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September 2014

September 18, 2014

And You Shall Know the Free Thinkers By Their Cussing?

Last week, an atheist friend of mine posted a link to Mark Oppenheimer's feature article...

August 2014

August 07, 2014

What’s the Difference between Forgiveness and Self-Deception?

An atheist friend of mine recently posted the following question to Facebook (and gave me...

June 2014

June 04, 2014

In the Moral Landscape, There Still Be Dragons

Sam Harris has announced the winning entry in his contest for critiques of The Moral Landscape:...

April 2014

April 09, 2014

The Uncharity of Ideological Containment

There's an unpleasant undertone to Terry Firma's vision of a kinder, humbler Christianity over at...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

No Room for Atheists at the Conservative Inn

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is on the horizon, and, not 24 hours after...

November 2013

November 18, 2013

Philosophy Class Should Be Perilous

Over at Friendly Atheist, there's a trailer for a terrible looking Christian movie, where a...

November 06, 2013

Safe Zones for Secular Students

My friend Jesse Galef, the communications director at the Secular Students Alliance, sat down...

October 2013

October 08, 2013

Is it Hard Out Here for a Humanist?

My alma mater is turning up in religious news stories this week. It turns out...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

Sam Harris Throws Down His Gauntlet

Ok, probably not this gauntlet Sam Harris, one of the 'Four Horsemen' of New Atheism, has...

April 2013

April 10, 2013

Can We Play Not-Nicely Better, Please?

And speaking of sparing feelings without pulling punches, there's been a donnybrook going between Tom McDonald (Catholic) and...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

“A Week?” Tell me you’re a _____

If you cross-read the atheism portal here at Patheos or have atheist friends who are...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Darren the Humanist Explains it All to You

This is a guest post, prompted my plea to hear more about how Humanists ground...

January 10, 2013

Straight from the Humanist’s Mouth

James Croft and Vlad Chituc have both continued to contribute to the discussion of what...

January 08, 2013

Can You Pick a Humanist Out of a Lineup?

Vlad Chituc, an atheist who blogs at NonProphet Status, thinks I was right on in...

January 07, 2013

How is an atheist group like a bridge club?

In yesterday's Sunday Review section of The New York Times, Susan Jacoby had an essay titled...

December 2012

December 05, 2012

The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Philosophers

I know there are some rumblings in yesterday's thread about sin, judgment, and necessity about...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

The theologians Chris Hallquist doesn’t believe in

Chris Hallquist (who blogs in the Patheos Atheist channel as the Uncredible Hallq) is in...

November 10, 2012

Steelmanning one of Dennett’s arguments

This post is part of a series discussing Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell. Back in the cultural...

November 08, 2012

Dennett’s Whirlwind Tour through Apologetics

This post is part of a series discussing Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell. As I said...

November 07, 2012

Dennett’s Thesis isn’t Evidence for Very Interesting Claims

This post is part of a series discussing Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell. The main thrust of...

November 05, 2012

Put Your Moral Philosophical Hands Where We Can See Them, Dennett!

This post is part of a series discussing Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell. Very early on in...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Why Won’t You Argue What I Know You Believe?

Yvain has been reading Feser's The Last Superstition, and he has an excellent gloss of one...

October 19, 2012

Objective Morality and Hard to Get at Truths

Bob Seidensticker has been checking out C.S. Lewis, and he's put up a post explaining...

October 15, 2012

To take up arms against a sea of sexists

In July of 2011, an unpleasant incident at an atheism conference prompted a much needed...

October 05, 2012

You Shall Know Them By Their Fruits

Bob Seidensticker of Cross Examined (the one who sparked the discussion of the Atheist Prayer...

September 2012

September 30, 2012

Who Can Blaspheme?

Today is International Blasphemy Rights Day, spearheaded by the Center for Inquiry. It's pretty much...

September 25, 2012

LARP Your Way to Truth

Over in the Atheist channel, Bob Seidensticker of Cross Examined is experimenting with prayer. He's...

September 13, 2012

Welcome Camels with Hammers to Patheos!

Patheos has added Camels with Hammers, written by philosophy professor Daniel Finke to the Atheist...

September 11, 2012

Is Sufficiently Compressed Thinking Indistinguishable from Magical Thinking?

Andrew Brown is in The Guardian claiming any sufficiently interesting theory of the world is...

September 11, 2012

Patheos Went a-Headhuntin’

And they tempted Chris Hallquist (who blogs as the Uncredible Hallq) to forsake Freethought Blogs...