I agree that nobody should be made to wear anything, especially when it damages their health (vitamin D deficiency, depression). Why women agree to wear such clothing baffles me and the men who force women to do such things should be jailed.

Muslim women must learn that while they may not have any rights back home, they do in Europe. If muslim men can’t get used to the idea maybe they should just move back to where they came from and stop shoving their primitive beliefs and culture down everyone’s throat. Nobody is forcing them to move out of their native country and they certainly can’t ask to live by the same rules they did there.

I’m sorry that some of the Arab countries got stuck in the middle ages because of their decline after America was discovered, but it’s high time they grew up some and we have the duty to remind them of that!

Sir David Attenborough and Ida

Visitors at the Natural History Museum in London may now see a cast of Ida (Darwinius masillae), a 47 million year fossil scientists believe is the link between primates and the rest of the mammals.

The cast was donated by the University of Oslo Natural History Museum. The original Ida was also at the NHM for a few hours last month where scientists had a look at the most complete ancient primate skeleton ever found.

For more information visit the NHM article here.

Link: http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/27736

More links in my previous article here.

Thanks to TheRegister.co.uk for the story. Read more about it on their website.

1. Torrent via Isohunt.com (DivX) – http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/97196893/?tab=summary&smiley – note: Downloading torrents is illegal in some countries, you should use encryption while downloading. Encryption is available with the Deluge torrent software which you may download here.

2. BBC iPlayer (UK only) (HD) – http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ksh5y/Uncovering_Our_Earliest_Ancestor_The_Link/

3. Flash via Megavideo.com – http://www.megavideo.com/?v=6L0RN45W

The team of researchers have released a website, a book and a documentary. The documentary will air tonight (9pm ET/PT) on the History Channel in the United States, tomorrow on NRK (Norway) and on the 30th on ZDF in Germany. The BBC has a version narrated by Sir David Attenborough entitled Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor which will air on May 26th at 9pm on BBC One. For more information please feel free to visit the website at http://www.revealingthelink.com/.

The implications of this are enormous! I will be writing a follow-up article detailing the implications after I have had a chance to see the documentary and probably one more after I get my hands on the book. Until then feel free to have a look at the short presentation from the researchers’ website:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bKHAaNxOv0

For more P0YKPAC visit their Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/P0YKPAC

Pope condoms

You may recall that during his visit to the African continent back in March 2009 catholic church leader, pope Benedict XVI said the spread of HIV and Aids in Africa should be tackled through fidelity and abstinence and not by condoms.

Leaving aside the very humorous claim that he’s some special work of his imaginary friend and that he’s been especially sent to earth to be the voice of said imaginary friend, his words are criminal. Yes, criminal, as in they can kill people. One of the best known religious figures in the world coming out and saying that condoms don’t work is irresponsible! First of all there is scientific evidence saying that condom use does stop, in an overwhelming majority of cases, the spread of HIV and Aids.

Does the pope want to have less and less followers? People are surely not going to stop having sex, it’s in their nature, and if they extrapolate from this that the pope does not recommend condoms they probably won’t use them and they have a high probability to contract STDs and because of the lack of appropriate medical care, might die. Is that what the Pope wants?

The Vatican of course came out and said that the pope does recommend the use of condoms, but the damage had already been done. I hope such damage is avoided in the future. We don’t need a sexually frustrated man who thinks he speaks to an imaginary friend giving sexual advice.

The Telegraph (UK) online edition bublished a picture of a woman holding the above condom in Paris, released to mock the pope and his ridiculous statements.

PS: I know this might be old news to some, but I’ve been busy and have not posted in a while and this was a must comment on subject.

This year Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and climate change.

For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote. By switching off your lights you will be voting for Earth and showing the world that we need to take action.

For more information about this global event visit the WWF website. I will defenatly be participating in this great initiative. We should do this more often methinks.

The reason this motion was allowed in the first place eludes me. Why are people trying to teach religion instead of science? If you want your kid to not know science send him to live in the desert where Jesus lived, with no running water or electricity, because that is the  kind of prehistoric crap you’re trying to shove down his throat.

This was a narrow win, if we can even call it that, considering the vote was 7:7, a draw.

Read more on the story at DallasNews.com.

Head over to his website at www.richarddawkins.net and send him your regards.

You may remember South Park made fun of Christians in their first episode of the season. Read more about it in my post Mickey Mouse makes fun of Christians on South Park.

I recommend you watch the show, I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time!

Links to South Park S13E03:

HDTV, Direct download via SendSpace

HDTV, Direct download via Zshare

HDTV, Ninjavideo.net – http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/20448

HDTV, Supernovatube.com – http://www.supernovatube.com/divx.php?viewkey=d92ba12006501be0cb1d

Flash, Supernovatube.com – http://www.supernovatube.com/human.php?viewkey=e16770512a1c0bdd2931

Torrent, Isohunt.com – http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/72763509/south+park?tab=summary

the Twitter whale

Many of you Twitter users may have been seeing this picture show up instead of the normal tiwtter page you were trying to see. The reason? You’re twittering too much!

