitchens. In a piece at Slate called Shame on You, Rick Warren, Hitchens all but embalms Warren for, among other things, his staged Road to Damascus moment: And a shame, too, that on Inauguration Day we [...]

Darwinists flock to the site of the sacred stain (Photo: The Onion) Those clever, clever writers at The Onion have more fun than an ark full of dinosaurs and monkeys! From The Onion: DAYTON, TN—A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image [...]

American politics and religion : Oh the rocky horror of it all! (Photo: The Rocky Horror Picture Show) Religious Right Watch points to a provocative piece at Salon.com, in which Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan, calls a theocrat a theocrat, whether Muslim or Christian, and [...]