I had originally planned on posting some really kickass video from Reason TV, but I was blindsided by PajamasMedia.  This is truly demoralizing and defies any sense of reason or liberty: Libertarians Need to Rethink Support for Drug Legalization. Why? Here’s what happened: guy was getting arrested, freaked out because he was carrying a bag [...]

Face to Faith: However, shamanism cannot be described as a religion or a faith. No faith is needed in a visionary experience; in these states, the individual receives direct personal experience of the divine, becoming unified with their own subconscious and with the rest of the universe. In a timeless moment you realise that God [...]

We are born to believe in God ATHEISM really may be fighting against nature: humans have been hardwired by evolution to believe in God, scientists have suggested. The idea has emerged from studies of the way children’s brains develop and of the workings of the brain during religious experiences. They suggest that during evolution groups [...]

How celestials assist humanity with extraterrestrial life Numerous individual testimonies and historical records describing physical contact with extraterrestrial life refer to highly developed ethical beings often witnessed in association with extraterrestrials. In contrast to extraterrestrials, these beings do not appear to be dependent on technologies for communication and travel. These highly developed ethical beings have [...]

Texas public schools required to teach Bible this year WHITEHOUSE, TX (KLTV) – The school year is almost here, and if literature of the Bible is not already offered in your child’s school, it will be this fall. Books are a common sight in classrooms around the nation, but the Bible is one book that [...]

Smiley Face Atheists: Survey Finds Non-Believers to Be Upbeat Now, however, comes word that could give the godless reason to smile — if they aren’t already: A new study of some 5,800 non-believers reports that contrary to popular conceptions of atheists as crabby misanthropes, they in fact tend to be as happy as their believing [...]

Atheists choose ‘de-baptism’ to renounce childhood faith Up until last summer, Jennifer Gray of Columbus, Ohio, considered herself “a weak Christian” whose baptism at age 11 in a Kentucky church came to mean less and less to her as she gradually lost faith in God. Then the 32-year-old medical transcriptionist took a decisive step, one [...]

I am hungover and putzing around on facebook. There are more kooks out there than I had expected.

Paleontology and Creationism Meet but don’t Mesh PETERSBURG, Ky. — Tamaki Sato was confused by the dinosaur exhibit. The placards described the various dinosaurs as originating from different geological periods — the stegosaurus from the Upper Jurassic, the heterodontosaurus from the Lower Jurassic, the velociraptor from the Upper Cretaceous — yet in each case, the [...]

From RightWingWatch: WHEREAS, the people of Oklahoma have a strong tradition of reliance upon the Creator of the Universe; and A tradition kept most everywhere. Since the dawn of human imagination. WHEREAS, we believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national moral crisis; and Economic woes are caused by moral crisis, not by [...]