Download Episode 21 HERE

Deon’s trip to Europe

Losing to Brian at a game of chess, in not-so-sunny Sweden.

The road to de-conversion

Download Episode 20 HERE

Consilience

Chatting to Owen Swart from http://consiliencecast.wordpress.com/

Are Skeptics naturally Atheists?

http://atheism.about.com/od/skepticismatheism/a/SkepticAtheist.htm

Prophet Joshua “prophesies” Steve Jobs death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE8mIdSSD2s

Jesus in the Comics

http://www.ugo.com/the-goods/jesus-in-the-comics

http://www.deonbarnard.net/podcast/Primordial%20Soup%2019.mp3

Download Episode 19 here!

Can we replace Christmas with a secular, non-commercial celebration?

Send us your ideas for an Atheist/Humanist end of year celebration of joy and good will!

Rising atheism in America puts ‘religious right on the defensive

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/01/atheism-america-religious-right?fb=optOut

Rick Perry: Economic Downturn Is God’s Plan

http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2011/06/rick-perry-economic-downturn-is-gods-plan.html

Chip Implants Already Here

http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Chip_Implants/

‘Exorcism’ kills Japanese girl by drowning

A 13-year-old girl in Japan was suffocated by her father and a monk who were trying to expel an “evil spirit”.

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26209/exorcism-kills-japanese-girl-by-drowning

Download Episode 18 here

Recorded 06/10/2011

News

Kirchner: It was God’s plan

http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyWorldCup2011/Zane-Kirchner-It-was-Gods-plan-20111002

Faith comes first for Scot prop Euan Murray, who will miss the match against Argentina

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/rugby-gold/faith-comes-first-for-scot-prop-euan-murray-who-will-miss-the-match-against-argentina/story-fn8ti7yn-1226143348957

Rugby players warned to be on lookout for attempted smiting by God

http://www.hayibo.com/rugby-players-warned-to-be-on-lookout-for-attempted-smiting-by-god/

Paradise postponed: World will now end on OCTOBER 21 says preacher who was surprised we all survived Saturday

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390268/Rapture-Harold-Camping-explains-wrong–says-God-bring-Rapture-OCTOBER-21.html

Exclusive: ‘Fraudster’ pastor bust  

An Eyewitness News sting on Wednesday resulted in the arrest of an East Rand reverend suspected of defrauding government of millions of rand destined for school children.

http://www.ewn.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=75281

http://www.deonbarnard.net/podcast/Primordial%20Soup%2018.mp3

Download Episode 17 here

Recorded 15/09/2011

News

Mogoeng: God wants me to be chief justice

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/09/04/mogoeng-god-wants-me-to-be-chief-justice

Mogoeng’s G-bomb cited as worst misuse of God’s name since end of Apartheid

http://www.hayibo.com/mogoengs-g-bomb-cited-as-worst-misuse-of-gods-name-since-end-of-apartheid/

Dutch rethink Christianity for a doubtful world

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14417362

Episcopal ‘U2-charist’ uses songs in service

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2006-10-25-u2-churches_x.htm

Gothic Church in England

http://www.godscare.net/study/Goth%20Church.htm

Download Episode 16 here

Recorded 28/07/2011

News

91 Killed in Norway Island Massacre, Capital Blast

OSLO, Norway – A Norwegian dressed as a police officer gunned down at least 84 people at an island retreat before being arrested, police said Saturday. Investigators are still searching the surrounding waters, where people fled the attack, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven.

The mass shootings are among the worst in history. With the blast outside the prime minister’s office, they formed the deadliest day of terror in Western Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings killed 191.

From: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/22/explosion-damages-buildings-in-norwegian-capital/

Australia’s Roman Catholic Church apologises for forced adoptions

Australia’s Roman Catholic Church has issued an apology for its role in the forced adoptions of babies from unmarried mothers during the 1950s, 60s and 70s, a practise that has been described as a “national disgrace”.

