When Arguendo Argues Itself Into a Somehow
Pop-apologists love to tell stories about how much atheists hate God. It’s a powerful claim, not because it’s accurate, but because it’s a bit like wishing us into the cornfields. All at once...
View ArticleThere are More Persons in this Conversation than are Dreamed of in Your...
No gods, but perhaps a holy sacrament! (Tom Yum Ghai) “I don’t believe in atheists.” That’s a phrase I’ve been seeing a lot lately. It passes for clever in apologetics blogs and it helps many a...
View ArticleA Hyponym Walks into a Bar…
I could believe in a God of Korean BBQ, yes I could! I Grumble: I wish I had a nickel for every time a Christian told me that my take on the existence of God isn’t really atheism; it’s agnosticism. No,...
View ArticleFragments of Skepticism From My Youth
I have been reading some of the why-I-am-an-atheist stories over on Pharyngula, and it has led to thoughts about the various moments in my younger days which might have led me down that path. I...
View ArticleAuto-Kitty Says ‘Meow': What she Means is that Belief is not a Choice
Auto-Kitty(not a Siamese) Is belief a choice? I don’t think so. It is certainly common enough to speak of belief as a choice, but could I choose to believe that I was not sitting in a chair right now?...
View ArticleNative American Ceremonies and the Meaning of ‘Religion': Unpacking the...
Hogan Not everyone has a religion! More to the point at hand, the term seems to be an awfully bad fit for a lot of the things it is commonly used to describe. When I was teaching on the Navajo Nation,...
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