Welcome to the Carnival of the godless number 96.
This is my first time hosting and I wanted to do something a little different.
I find that there is so much good atheist related material submitted that I don't often find the time to read it all.
So I have taken it upon myself to select what I think are the 5 must reads for those of us short on time.
I have tried to be fairly diverse in my selection and offer a good cross section of the submissions. So the rest of the field are worthy reads and I implore those with time to read them as well.
The Top 5 Must Reads for those short on time are:
Atheist's are detectives in Aaron Powell's
Jeffrey Stingerstein tackles morality in
PhillyCheif catches himself out in the
- Zarathustra Test posted at You Made Me Say It....
Skeptico reminds us that its okay to admit that "we don't know" and that this position require no faith.
- Atheism Requires No Faith posted at Skeptico.
Greta asks "Is it fair for atheists to criticize religion when they haven't studied theology?" in
The rest of the field for those time rich Atheists:
Ordinary Girl treats us to some family fun in her recollections of a half dreamed, half heard conversation from the couch in:
- Zombies Ate My Brain posted at tales of an ordinary girl.
Uberkuh woos us with a villanelle in
- There used to be a thousand gods. posted at uberkuh.
Adrian tackles sexuality and Christianity in
Bing introduces us to genital boxing and ID critique in
Blue makes some interesting observations about the old firm(Catholicism) in
- Christianity, Inc. >> Blue Linchpin posted at Blue Linchpin.
Enshoku offers some response to Christian misunderstanding of the theory of evolution. Is he banging his head against a brick wall? Probably, but he's funny.
Chris examines the suggestion that the position of Atheists parallels that of nice guys unable to get laid in
Christians should be careful what they pray for as observed by the Ridger in
Db0 reminds us all to crash the blogger awards in
- Religion Awards Coup posted at A Division by Zer0.
Steve Snyder reminds us that not all atheists employ critical thinking in the appropriately titled:
- SocraticGadfly: Being an atheist doesn’t guarantee critical thinking — or factual accuracy posted at SocraticGadfly.
The Chaplain reveals the true nature behind campaigns that say "In god we trust is just a ceremonial statement
- In God We Trust posted at An Apostate's Chapel.
Yoo uses an argument from incredulity to illustrate the absurdity of the idea of God in
- God of the gaps posted at Stochastic Scribbles.
Daniel introduces us to God's patsy in
Mike gives us - Sex as a pleasure seeking activity and a moral question. A look into Christianity’s Pagan past concerning spiritual union. A scientific insight into the morality behind sex and a gaze into homosexual ethics in
Michael suggests punching Christians in the face to demonstrate human capacity for evil in
Greg comments on Crackergate in
Hannah asks why we don't embrace the negative in
to be followed by Heather who is embrucing something positive if not a little cringeworthy in
- I'm a Bright posted at Heather Annastasia's Politics Blog.
Ron Britton looks at one of Christianity's smaller knock-offs in Charlie the Hamster
- Chipmunks, Hamsters, and Squirrels posted at Bay of Fundie.
Following, is another investigation of a knock-off in
Another Crackergate commentary from
- No More Mr. Nice Guy! in Everyone's going crackers posted at No more Mr. Nice Guy!.
Put your thinking caps on for Maria's
- Art as an atheist posted at Chromium Oxide Green.
Randy gives us a tongue in cheek letter from Gawd in
Jim ruminates on Jesus' taste in motor vee hickles in
- What Would Jesus Drive? posted at SHUFFL.
Just when you think right wing religious politicians can't embarass themselves anymore the Whited Sepulchre gives us
Idiot/Savant informs us that the UK has abolished its Blasphemy laws and unfortunately New Zealand hasn't followed suit in
- UK abolishes blasphemy posted at No Right Turn.
Bad gives some excellent commentary on the discovery of an ancient Jewish Tablet
Oh and if you are still reading here's one from me to round out the edition:
- Neo-Atheists posted at Sean the Blogonaut
30 Comments:
I never would have imagined that I would actually make it into the carnival, least of all for being funny. Then agian, I didn't figure a regular poster at Pmomma's blog would be the host, either. Congratulations on being chosen host, sean. Now I have some links to click.
enshoku,
I thought it was a good post. Atheists are a diverse bunch and you represent part of that diversity.
I've been feeling really horrid about my weblog lately, the evolution theory post, and the laplace's demon post are the only ones that I don't feel totally horrible about.
side note: atheists aren't diverse, we have our pope who spoon feeds us ideas about what to do...and PZ, he can be our prophet...
Lots of submissions. I liked your idea of picking a top 5. I read all of those as well as your own submission, plus a few others. I'm a bit short of time at the moment to read any others, but I might return and check a few more out later. Well done to all entrants.
I have also provided a link back to your carnival from my blog.
catch you soon
Oz
Thanks for the link to the Division by Zer0.
One question, did you decide to not include some of the submissions? I'm asking because I submitted one from the ACP on the 9th, but I don't see it here. :(
Nice job - thanks!
Sean, thanks for including me in the Carnival this week. I must apologize for initially posting a link to a site that splogged your post, Sisterhood Group. DbO pointed out my error and I've corrected it and linked here instead.
