I was looking at my bookshelf last night when I came across a Bible (I have several…) that I hadn’t seen in a long time. And I remember writing about it on this site years ago, but I don’t think most of you were reading this site back then… So I’m going to plagiarize myself. Here’s the background: Around the time I was writing I Sold My Soul on eBay, a Christian who was fed up with the way other… Read more
This story’s creating quite the buzz in atheist circles: Starting this fall, Pitzer College, a small liberal arts institution in Southern California, will inaugurate a department of secular studies. Professors from other departments, including history, philosophy, religion, science and sociology, will teach courses like “God, Darwin and Design in America,” “Anxiety in the Age of Reason” and “Bible as Literature.” … Studying nonbelief is as valid as studying belief, [professor Phil] Zuckerman said, and the new major will make that… Read more
A week ago, I posted a cartoon from 1903 that would be in line with the “New Atheism” of today. This one is even better. Keep in mind this was drawn in 1890! It’s from The Freethinkers’ Pictorial Text-Book by Watson Heston. (Click to enlarge) In case you can’t see it, along the “Freethought Road,” via a secular school, you pass Investigation, Reason, Education, Humanity, Justice, Science, Virtue, Love, Liberty, and Truth. Along the “Orthodox Route,” via Sunday School, you… Read more
