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Glenn Slaven
Husband, father, Christian, coder, gamer. What else do you want to know?
Holiday Bonus: More Great Features - http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009...
Nothing says prosperity like a giant check that doesn't show up in reflections or shadows... - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
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Every time I run out of ink, I just buy a new printer. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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Balibo widow disputes army officer's admission - http://www.sbs.com.au/news...
""There is no such thing as closure - you don't get closure from things like that," Ms Shackleton told Fairfax Radio Network. "Closure is just a new age gobbledegook word, what it really means is `Please, I can't stand your grief, go away'."
- Glenn Slaven
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The CrunchPad is now the JooJoo - http://siliconangle.net/ver2...
Top 10 Rudest Place Names in America - http://googlesightseeing.com/2009...
Save The Date: No Pants! 2010 - http://improveverywhere.com/2009...
Outrage of the Week: Wings “Too Dangerous” for Kids to Wear in Nativity Play — - http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009...
Launching Xbox, Part 1 - The War Room - http://blog.last.fm/2009...
Listening to this week in Google #syncmyridepodcast
Introducing Google Public DNS - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Thinking Out Loud: What Should I Learn Next? - http://nick.typepad.com/blog...
Look, Mom! No Hands! - http://2dboy.com/2009...
Sabrina’s first swim - http://peapillybean.com.au/2009...
Using Google Public DNS - http://code.google.com/speed...
How to make a pirate treasure chest cake - http://peapillybean.com.au/2009...
Sega Mega Drive Meets iPhone Dock - http://www.inquisitr.com/49645...
Nigerian Policeman’s Daughter Dies, Teargases Children’s Hospital In Revenge - http://www.inquisitr.com/49637...
Children who front Richard Dawkins' atheist ads are evangelicals - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
Mo Kargas, Sarah Slaven, Demetrios the Traveller and 2 other people liked this
"The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins’s latest assault on God could not look more free of the misery he associates with religious baggage. With the slogan “Please don’t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself”, the youngsters with broad grins seem to be the perfect advertisement for the new atheism being promoted by Professor Dawkins and the British Humanist Association. Except that they are about as far from atheism as it is possible to be. The Times can reveal that Charlotte, 8, and Ollie, 7, are from one of the country’s most devout Christian families."
- Glenn Slaven
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Wouldn't the fact that they are from a devout Christian family actually be better for the message?
- Brian Sullivan
Not sure how, they aren't being 'left to choose' ,they're being raised Christian, and yet at least look happy. Not sure that's the message Dawkins wanted
- Glenn Slaven
Isn't the ad directed at Christian (or other religious) parents? Shouldn't the kids being displayed represent their children?
- Brian Sullivan
Many children look and act happy before they realize that Santa Claus doesn't really exist...
- Jemm
Kids that age don't really get the idea of a deity anyway. Just like they don't get that Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny don't really exist. Parents can teach children this young to say certain common phrases of their particular religious beliefs, but until the children are a bit older they're just parroting their parents anyway.
- Jason Huebel
what? no Santa? liar - the Grinch must have put you up to saying that . . .
- William Harryman
LOL. Also, if the guy didn't want his kids on a bumper sticker promoting religious choice, he shouldn't have put his children's pictures in a stock photo gallery.
- Jason Huebel
BTW, atheist or not, this phrase should irk parents: “The message is that the labelling of children by their parents’ religion fails to respect the rights of the child and their autonomy. We are saying that religions and philosophies — and ‘humanist’ is one of the labels we use on our poster — should not be foisted on or assumed of young children.” Children this age are not and should...
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- Jason Huebel
i'll still love my kids just the same no matter how their beliefs eventually shake out.
- Joe Silence is not dead
My headline would be "One of England's most devout Christian families pimps images of their children to atheist movement"
- Matt G
People, Dawkins is a Humanist, not an Atheist. He says so himself. And why pass judgment on anyone involved. Maybe this "devout Christian family" knew the marketing agency or even the designer.
- Kevin L
to alot of the Ultra-Right Super Christians of my acquaintance (i live in Texas, they're like mosquitoes here), there's no difference between a Humanist and an Atheist. alot of them also believe global warming is a myth.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Goodies! Giant Monsters! - http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggl...
There be Pirates - http://peapillybean.com.au/2009...
Monstar Boy turns 6 - http://peapillybean.com.au/2009...
Slippery Rudd Wins Again - http://www.duncanriley.com/2009...
Christian Lobby thank Conroy for filtering update - http://www.efa.org.au/2009...
So is it just me or did they steal the Zombieland logo from Judas Priest?
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Google Offers Named OpenIDs - http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009...
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