Month: December 2016
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Thou Shalt Lie (on Dan Barker's new book)
Thou Shalt Not Lie Dan Barker is due to publish a new book entitled, “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists.” I have not read the book, not run across any reviews, nor any pull-quotes, nor anything to the likes, but I can tell you that we would all do well…
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Bill Maher's Errata
This essay consists of the following sections: Superior-Inferiority-ComplexAbsolute AgnosticismApatheism Oh My (Selfish) Goodness! In this essay I enumerate the various logical and theological fallacies that were uttered my Bill Maher whilst appearing on Joe Scarborough’s news show “Scarborough Country” for April 24, 2007 AD (manuscript here). Superior-Inferiority-Complex JOE SCARBOROUGH: No holds Mahered. Controversial comedian Bill…
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Atheist Neo-Paganism…In Other Words
Ruth Gledhill wrote an article which presents an interview with Richard Dawkins. It is entitled “God . . . in other words” and is subtitled “Richard Dawkins may be Britain’s foremost atheist, but he is willing to be inspired and uplifted. Is he a believer after all?” (The Times, May 10, 2007). Ruth Gledhill notes:…
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Michael Shermer – The Neglected New Atheist
This, unfortunately, comes to us from the “Nice try but no cigar” and or “Aw shucks, what about me guys?” files. Back in 2007 AD Michael Shermer, pseudo-skeptic extraordinaire, made an obviously failed attempt to reason with the four celebrity New Atheists. In Scientific American Magazine of all places, yeah I know you thought that…
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Atheism – Bus Ads Minus One
A letter to the editor of the Indiana Daily Student presents a wonderful poster boy example of atheist “logic” and the disparity between their attempts at putting a public relations happy face on atheism on the one hand and what they are really about on the other. The hoopla revolves around yet another atheist group,…
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Want a Better World? American Humanist Association Not Required
Just like any atheist organization’s website the first thing you notice as close to the top of the page as possible of the American Humanist Association website are the words “donate now”-actually, it is written thusly, “DONATE NOW.” With their mind on their money and their money on their mind the American Humanist Association are…
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A. J. Jacobs – Night at the Royal Ontario Museum
We will now consider A. J. Jacobs’ lecture.1 Of all three lecturers A. J. Jacobs is, in a manner of speaking, the most qualified by a vast, vast margin to speak on God’s Ten Commandments. This is because as part of a literary project he “spent one year living the Bible as literally as one…
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Materialism Spirituality? “The Science Of Spirituality – Is This Your Brain On God?”
National Public Radio (NPR) has produced a little ditty on “The Science Of Spirituality – Is This Your Brain On God?“ True Freethinkerhas previously considered neuroscientific issues in the post Love the Lord Your God With All of Your Mind.Some of their musing on the subject is as follows: Part 1: The God Chemical The…
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Atheism Camp: “Camp Quest” – Freethought Camp of Child Indoctrination
A particularly revealing article about an Atheism / Freethought summer camp for children was published in 2008 AD that seemed relevant to our recent consideration of Camp Quest and the likes.1 While the article painted a favorable picture of the Camp Quest it ended up revealing Freethought precisely for what it is: a politically correct…
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Scientific Cenobites – Some notes on Skepticism, part 2 of 6
This segment will consider: “Debate Closed” MentalityOverreaching and Armchair QuarterbackingAssuming False Scientific Authority Double Standards of Acceptable Proof and Ad-Hoc Hypotheses “Debate Closed” Mentality Since Pseudoskeptics have by their nature made up their minds on any question long before the evidence is in, they are not interested in participating in what could become an involved,…