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July 2011

July 03, 2011

Handling Sexism Among Skeptics

This is a continuation of a post from this morning about an incident of possible harassment at...

July 03, 2011

Sexism Among Skeptics

If you follow the atheist blogosphere, you're probably aware of an internal debate about sexual...

June 2011

June 25, 2011

The Threat that Can’t be Beat

In my "Pugilist in Good Faith" post, I explained why I didn't see a...

June 20, 2011

If You Can’t Say Something Helpful…

Sometimes, when I complain about certain kinds of rhetoric used by atheist leaders, I think...

June 19, 2011

Update on Church Vandalism Fundraising

Hermant Mehta of Friendly Atheist has ended his atheist fundraiser to help two churches that...

June 15, 2011

Turn the Other Check

Just in from Friendly Atheist: apparently some folks have graffitied two Oregon churches with multiple pro-Flying Spaghetti...

June 14, 2011

Why and How They Hate Us

Last week's post "Trying to Love My Enemies" ended up generating a comment thread that...

June 09, 2011

Trying to Love My Enemies

Just a cautionary note: trying to figure out how to love your enemies is something...

June 09, 2011

“So they feel as scared and hurt as I do”

Discussion of the appropriate use of mockery has twisted back into the ongoing discussion about...

May 2011

May 28, 2011

You Call That Religion?

One (possibly last) guest post at Daylight Atheism. This one is also inspired by The...

May 26, 2011

Adapt or Die

One last post at Daylight Atheism about whether it does atheists good to take a...

May 25, 2011

Whom Should We Mock?

I've got another guest post up at Daylight Atheism today about when, if ever, it's worth...

May 20, 2011

Guest Blogging Update!

Adam, the admin of Daylight Atheism is on vacation for his anniversary this week, and...

May 14, 2011

A Duty to Disclose?

I got into an argument in the comments section of Friendly Atheist's latest installment of...

March 2011

March 26, 2011

Don’t Hand Weapons to Your Enemies

It didn't take very long into the comment thread of my post critiquing nasty atheists...

March 23, 2011

How Should I Call Out Nasty Atheists?

In a post earlier today, I disagreed with the conclusions of Jen Fulwiler's critique of...

March 23, 2011

Proud to be Atheist?

It's A Week! Uh, perhaps I should clarify. It's essentially Atheist Pride/Awareness week (the Supreme...

March 20, 2011

God Can’t Prove Much to Puny Mortals

Over in the comment thread of last week's post on standards of proof for miracles,...

March 19, 2011

Committing a Capital Crime in Debate

Over at Friendly Atheist, one reader had a question for Richard the advice columnist: I...

March 11, 2011

Say a Little Prayer for Me?

CL of The Warfare is Mental posed a couple of questions about being prayed for...

February 2011

February 16, 2011

Case Study in my Ethics/Metaphysics

Yesterday, I posted an adaptation of a speech I gave at Yale and promised to...

February 15, 2011

Prep for a Case Study in Christian Thought

When people read my "Testing the Truth-Telling Thing" post in my Chesterton series, the first...

February 12, 2011

Debunking a Debunking

Ok. There's been a controversy brewing on the "Is it so hard not to desecrate the...

February 12, 2011

Defining Atheism, Defining Sacrilege (Series Index)

Prompted by a post by atheist blogger and agent provocateur P.Z. Myers, I started a...

February 11, 2011

Is it so hard not to desecrate a Eucharist?

More responses to my claim that atheists ought not desecrate the Eucharist a la P.Z....

February 11, 2011

Desecration Follow-up: Considering the Context

I'm reprinting a comment Ebonmuse of Daylight Atheism made on my post criticizing P.Z. Myers...

February 10, 2011

My Problem with P.Z. Myers

Since I had some nice things to say about P.Z. Myers earlier this week, I...

February 09, 2011

Atheism as a Proxy Variable

I have a fun surprise coming down the pipeline as part of my series on...

February 07, 2011

Points (for once) to P.Z. Myers

I'm not normally a fan of P.Z. Myers, since, although I appreciate his pro-education, pro-science...

February 06, 2011

A Few Stories Worth Their Salt

After hearing today's readings at Mass, I wanted to share a favorite non-fiction book with...