Is the Inverse of Religion Reason?
While reading an article on multiculturalism in Europe by Timothy Garton Ash that appeared last November in The New York Review of Books, I came across the following passage: In a remarkable letter he...
View ArticleMy Boring Atheist Family
Short post. The New York Times’ “Room for Debate” series which appears on their blog is almost always unsatisfying. They give the participants about two or three paragraphs too discuss a presumably...
View ArticleWhat’s Science Got to Do with It?
If you spent a lot of time hanging around atheist blogs or reading atheist books, it would not be unreasonable to think that there is a connection between science and atheism. This apparent connection...
View ArticleAn Anecdote from My Mother
The other day at lunch, my mother was sitting with several other women with whom she works. My mother asked if anyone would be going to a musical concert that was being held at a nearby church....
View ArticleThe Worst of All Possible Worlds
As I announced about a week or so ago, I’ve been doing some reading and research in hopes of writing something not entirely incoherent about the subject of free speech as it relates to the internet. So...
View ArticleImad Iddine Habib
From Maryam Nazmazie: Since 22 year old Imad Iddine Habib founded the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco (the first public atheist organisation in a country with Islam as the state religion), he has...
View ArticleA Story No One Wants to Hear
The other day, Greta Christina, over on her blog, asked for atheists’ “coming out” stories. “Coming out” is, I assume, terminology borrowed from the old Gay Liberation movement and refers to coming out...
View ArticleReblog: “The ‘M’ Word: The importance of using the exact right word”
I don’t reblog often, but over lunch I was doing a little bit of blog reading and I came across the phrase “militant atheist” twice in about twenty minutes and I thought it might be worth highlighting...
View ArticleI Fucking Hate Christians
I just took down a post because of a Christian commentor. You people are grotesque. I hate you. I hate you all and I hate you more and more everyday.
View ArticleWhen Is a Human Being Not a Human Being?
When that human being is a pregnant woman in a country with laws to protect the fetus. I got so upset reading this (ht jaunte) I’m going to add very little and maybe take a hiatus from the internet for...
View ArticleCanadians Distrust Atheists More Than Feminists and Jews!!111!
Okay, I’ll ‘fess up right now, the title borders on trolling, however there is a point to it right now. If you got your nose too out of joint before reading further, the eleventy-one should have been a...
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