The Angry Atheists are meeting today, this time in DC, and evidently they’re expecting an uppity crowd, because their Code of Conduct for Reason Rally warns of a host of harassments that […]
Read Parts I, II & III. This is the last part. It is long, but since today is the 100th anniversary, we have to finish. Let us depart to Portugal! Where is […]
National Geographic had a desultory article on the “nones”1, which is what post-Christian pagans and atheists are being called. Title: “The World’s Newest Major Religion: No Religion.” Has nuggets like this: “A […]
Matt Ridley has a curious piece in The Times (no, the better one), “Why Muslims are turning away from Islam“. (Incidentally, Ridley and I both have chapters in the new National Association […]
Many atheists are notorious for arguing from desire. (Be ever careful of the So’s-Yer-Old-Man Fallacy.) God doesn’t exist, they say or imply, because He’s a big meanie, because His demands are onerous, […]
Orientation quiz. True or false: periodically, some societies have gone insane. The answer is True, true with bells on. Many examples will suggest themselves. Thing about these cultural sanitariums is that most […]
On this day of ultimate sacrifice it’s well to ponder the state of our ancient religion. We’ll come to no firm conclusions—not in 750 words—but we have to start somewhere. Muslims yesterday […]
Note this is not your usual author. “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings and takes flight when the shades of night are falling.” –Hegel Or, as explained by Wikipedia, “[P]hilosophy comes […]
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