Jewish Atheist http://thejewishatheist.com Jewish Atheist is a resource, meeting place and forum for those who want to live humanistic lives without God. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:11:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fuck Facebook (updated) You are Not a Gadget, highly recommended) as the “hive mind.” The highly aggregated billions of bits begin to have a slug-like intelligence of their own, collecting and distributing all manner of personal data according to its secret algorithms. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=398 Bible’s overrated reputation goes on and on http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=462 The existential message of “Groundhog Day” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=206 We have more important things to worry about than “dumbing down.” (Part II) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=461 We have more important things to worry about than “dumbing down.” (Part I) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=460 “We’re not living up to our state motto.” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=459 On the ignorance of arguments against liberty http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=458 In memoriam, Martin Luther King, Jr.: 44 years later, Blacks still enslaved http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=200 Granite State ready for its moment in the sun (or: why “Live Free or Die” is false advertising) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=457 Another Year, Another Jazzmas http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=456 On Death and Christopher Hitchens davening (rocking back and forth as they chant their prayers), and I see African natives dancing around a fire, Aztec priests tearing the hearts out of sacrificial victims, Greek oracles spouting arcane nonsense. It’s all the same: magical words drive magical thinking. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=455 The real miracle of Christmas http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=190 Happy Hanukkah – sort of http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=181 The (Incentivized) Compassionate Society http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=454 In memoriam: Jimmy Heimlich http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=453 PS. on Presidential God-talk http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=452 (1) Religious Funnies III: God wants us to create jobs. (2) Not so funny (3) Shopples http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=451 “Churches use their marquees to search out souls” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=450 Religious Funnies I: Is Heaven a Hilton – or more like a Marriott? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=449 Letter to the editor: The government is not your friend. http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=448 Reply to Carly’s bat mitzvah invitation (not sent) — updated w/PS http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=302 In Memoriam: Andy Rooney Pieces of my Mind, a book of Rooney’s essays, generally consisting of “things I think about a certain topic.” They were truly “essays,” in the original, etymological sense of ‘a trying’ of one’s thought processes around a certain subject. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=447 Sexual Harassment and the Mark of Cain http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=446 Veterans’ Day, 2011 – Not for MY freedom http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=167 We are only temporary inhabitants here. http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=445 White man’s burden/Tales of the South Pacific (post-nuclear version) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=444 Grand Rabbi Korff is full of…well, korff http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=443 Herman Cain is not my brother. http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=442 The Case of the Purloined Carpet Padding http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=441 “Occupy EVERYTHING”?? Then what? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=440 Belated Yom Kippur thoughts; HH/365 http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=439 Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? (updated) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=430 What is so goddamned great about Social Security? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=438 The freedom to annoy: getting busted for calling an answering machine a cunt http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=421 OF COURSE there should be no cell phones in class – DUH! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=437 Three Things I Think I (Maybe) Know about 9/11 http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=436 On Religious Repression http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=435 Labor Day, 2011: Who wants a job? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=434 More Freedom, More Money – But No Takers: One Reason Why Libertarians* Don’t Get Elected (Part I) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=433 Reconsidering Ron Paul http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=432 Mayor Bloomberg, please stop speaking Spanish! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=431 What actually happens in college classrooms? (Students’ POV — Part I). http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=429 Media deletion of liberty’s messenger is unconscionable. http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=428 Naps and Face-Time: Bosses must wake up to the realities of humane management http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=219 Birthday Thoughts of an August 9 Child (rev. and updated) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=393 On microprocessors and neurons http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=427 Farewell to false friends/the power of groupthink http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=426 FDA screws up again, causing much suffering and even death (again) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=425 4th of July Once Again a Bittersweet Holiday for Lovers of Liberty http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=95 Men Everywhere – Even Amish Men – Crave Love and Affection http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=424 Nanny state addicted to tobacco persecution http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=423 Reason Day http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=291 This blog entry is guaranteed 100% Wiener-pun-free. http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=422 Father’s Day, 2011: Remembering Bill Perlman http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=420 Self-immolation in America http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=419 Happy Belated Flag Day http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=418 Mormon President? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=408 On gods and natural disasters http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=417 Memorial Day, 2011: not for MY freedom http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=79 Why are there prostitutes? