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Category Archives: Secularism
Einstein On God And Religion
April 19, 2011 – 11:58 amA nice set of quotes setting the record straight: I’m not crazy about his NOMA-like tacit approval of religion having a say in values. Your Thoughts?
Hitchens In Confidence
April 19, 2011 – 12:16 amThe latest from our guy: That’s just part one of 6, click through for the whole interview. Your Thoughts?
“Atheists Kill People”
April 16, 2011 – 3:38 pmA cathartic remix of so many of the most memorable demonizations of atheists from the last few years: Your Thoughts?
Blood Poisons The Purest Teaching
April 15, 2011 – 9:46 amOphelia Benson, PZ Myers, and Jerry Coyne are dismissing the bizarre notion that lacking the New Atheists somehow lack credibility for lacking martyrs. On this topic, Nietzsche has already far more eloquently said far more than I ever could: Zealously and with much shouting they drove their herd over their bridge: as if to the [...]
How Do You Know It’s A Miracle?
April 15, 2011 – 8:55 amTracie Harris does an exemplary job of getting a caller to focus on, and eventually concede, a key philosophical distinction. Take notes because this is how you make a point: Debate isn’t futile, you just need to be good at it. Your Thoughts?
Happy Birthday, Christopher Hitchens!
April 13, 2011 – 12:00 amHere’s hoping desperately for many returns, against the odds. Your Thoughts?
Support Rock Beyond Belief
April 12, 2011 – 9:10 amAn important message from an atheist who wants equal treatment in the military: Your Thoughts?
Coinage of the Day: “The Jukebox Christian”
March 25, 2011 – 6:09 pmOn Facebook, Bruce S. Springsteen (third cousin of the Boss) coined the term “Jukebox Christian” to describe a certain kind of Christians, who he characterized as follows: They don’t consider questions and think about the answers. They just play back whatever automated tune goes with the button you pushed. Finally one phrase that expresses this [...]
Lionel Tiger on the Neurochemical Incentives of Religion
March 23, 2011 – 9:55 amIlluminating: Your Thoughts?
On The Conflict Over The Meaning And Cultural Influence of Political Secularism
March 22, 2011 – 11:00 amIn this post I just want to jot down some thoughts about a knotty issue. I probably will not make much progress in untangling all its strands but hopefully will stimulate a discussion that straightens things out at least a bit. Is political secularism inherently neutral or antagonistic to religiosity? There are a couple of [...]
Happy “A” Week Everybody!
March 20, 2011 – 12:00 amIt’s “A” Week on Facebook, the week of the year where atheists all over Facebook change their avatar to an atheist symbol as a way of showing just how many of us are out there and in solidarity with each other. This year we are encouraged to make our avatars the beautiful blue “A” logo: [...]
Tyson On How We Can Tell Nature Was Not Designed For Us
March 19, 2011 – 2:17 pmA really nice rundown from Neil deGrasse Tyson: Your Thoughts?
On God And The Japanese Earthquake
March 16, 2011 – 11:45 pmEdward Tarte says everything that shouldn’t need to be said on the topic, but sadly does: The word poison is a bit unnecessarily strong, but the rest is spot on. Your Thoughts?
Bigoted Americans
March 5, 2011 – 10:23 amThis is some powerfully hateful hypocritical harassment and stupidity right here. It creeps me out to see the American flag, which I love in a deep way, look like a fascist symbol in these nativistic, jingoistic, authoritarian, theocratically Christian Americans’ hands: The YouTube description sums up the context of the above: (ANAHEIM, CA, 3/2/11) — [...]
What’s Worse For Atheism: Being Confused For Being Too Much Like Bad Religion, Or Too Little Like Good Religion?
March 3, 2011 – 9:00 pmAs part of an ongoing dialogue with Greg about the legitimacy of the term “evangelical atheism”, I wrote two posts in which I argued that despite some serious principled differences in methods that we should always stress distinguish us from faith-based proselytizers, some activist atheists should not bother defensively, or with offense, trying to deny [...]
I Have Received An Open Letter
March 3, 2011 – 1:56 amIn reply to my post Why Atheists Should Not Give Up Challenging Theism And Theists (and to the subsequent overly-dramatic fallout in that post’s comments section), comes this “open letter” to me from GreenGeekGirl. I do not think I have ever received an open letter before (unless we count the one from that rabbi to the [...]
On Zealously, Tentatively, and Perspectivally Holding Viewpoints
March 2, 2011 – 4:13 pmIn a recent post, I wrote the following: Changing people’s minds to make them stop holding positions dogmatically and instead hold them tentatively is still a change of mind one may zealously pursue. On Facebook, Greg writes in reply: I want to address the peculiarity of this statement. One may passionately pursue such a change [...]
Can Atheists do Math?
March 2, 2011 – 10:05 amLeibniz’s version of the cosmological argument (his Sufficient Reason Argument) runs from the continency of our universe to the existence of some necessary being. This necessary being is the ground of our universe. The ground isn’t part of our universe – it stands in no spatial, temporal, or causal relation to any thing in our [...]
The Flexibility of the Word “Evangelical”
March 1, 2011 – 7:11 pmIn a previous post, I conceded that it was acceptable to call at least some activist atheists like me “evangelical atheists” on some possible senses of the word “evangelical”. Greg wanted to say that this could not be so because all that atheists do (or should) advocate is tentative, skeptical empiricism, and that we do not (or should [...]
Atheism and Leibniz
February 28, 2011 – 7:18 pmThe cosmological argument is really a family of arguments. Some of the cosmological arguments are very concrete. Aquinas’s Second Way and the Kalam Argument (popularized by William Lane Craig) reason back to some first cause of the universe at the beginning of time. Atheists (like Quentin Smith) have given various replies to these first cause [...]
Martin Pribble’s Interview With Dan Barker
February 28, 2011 – 6:13 pmMartin Pribble scores an interview with Dan Barker, the former music minister turned atheist activist, co-host of Freethought Radio, and author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists and the newly released The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God: Dan Barker Interview – February 2011 by martinpribble Your [...]
Is it Too Risky to Debate Morality’s Foundations in the Public Square?
February 28, 2011 – 10:50 amJean Kazez argues that the public square is not the place for atheists to be arguing that science and religion are incompatible. I strongly reject her position on this point because not only do I believe that ordinary people are quite capable of handling a vigorous, no-holds-barred debate about religion but because I believe the [...]
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