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October 2010

October 21, 2010

Sam Harris: Religion Is A Terrible Source For Morality

Sam Harris is everywhere these days promoting his new book,The Moral Landscape. He was interviewed...

October 20, 2010

First Amendment…What First Amendment?

One of the most hysterical claims of Delaware Senate Republican candidate Christine O’Donnell is that...

October 20, 2010

Professor Glenn Beck On Evolution

With over half of Americans holding a belief in young earth creationism, I guess it...

October 19, 2010

Young People Are Leaving Religion Behind

Years and years after Barry Goldwater warned the Republican Party about entangling with religious fundamentalists,...

October 18, 2010

Morality, Apes, And Religion

Frans de Waal is a primatologist who has written about the moral instincts in our...

October 17, 2010

Rabbi Adam Chalom Brings It!

If you were only to judge Secular Humanistic Judaism by my blog entries, you would...

October 17, 2010

“Maybe It’s A Mitzva” For Gay Kids To Kill Themselves

Here is a horrifying story of Orthodox homophobia as told in the New York Jewish...

October 15, 2010

The Abstract God That No One Understands

I hoped against hope that if I kept checking the religion page at HuffPost I...

October 14, 2010

Harris Vs. Oppenheimer

Much like the post I wrote about Rabbi Yoffie, the debate between Sam Harris and...

October 14, 2010

Online Debate Fun!

In case you’ve missed it, Sam Harris and Mark Oppenheimer are engaged in an online moderated...

October 14, 2010

Religious Liberals Defending Religious Creeps

Rabbi Eric Yoffie is president of the Union for Reform Judaism. Today he chimed in...

October 13, 2010

The Futility Of Biblical Morality

With the rash of gay teen suicides, there have been many nice religious people writing...

October 12, 2010

A Meaningless Change In Israeli Kashrut

One of the weirdest conversations I’ve ever heard was at a family event where the...

October 11, 2010

New Online Resource Guide To Atheists, Humanists And Other Non-Theists

There is a fantastic new resource available online to help people understand the non-theistic community...

October 11, 2010

Maybe They Would Be Happy With More Dead Gay Teens

If you’re not in the mood for anger, then you probably shouldn’t read this. The...

October 09, 2010

On Hiding My Point Of View: A Question For My Readers

Yesterday, over a chocolate break with co-worker friends, I talked a little about my blog. ...

October 07, 2010

Calling All Atheist Clergy: Come Out Already!

Daniel Dennett is my favorite philosopher. He wrote a piece for the New York Daily...

October 06, 2010

Update On Jersey Jewish Paper’s Same-Sex Announcement

UPDATE: Jewish Daily Report is reporting that the pressure placed on the New Jersey Jewish...

October 06, 2010

Orthodox Homophobia Causes Pain – But For Whom?

When the New Jersey Jewish Standard ran a same-sex wedding announcement, its editors were unprepared...

October 06, 2010

Orthodox Homophobia Causes Pain – But For Whom?

When the New Jersey Jewish Standard ran a same-sex wedding announcement, its editors were unprepared...

October 06, 2010

Glee Does God

Last night, Gleek that I am, I watched the “God” episode of Glee. There is...

October 05, 2010

Sam Harris’ New Book Challenges Religion As A Source Of Morality

Marilynne Robinson has written a somewhat critical review of Sam Harris’ new book, The Moral...

October 03, 2010

Should Science And Religion Cuddle?

Across the pond, Matthew Reisz has written a long, rambling piece for Times Higher Education about...

October 02, 2010

Maybe He Works At Yale Community College

Rabbi Shmully Hecht is the advisor to the Chabad-sponsored Yale Eliezer Society. He is also...

October 02, 2010

Some Simchat Torah Heresy

Today I celebrated Simchat Torah by putting the finishing touches on a journal article surveying...

October 01, 2010

Rabbi Chalom Is On The Air

This is a very short post just to pass on this wonderful link. Rabbi Adam...

September 2010

September 30, 2010

Catholic Homophobia Is Immoral

I don’t know why I keep reading the religion page of HuffPo. Maybe because I’m...

September 29, 2010

Pew Survey: Atheists/Agnostics More Religiously Knowledgeable

The talk of freethinking sites on the internet today is the Pew Study that showed...

September 28, 2010

It’s Not Me, It Really Is Them

The beginning of the end of my efforts to remain in the theistic fold came...

September 27, 2010

Don’t Come To My Brother’s Funeral And Tell Me He’s With God

aEven before the release of a new book and movie about him, there is so...

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