[Religiously] Unaffiliated Americans are also less likely to vote in presidential elections than other religious groups. Although they make up […]
atheism, personal, philosophy, psychology, religion
I am not a cockroach– what materialism is, and isn’t
Several years ago, I bounded out of a faculty building on a university campus and, in a thoughtful and optimistic […]
atheism, social media
Internet antipathy, part 2….thousand
So, one of the people I was most looking forward to seeing (and talking with, if I could come up […]
atheism, ethics, philosophy, religion
A simple ethics of expectations
On the news this morning I listened to a report about a new virus discovered in Saudi Arabia. But after […]
atheism, skepticism
Skepticon 5
So, I’m going. Registered, got a hotel room, time off work scheduled, etc. Haven’t been since 2010, and I’m sure […]
atheism, feminism, skepticism
Atheism Minus
…is my term for the collective group of idiots who contributed to Jen McCreight deciding that blogging is no longer […]
atheism, feminism, sexism, skepticism
Oh, on that sexism in atheism/skepticism topic…
If you only read one thing about it– or, more likely, if you’ve read plenty about it and are either […]
atheism
What’s a “bad atheist”?
Ian Murphy has a piece on AlterNet called The 5 Most Awful Atheists, the title of which can be read […]
atheism, freedom of speech
Petition to free Alexander Aan
I had no idea that the White House had established a web site specifically to host petitions. Some of them […]
atheism, religion
The big bad atheist will blow your religion down?
Ronald Lindsay, president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), wrote a piece for the Huffington Post comparing coming […]