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The religious part of easter is treated with solemnity, even the resurrection, but the secular part is pure paganism with all the heartiness drained out of it. Easter needs its Dickens.
[Samuel Marchbank's Almanac]
Category: Weblogs
The new site went live sometime late last night, and our technical help slaved away to try and get everything working, if not beautiful. Check out Freethoughtblogs some time today, and say what you think. I've created a thread...
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Category: Godlessness
Hedges has been totally nuts for the last few years: he's got this crazy irrational hysteria about atheists that makes him utterly unhinged whenever he writes about us. His latest is of a piece with his mania: The gravest threat...
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Category: Godlessness
Who else but Christopher Hitchens? This year, Richard Dawkins himself will present AAA's Richard Dawkins Award to Christopher Hitchens, who may accept in person or in absentia as his schedule permits. Christopher Hitchens is one of the most prolific modern...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:56 PM • 178 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
That article I mentioned earlier about a collection of statements from atheists on why they don't believe is now available at the New Statesman. You can read all of them, not just mine!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:55 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
It takes real effort to purge yourself of parasites, and Australia's got 'em: rabbits, cane toads, and now…chaplains. In a nation that prides itself on its secular government, Australia has this bizarre and inappropriate relic, the National School Chaplaincy Program...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:43 AM • 158 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
You should enjoy this: 50 academics talk about god. It's a half hour of nothing but reason and lucid statements of the obvious. (via Dr JTP)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:28 AM • 79 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Various godless/critical thinking organizations are doing a good thing: they are expanding their sphere of interest into the high schools, and there are now new resources available to students. If you're interested in learning more about what you can do...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:19 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Maybe the military isn't so full of fundies as I feared. Justin Griffith managed to get dog tags with his religious preference — "ATHEIST/FSM" — which is good to hear. It wasn't easy, since his recruiter lied and listed him...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:48 PM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Australia has a census coming up, and you know us atheists: we don't take religion seriously, so we're likely to write down any old mocking riposte to questions about our beliefs. Try not to do it: it gets the godless...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:38 AM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
The New Statesman has an article that asked a lot of atheist luminaries and some lesser glowworms like yours truly to explain why they don't believe in gods. I don't think it's available online (I have a copy, though, and...
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