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On Rituals of a Non-Skeptical Nature

September 28, 2009, 4:03 am

Jews praying in a synagogue on Yom Kippur, painting by Maurycy Gottlieb. Yesterday began Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. All over the world, Jews are fasting, and though I am a proud member of...

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Non-Shroud of Turin Provokes Story on Jesus

December 22, 2009, 7:20 am

Israeli archaeologists have just found their first burial shroud from about 2000 years ago. I thought that would be cool enough, but apparently, National Geographic thinks no one will read the story...

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Miraculous Cruelty

January 18, 2010, 4:03 am

As I’m sure all of you know, this past week a devastating earthquake rocked Haiti. Two days ago, the country’s Interior Minister said that they’d already found fifty thousand bodies, but they expected...

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A Skeptic Gets Squeamish

February 4, 2010, 4:03 am

Photo from NASA Yes ladies and gentleman, it’s that that we all love, time for Jake to dazzle you all with an anecdote where something uncomfortable happens to me and I do my best to twist it into...

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Travis is Asked to Join the Sea Org Too Early

March 29, 2010, 4:03 am

The inspiration for this sketch is an AP article about a former Sea Org member trying to sue Scientology for back pay. I’m fairly certain getting someone to join the Sea Org is pretty much the worst...

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Holidays, Miracles, and Describing God as a Non-Theist

April 8, 2010, 4:03 am

I think I deserve to be at this table Author’s note: This post is probably about two weeks later than it should have been. It took me a little while to get to write it. What can I say? I’m a busy...

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Undivine DNA

May 25, 2010, 4:03 am

(THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB snoozes in his lounge chair. ARCHANGEL MICHAEL storms in and slams a newspaper down on God’s lap, waking him up.) GOD Aaaaah! MICHAEL Have you seen what they’ve...

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Thor and the Lightning Pole

August 2, 2010, 4:03 am

A small Nordic camp, 1100 years ago. A cloudy Thursday. ERIK and OLEG stand in front of KING LEIF. LEIF So where are we on this whole “lightning destroying our crops” thing? ERIK I’ve noticed that...

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Extraordinary [religious] claims require extraordinary evidence

November 23, 2010, 4:03 am

Beware of dragon “George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how...

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