Many said their children had been earmarked for forced adoption well before birth

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8660249/Australias-Roman-Catholic-Church-apologises-for-forced-adoptions.html

Superhero Religions    

From: http://www.comicbookreligion.com/

Noah and the Arc    

Download Episode 15 here

Recorded 14/07/2011

Statistic of the week

From http://pewforum.org/Christian/Evangelical-Protestant-Churches/Global-Survey-of-Evangelical-Protestant-Leaders.aspx

News

Churches pray for naked newsreaders

The Ledge Movie

Discussion around religion and relationships

Tim Minchin, if I didn’t have you

Basil’s devotional

Genesis 4

Cain Kills Abel

http://www.deonbarnard.net/podcast/Primordial%20Soup%2015.mp3

Download Episode 14 here (Part 2 of 2)

Recorded 02/06/2011

News

R210-million mosque for Midrand

01 Nov 2010
The largest mosque in the southern hemisphere is being built in Midrand at an estimated cost of R210-million and is due to be completed by January 2012.

It will include the Sama High School, provide boarding facilities for students and have a bazaar, clinic, conference centre and community hall on the site.

The project is being funded by Turkish businessman, Ali Katircioglu and will be handed over to the Foundation Education Trust when completed. The trust, a non-profit organisation, will administer the institution.

The structure includes four minarets, each 55 m high, has a 24 m dome and 24 smaller domes atop the boarding rooms and around the courtyard. The interior has apparently been decorated in the Ottoman style.

Katircioglu has refused to accept any contributions to the cost of erecting this mosque and has insisted that donors should put money into the Foundation Education Trust instead to take care of the running costs of the property and its facilities.

The school is expected to accommodate at least 800 students. It is being built in Le Roux Avenue – where it intersects with the K101 – and is set on ten hectares of ground. It has been modelled on the Selimiye Mosque originally erected in Turkey.

The mosque is the first model of Ottoman architecture in the southern hemisphere.
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Religion Should Have No Effect on the Use of Condoms

Olivia Conroy (“Top News,” May 26, 2011)

Bujumbara, Burundi – Preachers at the mosque in Bujumbura claimed that the use of condoms is just a promotion to adultery.

Asha says, “We can’t use condoms as a way of preventing AIDS in our community; only abstinence is preached in our mosques. We [Muslims] are so exposed to the AIDS pandemic, especially because we believe in polygamy”.

She is in a polygamous marriage and she wants to use condoms so that she can save herself from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The scholars are very keen to fight against HIV and they even take care of the people who are suffering from such diseases and they even encourage people of their community to go for a HIV testing before marriage but Asha reported that this advice of scholars is not followed by the people.

It was found out that about 10 percent of Burundi’s population is at a risk of suffering from HIV. The reason for this is those women who are in polygamous relationship are more prone to these sexually transmitted diseases.

Thus, condoms should be made an essential part so that the risks of HIV are decreased.

Jolie, a non-practicing Christian claimed that poverty is also one of the main reasons for the transmission of these diseases.
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Pedophilia

Let me begin with a quote from a fatwa by the late and unlamented Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran.

“A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not committed a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man’s four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl’s sister.”

You need not fear that your Muslim male baby-sitter will rape your 7-year-old daughter. If he is a good Muslim

he will only sodomize her. If he does force his penis into her tiny vagina he is obligated to pay for any surgical repairs that may be required. If those repairs are deemed insufficient you may work out a financial settlement to compensate you for his trivial infraction. No big deal. Muslim boys will be Muslim boys. And, after all, she is only a girl.
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Bestiality

Is there a proper Muslim way to have sex with animals? Indeed, there is! Guidelines for sex with animals can be found in the writings of Ayatollah Khomeini. Two excerpts from his writings serve to clarify the matter.
“A man can have sex with sheep, cows and camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.” Don’t the buyers deserve a discount of some kind?
Khomeini’s “Tahrirolvasyleh” fourth volume, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990
“If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrement become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.” What if it was really good and invites another lap or two? Must animals always be one-night stands?
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Basil’s devotional

Genesis 1 and 2

Download Episode 13 here (Part 1 of 2)

Recorded 02/06/2011

Mail

From James:

Hi Guys,

I really enjoyed the sing-along. It’s kinda sad the world didn’t end after that rousing rendition of R.E.M.

Semantic

Sin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Sin (disambiguation) and Sinner (disambiguation).

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2010)

A Sistine Chapel

fresco depicts the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden for their sin of eating from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

A sin is an act that violates a known moral

rule. The term sin may also refer to the state of having committed such a violation. Commonly, the moral code of conduct is decreed by a divine entity, i.e. divine law. Sin may also refer to refraining from action or simply desiring to act in violation of a moral norm. Fundamentally, sin is rebellion against, or resistance to, the direction of supreme

authority, and enmity toward, avoidance of, or hatred of the good.^{[citation needed]} Sin may also refer to something within human nature that has a proclivity to sin (see concupiscence).

