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Dear God

Monday, April 21st, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Dear God is a blog of reader-submitted prayers.
It doesn’t matter what your version of God is…Jesus, Allah, Buddha or simply a spiritual universal energy… praying to a higher power soothes and heals.
Prayers are organized into categories such as Confessions, Death, [...]

On evolution

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker, first published in 1986, was written to counter arguments made in favour of creationism by the eighteenth century theology William Paley’s Natural Theology, published in 1902.
Paley is perhaps best remembered today for his watchmaker analogy, intended as an argument in favour of the existence of an intelligent designer, or god. [...]

News: Catholic Pope orders bishops to set up “exorcism squads”

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

“Too many bishops are not taking this seriously and are not delegating their priests in the fight against the Devil. You have to hunt high and low for a properly trained exorcist.”
The Daily Mail, “Pope’s exorcist squads will wage war on Satan“
Concerned with a “rise of Satanism” and “an increased interest in the occult”, the [...]

Happy Agnostica!

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Agnostica is one of my favourite holidays of the year. It originated in the ever-popular online comic Nukees, by Darren Bleuel, with the date set as December 14th in 1999: the first truly secular winter holiday.
The following year, Bleuel fleshed out Agnostica a little more with holiday “traditions” in honour of the 100th anniversary [...]