You may recall that a while back, the Secular Coalition for America ran a contest to find the highest-ranking elected
atheist
[1]
in the U.S. Government. Now the contest has ended and
the results have been announced.
Brian Flemming and the Rational Response Squad have announced the Blasphemy Challenge.
The offer is simple: deny the Holy Spirit in a video (thus committing the one unforgivable sin and condemning your soul to eternal torment), post it to YouTube, and if you’re one of the first 1001 people, you get a free copy of the movie The God Who Wasn’t There
I won’t be participating, because a) I already have a copy of the DVD, b) I look like a dork on video, c) I sound like a dork on audio, d) I can afford to buy additional copies if I want to give them away as presents. But I will say this: I deny the holy spirit, and I hope that’s enough to get Brian Flemming to autograph my copy of the DVD if I ever meet him.
(HT PZ Myers.)
Headline O’ the Day, courtesy of the Gazette:
Victory will hinge on how many voters vote Tuesday
Let’s file that under D for Duh.
Secondly, if you live in Anne Arundel, please remember to vote against religious nutcase,
bigot, and all-around asshat
Don Dwyer tomorrow.
If airports set up special lines at security checkpoints for Muslims, as
various right-wingers have been suggesting,
may I suggest an express line for atheists, with lighter security checks?
After all, when’s the last time an atheist hijacked a plane, or drove a car bomb into a schoolyard, or blew up an abortion clinic, an
olympic stadium,
an
office building?
Brian Flemming, the author of the documentary
The God Who Wasn’t There,
has a new thing going: a
War on Easter.
I bet Bill O’Reilly and John Gibson are already wetting their pants in delight.
The
press release
explains the MO: undercover operatives (no doubt endowed with super-secret atheist Ninja powers of concealment; either that, or they have a suit and can blend into a crowd) will hide DVDs of The God Who Wasn’t There in churches, where they’re likely to be found by congregants and Easter egg hunters.
A bit like Chick tracts with much better production values. There’s also an
FAQ.