The Power of Extremist Prayer

Perhaps extremists of other faiths could learn from controversial Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake. Why bother going to the trouble of organising terror campaigns when you have God on your side in the first place - employ imprecatory prayer!

The ABC Of Putting Your Foot In It

Lot's of coverage of ate ABC's comments this week. I think Julian Baggini got it wrong on this one. Funny comment though, "People often say how intelligent Williams is, but I think they confuse intelligence with being thoughtful, well-intentioned and in possession of a fine beard." You can imagine Blackadder delivering such a cutting line, which is coincidental since Sky News attributed the ABC's comments to Rowan Atkinson (ht:The News Quiz).

Most of the other contributors on the Baggini blog topic made the case well enough.

Test For Thesim

In the spirit of falsifiability you might want to check that all the chit-chat with theists isn't corrupting you. Take this test.

ht: Rational Mom.