Great carnival Sean!
Thanks for including me.
Thanks for putting mine at the top. That made my day.
Hi Sean. WOW. That most certainly is a lot of good atheist reading! I think you had a great idea by putting you Top 5 Must Read Posts up there.
By the way, in defense of the Chaplain, had it not been for her letting us know that the carnival was at your place this time, I probably wouldn't have seen it. But, since it's YOU....
Anyway, good job! Thanks for the links.
Db0,
I received multiple submissions from some people and some multiple posts on the same topic. While I would have liked to have included every submission this edition was fairly long as it is.
I would recommend you submit your other post for the next Carnival.
Chappy,
I have noticed that sight sploddging quite a few of my posts I wonder if anything can be done about that?
Poodles,
A big thank you to all those who contributed. I discovered some new reads myself,though weren't you going to submit one ? :)
Aaron,
Just luck of the draw my friend, and quality work
Evo,
I am expecting an ode to my brilliance sung by yourself with OG on the clawhammer banjo :)
Just kidding, you voice needs no musical accompaniment.
LOL
That's funny; I've heard that before. I'm not sure exactly how it's meant!
Anyway, (not this Tuesday, next) I'll give you a shout-out on a song. You have that much coming. Might do your rep more harm than good though. :)
Tell you what I'll have a word to OG and if it doesn't make the cut because of "time considerations" we'll do a cross promotion from my blog to the podcast, using you as the headline act :)
Oh, I feel very elite now. LOL!
Thanks for the placement.
Clawhammer banjo, huh? Evo, I hope that bribe money is on the way. ;)
Thanks for the link, Sean.
I meant to... *sheepish grin* I just haven't found anything I felt worthy to revist, nor have I felt too inspired lately.
Maybe I'll come up with something before Oz hosts. I suppose I just don't feel my writing is up to the standards of the great writers submitting here.
Poodles,
It doesn't have to be pulitzer prize winning material. I tried to display a variety of posts, a showcase of Atheist writing. You get analytical stuff, commentary, opinion, comedy etc. Surely you could write something about the Mormons?
Poodles, even I made it into the carnival. Your writing is much more organized (on your wordpress blog at least) than mine is. A word of advice though, if you start blessing crackers with holy poodles magic, imma hafta have myself a poodle sammich on some stolen crackers, kapeech?
To all 700 visitors to the blog today - welcome.
Drop me a comment here if you have the time.
enshoku,
That made me laugh out loud...
Suddenly I have the ability to make people laugh? I don't get you atheists, there are much better things to laugh at, like... benny hinn's hair. It reminds me of a cliff edge, and oddly enough, I just want to shrink, and jump off of it.
Sean, stop stealing my pageviews. I've gotten 100 in 3 days, so so are getting 2100% more views than me, give them back.
I posted this at http://doubtingthomas426.wordpress.com/#comment-2432
yesterday, and haven't received many responses for it yet, so...I'll try making this post the little slut of the atheist blogsphere...because I'm just that conceited.
Soooo….I have a question, and I’m sure it will offend just about everyone!
If a christian parent really loved their children, I mean really, really, selflessly loved their children, wouldn’t they want their children to get into heaven? wouldn’t this become the number one priority over anything else?
Why do christian parents not get their children baptized, then murder them? would this not ensure that your children would go to heaven?
If I’m wrong about this, and the child must “accept jesus” first, then why do you not raise your children to that age, get them to fully accept jesus, then murder them so they have no more chance to sin and be cast into the fire and brimstone?
Granted, you would be damning yourself by commiting murder, but would god not forgive you because you are willingly sending yourself to hell, sacrificing yourself in parallel to his son, to ensure another gets into heaven? Isn’t this sacrifice to save another’s soul the most noble thing you could do as a christian? If it is immoral, if the christian commiting the murder was sinning, how would that sin rub off on the victim? They would not be to blame, they would be an innocent, and one faithful to jesus at that!
Why do christians not convert people and kill them? Why not, say, get the entire mass of an Amazon jungle tribe, or some African family tribes, get them all to accept jesus, then slaughter them? would this not assure the new convert’s acendance to heaven? Would this not save the deceased? would this not be more moral than trying to manage people’s faith, knowing that they could lose it and (Gasp! Horror!) become an atheist like me? Aren’t you christians supposed to be saving everyone you can? Don’t you have a moral imperitive from the bible to save others?
Are you christians just to scared to commit youselves to hell to save your own children? Are you too selfish? Or maybe…do you have a bit, just a little, mind you, of doubt?
Please, feel free to point out any and all flaws in my logic.
-Q
As an atheist, I must say I'm not offended. If you are looking to offend people, start calling YHWH names like misogynistic. Now for your argument:
a)people have killed thier children to save them
b)I win
c) I'll make a blog post to fully respond, comments are too cramped for walls of text.
gimme a couple hours, okay?
Question everything... the answer is money. No members, no money.
Questioneverything,
I have to find the source material, but I have read that christian authorities used to forcibly baptise jewish children and then in some cases kill them, only about 500-600 years ago.
l2spell, punk!
is that an adequate response, QE?
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