Posts Tagged The Guardian
Skeptics with a K: Episode #025
Posted by Mike in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on July 1, 2010
Extended episode! Blasphemy in Pakistan, Jenkins in the Guardian, and homeopathy in parliament. Plus, Schrödinger’s Christ, Nelson’s Column, Marilyn Manson and woo in the workplace.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:21:42 — 18.7MB)
Freudian CiF: Errors of an Old Guardian Bloggist
Posted by Colonel Molerat in Atheism, Religion on July 14, 2009
Freud!
What do you know about Freud?
Good. That’s more than me. Probably. I know very little about Freud. What I do know is a mixture of his beliefs, and the caricatures of his beliefs that others have presented me. In essence, it is this: young boys lust after their mothers and want to kill their fathers, a perversion that leads to a large part of the malaise and despair intrinsic to being a grown-up. Young girls are broken and weird, a perversion that leads to a large part of the malaise and despair intrinsic to being a grown up.
There. That’s it.
Andrew Brown!
What do you know about Andrew Brown? All I know is a mixture of his beliefs, and the caricatures of his beliefs that he so bizarrely and inanely presents to Guardian readers on the occasions when another fantastical grudge against atheists springs into his mind. In essence, it is this: Andrew Brown is part of the malaise and despair intrinsic to being a grown up. Plus he thinks that new atheists are broken, weird and perverted. Or something like that.
I’m therefore approaching Andrew Brown’s recent blog post without a great deal of expertise of the subject I’m dealing with.
Luckily, if he doesn’t need expertise, nor do I. Read the rest of this entry »