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January 2012

January 27, 2012

Intelligently Designing a Debate on Religion

This week, I attended a debate on "Does God Exist?" co-sponsored by the DC branch...

January 22, 2012

Lewis Trounces Freud

I've already blogged once about reading Freud's Last Session, a two person play that is...

January 14, 2012

If you could only take 10 words to a desert island to talk about religon….

...which ones would you pick? This is not a hypothetical question. I got into a...

January 10, 2012

In Ira Veritas?

Atheist blogger Greta Christina is taking D.J. Grothe (president of the James Randi Educational Foundation)...

January 05, 2012

What Makes a Great Atheist?

There's a controversy brewing over Staks Rosch's candidates for Atheist of the Year at the...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

A Good Humored Review

This review is part of Patheos's book club for Father James Martin's Between Heaven and...

December 28, 2011

Picking the Boring Fight

[UPDATE: I've just started a hopefully non-boring fight with a couple Dominicans reading Edward Feser's...

December 14, 2011

Church and State: Two Disputedly-Valued Things that Go Terribly Together

Ok, here comes part two of my reply to Mark Shea's post about New Atheism's...

December 13, 2011

Tis the Season for Church-State Lawsuits!

I think Mark Shea meant to give me a compliment, but if you read his...

November 2011

November 21, 2011

Feser’s Typology of Atheism (Part 1)

Edward Feser, a professor at Pasadena City College has set out to create a typology...

September 2011

September 07, 2011

On Getting Out of the Religion Game

A week or so ago, Luke Muehlhauser of Common Sense Atheism surprised the atheist blogosphere...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

When to Walk Away from a Fight

Followup: I've started a civil email conversation with Stacy of Accepting Abundance, and I'm hoping...

August 30, 2011

Can I have this fight productively?

Before you read the below: I’m writing about the difficulties of arguing online with people...

July 2011

July 29, 2011

Playing the Consistency Game

When I posted earlier on the blogfight unleashed by Jenifer Fulwiler’s post “Five Catholic Teachings...

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 22, 2011

A Pugilist in Good Faith?

After reading my earlier post on rhetorical strategy for deconversion, Alex Knapp from The League...

June 22, 2011

My Approach to Deconversion

In response to my recent post critiquing P.Z. Myers's tone and tactics, commenter Kogo questioned...

June 21, 2011

Improve Schisms, Don’t Close Them

Brian Green (a commenter here) runs his own blog at The Moral Minefield. Recently, he's...

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 10, 2011

Keeping a Civil Tongue

A couple comment threads have gotten a little nasty/unproductive lately, so I want to jump...

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 27, 2011

The Mormon Test

Another day, another post at Daylight Atheism (and jeez oh man have I been catching...

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...

April 2011

April 22, 2011

Blasphemy on Campus?

Apparently someone set up a cross on a courtyard at school and replaced the letters...

April 13, 2011

Two Fights to Pick On Homosexuality

I've heard two major types of Christian arguments against homosexuality (or, more precisely, against acting...

April 12, 2011

On Not Respecting Autonomy

This was more fun to use as an illustration of 'nudge' than Cass Sunstein's book...