Author Sarah Vowell has an op-ed piece in today’s New York Times about Martin Luther King, Jr., the notion of “radical love,” and how it’s missing in the current crop of candidates (especially the Republican ones). I live in Lower Manhattan. In my seriously secular neck of the woods, Christians are often dismissed as those homophobes on the news hell-bent on keeping half the population of Chelsea out of the wedding pages. Once, I told a member of the fabled… Read more
There’s a first time for everything. I recently wrote an article for the February, 2008 edition of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society academic journal. I can’t believe it either. What does this have to do with atheism? I teach math. I wrote a book. I blog about atheism. So my article is a review of two books that attempt to apply math to questions about the nature of God. The books are The Probability of God: A Simple… Read more
At the “meeting of the atheist leaders” on Saturday, there were several discussions about tactics and ideas for future collaboration. The idea that caught my attention the most was Atheist Alliance International (AAI) president Margaret Downey’s call for a “Unity Convention in 2010.” Right now, the major national atheist groups hold conferences once a year. They get between a couple hundred to several hundred attendees each. There’s a lot of overlap, too, with many people goingto multiple conventions. Nowhere near… Read more
The new Carnival of the Godless is at Tangled Up in Blue Guy. Go check it out! The next CotG is at Mind On Fire in two weeks. Submit your entries here! [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
I was stuck there for a second but I figured it all out (click for larger image). (via Pilot Into Space) [tags]atheist, atheism, Pastafarian[/tags] Read more
A new movie called For The Bible Tells Me So is now being screened in churches and theaters across the country. It was already a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. The premise alone is compelling: Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very… Read more
There are many religious people who are sick of the conservative/Republican hijacking of Christianity. These are the types of people who leave church because they’re sick of organized religion, opting instead for their own way of worshiping the Christian God. For example, here’s an article about Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality: For [Miller], the word [“Christianity”] conjured up conservative politics, suburban consumerism and an “insensitivity to people who aren’t like us.” To quell… Read more
Congrats to Rudis on the 100th Cectic Comic! It’s a sweet one, too 🙂 [tags]atheist, atheism, relationship, love[/tags] Read more
Yahoo! Answers provides this little nugget: (via Divinity and Beyond) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
