What It’s Like To Be An Atheist
Smoke had a great line last night on what it’s like being in a world where not only is religion dominant but where even most of the secularists (in Smoke’s specific case, this means his secular wife)...
View ArticleChomsky Argues Islamic Fundamentalist Political Power Is Result Of US Support...
Chomsky is asked whether New Atheists like Sam Harris are correct that religious fundamentalism is the actual primary motive for Middle Eastern fundamentalist violence. The argument he winds up making...
View Article“Dawkins Is Not A Priest”: A Heated Facebook Exchange
Last spring a friend asked me to come over to her Facebook wall where she had posted a Sam Harris video (on his views on science’s ability to answer moral questions, which I will get around to...
View ArticleThe Four Horsemen Of Atheism In Comic Book Form
There are many similarly amusing comics at Virus Comix. And to compare with real life, here’s their full 2 hour video together from a couple years back: Your Thoughts?
View ArticleIs it Too Risky to Debate Morality’s Foundations in the Public Square?
Jean Kazez argues that the public square is not the place for atheists to be arguing that science and religion are incompatible. I strongly reject her position on this point because not only do I...
View ArticleIslam Is Not A Race–But Anti-Muslim Bigotry Is Still Very Often Racist
As a particular sociocultural phenomenon, “New Atheism” is usually traced back to the anti-faith backlash many Westerners were prone towards in the wake of 9/11. For Christopher Hitchens, it was 9/11...
View ArticleSam Harris, The Criticism of Bad Ideas, and Sexist Appeals To Biology
This section of a recent Washington Post article has caused a lot of controversy in the atheist community this past weekend: I also asked Harris at the event why the vast majority of atheists — and...
View ArticleOn Sam Harris’s Reply to Feminist Critics
Monday, I wrote a post on Sam Harris’s controversial remarks about women quoted in The Washington Post. Moments after I posted, I was alerted to Sam’s explanation of himself. In this post, I give my...
View ArticleSam Harris’s “#EstrogenVibe” Remark Wasn’t The Journalist’s Fault (EVENT VIDEO)
In Sam Harris’s defense of his remarks that had unintended but nonetheless real sexist implications which I explicated in detail Monday), he stressed that the remark about atheism not having that...
View ArticleMaher, Harris, Aslan, Affleck, Kristof: An Atheist Reformist Iranian’s View
"I am an ally of moderate Muslims. No, I’m actually not their ally, I’m their pawn, I’m their meat fodder. My atheism, so far, has never brought me in direct danger of death, but my support for...
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