Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Can we stomach another label? How about "passionate atheists"? An Arkansas minister objects to the very idea.
One of the hazards of writing a book on decision-making is getting questions about decisions that are far beyond the purview of science (or, at the very least, way beyond my pay grade). Here, for instance, is a question that often arrives in my inbox, or gets shouted out during talks:
This is the second of several discussion posts for Week 3 of Feminist Theory and the Joy of Science.