The Infidelephant profile picture

The Infidelephant

When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss y

About Me



I have successfully weened myself from the teet of religious ignorance and dogmatism that prevailed throughout my younger years, traversed through the dark valleys of uncertainty and nihistic angst, and have reached the sun-kissed apex of the ability to revel in my liberating humanism.

More to come...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Alive: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Penn Jillette, George Carlin, Michael Shermer, James Randi, and all others of like mind.
Dead: Thomas Paine, Albert Einstein, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, Rene Descartes, Bertrand Russel (to shake their hand) and Constantine's mother (to shake her baby).

Music:

Dead Can Dance, VAST, Delerium, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Massive Attack, Govinda, Radiohead, Portishead, Poe, Flaming Lips, and many others...

Movies:

Fight Club, Memento, The Usual Suspects, MirrorMask, Se7en, The Crow, Adaptation, Lost Boys, Nightmare Before Xmas, Big Fish, The Game, What Dreams May Come, Waking Life, Devil's Advocate, Dark City, Edward Scissorhands, The Cell, Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, Very Bad Things, Breakfast Club, Matrix I, Being John Malcovich

Television:

Penn & Teller's Bullshit, Family Guy, Futurama, Nip/Tuck, 24, Arrested Development, The Office, Scrubs, Many BBC Documentaries, The History Channel, The Documentary Channel, The Science Channel, The Discover Channel, etc.

Books:

The Lucifer Principle (Howard Bloom), An Ancestors Tale (Richard Dawkins), The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), Letter to a Christian Nation (Sam Harris), The End of Faith (Sam Harris), Common Sense (Thomas Paine), Origin of the Species (Charles Darwin), Prometheus Rising (R.A. Wilson), anything by Curt Vonnegut, Christopher Moore, or Tom Robbins

Heroes:

See: "Who I want to meet"

My Blog

Why I Care - PART DEUX

When it rains - it pours - or so they tell me; whoever the fuck "they" is.  But, quite obviously, I have not had (made, taken, produced, or mandated) the opportunity to follow up on this idea in ...
Posted by The Infidelephant on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:16:00 PST

Why I Care - PART 1

I had an epiphany a while back.This epiphany came to me at a time where the festivities of a very busy Xmas day were now behind me. The kids were in bed and the wife and I were now out enjoying a well...
Posted by The Infidelephant on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:54:00 PST

If you build it - they probably won't come.

I just don't know, people...What is the point of the Blasphemy Challenge - except to piss off christians?Does it change anyone's life?  Does it reflect well on us Rationalists, or does it just ra...
Posted by The Infidelephant on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:11:00 PST

The Birth of a Blog - The Birth of Belief

In the beginning......religion was "born" when man first began to question his own environment. There was, by no stretch of the imagination, any sort of scientific method or a means to study these mag...
Posted by The Infidelephant on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:26:00 PST