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Tomorrow I am jetting off to see the Pharoahs for a 10 day holiday. My mother, sister, and I will be going up the Nile to as many locations as humanly possible in the short space of time we have in the country. I’ll be taking my camera (and 24GB of memory cards) with me, so I’ll have a load of photos to share when I get back.

Naturally, I probably won’t have any internet out there, and whilst I still may be able to send the occasional message on Twitter, I won’t be posting on the blog. However, I sent a tweet out last week asking if anyone was interested in guest blogging, and I got two quick replies from Samantha Miller and S. A. Alenthony. They will be posting stuff in my absence, so make sure to be nice to them and give them lots of great comments!

I’ll be back on the 10th, but I probably won’t be posting for a few days. After that, I plan to resume development of the “atheist blog rankings” for which I will need plenty of suggestions from you guys. I’ll update you on that nearer the time though!

So long!

-Adrian

CyberLizard (@CyberLizard) is one of the atheists I met through Twitter, and his blog is hosting the 122nd Carnival of the Godless! Not only are there some great articles frrom all over the atheist blogosphere, but my article on how to be a “twitter atheist” is in the carnival too!

Go check it out, and maybe you’ll submit something to the next carnival, or put your own blog forward for the prestigious job of hosting the carnival!

Earlier this month, Ray Comfort agreed (well, the second time) to a discussion with Thunderf00t. The rules were simple: the two men, one room, and one camera. Any questions were on the floor for discussion, and each man would get a copy of the video to use as they wished. As it turned out, Ray Comfort had a separate cameraman (for higher quality video I guess) in the room, but overall the debate was as stipulated.

Thunderf00t has uploaded the entire discussion, uncut from start to finish, and if you have a spare 90 or so minutes, I advise you watch it all! Ray Comfort’s points are torn apart in front of him one by one, as Thunderf00t explores the deeper meaning of Ray’s arguments (evidently not done by Ray himself) such as the “how do you know it is creation?” rebuttal to any claim of the kind “creation needs a creator” in reference to the universe itself.

Here is the entire debate as a YouTube playlist, so sit back and watch the Bananaman get defeated by common sense and logic, as played by Thunderf00t.

Enjoy!

The internet was screwy yesterday so I didn’t get to make this post, but this morning we got 50MB internet in the house, which is amazing! So anyway, here are the videos I meant to post yesterday but didn’t:

Mr .Deity is a hilarious series of shorts that gradually but effectively tear apart Christianity and the Bible. This one (from series 3) deals with the contradictions in the Bible such as the virgin birth, and the multiple genealogies of Jesus.

Second up is a great explanation from Neil deGrasse Tyson about why the world will not end in 2012…or any other year in the recent future for that matter.

Finally, a video by Richard Wiseman explaining a quick personality test to do right in fron of your computer. Richard Wiseman is a celebrated psychologist who performed a test of psychic power over Twitter about a month back. You can follow him on Twitter as well as read his blog!

Christians have recently begun putting billboards up claiming that the separation of church and state is not what the Founding Fathers wanted for America. This is actually quite true, since it is a well established fact in the Church of the Smashing Orangey Bit that both George Washington & Thomas Jefferson were devout Jaffalots. Far from wanting a separation of church and state, the Founding Fathers wanted a joining of the “state and cake” to honour McVities forever.

However, fundamentalist Christians stormed the proceedings, rewriting the constitution, and sending back all the Jaffa Cakes to England. This event is now known as the Boston Tea Party, because it was yet again covered up by Christian fundamentalists. By telling the population that the boxes contained tea, they tricked everyone into a riot, until no Jaffa Cakes remained and the snack was forgotten.

In retribution for this terrible event, the Church of the Smashing Orangey Bit has decided to put up our own billboards to counter the atheist and Christian versions. People may have forgotten the joining of state and cake, they may have forgotten Jaffa Cakes, but they will not forget McVities!

Thou shalt not eat Communion wafers.

Follow church updates on Twitter, and help stop this oppression of history!