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We cannot take a step towards constructing an idea of God without the ascription of human attributes.
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870), p. 442.
Category: Godlessness
You will enjoy yourself immensely watching Hitchens and Fry debating a pair of Catholic apologists. Click on the image below (you can see how the debate ended already)! Oh. Unless you're a Catholic or other Christian — you won't enjoy...
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Category: Godlessness
The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago revoked a speaking invitation to Sunsara Taylor, which led to much drama. I've already posted Taylor's version of events; now the society has sent me theirs, so here it is. It just confirms...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:57 PM • 422 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Frank Schaeffer really detests most of the New Atheists (except for Dan Dennett; he loves Dennett to pieces). He thinks they're just like the Christian fundamentalists, and he should know, since his father was one of the most fanatical evangelicals...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:18 PM • 311 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
This is fast becoming the theme of news stories about atheists this year: that there are differences in tactics in the atheist community, with some people being more in-your-face about it (yours truly takes a bow), and others wanting to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:30 AM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics
It's for college students only, and first prize is $2000. Come on, students, you're used to churning out term papers, and that prize is substantial. The topic of the essay is free expression. The Campaign for Free Expression is a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:18 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago has done an incredibly stupid thing. They invited Sunsara Taylor to give a talk on "Morality Without God"…and then disinvited her. The reasons weren't clear, other than that some people in the society disliked...
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Category: Godlessness
The Texas Freethought Convention will be taking place in San Antonio on 14 November. Y'all are going, right? A good turnout in Texas would be newsworthy, you know, and would shake up all those preconceptions about your state....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:40 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Christopher Hitchens has been debating a Christian pastor named Douglas Wilson on the subject of whether Christianity has been a force for good in the world. These debates were recorded, and assembled into a film called Collision. I haven't seen...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:44 AM • 188 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
I was captured on the Good Atheist earlier today. It's more of a conversation than an interview, so just sit back and listen to a couple of guys blather....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:05 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
As you've already heard, the Atheist Foundation of Australia was hit with a denial-of-service attack earlier this week (you can learn more about it in this interview of Jason Ball by Catherine Deveny). I rather like their planned unofficial response....
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