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American Fundamentalists Applaud Russian Eliminationism 26 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
I’ve been writing about Russia’s brutally violent crackdown on LGBT people and whether the international community ought to respond by boycotting the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi. Incredibly, tha...
Atlas Shrugged: Sleep Deprivation 23 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm
Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter VI The next chapter brings us back to Hank Rearden, who’s putting on his tuxedo to attend the party thrown by his wife that he’s been dreading: This was his wedding ann...
If I Were an Unethical Atheist 21 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
More times than I can count, I’ve heard the argument that atheists can’t be trusted to act ethically, that human beings need to believe in a supernatural source of morality to coerce us to behave. (Th...
Moral Relativism in the Catholic Church 19 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
Back in March, I wrote a post about how the Catholic church isn’t a democracy and therefore has no obligation to change its teachings in line with popular opinion. One theist commenter enthusiasticall...
Ingersoll Sunday: On Divorce 18 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
In 1889, a literary magazine called the North American Review solicited essays on the question of whether divorce was ever morally justifiable. Although all the other answers were from clergy (who, fo...
Atlas Shrugged: Marge vs. the Monorail 16 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter V The last section of this chapter skims over a few years in flashback. We’re told that Dagny was twenty-four the last time she saw Francisco, in New York. That night, ...
Building a Better Secular Movement 15 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
This post will have to be my last word on this for the time being, because all this ugliness and nastiness takes an emotional toll, and I really want to get back to writing about happier things. But t...
That Was the Wrong Answer, CFI 13 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
So, yesterday I wrote a post about the issue of sexual harassment in the secular community boiling over. I cited a post written by Dr. Karen Stollznow, at Scientific American’s Mind blog, detailing he...
Disillusionment 12 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
I’ve been writing about sexism and feminism in the secular community for several years now, and if you’d asked me this question even a few days ago, I would’ve said that I thought things were getting ...
Open Thread: Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday 11 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
So, I have a teaser: I’m nearly ready to unveil a big, exciting project – you’ll all find out about it soon. And since I haven’t done one of these threads in a while, it seems only fair to offer other...
