Prophets for profits

The end of the world! But you still have to go to work

By Bruce Gorton | 21 October 2011


Remember back when Harold Camping said that the world would end – today? Well I don’t know about you but I feel fine.

The Catholic Church stole and sold babies

By Bruce Gorton | 17 October 2011

Why is it every time I think “Eish this atheism business is getting a bit much” there is some news story that pulls me back into being angry with some religion or other? Today it is reading about 30 thousand babies the Catholic Church stole from Spanish mothers and then sold for adoption*.

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Psychic Sally subject to scrutiny

By Bruce Gorton | 22 September 2011

Sally’s sidekick said something slightly stridently, stirring suspicions Sally’s psychic skill was specious. People producing portrayals paint puzzlingly polysemousness pictures peculiarly pass over perceptible Peter Popoff parallels.  Read More…

A bad apple called Oz

By Bruce Gorton | 16 September 2011

Dr Oz went from being a bit touchy feely to downright dangerous by selling faith healing and necromancy last year. This year he is doing it by selling fear of apple juice.

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New woo on the iPhone

By Bruce Gorton | 14 September 2011

With any relatively new or trendy scientific advance you will see a certain amount of woo that comes with it. Read More…

Outrage armour gets cracked

By Bruce Gorton | 4 September 2011

 

Continuing with the idea of dominance being highly important to a certain type when it comes to religion, and the negative effect of that is this video (H/T: Camels With Hammers.)

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The Castro Hlogwane document: Chapter ten

By Bruce Gorton | 22 June 2011

Chapter ten and I am relieved to say there are only five more to go, because this one infuriates me. I am off until Tuesday next week – so I will get to the later ones then.

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Catholic peadophilia case – still minimising (updated)

By Bruce Gorton | 25 May 2011

Miranda Celeste has done a close reading of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ report into peadophile priests, and its not good.

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Not even the Christians believe in their God

By Bruce Gorton | 20 May 2011



In America, in a town named for a fraud, they believe heavily in their God, so their school decided to have a big old pray on graduation day.

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How to spot a scam: Showing off

By Bruce Gorton | 7 April 2011

 

Freethought Kampala has an interesting piece on the Bio Disc one finger lift demo.

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