Who knew the Germans were still paying reparations from WWI (uh, probably the Germans.)? Their last payment is due on the 3rd of October.
A study came out claiming that atheists and agnostics are pretty knowledgeable about religion. More so, in fact, than all religious groups. That kind of makes sense since agnostics/atheists need to understand a wide variety of religions before they can reject them. Winner quote about the story is from the NY Times:
“I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people,” Mr. Silverman said. “Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That’s how you make atheists.”
CNN had a short (10 question) quiz from the poll so you can check out you knowledge (for the record, I got 9 out of 10).
A while ago I wrote about a demo of an upcoming game called Hannibal. Well, it’s out now. I’ll be picking up a (virtual) copy soon. It has a cool, old-school board game look to it and the demo was a lot of fun. Check it out and crush those pesky Romans!
Last winter the Finns created a massive snow pile from plowing the streets of Helsinki. Well, the thing has just about melted…just in time for snow to start falling again. It was ginormous when it was created (see picture below).
This atheist scored 10/10. An American Prospect writer made the point that minorities generally know more about the majority than vice versa, as “survival skills”.
At least when I’m talkin’ to an atheist I know I won’t have to hear the same bull$hit from the likes of fanatics. Why can’t people just learn to accept what’s beautiful in other cultures? Then again, I do live amongst savages & semi-literate types…