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=226 End of world postponed again http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=401 Noam Chomsky: the most overrated mind of the 20th century http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=416 The hills are alive…with the screams of torture. Centipede is conceptual (and I'm aware that the results of freedom are sometimes distasteful). First I saw S/P and thought that Matt/Trey had crossed some kind of line. Soon after I find that real people thought of it. I could find no reference to Nazi experiments; even the Nazis couldn’t imagine this. Real people enacted it, filmed it, viewed it, and gave it AWARDS. Anonymous web comments were variants of "I can hardly wait to see it." ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=415 For new visitors: The essential Jewish Atheist http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=146 Happy Easter, bloody Easter http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=60 On gods and governments http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=413 Happy 4/20! On Liberty and Drugs, which I heartily recommend, Thomas Szasz points out the historical relationship between the two meanings of pharmak-, ‘scapegoat’ and ‘remedy.’ After all, scapegoating was the way to rid the tribe of all its evils. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=374 Why is liberty such a hard sell? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=412 Permanent governmment shutdown http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=411 Koran is burned; Muslim puppets riot http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=410 Letter to Felix the accountant, 2011 http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=239 On “thinking outside the box” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=409 Why you should store your farts in a jar OR Let’s hear it for the 21st century! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=407 Intervention: foreign oil addiction But it is unconscionable to burn fossil fuel for amusement. No society that is serious about fuel conservation and energy independence can burn this much gasoline for amusement. How many gallons of irreplaceable fossil fuel will be vaporized during this racing season? The Indy 500 (1-2 miles/gallon) must use thousands upon thousands of gallons. Daytona, NASCAR, I can’t even begin to name them all…there’s immense social approval for it, as well as lots of logos and money (and with Danica Patrick, sex), so gentlepeople, start your engines. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=379 Live Free or Die http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=406 P.S. on Civil Rights Day http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=405 (By no means the last word) On Jewishness http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=404 Desperately seeking approval: overt and covert reasons for the adult bar mitzvah mitzvoth all become exceedingly observant – strictly keeping all 613 commandments; more likely, the ceremony is a one-off. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=403 Into the meat grinder: War, glorious war! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=402 Santa Claus and the Evolution of Fantasy http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=336 Humanistic fellowship, Festivus, and the rest of us http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=186 Reply to aspiring corporate communicator http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=400 So many believers, so little time http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=399 Deepak Digs Deeper, Shows Mastery of Marketing http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=397 The Ignorance of Religion http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=396 An Open Letter to Tea Partiers and Other Patriots (updated) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=321 The cult of one billion: is it too late? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=91 Sept. 11, 2010 http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=320 High Holidays 365 http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=322 Bye Bye, Chi/Live Free or Die http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=395 To the Greedy MF’er Trying to Buy My House: A Cri de Coeur from the Underwater Multitudes (with Addendum) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=394 A peek into the believer’s brain http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=392 The Battle for Zachary’s Brain http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=391 Channeling Michael Jackson http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=390 Secular Wisdom updated http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=389 Wedding RSVP, not (yet) sent http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=388 Supreme Court: No Judicial Experience? No Problem! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=387 Greek Orthodox Poo-bah gets secular humanism all wrong! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=386 In Memoriam, George Carlin, d. June 23, 2008: The deconstruction of bullshit http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=268 Oil Spill, Day 57: Environmental hypocrites http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=297 City wins championship; sport-as-religion behavior in abundance http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=385 The goddamned DUMBEST solution to the indefinite pronoun problem I have EVER seen (and from linguists, yet) I, you, or we; enough already with she and smug, self-conscious political correctness. Your pronoun usage is not a sign of your enlightenment. Be a little creative and avoid the problem. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=384 D-Day, 2010 http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=84 Rand Paul’s Critics Don’t Understand the L-word (updated) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=383 Let’s Get Going on Draw Muhammad Day! (And supplementary project) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=376 Creating Skeptics: Why Every Kid Should Have a Teacher Like Matt Lowry http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=382 Report from Highland Park, Current Vortex of PC http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=381 Affirmative Action: New Low http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=380 Guest writer: On Children, Monsters, and Magic http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=378 Deep Gluteal Therapy and the Love of Angels http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=377 Death to Bullies http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=303 A Pious Jewish Prick http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=375 The World According to Gates http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=373 “Getting Back to God” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=372 Not Ready for Liberty, May Never Be http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=371 Scrabble is Dumbed Down; Depth of Dumbth Increases http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=370 Urgent flocking: the pilgrimage to fulfillment http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=369 On Coming Out http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=368 A truly Humanistic Passover Seder: Final draft http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=224 Drugs, lies, and politicians http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=367 PS on Twitter: A response to the Fear of Fears http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=366 Let my people go! