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- The Last Question – Album on Imgur
- Asimov’s classic short story, illustrated.
(tags: asimov science-fiction sci-fi art comics)
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- Who is Ray Preaching To? | Unreasonable Faith
- Unreasonable Faith, via Jesus Needs New PR, present the standard evangelical gospel, "God has made you sick and commands you to be well", presentation from Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron (as a commenter on JNNPR says, Jesus likes C-list celebs, L Ron Hubbard has the A-listers). Vorjack notes Ray is utterly unconvincing wonders who Ray's talking to: my guess is cultural Christians who vaguely accept Ray's premises. Even so "Have you ever told a lie? What does that make you?" invites the response "Have you ever told the truth? What does that make you?", I suppose... Perhaps Ray needs a Bad Arguments post of his own.
(tags: evangelicalism evangelism ray-comfort kirk-cameron christianity religion sin) - On What God Would Do
- A popular response to arguments which say that suffering and evil in the world is evidence that God does not exist is to say that we're not in a position to know that God doesn't have good reasons for allowing the evil/suffering. In "On What God Would Do", Rob Lovering shows that that sort of response to the problem of evil ends up creating problems for arguments in favour of God's existence, since they generally rely on claims about what God would do. Hume got there first, as usual, but Lovering makes it rigourous.
(tags: philosophy religion theodicy evil rob-lovering) - 5 Amazing Things Invented by Donald Duck (Seriously) | Cracked.com
- Donald Duck invented the plot to Inception and a method of raising sunken ships using ping pong balls, apparently.
(tags: comics cracked cartoons inception disney duck)
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- Liberal Conspiracy » Cameron’s Tory critics are deluded beyond belief
- "They cannot see that Cameron had to run the party like that so as to distract attention away from the unreconstructed Thatcherite, homophobic, xenophobic, intensely Euro-sceptic, callous, Christian-fundamentalist loon contingents that make up huge chunks of the Tory grass-roots and Parliamentary party." Spot on, and why I didn't want to vote Conservative despite finding Cameron more impressive than any previous Tory leader: despite the TV debates, it wasn't a US Presidential election, but a vote for a party.
(tags: politics liberal-democrats conservatives election) - Tall Guy Investigates - The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
- An informative comic about the MMR scare.
(tags: science comics mmr journalism health autism medicine vaccine andrew-wakefield)
- Is Obama About To Become Just Another War Criminal?
- "Aghanistan is not a country, it's a criminal enterprise" - Evert Cilliers wonders what America is doing there, a question you might also ask about the UK.
(tags: drugs politics war afghanistan taliban pakistan islam) - George Carlin - Religion is bullshit.
- Carlin's classic routine on religion, in which he tells us how he worships the Sun and Joe Pesci. May be "strident".
(tags: religion video youtube funny atheism humour god carlin comedy) - 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD — By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- The Edge introduces and gives us an excerpt from Goldstein's novel. The 36 arguments (and their rebuttals) are included in the excerpt, handily: the moral argument and the cosmological argument are in there.
(tags: religion philosophy god atheism books morality) - Caveman Science Fiction
- From the same people who brought you "Dungeons and Discourse": Caveman SF.
(tags: comics scifi funny science satire comic humour) - The Open Road London (1927)
- Colour footage of London in 1927. Pretty amazing stuff.
(tags: london video history youtube archive) - Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
- The stories of former Islamists who came back from the brink, and just what went wrong to put them there in the first place. "From the right, there was the brutal nativist cry of "Go back where you came from!" But from the left, there was its mirror-image: a gooey multicultural sense that immigrants didn't want liberal democratic values and should be exempted from them. Again and again, they described how at school they were treated as "the funny foreign child", and told to "explain their customs" to the class. It patronised them into alienation. "
(tags: islam religion politics terrorism culture war hari johann-hari jihad islamism)
The Pain: When will it end?
Dec. 10th, 2007 12:56 amThe Pain is a web-comic which I keep losing and finding again, so I'm mentioning it here so I'll know where to find it, and also because I like it.
The Top Ten on the archives page links to many of my own favourites, like Jesus vs. Jeezus and Scientists Riot!.
The later comics themselves seem less funny than the earlier ones, but the written "Artist's Statement" beneath them is often good stuff. There are reflections on certainty and doubt in What Else They're Calling "Mohammed", lost love and breakups in How to Win Her Back, Christianity and Islam in Contributions of the World's Religions, Part I, and the similarities between the political clout of liberals and evangelicals in Part V.
While I'm here, if you like Roy Zimmerman, you might enjoy the Agnostic Gospel Song.
The Top Ten on the archives page links to many of my own favourites, like Jesus vs. Jeezus and Scientists Riot!.
The later comics themselves seem less funny than the earlier ones, but the written "Artist's Statement" beneath them is often good stuff. There are reflections on certainty and doubt in What Else They're Calling "Mohammed", lost love and breakups in How to Win Her Back, Christianity and Islam in Contributions of the World's Religions, Part I, and the similarities between the political clout of liberals and evangelicals in Part V.
While I'm here, if you like Roy Zimmerman, you might enjoy the Agnostic Gospel Song.
