Graduation Moment for Gnu Atheists
For many, the realization that they don’t believe in god–that they have *gasp* become an atheist (!)–is a significant moment. In many cases, it is accompanied with some sadness, possibly anger, and of...
View ArticleGnuism: Is it tru? You’re a gnu!
(Not to be confused with this GNUism, which is also interesting and new. As a writer, I may decide to find a way to combine the powers of these two concepts and take over the world….) In recent...
View ArticleThe truth of my truthiness
Way back in the stone ages, also known as 2009, I posted some thoughts about religion on this blog (I know, shocking!). Riding the memetic wave of “truthiness” which was all the rage back then (ah,...
View ArticleAlain de Botton and the costly middle-man of religion
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion....
View ArticleIndividualism, association, and atheism
A recent post on Camels with Hammers about intellectual temptations atheists must avoid voices a lot of my thoughts better than I could. Fincke generally allies himself with the New Atheists, but often...
View ArticleThird wave atheism or the ‘new skepticism’?
edit: I saw Jen’s follow-up post as well. I like this image best: —- A couple of days ago (I’ve been moving and such), Jen wrote this post on her blog about how the atheist community has been a “boy’s...
View ArticleReading Jonathan Haidt as a “New Atheist”
A week ago I wrote a quick post about how I was reading Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, and quoted a bit from early on in the book. I am nearly done the book (I have one chapter left), and...
View ArticlePoly Living Conference this weekend and thoughts on atheist blogging
I really should be getting to sleep, considering I have work in the morning (11AM, but that’s still morning!), but before I do I wanted to post a few thoughts. Thought #1: I’m going to my first poly...
View Articleemotions can be a distracting drug
So, I seriously get annoyed with some aspects of liberal culture, especially where it intersects with religion. I’ve written about this before, many times, so I don’t need to sat too much (and yet, I...
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