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What I'm reading now:
The God Virus: How religion infects our lives and culture
God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible by CJ Werleman
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life (this is excellent. Well written and fascinating. Highly recommended)
God Is Not Great (Hitchens is extremely erudite but I agree with him a lot here. Excellent so far)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Listening to the audio version. Excellent!)

What I just finished:
Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (Recommended. The first half is a great read. Thorough and detailed but easy to understand.)
Letting Go of God (I listened to the audio version. It was poignant and funny. Highly recommended!)
His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) (best trilogy I've ever read!)

New Mr. Deity and Some Other Godless Entertainment

By Neece, on March 10, 2010, at 8:29 am

Mr. Deity and the Host

This one has a good point, actually. But I don’t know that it’s a good idea.

A Happy Day For Lolcats

By Neece, on March 2, 2010, at 4:03 pm

Hey everyone,

I really wanted to say hi today but it’s my birthday and I am busy baking myself a cake and getting ready to go to dinner. So you will have to make do with some of my favorite recent lolcats and one 2012 comic. Enjoy!

“I only had room to go up to 2012.” .. “Ha! That’ll freak somebody out someday.”

Ceiling Kitteh decides ur [...]

2 New Symphony of Science Songs, One Helpful Diagram

By Neece, on February 27, 2010, at 8:08 am

First a funny and accurate poster about The Believer, then awesome science music. Thanks to Pharyngula who found this:

Awhile ago I shared the Symphony of Science, which is music made out of scientists talking using AutoTune (I believe that’s what it’s called). Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins and many others lend their voices for these songs that are quite inspiring. One thing, they are very different. The first time I heard one, I thought it was really strange and didn’t care for it. But after a few minutes, I really fell in love with them.

There are two new songs. Here are their videos. Go to Symphony of Science to download the songs or videos, or to donate to the project.

The Unbroken Thread (4 [...]

Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington Must Be Shared

By Neece, on February 19, 2010, at 9:16 am

I just wanted to tell you that Ricky Gervais and his cohorts have a new HBO series that starts up tonight. It’s an animated series of his audiobooks (Ricky, Steve Merchant and the infamous Karl Pilkington) and it starts tonight, February 19 at 9pm Eastern. It’s called, cleverly enough, The Ricky Gervais Show. Here is a link to the HBO site for it, where you can watch the first episode now.

If you’ve never heard his podcast or audiobooks, you might find them hilarious. Karl Pilkington will blow your mind away with his unique perspective on everything. But Ricky and Steve’s interaction with him is awesome, and mitigates some of the mind-numbing ideas Karl comes up with. Mixed in, Ricky and Steve say some fairly accurate and informative things about anything and everything. It’s a real treat.

I also recommend his Ricky Gervais [...]

The Glucifixion, it’s a Miracle!

By Neece, on February 15, 2010, at 8:58 am

I found this video through my friend Tracy who found it on Pharyngula. It’s too funny not to share immediately: (0:43)

Yay technology! [...]

Better Late Than Never

By Neece, on January 31, 2010, at 7:47 am

Just a couple of Mr. Deity videos to brighten your day, just in case you live under a bigger rock than me and haven’t seen them yet.

Mr. Deity Funbits: Conan (1:26)

Mr. Deity and the Promised Land [...]

A Rational Chain E-mail

By Neece, on January 30, 2010, at 8:43 am

My friend Charles composed the following email as a response to a ridiculous christian forward he got call “Untimely Deaths”. He thought I might like to share it with you. So here it is, including the angry christian email reply he already got and his reply to that at the end. His version had the classical large fonts, underlines and bold text that inflammatory emails often have, but for the web, I had to strip most of the formatting. If you decide to send this on to your christian friends, feel free to make them more at ease by using insanely large font sizes, underlines, unreadable colors, etc.

Do you have the COURAGE to Read this whole E-Mail?????

The TRUTH about UNTIMELY DEATHS!

John Lennon (Singer):
Some years before, during an interview with an American Magazine, he said:
“Christianity will end, [...]

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