“I’ll take it in here,” I said, and I closed my door. I picked up the phone and said hello. I heard the click of Joy hanging up.
“Hello, Jared,” said a voice. It was Tanya. No luck.
“Hi Tanya, what’s up?” I asked.
“What do you mean ‘what’s up’? You say that as if nothing had happened.”
“Well, what do you want me to say?” I asked. Read the rest of the story »
http://newsroom.lds.org/blog/2010/06/apostle-talks-religious-freedom-to-boston-youth.html Note to Andrew S. et alia explaining this post: It looked as if the Newsroom Blog link to Nelson’s comments re atheists had gone dead and so I posted a screen grab of the post here. Since the link is live again, I’ve taken that down and left the…
**Remember to nominate candidates for the X-Mormon of the year.** I’ve seen people argue that — given the environmental/climate impact of wasteful consumerism — maybe we should have a war on Christmas. I have some sympathy for that position. All my life I’ve heard the cry to remember “the true…
Originally published at the USU SHAFT site. Ive enjoyed several of the videos produced by The Thinking Atheist. This video, however, should make them reconsider their (already rather smarmy) name. In the video, several atheists relate their Christian upbringing, which they now not-so-fondly remember as brainwashing. Dawkins has sometimes gone…