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Scandinavian secularity

Phil Zuckerman, author of the very interesting Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment, has an article online, “The Religious Support Behind Proposition 8.” There, he uses Scandinavian secularity and social success as a counterexample against religious worries that deviations from God-given policies invite social calamity. Now, Society without … Scandinavian secularity

Evil Atheist Parsons Exposed!

If you want all the dirt on that evil atheist Keith Parsons you should check here: http://lifeanddoctrineatheism.blogspot.com/2007/12/regarding-keith-parsons-on-meaning-and.html The author of this blog has decided to smite me in the name of the Lord for some comments I made in a debate with William Lane Craig ten years ago. Here, you will learn that in my … Evil Atheist Parsons Exposed!

God Trumps

Check out the God Trumps “game” from the New Humanist. Sample card:

We’ve Moved! (But We’re Still Here)

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Conservapedia on “atheism”

Here’s a fun way to waste half an hour: look over the Conservapedia entry on atheism. It starts off with a picture of “The perverse and cruel atheist Marquis de Sade in prison,” which is a pretty good indication of the sort of material that is to come. In some ways, it’s a nice one-stop … Conservapedia on “atheism”

How secular can we get?

Take a reasonably secular bunch of people. They don’t participate in the local religious rituals, have a worldly morality that pays no attention to what the religious leaders say, and are inclined to think of sacred stories as a boring genre of fiction. They don’t identify with any particular religion, think religiously colored politics is … How secular can we get?

Advertising freethought

There appear to be a number of advertising campaigns going on to promote freethought, for example, AHA’s “Why believe in a god” and Freethought Action. I suppose these are necessary in the present age and circumstances. But in a more cynical mood (more even than my normal baseline level of high cynicism), I can’t help … Advertising freethought