Drat
Dawkins is sold out. Well, maybe next time. And maybe I need to replace my tires or something.
Atheism
Antonin Scalia Doesn’t Believe In Governmental Neutrality About Religion
That is, Justice Scalia believes the government should promote religion as opposed to non-religion (emphasis added): It has not been our American constitutional tradition, nor our social and legal tradition, to exclude religion from the public sphere. Whatever the Establishment… Continue Reading
Richard Dawkins For My Birthday
Hooray! Richard Dawkins will be speaking at the Atheist Alliance International Convention in Burbank the weekend after next, and it looks like I’ll be going! At least one friend is interesting in going with and hey, it’s right after my… Continue Reading
America’s Most Distrusted Minority
This sort of thing only works if you Readers actually make comments. Again, I’ll throw out a topic for your discussion. I’m not going to participate in these discussions for a while. Nor should you assume that I agree with… Continue Reading
What Should He Have Done?
This skit might seem offensive at first glance, but take a moment to think about it before you pronounce it so. Notice that there is never approval of what they know is about to happen: Ultimately, this is a restatement… Continue Reading
Better Rule in Washington
Last year, I wrote about the nativity scene in the state capitol building in Washington state. My opinion then, which remains the same now, is that Christian groups can put up and display as many nativity scenes, and as lavish… Continue Reading
A Christian’s Evaluation Of How Christians Treat Non-Believers
As always, I enjoy thoughtful Christian thoughts on how non-believers are to be treated. This is a particularly damning evaluation of the behavior of a particular institution, from which frankly I had low expectations to begin with. The author, whose… Continue Reading
Anti-Atheist Hysteria In Iowa
A group of nonbelievers in Des Moines, the Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers (“IAF”), took out out some advertisements for the sides of busses run by the Des Moines Area Rapid Transit District (“DART”). The advertisements looked like this: DART received… Continue Reading
Once I Was Blind But Now I See
I’ve a question for a subset of Readers, more because I’m curious than anything else. The subset I’m addressing my question to are atheist/agnostic/otherwise non-believing Readers who once either were firm believers in the supernatural or who at least practiced… Continue Reading