Atheism:
Silly, but funny to see how people react when treated to a dose of their own medicine: "Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake...
Posted on July 19, 2008 12:49 PM • 15 Comments •
I guess it is unlikely you have not already heard about the big brouhaha that erupted when Bill Donohue targeted PZ Myers for showing disrespect towards a belief that made some religious nuts go crazy and violent against a child...
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Posted on July 11, 2008 11:48 PM • 34 Comments •
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Posted on March 28, 2008 10:06 PM • 1 Comments •
Seminar on Secular Parenting Coming to Raleigh, March 15 Presented by Dale McGowan Editor/co-author, Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion * How does moral development really work? * My mother-in-law wants our kids baptized. How can...
Posted on February 21, 2008 9:39 PM • 3 Comments •
Richard Dawkins is doing a reading/signing at Kepler's bookstore this Saturday. Any Bay Area bloggers wanna go?...
Posted on July 13, 2007 2:24 AM • 4 Comments •
Carnival of the Godless #67 is up on Letters from a broad......
Posted on May 28, 2007 2:16 AM • 0 Comments •
Out in the real world, especially in the Red States and the Bible Belt, atheists tend to go on with their lives without actively tooting their horns every day everywhere. But online, the Internets are teeming with atheists suggesting that...
Posted on May 1, 2007 8:34 AM • 1 Comments •
Barry Saunders is a local columnist for Raleigh News & Observer who I never thought was very funny (there is a mysoginist streak in his writing) so I rarely read him these days. But the other day I could not...
Posted on April 24, 2007 10:06 AM • 7 Comments •
Carnival of the Godless #64, brilliantly hosted and edited by TNG is up on Neural Gourmet. Enjoy....
Posted on April 15, 2007 7:37 PM • 0 Comments •
As you know, the last several days saw quite a flurry of blog posts about framing science. I posted my thoughts here and I keep updating my post with links to all the new posts as they show up (except...
Posted on April 11, 2007 11:44 PM • 25 Comments •
My SciBlings Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet just published an article in 'Science' (which, considering its topic is, ironically, behind the subscription wall, but you can check the short press release) about "Framing Science" Carl Zimmer, PZ Myers, Mike Dunford...
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Posted on April 7, 2007 3:33 AM • 29 Comments •
Neural Gourmet and Blue Gal are organizing a massive blogospheric Blog Against Theocracy weekend: I'd like invite you all to Blog Against Theocracy. This is a little blog swarm being put together by everybody's favorite panties blogger Blue Gal for...
Posted on April 5, 2007 11:05 AM • 0 Comments •
Ed Cone's today's column addresses the changes in the way we talk about religion, particularly in the sphere of politics: from James Dobson to Pete Stark, from Mitt Romney to Amanda Marcotte - The last taboos in politics: But there...
Posted on March 25, 2007 11:16 AM • 2 Comments •
When a newspaper publishes a column about religion (in their Religion section) that takes into account only the Christian point of view, someone is bound to object. When the newspaper rectifies the error by publishing an article by an atheist,...
Posted on March 24, 2007 4:55 PM • 1 Comments •
I have read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and "Breaking The Spell" by Daniel Dennett a couple of months ago, could not bear to slog all the way through "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris, and am still...
Posted on February 15, 2007 11:52 AM • 9 Comments •
Ah, why do I have to be so busy on a news-filled day (no, not Anna Nicole Smith)? I barely saw the computer today. I'd get home, have about 5 minutes before I have to go out again and so...
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Posted on February 9, 2007 1:27 AM • 52 Comments •
Revere, PZ, Larry and Ed all agree with each other, which means they must all be correct on this story as this does not happen so often. But the extraordinarily stupid and hateful anti-atheist show CNN had the other day...
Posted on February 7, 2007 10:04 AM • 1 Comments •
[Pushed to the top of the page due to interesting updates...] Ah, the perils of growing traffic! I get e-mail. Usually those are nice questions about sleep disorders, or requests for link exchanges. But today I got a christianist. Oy...
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Posted on January 30, 2007 3:01 PM • 12 Comments •
Is there a good secular equivalent of 'Amen'?...
Posted on January 24, 2007 10:16 PM • 13 Comments •
Mormon Missionaries knocked on a wrong door earlier today. I think their heads are still spinning......
Posted on January 24, 2007 4:00 PM • 8 Comments •
Carnival of the Godless -- Xmas Eve Edition - is up on God is for Suckers!...
Posted on December 24, 2006 10:30 PM • 0 Comments •
Yesterday I listened to a segment on All Things Considered called Atheist Brigade Takes Arguments to the Tolerant (podcast) with some trepidation. But, when it all ended, I thought it was not bad at all. Apart from a couple of...
