Looks like someone messed with one of the flyers put up by The Secular Alliance at the University of Chicago:Atheists are dumb?! That’s it. Forget the ice cream. I need to get myself to church. 
Given his reputation for responding swiftly, and sometimes savagely, to his critics I must confess I'm rather disappointed not to have heard from Alain de Botton, after the interview I did with him for the current i...
A couple days ago I wrote the following: New Atheists specifically are a morally motivated group of people. Yes, there is some concern for simple advancement of science. But even accommodationists are interested in that. What characteristically distinguishes the New Atheists is that we refuse the moralcompromise with faith-based, authoritarian religions that other atheists are willing to [...]...
Tonight is it! The scholarship drive for Jessica Ahlquist closes today. After that, I need a week or so to figure out what donations were made directly to the American Humanist Association and what money will be contributed from the … Continue reading →In a post a couple of days ago, I examined, defended, celebrated, and gave general precautionary warnings about the various ways that New Atheists are fundamentally motivated by moral commitments and about how much of the substance of what concerns us has to do with issues of morality. In reply, Beth made the most tired [...]...
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I find this such an exciting prospect, whether or not our current treatment of animals is as bad as is alleged. Your Thoughts?...
In response to the furore that has raged over "militant secularism" in recent weeks, triggered by the remarks of Conservative chair Baroness Warsi during her trip to the Vatican, last week's New Statesman featured Brian Appleyard attacking the "neo-ath...On Sunday, I saw Yves Behar on CNN’s show The Next List (segment previewed above) and was amazed by his work. Here is a TED video from a few years ago where he talks about his projects: Your Thoughts?...
Tony Debono, a Camels With Hammers reader who I enjoyed getting to know after he friended me on Facebook today, wrote and sent me this, which made me smile: For some intricate analysis of ways to interpret Hitler and evil (since some in the comments section are not happy with this being just a subtly funny dig [...]...
PZ has beaten me to it : Probably the most boring question you can ask about religion is whether or not the whole thing is “true.” Unfortunately, recent public discussions on religion have focused obsessively on precisely this issue, with &...About a month from now, on March 31st (a week after the Reason Rally), there is going to be a huge event for military atheists at Fort Bragg, North Carolina called Rock Beyond Belief: I was fortunate enough to be … Continue reading →This makes just as much sense as [insert the faith of your choice here]: Though a watering can is directly responsible for giving plants the nourishment they need to grow… so it’s actually pretty damn powerful… Hm. I need to … Continue reading →
Ryan joins me as we pontificate the recent “War on Contraception” that’s taken America by storm. This week we also answer the age old question: why are cats so damn popular on the Internet? For those of you wondering which Michael Shermer book I was referring to, it’s this one: “The Believing Brain“Sounds like an Onion title when put like that, no? Here’s a documentary about the bullying kids’ suffer that the MPAA rated R: The MPAA defended its judgment thusly: Bullying is a serious issue and is a subject that parents should discuss with their children. The MPAA agrees with the Weinstein Company that Bully can serve as [...]...
I HAVE only had one encounter with the late philosopher Prof Antony Flew – and it jolted me out of the near-comatose state I was in at a very boring National Secular Society AGM in the mid-1970s. Flew, then a member of the NSS a good while before he completely mislaid his marbles and found [...]
This Week, Carisa joins me as e talk about the Westboro Baptist chruch getting hacked, the burning of a Koran in Afghanistan, and the Richard Dawkins / Archbishop of Canterbury debate.
It still amazes me the way we let experts on nonsense babble on about their specific deity and its role in the natural world. What does super-magical-man-you-can’t-disprove have to do with evolution? The moderator made the mistake of claiming that both Dawkins and the Archbishop knew for certain what the truth of the Universe was. [...]
Home About Comment Policy Disclosure Advertising Inquiries Contact skip to main skip to sidebar February 24, 2012 An Alternative to Atheist Restraint Labels : Atheist Movement An Alternative to Atheist Restraint 2012-02-24T05:52:00-06:00 vjack Atheist Movement| Comments Tweet Staks Dangerous Talk has an interesting post in which he claims that atheists , at least those of us in the United States , show too much restraint when it comes to our dealings with the religious . He describes some recent instances where he went out of his way to avoid saying anything that could possibly be construed as offensive by religious . believers Time and time again , atheists are compelled to show restraint out of fear of offending the religious . We shouldn’t have to . We have actual evidence on our side .