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=365 Extreme makeover: notes on a truly Humanistic Passover http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=223 Encounter with a fanatic http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=364 The J.S.S.F.W. Concept of the Torah http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=363 “I can’t afford the Twitter.” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=362 Memo to Toyoda-san: A real Samurai would fall on his sword (rev.) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=361 Suggested Obama foreign policy Toronto speech draft http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=360 Another jihadi crashes plane into building jihadi, a striver, a struggler. And a martyr. He gave up on this world as irremediably broken and corrupt. But the key difference: Muslims blow themselves up for the sake of a religious fantasy. He did it because he refused to stop confronting reality. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=359 Valentine’s Day 2010: Love and Death http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=279 Denied tenure, she opens fire http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=358 Destroying the earth for our amusement It is unconscionable to burn fossil fuel for amusement. No society that is serious about fuel conservation can burn this much gasoline for amusement. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=272 Suggested Obama foreign policy speech draft http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=356 On “f***ing retarded” REtard is undergoing a watering-down process. Retarded has moved on, weakened, generalized, become a general term of opprobrium. That's how it was used in the offending expression. The speaker was not talking about the feebleminded (an archaic term which I like). Retarded can now apply to ANY person, thing or idea. If a person, then it means 'insentitive,' 'naive,' 'elementary in his/her thinking,' 'lacking acuity,' 'not up to speed/snuff in some way.' Applied to ideas, it means 'obvious,' 'simplistically stupid,' 'impractical for obvious reasons,' or even 'archaic' (the retarded idea that women should stay home and have babies). ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=357 The meat thinks: On (Un)Certainty; why religion is ineradicable; a Modest Proposal http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=355 Third Party: Now’s the Time, America http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=354 “No Negro Dialect” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=353 Memo to Obama re rhetoric (revised) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=352 More Humanist Holidays! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=349 Suggested New Year’s resolution: Live YOUR life http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=192 Minarets: Scary Symbols and Noisome Nuisances http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=351 What Would YOU Like from Santa? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=350 Tiger, Tiger burning bright* (edited) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=347 Aftermath of the Tobacco Wars: Civil Disobedience in the 21st Century http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=348 Targets of Flesh http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=346 Thanksgiving 365 http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=345 The Skeptic’s Burden: Yes, Kendrick, it IS worth it. http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=344 Oprah is my shepherd; I shall not want http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=343 Intervention of a fanatic http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=342 Observing the Sabbath: Give it a rest! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=341 Beyond fun linguistics http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=340 Race Relations and the Affirmative Action Presidency http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=338 Another child lost http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=339 Paying for Praying http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=337 Follow-up: Allah and all gods are impotent or out to lunch http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=335 Desecrating the Quran; Pictures of Mohammed http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=334 Secular humanist religion: daily practice http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=31 Shedding of the burden of God (newly revised) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=39 Existential Baby Boom Divorce Boom? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=331 Bosses’ Day, 2009: Caligula’s boast, bad bosses, and Secular Humanism in the workplace Forbes, 2/21/94). ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=121 To Forgive or Not to Forgive: A Rational/Humanist Perspective http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=329 Another Olympic Grinch Speaks Out http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=328 RIP Saturn (1984-2009): The Little Car that Might Have Been http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=327 Critiquing Ratzo’s rhetoric (with guest blogger!): World’s leading fantasy merchant visits Czech Republic http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=326 Out of Afghanistan/The Ease of Killing http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=325 Blasphemy Day: What humanists believe in http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=94 YOM KIPPUR: THE CHALLENGE TO HUMANISTS http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=141 Blasphemy Day: Out of the Closet http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=324 GM reborn? Again? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=323 A Really Troubling Shortage http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=308 The Queen of Chicago http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=319 On Killing and Basterds http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=318 Ted Kennedy, Liberal Tapeworm http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=317 End urban violence? End the drug war! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=316 Liberal Epiphany: Camille Paglia finally gets it! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=309 What the F*** Has Happened to Writing? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=306 Birthday thoughts, 2009: War, Suffering, Death http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=307 If Religion Is a Mental Illness, Let’s Treat It http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=305 Holy Places: Restored Religious House of Fantasy Recalls Bad Old Days of Belief Tisha B'Av, which occasionally falls on my birthday. I challenge them to take a good hard look at what those temples represented: primitive, fantasy-based, priest- and rule-donimated, misogynistic, xenophobic Judaism. Something no modern person would identify with. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=304 Let’s ALL make our homes into churches! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=301 Dilbert is Darker these days; so is Capitalism http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=300 Are We Getting Smarter? Depends on What You Mean by “We.” