Your Religion Is False

One of these is Devo, I’m pretty sure. But which one?

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SF424 Application for Federal Assistance DATE: July 9, 2009 APPLICANT: Joel Grus CONTACT: your.religion.is.false -at- gmail.com NAME OF FEDERAL AGENCY: National Institutes of Health DESCRIPTIVE TITLE OF PROJECT: “Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls”: Religious Implications of Hydrological Phenomena ESTIMATED PROJECT FUNDING: $30 million ARE HUMAN SUBJECTS INVOLVED? yes ARE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS USED? yes DOES THIS PROJECT [...]

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There are certain events you dread as a parent: Your daughter’s first date. Explaining “birds and bees.” A late night phone call from the hospital. And having to tell your 16-year-old daughter how you’re not going to let her drive, because you don’t want to have to arrest her: In a country where women are [...]

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I’m sure that (like me) you set a special alarm and woke up bright and early so that you could read the Pope’s new encyclical CARITAS IN VERITATE (“Who cares whether all this stuff is true?”) And then (like me) I’m sure you found it interminably long and incomprehensibly boring. Nonetheless, it’s easy to pick [...]

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People seem very excited about an upcoming Turkish game show, in which a Priest, an Imam, a Rabbi, and a Monk attempt to convert 10 atheists to their religions each episode. (If this reminds you of the religious joke to end all religious jokes, you are not alone.) There are two things that are stopping [...]

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I have to confess that I have entirely mixed feelings about the movement in France to ban the burqa. I totally agree that the burqa makes women into “prisoners” and is a primitive custom and is an affront to Western values like secularism and common sense and (especially) boobaliciousness. At the same time, banning clothing [...]

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Kudos to the Christian Post for uncovering a disgusting new form of child abuse: American Christian kids as young as four are being [forced] to do extra chores and other fundraising activities to raise money to buy Bibles for U.S. troops. [...] “One of our goals at Focus is to instill in children a love [...]

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