I really, really shouldn’t be blogging now. But I want to grab everyone I see by the shoulders and shout this in their faces (and isn’t that what blogging’s all about?) so here goes. Real quick. It doesn’t matter whether your religion says that being gay is wrong. It doesn’t matter whether your religion has [...]
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One quick thought on gay marriage
Posted by NFQ on May 11, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/05/one-quick-thought-on-gay-marriage/
Enough is enough
Timothy Egan’s NYT Opinionator column about Jon Huntsman had a refreshingly snarky beginning: Politicians are trained from the time they mouth their first public lie to be reflexively certain about everything. So it was startling and certainly encouraging to hear Jon Huntsman sound less than convinced the other day about the God of his Mormon [...]
Posted by NFQ on June 24, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/06/enough-is-enough/
Awkward analogies
WriterJames had a post at Cubik’s Rube not too long ago that, among other things, reminded me of the shitstorm that is Conservapedia. I did take a look around the site again, having not been there in what feels like ages. It appears about as ridiculous as ever. One new thing I noticed this time, [...]
Posted by NFQ on June 15, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/06/awkward-analogies/
Beam me up, Scotty!
I’m not gone, I’ve just been super busy with research. I think I’ve pushed through the worst of it for now, and I’ve been recovering with lots of naps, Starcraft 2, Jell-O, and blogging. I’m working on some epic posts for y’all, but while sitting here writing I noticed I had this song in my [...]
Posted by NFQ on February 16, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/02/beam-me-up-scotty/
Friday Link Roundup #26
Tea Party Republicans in Texas are clamoring for a “true Christian” to replace Joe Straus as Speaker of the state’s House of Representatives because Christians “are the people that do the best jobs.” Via John Loftus, here’s an insightful video by TheraminTrees applying transactional analysis to religion. Cartoonist and Christian blogger Wes Molebash asked some [...]
Posted by NFQ on December 10, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/12/friday-link-roundup-26/
Coexistence is important
Box Brown has a really well-done new comic up at Everything Dies about “Coexist” bumper stickers. They still give me a sort of icky feeling, because “let’s all get along” seems in many people’s minds to preclude the option to tell others they might be incorrect, but reading through this reminded me why I used [...]
Posted by NFQ on November 23, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/11/coexistence-is-important/
Everything old is new again
Via Matthew Yglesias, via Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker, here’s a stunning anti-Lincoln editorial cartoon from 1862. Note the planks in Lincoln’s “Chicago platform”-turned-sacrificial altar: Puritanism, Atheism, Rationalism, Socialism, Free Love, Spirit Rapping, and Negro Worship (along with one more I can’t make out). I don’t know how Lincoln’s opponents came to accuse him [...]
Posted by NFQ on November 15, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/11/everything-old-is-new-again/
Restoring sanity and/or fear
Well, Election Day in the US is over. I don’t have much to say about it — no big surprises, a couple reliefs and a couple disappointments, but nothing that isn’t being said everywhere else on the internet. I haven’t finished the third post in my mini-series about religious discrimination, though, so while we’re all [...]
Posted by NFQ on November 3, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/11/restoring-sanity-andor-fear/
The atheist movement
Vjack over at Atheist Revolution asks some really good questions in his recent post, Is the Atheist Movement Really Moving? The whole thing got me thinking, so I wasn’t quite sure which part to quote as a teaser. Here’s this, as good as any … How much more time are we going to squander arguing [...]
Posted by NFQ on October 6, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/10/the-atheist-movement/
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