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Seven deadly sins

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about cardinal sins. For the ballet, see The Seven Deadly Sins.

“Seven sins” redirects here. For the album by HeavensDust, see Seven Sins (album).

Hieronymus Bosch‘s The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things

The Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of objectionable vices that have been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning fallen humanity’s tendency to sin. The currently recognized version of the list is usually given as wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.

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Brian’s Swedish day of old cars…

Topics: Prophecy, End of the world, Deon and Basil Sing

Download Episode 12 here

Recorded 19/05/2011

Mail

Murraybuscuit on Hitler’s church tax policy…

In terms of nazism and church tax, hitler’s strategy was to manufacture moral consent for his intiatives by controlling the purse-strings of the clergy. this was more easily done with protestantism, which had a german locus, whereas authority over the catholic church came from rome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany

the nazis signed the reichskonkordat with the vatican, allowing the clergy reprieve from miliary service and political involvement, for the cost of them pledging allegiance to the nazi government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichskonkordat

there was a fair amount of opposition from both catholic and protestant circles, which eventually waned over time. it’s difficult to take a moral stand against a wave of popular opinion and a state which controls your salary.

this is why church, state and taxes don’t go together.

Semantic

Prophecy

Prophecy is a process in which one or more messages that have been communicated to a true prophet[1] are then communicated to others by this true prophet. Such messages typically involve divine inspiration, interpretation, or revelation of conditioned events to come (cf. divine knowledge) as well as testimonies or repeated revelations that the world is divine.[citation needed] The process of prophecy especially involves reciprocal communication of the true prophet with the (divine) source of the messages. Mere claimants of foreknowledge of future events, like fortunetellers, oracles, seers, diviners or apocalyptic authors, are not considered true prophets.[citation needed]

Various concepts of prophecy are found throughout all of the world’s religions and cults. To a certain degree prophecy can be an integral concept within any religion or cult. The term has found deep usage in two of the world’s largest religious groups, Christianity and Islam, along with many others.[2]

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Statistic

Statistical probability supports the Bibles reliability. The Statistical probability that any or all of the Bible’s very specific, detailed prophecies could have been fulfilled through chance, good guessing, or deliberate deceit is null.

The Bible was written over a span of 1500 years by 40 different human authors in 3 different languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek), on hundreds of subjects. And yet there is one consistent, noncontradictory theme that runs through it all: God’s redemption of humankind. Clearly, Statistical probability is a powerful indicator of the trustworthiness of Scripture.

Peter Stoner found that just taking 8 of the over 300 prophecies “…We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all 8 prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power.” That is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. And that is just taking in account 8 of the 300 prophecies.

The statistical verdict is that the Bible is the Word of God, and Jesus Christ is the Son of God, just as Scripture predicted many times and in many ways.

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News & Retard

Harold Egbert Camping (born July 19, 1921) is a Christian radio broadcaster[1] and president of Family Radio, a California-based religious broadcasting network that spans more than 150 outlets in the United States as well as a website.

Camping’s trademarks include his deep, sonorous voice coupled with a slow cadence. He has also used mathematical predictions applied to the Bible to predict dates for the end of the world.[2] His current end times prediction is that the Rapture will be on May 21, 2011 and that God will completely destroy the Earth and the universe five months later on October 21.[3][4] He had previously predicted that the Rapture would occur in September 1994.[5]

…

Camping has gained recent[when?] notoriety due to his prediction that the Christian Rapture will take place on May 21, 2011[29][30] and that the end of the world will take place five months later on October 21, 2011.[31] Followers of Camping claim that around 200 million people (approximately 3% of the world’s population) will be raptured.[32] As for the remainder of the human population, Camping himself believes in annihilationism, which is the view that those who are not saved will simply cease to be conscious rather than spend eternity in Hell. Those who were “unsaved” and died prior to May 21 will not be affected by or experience the Rapture or the end of the world.

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Crazy Talk

Embracing Darwinism and Belief in Naturalism would Require Believing:

• Nothing Produces Everything
• Non-Life Produces Life
• Randomness Produces Fine-Tuning
• Chaos Produces Information
• Unconsciousness Produces Consciousness
• Non-Reason Produces Reason

From The Case for Creator by Lee Stroble

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Quote

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)