The President’s Remarks and the Grief of Atheists
December 18, 2012
President Obama gave a moving speech at the Newtown memorial service Sunday night. His remarks contained several explicitly religious references. I don’t care.
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On Shunning Fellow Atheists and Skeptics
November 25, 2012
Shunning and boycotting may be gaining acceptance in the atheist and skeptic communities. In particular, it appears they are being adopted as tactics against fellow atheists and skeptics. This is regrettable.
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A Distortion of Religious Liberty
November 19, 2012
Score one for the Catholic Church and everyone else who thinks religious liberty implies the right to impose their dogma on others. A federal judge has prohibited the Obama administration from requiring a publisher owned principally by a Christian foundation to provide its employees with contraceptive coverage, pursuant to the new health care law. The case is Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. v. Sebelius.
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Some Curious GOP Campaign Literature
October 16, 2012
It’s presidential campaign season and I’ve received some literature from the Romney campaign that I find curious for a couple of reasons.
International Blasphemy Rights Day 2012
September 28, 2012
International Blasphemy Rights Day (IBRD)—September 30—is almost here, and that’s a good thing because freedom of expression can definitely use a rallying point. From many governments, there has been a stronger push to prohibit “offensive” speech about religion than we have witnessed in years.
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Who Would Jesus Endorse—Pulpit Freedom Sunday
September 24, 2012
On October 7, 2012, hundreds of clergy will intentionally defy the law by engaging in actions they might describe as coordinated civil disobedience. I view it as an unjustifiable defiance of the law and a constitutionally unsound attempt to get the government to subsidize political endorsements by clergy.
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Divisiveness Within the Secular Movement
September 12, 2012
Greta Christina and PZ Myers have recently suggested that is it not necessarily a bad thing to be divisive. True, it is not necessarily a bad thing. It depends on what one is separating oneself from.
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Reality Check: The Nod to God
September 06, 2012
So the Democrats inserted God into the party platform. What did we expect?
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Some Observations About Atheism Plus
August 27, 2012
WARNING: This post contains mild language, constructive criticism, occasional reasoning, and no invective (except by way of parody).
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A Concise Review of a Clump of Matter
August 25, 2012
Just read the book, The Atheist’s Guide to Reality. It is a clump of matter. The author, Alex Rosenberg, assures it is. Further, as a clump of matter it cannot be about anything, because “one clump of matter can’t be about another clump of matter,” and clumps of matter (or more precisely, fermions and bosons) are all there is (emphasis in original).
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