Hitchens discusses his memoir Hitch-22: Your Thoughts?
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Gay Sex And Reality
July 18, 2010 – 10:58 amRecently a University of Illinois adjunct professor in a course on Catholicism got into unfairly lost his job over expressing his philosophical opposition to homosexuality in an e-mail to his student in what seems to me like a pretty clear violation of academic freedom. As to the substance of his arguments though, PZ Myers does [...]
The Four Horsemen Of Atheism In Comic Book Form
July 13, 2010 – 6:13 pmThere are many similarly amusing comics at Virus Comix. And to compare with real life, here’s their full 2 hour video together from a couple years back: Your Thoughts?
Towards Atheistic Religions (Or Away From Them, Depending On How You Define “Religions”)
July 13, 2010 – 10:24 amIn a rare occurrence, I am being taken to task for giving religion too much credit and atheists too little! Here are the offending paragraphs I wrote on Friday: I would say that various practices called religious, if stripped of all their dogmatism, traditionalism, literalism, and authoritarianism, can and do certainly coexist with and complement science [...]
New Hitchens Interview
July 12, 2010 – 7:38 amBut not a word about his illness. It is a series of rapid fire questions and answers on a range of topics, with little elaboration. Here are a few interesting bits: Several chapters are devoted to your Trotskyist youth. What attracted you to the left? The name. It was the left opposition to Stalinism, capitalism, [...]
I Am Not Militaristic.
July 11, 2010 – 4:37 pmIn reply to this video on various immoral things outright commanded in what is supposed to be God’s law in the Old Testament, Loyal writes: Militaristic non-Christians often seize upon the many difficult passages where God is condoning morally repugnant acts. The use of the word “militaristic” to characterize all who “seize upon the many [...]
Why I Think Theistic Religion’s Psychological Grip Can Be Weakened Or Broken
July 10, 2010 – 2:03 pmIn a recent comments section, Gregory Wahl argued to me that religion is so deeply rooted in psychological needs, specifically the longing for immortality, that there is an inherent limitation to the ability of all my philosophical arguments to dissuade the faithful. As this line of reasoning goes, they do not believe for intellectual reasons [...]
Penn Jillette On Magic, Atheism, And Libertarianism
July 9, 2010 – 1:53 pmA really enjoyable video, especially for his remarks on magic, other magicians, and why magic on TV isn’t real magic. And I really appreciated his stress on the importance of having “out” atheists to identify with. In his case he discusses being joyed, inspired, loved, and comforted by having famous atheists like Martin Mull, Randy [...]
Do New Atheists Unjustifiably Shirk Their Burden For Evidence?
July 7, 2010 – 2:16 pmMichael Antony has an interesting but problematic article in Philosophy Now exploring whether “New Atheism” holds itself to a double standard when it comes to rules of evidence. He argues that New Atheists dismiss religious belief explicitly on “evidentialist” epistemic criteria whereby we must always proportion our belief to evidence, but at the same time, [...]
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