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November 2010

November 06, 2010

The Spiritual Journey Of Julia Sweeney

Here’s some Saturday afternoon fun. It’s the first fifteen minutes of Julia Sweeney’s one woman...

November 04, 2010

Reaching Out To Young Secular Jews

Via The Friendly Atheist, good news from campus: The number of secular student organizations on...

October 2010

October 28, 2010

New Books!

There are two books that I’m now starting and so excited to review. The first...

October 22, 2010

God’s Multiple Personalities

Let’s say I have two friends, one named Cosmo and one named King. Cosmo and...

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 18, 2010

Morality, Apes, And Religion

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

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 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 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

Glee Does God

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

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...

September 2010

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...

September 27, 2010

Do All Good Dogs Go To Heaven?

On Huffington Post, Pythia Peay interviewed Ptolemy Tompkins, author of a new book, The Divine...

September 22, 2010

One More Refresher Course In History For The Pope

Here’s a follow-up to my post about Hitler and the Catholic Church. I wrote about...

September 22, 2010

Shermer Vs. Chopra, Round Two

On the same day that I posted my modest comments about Michael Shermer vs. Deepak...

September 22, 2010

Deepak Chopra’s Quantum God

I had a really busy day, so of course I spent my free hours tonight...

September 20, 2010

It’s “Everybody Pray For Hitch Day”

I had the privilege of hearing Christopher Hitchens speak last spring about his new autobiography...

September 19, 2010

Richard Dawkins Really, Really, Really Doesn’t Like The Pope

Richard Dawkins doesn’t hold back. This is very entertaining and, in my humble opinion, extremely...

September 19, 2010

The Pope Re-Writes History

I’ve been busy with a very meaningful Yom Kippur with my friend and mentor, Rabbi...

September 16, 2010

Parasites ‘R’ Us

Rabbi Daniel Lapin is head of Toward Tradition, a politically conservative political group. He got...

September 16, 2010

I’m On The Atheist Blogroll

It's scrolling over there on the right side. I just debuted at Deep Thoughts where...

September 16, 2010

Apparently, God’s Hiding Because We Don’t Understand What To Look For

Thanks to Butterflies and Wheels for bringing this Huffington Post article to my attention. It’s...

September 13, 2010

What’s In A Name?

Not all people who identify as secular humanistic Jews are necessarily atheists. The beliefs of...