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August 2012

August 17, 2012

The Danger of Cheap Shots

I was chatting with some Catholic friends, and (as happens more and more frequently as...

August 08, 2012

Clawing out of the Cesspool

Thanks all for the mostly good behavior on the two preceding posts on queer issues....

August 07, 2012

What would someone have to say to you to get you to break up your family?

For your own good at that. This isn't a hypothetical question. There are plenty of...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

It’s Hard for Me to Hear You Over the Sound of Your Nazi Analogies

The "Let's Talk About How to Have Reasonable Discussions about Religion" post has over a...

April 26, 2012

This Doesn’t Look Like a Victory to Me

Over in Patheos's Catholic channel, Thomas McDonald of God and the Machine has run into...

June 2011

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 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 10, 2011

Keeping a Civil Tongue

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

April 2011

April 11, 2011

Where Yuan Went Wrong (Part 3)

This is part of a series of posts which tackles sexual ethics and debating strategies...

March 2011

March 30, 2011

Play it Again: Desecration as Discourse

The giant comment thread at "Is it so hard not to desecrate a Eucharist" has...

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 19, 2011

Committing a Capital Crime in Debate

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