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=299 Jews riot over religious trivia, after centuries of being slaughtered http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=298 Palestinian Kids with AK47’s: Brain, Mind, and Religion DSM-IV, the psychiatrist's Bible of all that can go wrong with the human mind? Religion is officially, medically nothing more than sanctioned insanity.]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=296 Remembering Pops http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=295 Why America is (NOT) a Christian Nation http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=294 July 4: Heartbreaking holiday for lovers of liberty http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=265 Suggested Obama follow-up Mideast speech http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=293 Remembering George Carlin: Three Oxymoronic Words We Can Do Without http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=290 Chimps with nukes http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=289 Flag Day: Missing the Point http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=185 Affirmative Action, “Diversity,” and Racial Guilt http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=165 D-Day +1: Tough Jews and Survival http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=288 Suggested Obama D-Day speech http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=287 How Many Kinds of Jews are There — Really? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=286 Collapse of GM a failure to practice humanistic values http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=285 Litmus Test for Supreme Court Nominee http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=284 The Deadly Mix of Religion and Militarism http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=283 Indy 500: Destroying the planet for our own amusement But it is unconscionable to burn fossil fuel for amusement. No society that is serious about fuel conservation can burn this much gasoline for amusement. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=243 A Walk on the Wild Side: A Peek at Fundie Disdain and Fury. http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=282 Mitzvah creep; Obama killing me softly with his song; psychic scams: Earth Day http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=281 Important Passover concept: dayenu dayenu today or during this Passover, thus making your life easier and bringing yourself closer to nirvana? ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=245 Muslim Awareness Week — no thanks http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=280 GM wants bigger government bailout?! What would Roger think? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=179 Nation gorges on self-congratulation, but we’re not there yet. http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=278 More war, moral dilemma http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=214 Question for believers: And then what? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=276 A New Appreciation of New Age Wacko BS http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=275 On not letting religious nuts off the hook; Batman; and Our Savior http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=274 Hanukkah Rededication: Forward http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=183 The Triumph of Identity Politics; The Bottomlessness of White Guilt http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=273 Election Eve: Learning to listen to – and love – political BS http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=218 Jewish Atheist endorses Bob Barr http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=257 Dedicated to George Carlin II: The power of feel-good words http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=271 Building a Secular Earth http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=270 “Diluting” one’s Jewishness: Max Feinberg’s Nazi eugenics http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=269 On Christie Brinkley’s husband’s porno habit http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=266 In Memoriam, George Carlin: beyond “fun” linguistics http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=264 I confess to having seen “Sex and the City” (R). http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=263 In Memoriam, Tim Russert: an opinion from outside the Beltway http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=262 The single most STUPID drug war atrocity (to date) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=261 $5/gallon gas — can we PLEASE stop burning it for our own amusement? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=253 Obama nominated; orgy of self-congratulation ensues in Affirmative Action Nation http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=260 On forgiveness, rats, and Scott McClellan http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=258 Secular Humanistic Judaism Classic, V: The soul, the self, and why some whites can’t “bring themselves” to vote for Obama http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=256 Secular Humanistic Judaism Classic, IV: Spirituality — Real, Fake, and Humanistic http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=255 Humanistic Judaism Classic, III: God and gods http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=254 Secular Humanistic Judaism Classic, II: A scientific perspective on the ancient texts http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=63 Humanistic Judaism Classic, Part I: The case against theistic religion http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=37 New Hope for America: another libertarian in the race http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=252 On the stupidity of crowds it is not the stupidity of crowds that should guide our lives and our governments, but the wisdom of the individual, the freedom of the individual, the dignity of the individual. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=251 What are you going to do with your crumbs? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=250 Beginning of a dialogue with a believer http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=235 Tom and Jerry: A Secular Humanist view of Black religious demagogues http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=249 The single most hideous drug war death EVER http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=246 Farewell to Humanistic Judaism (as practiced) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=248 On privacy and fascism http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=247 Farewell to “John Adams” – but not to the promise of liberty http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=244 Farewell to Ratzo: The difference between Catholics and Klingons http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=242 Ghostwriting for Ratzo: World’s leading fantasy merchant visits USA http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=241 Why politicians are NOT funny http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=238 Why do middle-aged men kill themselves? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=237 Mixed reviews for Reverend Foley’s life so far: Good works, evil war, and God-babble (rev.) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=231 There’s a special place in hell for Douglas Feith http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=236 Losing Paris and Albania (revised) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=93 McCain’s 100 years in Iraq versus “reintroducing America” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=234 Bless America? Damn America? What’s God got to do with it? en masse ever face this truth? If brave civil rights workers had not stood up to the fire hoses in Selma, Alabama…Jesus or Mary would not have done it for them. Martin Luther King put himself in the line of fire, but Jesus didn’t take the bullet for him. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=233 Watching “John Adams”: it was about LIBERTY! The Road to Serfdom). Thus we have government confiscating 1/6 of our national wealth for farm subsidies, price supports, corporate welfare, Social Security, all manner of government preferences, grants, and handouts, a $40 billion-a-year war against drug use (inflicting grievous harm on America and other nations without limit), and two actual shooting wars, with the potential of skyrocketing taxes and deficits. Foreigners own huge portions of our debt, and we continue to run up the tab. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=232 Reply to Anthony Stanford: Religion loses another; welcome, Anthony! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=230 Contribution to Blogswarm against Theocracy: Religion, politics, and the Vortex of Evil http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=229 Happy anniversary to an American tragedy http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=228 Obama in Philly: Speechwriter’s analysis of an “instant classic” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=227 Heretical remark on “diversity” orthodoxy triggers high-tech lynching http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=225 A Secular Humanist’s Axis of Evil http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=222 On religion, drugs, and the question of whether Moses was stoned http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=221 Oprah and Eckhart launch an O-gasm of BS The God Delusion her book of choice. If their faith is so strong, let it grapple with Dawkins’s mighty doubt. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=220 Another nail in the coffin of Creationism http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=217 Flip-through review of “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose,” by Ekhart Tolle http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=212 It’s official: Obama is definitely a BS artist, maybe a plagiarist http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=216 “Invasion”: Rooting for the aliens http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=215 Darwin Day/How much respect do religious believers deserve? http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=213 The Missin’ Ron Paul Blues; what real change looks like http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=211 Evolution vs. Genesis — no contest http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=210 Idiocracy II: the sequel http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=209 Blogswarm Day of Shame invitation and reply: Colin Powell – Ultimate team player sells out his country http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=208 The many names of God, part two: same old, same old http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=207 Political semantics: Liberal, Conservative, “change,” and other betrayals http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=205 Going to war over P; life lessons from Saddam Hussein http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=204 Mr. Huckabee, tear down that flag! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=203 The many names of God, part one: anticipation, revulsion, and prediction http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=202 Good Jews, bad manners http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=201 Vain sacrifice: John McCain and the glory of war http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=199 The next 9/11 http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=198 Hillary’s veil of tears http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=197 Paul withdrawal http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=196 Benazir Bhutto is dead. ENOUGH! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=195 Bounteous opium crop could be great news – but not today http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=194 On Benazir Bhutto, Will Smith, and good and evil http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=191 Got ink! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=189 Happy Eid! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=188 An infinity of synapses: Music, God, and the brain http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=187 Idiocracy 2: the sequel http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=184 Latest from Willard/Mitt: “Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom.” http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=182 Praisin’ Jesus: gospel music, religious mesmerism, and mind control http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=180 Intelligent design: House of fog, foundation of sand The real question is not “Which version is true?” but ”Why do they cling to their fantasies?” ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=178 In defense of crazy ideas http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=177 The babbling species: Homo loquens and Homo sapiens http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=152 Letter to the Trib: On religion in the media http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=176 An atheist’s definition of God - and why people still believe the reality created by the mind can be perceived by the mind as identical to reality produced from outside, i.e., from the sense organs. Classic examples include hallucinations, psychoses, phantom limb pain -- in fact, many psychosomatic illnesses, including chronic pain that seems to have no physiological basis. ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=7 A Thanksgiving challenge to religious believers: just go cold turkey! http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=12 Muslim fanaticism and barbarism: a result of inbreeding? jihadis who will plague us until the end of human history? ]]> http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=175 Mired in folly: religion, politics and the war in Iraq http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=174 The Ron Paul candidacy: time for Americans to put up or shut up http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=173 Blog supplement to “This Week in God” ®: Praying for rain http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=172 Believing in something http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=42 Losing Iran and Pakistan http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=171 Lord Cheney http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=169 Religion fails to save young men, with violent results http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=166 Gangsters and real criminals http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=164 “Rendition” – a great old word acquires a sinister new connotation (and other political abuses of language) http://thejewishatheist.com/?p=161