It's been a rough few weeks for the accommodationists — they keep raising the same tired old complaints, poorly, and with little flair or reason or persuasive rhetoric, and they keep getting swatted down by those rascally loud "New Atheists. Excuse me if I'm starting to feel a bit cocky, but I'm still waiting for either an interesting or somewhat persuasive argument against our position. In fact, if you want to know exactly how I feel, here's the video.
(PETA is not happy about this, which tells you just how ridiculous that organization is.)
It's nice to be able to take them out so easily, but we can't feel too great a sense of accomplishment…they're just buzzy little flies.
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This week I think I'm going to spend some time discussing denialism throughout history.
There are two dominant ways we view the role of the news media in the U.S., with both views reflected in the traditions of classical sociology. The first perspective emphasizes the "power and persuasion" nature of the news.
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