The Christian hate group One Million Moms (Twitter count: 4,202) has issued an apology after prematurely celebrating the cancellation of the cartoon Little Demon. For months now, Monica Cole, the one mom associated with the group, has been waging a war on the Disney/FXX cartoon series. The show is about a girl named Chrissy and her […]
Arts
What’s happening in arts and entertainment, shared through a secular lens at OnlySky, a secular community for nonreligious Americans.
Posted inBooks
The brisk, thoughtful intro to Satanism you’ve been waiting for
Imagine you’re going to throw a huge party, no limits. You can invite as many people as you want. The setting is totally up to you: perhaps a mansion atop a hill? Or maybe an open meadow surrounded by deep woods. Or a beachfront yacht club. As for catering—whatever you like. Any food is possible […]
Posted inFilm/TV, Social Media
The bizarre history of the ‘Norm of the North’ Twitter account
Corporate twitter handles are usually grotesque, cringey mouthpieces that try to pass off unfettered capitalism as “companies are people just like you.” Whether it’s KFC tweeting that it’s “Morbin’ Time!” or Greyhound tweeting “Spoiler Alert: The Best Seat is Every Seat” between responding to furious customers asking why rain is coming through the roof of […]
Posted inGaming
Does not game well with others: The art of the kick
In gaming as in real life, teamwork skills matter. When one player didn’t get the memo, the game master makes the kick.
Posted inArt
Why did the color violet go viral after 1863?
Allen Tager has spent the new millennium thus far trying to find out why the color violet—a combinative color of red and blue—is so maddeningly difficult to find through thousands of years of human history. But in the late 19th century that color’s fortunes seemed to suddenly enhance. Tager, a Russian-American artist and cognitive scientist, […]
Posted inBooks, Leaving Religion
Unholy Catholic Ireland: Despite secular shift, many cling to Catholicism
For much of the past century, Ireland was practically synonymous with the Catholic Church. The Church was arguably the most powerful institution for generations of Irish people. But all that began to change in recent years and it’s happened faster than anyone could have anticipated. “Holy Catholic Ireland” is quickly turning unholy. Ireland is now […]
Posted inBooks, Free Expression
Libraries are dangerous in the best possible way
Libraries serve the lofty purpose of making knowledge free and available to everyone, without fear or favor. That’s why they’ve come under attack from wannabe censors and book burners.
Posted inFilm/TV, Religious News
Texas mom: ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ will make you ‘fall victim to the schemes of hell’
Congratulations to KWTX in Texas for finding the most insane Christian mom in the community, convincing her it was a good idea to appear on camera so she could tell viewers that the biggest threat to their children was the movie Hocus Pocus 2, and then making sure the camera was fully zoomed in on […]
Posted inArt, Parenting & Family, Sexuality
We all have butts: Uncoupling shame from nudity and sex
I am the youngest of six kids. My parents were both raised in strict Catholic homes. After my youngest brother was born, God apparently stopped having a problem with birth control. Then nine years later, while my parents were splitting up, my mom went off her birth control. And before they broke up permanently, Mom […]
Posted inBooks, Law, Politics
‘American Crusade’: How the Supreme Court is weaponizing Christianity
Three years ago, constitutional attorney, atheist, author, and “fake Christian” Andrew Seidel wrote about the threat of Christian nationalism in his book The Founding Myth, arguing that we were never a “Christian Nation” in any real sense of that phrase. Yet even though we weren’t founded as a Christian country, and even though we won’t […]