That’s not obnoxious. I could show you obnoxious, if you’d like.
Down there in sunny wingnutty Florida, a judge recently decided that Christian groups could “passively” distribute Bibles in public schools — that is, they could leave them on tables and allow students...
View ArticleAnnouncing…FtBConscience
This blog network has decided to put on a show. We go to conferences a lot, we have conversations with all kinds of atheists, we have things to say and we know you do, too, so we have decided to put on...
View ArticleGod vs. Science, again
I’m flying off to Ireland tomorrow to pay rapt attention to the speakers at Empowering Women Through Secularism — you know that four FtB bloggers will be speaking there, right? Me, Taslima, Maryam, and...
View ArticleMy remarks at #ewts2013
(This is roughly what I said in my panel this morning at Empowering Women Through Secularism. The topic was Secular Values in Society; my fellow panelists were Leonie Hilliard, Nina Sankari, and...
View ArticleBoom times for delusionists
True confession: I have not read Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. I have a copy, I started it on the basis of recommendations from smart people, and…I couldn’t make it past the introduction. It’s 800+...
View ArticleFtBCon news
For you Facebookers, we now have a FtBCon page and an event page — go like them! Many of you have been asking about the final schedule. A whole bunch of us were off at Skepchickcon this past weekend...
View ArticleLazy writer is lazy
Salon’s Katie Engelhart has a perplexing question: Where are the Women of new Atheism? Where were the women? Why, they were right there: stolidly leading people away from the fold. They were irreverent...
View ArticleThe best kind of America there is
This is what we should be fighting for in the next election. I’m going to be staffing the DFL booth at the Stevens County Fair tonight. I think one of our problems as a country is that I fear even our...
View ArticleA warning
Here’s another challenge for the growing atheist movement: can we avoid the trap of charismatic leadership and the cult of personality? As church attendance declines (a good thing), as pastors wake up...
View Article“it is time for the genitals of all children to be protected from people with...
Taslima has the news: experts in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland are proposing a complete ban on circumcisions of all types. Unfortunately, it’s a little premature to say it will happen:...
View ArticleEx-Muslims of North America
While I was in Washington DC a while back, I got to talk with Sarah Haider for a bit. She’s one of the leaders of the Ex-Muslims of North America, and they are trying to build up a greater profile —...
View ArticleHow can we be better than the fundamentalists?
Fellow atheists! We have truth on our side, and science as a powerful tool. The other side is full of lunatic ideas and stupidity; they cripple our country with their corruption of education and...
View ArticleValidating religious symbolism…with a poll
This is a cross in Middleboro, Massachusetts. It’s on public land in the town. Would you believe that the people of the town stupidly looked at that and decided there was no conflict at all between a...
View ArticleAuthor Speaks
It’s an Interview with Jesus and Mo from the Council of Ex-Muslims. He seems like a very nice fellow.
View ArticleTake me to church
Here’s via what the song is about. Hozier said the song was essentially about humanity and how it was undermined by religious organisations and those who claimed to act in its best interest. Now you’ll...
View ArticleOne law for all
The report takes a little too much glee at poking at the JREF, but it does seem fair: Broward County is cracking down on tax exemptions for non-profits, including the JREF and churches. If they have...
View ArticleSecular Humanists want to abort the Christ child so they can snort drugs and...
I think we’re all tired of the War on Christmas. The atheists have won; it’s officially a secular, federal holiday, the capitalists promote it as a consumerist orgy of mass consumption, most people see...
View ArticleDavid Silverman did kick butt
Ophelia has the video of Bill Donohue, David Silverman, and Schmuley Boteach on Fox News — and she’s right, the two flanking nutcases were embarrassing, while Silverman was the voice of reason. The two...
View ArticleWas Mandela an atheist? The answer is no, and it doesn’t matter.
Here’s the summary from Jacques Rousseau. We do now know that Mandela was a member of the Communist Party, and some might therefore think it follows that he was an atheist. On the other hand, we do...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court is full up on Catholics, I think
Six of nine is too many, I think, especially when their religion is beginning to shape court decisions. Even the judge we’d hoped would be a little more progressive, Justice Sotomayor, bent over...
View ArticleVikings football is rather hard to support now
Not that I was ever much of a booster, but this behind-the-scenes look at how team management operates by Chris Kluwe is disappointing. He was fired from his position as a punter after he’d achieved...
View ArticleMissing the point of Giordano Bruno
I’m seeing a lot of silly carping about Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos — almost all of it is focused on the story of Bruno told in the first episode. The apologists for religion are upset: how dare a...
View ArticleBasic instructional materials for humanists
The British Humanist Association has put together four lovely videos about humanism, narrated by Stephen Fry, that everyone should watch. Here’s one about godless morality: There are also videos about...
View ArticleSecularism has a tunnel-vision problem
There was a time, back when I was a paying subscriber to the Skeptical Inquirer, that I received this issue in the mail: the January/February 2000 issue, which proudly announced the Ten Outstanding...
View ArticleLouie Gohmert really is the dumbest man in congress
And when the dumbest Christians collides with one of the smartest Christians I know, the contrast is dazzling. Here’s Gohmert grilling Barry Lynn on proper Christian beliefs. Apparently, he doesn’t...
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