I know we all love the service and some use it regularly but the poor birds seem to be getting tired and the whale is just too heavy. I also recommend using TwitterFox, a very nice addon for Firefox.

Give Twitter a break!

Have you experienced Twitter issues today? Tell us about it!

This is one of the features that I’ve looking to integrate into the site. Some have already been added recently, like the store and the ability to edit comments, while others are still under development and will be available soon, like member pages with profiles ( I could use some help with that if anyone has any advice), AJAX integration and user contributing. After AJAX (surfing the site without reloading pages) is implemented, I’ll add the chat to the sidebar. You can have a look at our new features being implemented on our development blog www.atheistblog.org/test/.

Try out our new chatroom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzTA_D5NpU

PS: I declare myself a member of the Free Speech religion.

The Devil

Like most bloggers I use different tools to track how many readers I get and how the site is doing. One of these tools is http://www.mybloglog.com/, which for a couple of quid a month will give me info in real time.

A couple of days ago, as I was having a look at the statistics I realized that the Devil himself had read my blog! How do I know that? I had exactly 666 readers, the number which is said to represent evil, the Devil and his work in the very popular fiction book “The Bible”, written by “Many Unknown Authors”. I’ve uploaded a photo as proof, click on it for a printscreen.

The Devil reads my blog.

The modern fictional character “Devil” is represented by a number which has been proven to be different from that found in early Christian writings. Researchers at Oxford have used modern imaging techniques to read a 1700 year old papirus manuscript, a fragment of “Revelation”, part of “The Bible”. It seems the original number was 616, not 666. You can read more about this on  Wikipedia.

In the end it seems a modern depiction of the Devil paid me a visit, not the original Christian one. Too bad he didn’t leave a comment, I would have loved to know his oppinion. Maybe he will next time.

His view comes in light of the President’s book written before he decided to run for office and the inauguration speech. Have a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITsYUjv_aEA

If Hitchens is right then Obama is the first atheist US President in a long long time. Religion should not matter when one runs for public office, like it does in the US, and in most European countries it does not.

I think the book Hitchens mentioned is “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” and was written in 2004. We have the book for sale in our store for £4.89 - £11.39 (Paperback, Hardcover, Audiobook) – Reviews included.

Read more for the full interview .

Amazon advert

Yes, we now have our very own store, powered by Amazon.co.uk. I’ve set up a few book cathegories with recommendations and have added a few DVDs. The book of the week section of the blog (which I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting) will start to fill up soon.

We’ll be adding more books in the near future and also other media that we think is useful for atheists, agnostics and doubtful theists. If you can’t find what you’re looking for click the link to got to Amazon.co.uk where you will probably find it, but also drop me a line so I can include it. If you have suggestions of what to add, be my guests and post a comment. The profits will go into maintaining the site.

Apart from books and DVDs we offer Gift certificates for when you’re not sure what to gift. They’re offering free delivery now, so it’s a good time to shop around for a deal. Many of the books listed in our shop are on sale, you might get a bargain.

Visit our store!

Happy shopping

I show that war happens because of made-up religions from the Middle East. Plus, I prove that the Muslim “god” is fake!

During the episode, Mickey Mouse is portrayed as the head of Walt Disney Studios, promoting the Jonas Brothers boy band and making them wear purity rings so he can sell sex to little girls. First of all I’d like to congratulate South Park for telling it how it is, and most of all for telling it to Christians. They do believe in a talking dead guy!

I’ve uploaded the video to Youtube, but it seems Viacom thinks a video shorter than 2 minutes is not reasonable to not infringe copyright. I’ve uploaded the video to DailyMotion.com, hope it stays up longer. Links to full episode are still available if you read more.

In case the video is removed again, see it on Megavideo http://www.megavideo.com/?v=NXHJRXR5

Here is the transcript  of the ending:

Jonas Brother:

You see, we were right about the purity rings! A nice Christian symbol can’t be used for profit gains. We’ve all angered god.

Mickey Mouse:

You think god is in control here, haha? I am in control. I’ve been in control since the ’50s in case you haven’t noticed, haha. You 3 faggots ar going on stage [Jonas Brothers], and you 3 faggots [South Park guyz -Kenny] aren’t gonna’ stop me. Nobody is ruining this event, haha! I have worked to long and to hard to have anybody fuck this up. [Kenny turns up the mic volume, so everyone can hear what Mouse is saying] Where would you be without me Jonas Brothers, haha? Your music sucks and you know it, haha! It’s because you make little girls ginies tickle, and when little girls ginies tickle, I make money, haha. And that’s because little girls ar fucking stupid, haha. And the purity rings make it ok to do whatever I want, haha. Even the Christians are too fucking stupid to figure out I’m selling sex to their daughters. I’ve made billions off of Christian ignorants for decades now, haha. And do you know why? Because Christians are retarded, haha! They believe in a talking dead guy, haha!

You may see the full episode of South Park in DivX @ Ninjavideo.net (don’t forget to start the applet], Flash @ Megavideo or download a torrent.