To any Christians out there, reader Amanda wrote an excellent post about why she and her husband Bryan no longer attend church. It’s worth a look — and I’d love to hear your responses to it. Amanda explains one particular illustration that I’d never heard before and it’s another reminder of how Christians view people like us, who dare to question their beliefs and who are proud to be free of religion: … Bryan and I both remember a specific… Read more
Just when I got over the fact that Christians were seriously debating the nature of Hell — a debate that doesn’t even need to take place because there’s no evidence hell exists in the first place — we learn of a new Christian controversy: Did Adam and Eve really exist? The misleading subtitle at the Christianity Today website puts it this way: The center of the evolution debate has shifted from asking whether we came from earlier animals to whether… Read more
There are a few other incredible conferences coming up around the country worth looking into: The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation is putting together “a symposium on honor violence and forced marriage” in New York City this Monday at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The goal of the symposium is to discuss with criminal justice professionals, first responders and domestic violence shelters the emerging problems of honor violence and forced marriage in the United States. Speakers will provide information… Read more
Imagine a small university where your professors include Richard Dawkins (Evolutionary Biology), Niall Ferguson (Economics), Lawrence Krauss (Cosmology), and Stephen Pinker (Philosophy/Psychology), with the role of Dumbledore played by AC Grayling. That school is being formed right now and it plans to open in a year: The New College of the Humanities in central London will offer degrees in English, philosophy, history, economics and law starting from fall 2012. … “Our priorities at the college will be excellent teaching quality,… Read more
