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January 2013

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...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

Too Simple Skepticism

Over at Bitchspot, a blogger named Cephus has been fisking my About Me section (which...

May 2012

May 09, 2012

Telling Better Deconversion Stories

A while ago, Hemant Mehta of Friendly Atheist had a post contrasting atheist deconversion stories with Christian...

April 2012

April 17, 2012

More Beating Up on Lazy Humanism

There was a link to the definition from Webster's that the Council for Secular Humanism...

April 17, 2012

Atheist vs Humanist

As you've noticed, Patheos has rolled out a site-wide redesign, and the best changes have...

April 16, 2012

Should Atheism Be A ‘Comfortable’ Belief?

Greta Christina put up a really thought-provoking post today at FreeThought Blogs ("Will Atheism Become...

April 06, 2012

Reason Rally Wrap-Up

Since it's been two weeks since the event, I'm collapsing some of my other experiences...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

How Much Good Does Atheism Do?

In one of my Reason Rally posts, I talked about why atheists feel such an...

December 2011

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...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

Is Atheism Ever Not Boring?

R. Joseph Hoffman, a professor at the New England Conservatory and blogger at The New...

March 2011

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...

February 2011

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...

January 2011

January 10, 2011

Ethics Without Other People are Empty

I don’t understand ethical systems or teleology meant for humans that doesn’t talk about our...

January 08, 2011

Where can I find atheists arguing about ethics?

After reading “What Atheists and Republican Strategists Have in Common.” one anonymous commenter took issue...

January 02, 2011

Throwing Ideas into the Arena

I've been in an extended commenting debate over at Debunking Christianity, after mentioning Loftus in...

January 01, 2011

What Atheists and Republican Strategists Have in Common

I recently wrote a post ("The Perils of Decentralized Philosophy") as a response to Friendly...

December 2010

December 22, 2010

The Perils of Decentralized Philosophy

Last week, a gunman opened fire during a school board meeting in Florida. Luckily no...

November 2010

November 22, 2010

Are People “Atheists First?”

I've been blogging about whether atheism as a community and what might tie it together...

November 17, 2010

Can There be an Atheist Agenda?

After I got into a disagreement about tactics with John Loftus of Debunking Christianity, I...

November 17, 2010

Why I Treat Atheism as a Team

There have been a number of interesting comments on my "Are Atheists a Side?" post...

November 14, 2010

Are Atheists a ‘Side?’

After reading through my disagreement with John Loftus over appropriate tactics for debunk religion, Dom...

November 04, 2010

Why do atheists ask boring questions?

UPDATE: I've taken a second look at the language I used at the end of...