Posted on December 16, 2006 9:29 PM • 6 Comments •
Of Religion and Morality (December 02, 2005)...
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Posted on December 12, 2006 11:05 AM • 1 Comments •
While all this was going on I was wondering where Jason Rosenhouse would stand on all of this. He is back from a break and has two posts on the issue here and here. Update: Chris Rowan wrote an intriguing...
Posted on November 29, 2006 9:39 PM • 0 Comments •
In the past we had to make sure to remember to tell the kids not to make fun of their cousins (and adults) for saying a prayer before the Thanksgivings dinner. We tried to give a personal example by holding...
Posted on November 23, 2006 7:24 PM • 0 Comments •
Imagine an ecosystem in which all the players are groups defined by their religion: fundies, liberal believers, apathetics, atheists, etc. Then, use the ecological and evolutionary priniciples, e.g., competitive exclusion, niche-construction, arms-races, parasitism, camouflage, symbiosis, etc. to model the interactions...
Posted on November 19, 2006 11:04 AM • 2 Comments •
Carnival of the Godless #52 is up on Skeptic Rant. Check the invisible links....
Posted on October 29, 2006 10:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Carnival of the Godless #51 is up on The Greenbelt....
Posted on October 16, 2006 8:16 PM • 0 Comments •
An interesting new study of religiosity in America: One God, four views: "Not all Americans see the powerful old man in the sky" Really? The authors suggest religion may most successfully motivate individuals through what it can offer them in...
Posted on September 16, 2006 12:49 AM • 1 Comments •
From a press release (via e-mail): U.S. Congressional Scorecards 109th Congress: Washington, D.C. - The Secular Coalition for America (SCA) today released its House and Senate Scorecards of the 109th Congress. The SCA, an advocacy group for atheists, humanists, freethinkers,...
Posted on September 7, 2006 11:34 AM • 2 Comments •
Oh yes there are atheists in Foxholes! In the latest Newsweek: There are no atheists in foxholes," the old saw goes. The line, attributed to a WWII chaplain, has since been uttered countless times by grunts, chaplains and news anchors....
Posted on August 20, 2006 11:44 PM • 4 Comments •
Carnival Of The Godless #47 is up on Revolvo Inritus....
Posted on August 20, 2006 6:27 PM • 0 Comments •
Yeah, I know everyone is doing it, but when I first tried I never got quotes that were really satisfying. But when PZ set up a random 5 from his own vault, I got an embarrasment of riches. So here...
Posted on August 19, 2006 2:17 PM • 0 Comments •
Do you want to know more about my kids and how we are raising them? If so, this re-post may be interesting to you.
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Posted on August 8, 2006 10:59 AM • 5 Comments •
You should really go now and read the "Meet The Enemy" interview with me on a satirical blog called God, Country & Apple Pie. Check out the rest of the far right-wing Christian, anti-science, fascist-theocratic fare there as well....
Posted on August 2, 2006 7:45 PM • 2 Comments •
I love my kids, and they are growing into wonderful, passionate atheists...
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Posted on July 18, 2006 10:59 AM • 1 Comments •
44th edition of the Carnival of the Godless is up on Daylight Atheism....
Posted on July 9, 2006 3:26 PM • 0 Comments •
This post is really ancient - from September 24, 2004 - but it was fun to write, I remember. In the meantime I learned that it is actually official - as an atheist I cannot get elected for any office in North Caroina (and a dozne or so other states). That is written in the state law. Only people who believe in fiary tales (or are good at lying about it) can get elected here.
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Posted on July 7, 2006 10:59 AM • 7 Comments •
There is a whole slew of responses to this silly post by Comissar/ It is a typical effort to make "balance" between Left and Right in order to make the Right appear more palatable, ...or palatable at all. The typical...
Posted on June 26, 2006 5:18 PM • 0 Comments •
This is an early post of mine, written on February 11, 2005, a rare one in which I discuss my own lack of religion:...
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Posted on June 20, 2006 10:59 AM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Back To The Woom is a blog that needs to get much more exposure. It is written by a very smart couple here in Raleigh, NC. The posts are always very thoughtfull and well-researched and the topics range from Ann...
Posted on June 17, 2006 2:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Archy on 'belief in evolution'. Lance Mannion about the Godless....
Posted on June 13, 2006 6:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Want this badge? The newest edition of the Carnival of the Godless is up on The Atheist Mama. If you are unfamilirar with this carnival, check out the Archives here. Heard the Word of Blog? Also, if you are...
Posted on June 11, 2006 12:03 PM • 0 Comments •
