Gary Bergeron

@unapologetic – Re. Sunday Assembly: No thanks. I am pretty antisocial.

I went to one out of curiosity but it was more of a “I am not-religious but I am very spiritual” gathering. I asked if they could be more specific as “demons are spirits too”. They were not happy with that.

Then I noticed it. There, resting against the back wall. It was…[Read more]

Ah there’s no missing that Irish charm there, Reg 😘

Strega is a very bewitching nom de plume.

Thanks Strega!

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!

For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this…[Read more]

Lovely, Robert!  I’m having such a pleasant learning day.

Reg, I had the same joyful reaction – terrific word, adding it to my top drawer of delightful thoughts – Jake – thanks for the gift 🙂

@jakelafort – absquatulate, a great word to have in the vocab.

In future, in a debate with a theist, should I fail to expostulate, I will just absquatulate rather than remonstrate and I won’t care who’s looking, especially when the theist is more intransitive than the verb 🙂

At least whatever Clouseau did was carefully planned.

I once spent about 20 minutes explaining that Intelligent Design was not a valid ‘science’ to a Muslim apologist who was arguing the opposite. Someone asked me if he could expound upon the points I had made and I was happy to allow him to take over.

I have never tried to teach a theist any science since then and I insist on only debating or…[Read more]