A VEHEMENT denial that a batch of communion wafers, reportedly infected with an LSD-like hallucinogen that drove the faithful crackers, has been issued by the Catholic Church. According to this report [in Italian] a normal Sunday mass, in Campobasso, was transformed into “a veritable Dante’s circle” immediately after the Eucharist. The batch of “holy” biscuits [...]
Home About Comment Policy Disclosure Advertising Inquiries Contact skip to main skip to sidebar February 22, 2012 Why Do Atheists Waste Their Time Thinking About Religion Labels : Atheist Movement Religion Why Do Atheists Waste Their Time Thinking About Religion 2012-02-22T05:47:00-06:00 vjack Atheist Movement|Religion| Comments Tweet If you write an atheist blog , I can almost guarantee that you have been asked some version of the following : question If you atheists are so against religion , why do you waste your time thinking about it or even blogging about it Like me , I suspect that you find this question a bit tiring after awhile . I find that my list of responses has grown so large over the years that I sometimes lose track of them . Here's just a : few One does not need to agree
, , Home About Comment Policy Disclosure Advertising Inquiries Contact skip to main skip to sidebar February 17, 2012 Rejection , Existential Anxiety , and Christian Reactions to Atheists Labels : Religion Rejection , Existential Anxiety , and Christian Reactions to Atheists 2012-02-17T04:53:00-06:00 vjack Religion| Comments Tweet Have you ever felt thoroughly rejected by someone else Maybe you were shot down when you asked out that person with whom you were infatuated . Maybe someone you thought of as a friend turned on you . I suspect we can all relate to the sting of rejection . Individuals differ in how sensitive they are to real or imagined rejection . For some , the sting is brief and can be shaken off rather quickly . For others , rejection may trigger a crisis of identity . But
Home About Comment Policy Disclosure Advertising Inquiries Contact skip to main skip to sidebar February 10, 2012 Why Being an Atheist is Very Different From Not Believing in the Tooth Fairy Labels : Atheism Religion Words of Wisdom Why Being an Atheist is Very Different From Not Believing in the Tooth Fairy 2012-02-10T11:26:00-06:00 vjack Atheism|Religion|Words of Wisdom| Comments Tweet I occasionally hear from atheists who do not like the atheist label because it does not specify what is believed , only what is not believed . I don't believe in unicorns or the tooth fairy , they say , and I don't call myself an aunicornist' or identify myself as someone who doubts the tooth fairy . Right . Because these are equivalent . If I am feeling patient enough to attempt an explanation , I
. Home About Comment Policy Disclosure Advertising Inquiries Contact skip to main skip to sidebar February 7, 2012 Secularism vs . Theocracy Labels : Atheist Movement Church and State Secularism vs . Theocracy 2012-02-07T05:02:00-06:00 vjack Atheist Movement|Church and State| Comments Tweet Freedom vs . theocracy is appropriate for this image because today's Democratic Party is anything but secular . Instead of standing up for our secular democracy many have adopted a path of pandering to the religious For us , regardless of our political leanings , it is about secularism vs . . theocracy Here's how Adam Lee Daylight Atheism recently put : it It's secularism against theocracy , the free intellect against dogmatism , conscience against barbarity , the future against the past . Like it orHome About Comment Policy Disclosure Advertising Inquiries Contact skip to main skip to sidebar February 4, 2012 Delegitimizing Atheists in the Media Labels : Bigotry Media Delegitimizing Atheists in the Media 2012-02-04T07:50:00-06:00 vjack Bigotry|Media| Comments Tweet Staks over at Dangerous Talk recently brought up a great point about how people especially those in the media delegitimize atheism in subtle ways . He notes that atheists who are interviewed on TV or for print media are often referred to as a self-professed atheist and that this sort of prefix is never affixed to religious people . I have certainly seen self-professed and many similar examples like the : following a self-described atheist . identifies himself as an atheist who says he's an atheist who claims to be an
: , , Home About Comment Policy Disclosure Advertising Inquiries Contact skip to main skip to sidebar February 3, 2012 Mormonism : Cult , Christianity , or Both Labels : Religion Mormonism : Cult , Christianity , or Both 2012-02-03T05:06:00-06:00 vjack Religion| Comments Tweet It is often said that the difference between a religion and a cult comes down to the number of adherents . Longevity seems to be a factor too , as it seems like it is usually the people who belong to older , established religions who use the cult label to describe newer religions . I am curious about why many fundamentalist Christians are so adamant in insisting that Mormonism is a cult and that Mormons are not Christians . Do you think this is based on differences of doctrine , jealousy over the rapid growth of this