One of the most fascinating aspects of the New Humanism conference was getting the chance to listen to Salman Rushdie speak. Most of the students packed the balcony of the church at Harvard where the lecture was taking place. On the ledge of the balcony were numerous digital cameras and tape recorders trying to get a memento from the event. And afterwards, there was a mad rush for pictures and autographs. (I had to beat down 329849283 people to get… Read more
Mark Oppenheimer (who generally admires Christopher Hitchens, he says) wrote a piece yesterday for the Huffington Post where he pointed out some glaring mistakes that he noticed in Hitchens’ new book God is Not Great: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, the new book by Christopher Hitchens, contains one of the stupidest and ugliest factual errors published by a major publisher in years. Some will call the error anti-Semitic; others will just call it woefully uninformed. But it’s… Read more
Here’s one more comic to ponder today, discussing the Pat Tillman controversy… at least the religious aspect of it. Comic isn’t the right word for it. It makes me want to do anything but laugh. Here’s a link to the ESPN article mentioned in the comic. [tags]atheist, atheism, Pat Tillman, Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World[/tags] Read more
I Drew This has a great cartoon about how religious fundamentalists claim that this country is a “Christian Nation” despite the words of one of our Founding Fathers. I also enjoy that the moderator is a bird. Because that’s just random. [tags]atheist, atheism, I Drew This, Christian, Thomas Jefferson[/tags] Read more
After my appearances on Life Today, I received a number of emails from people who saw me on the show. There have also been a number of comments made on this blog from Christians more interested in preaching than having a conversation. While more letters are coming in, I thought I’d share certain excerpts from a few of the emails. They can basically be lumped into one of a handful of categories… Good: I was shocked to see you on… Read more
