Just FYI: We're just now in the process of leaving the solar system. If by "we" you're willing to substitute V'ger. Er, Voyager 1. Humanity escapes the solar system … [Read more...]
5: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!
June 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
You know how freaky we Americans are about the Constitution? Very freaky, right? But it’s understandable. This is the founding document of the United States, the piece of paper that CREATED the nation. Every word in it is important. Every word in the Amendments is important. Every word. … [Read more...]
4: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!
June 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
Certain of my FtB co-bloggers (coughGretaChristinacough) are offering up pictures of kittens for their blogathons! The nerve! So I'm putting up some of MY recent photography. Just to show everybody that the world of atheism is not all kittens and, you know, happy stuff. It's a fierce, grim struggle for survival, just like in nature! … [Read more...]
3: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!
June 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
The Catholic Church is a lot like the Bible. The Bible is so familiar to us, so apparently benign, it might seem defensible ... until you actually read what it says. Likewise, the familiar, friendly Catholic Church might seem okay ... until you actually notice what it says and does. … [Read more...]
2: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!
June 16, 2012 By 4 Comments
Jesus and Marlboro The difference between religion and atheism, for me, is like the difference between being a smoker and a non-smoker. Me personally, I’m not just a non-smoker, I’m an anti-smoker. It’s not just that I don’t smoke, it’s a couple of other things: … [Read more...]
1: Blogathan for Secular Student Alliance!
June 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
So, here I am blogging from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., one post every half hour, to benefit the Secular Student Alliance. It’s a sorry few hours, compared to some of my co-bloggers here at FtB, who blogged for 24 hours straight, but it’s all I can manage today. … [Read more...]
Tomorrow: Blogathon (more like a bloga-10K) for SSA Week
June 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I'll be blogging for the SSA tomorrow, Saturday, June 16, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (eastern time zone) — following in the footsteps of FreethoughtBlogs lights such as Brianne Bilyeu, Ophelia Benson, Ian Cromwell, JT Eberhard and Michaelyn Everhart, Greta Christina, Greg Laden, Daniel Fincke, Al Stefanelli, Jason Thibeault, Jen McCreight, Natalie Reed, Ed Brayton and who knows who else. … [Read more...]
Reason Rally: The Speech That Didn’t Happen
April 20, 2012 By 10 Comments
This is the speech I would have given, if I’d been asked to speak at the Reason Rally. No, there’s no reason anyone should have asked – I’m not well enough known just yet – but that didn’t stop me from wanting to be up on stage anyway. Saying this: Hank's Reason Rally Speech Just as we still talk about the Enlightenment, or the discovery of fire, a thousand years from now, people will still be talking about this moment. Because this is the moment when civilization left the launch … [Read more...]
Doing My Part: Christopher
April 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
[ This is a response to Doing My Part for the Godless Future. If you'd like to submit one of your own — what you're doing to help the world, or just yourself, get free of religion — email me via the link in that post. ] __________ My very small part is to reply to xtians who use the "Love the sinner but hate the sin" in the same way I did to my sister when she stated that Jesus said, "Love the sinner but hate the sin." So I asked her, "When did you become Hindu?" "Whaa?" she said. Then … [Read more...]
Doing My Part: Cory Brunson
April 12, 2012 By 5 Comments
[ This is a response to Doing My Part for the Godless Future . If you'd like to submit one of your own — what you're doing to help the world, or just yourself, get free of religion — email me via the link in that post. ] __________ I do a lot of the familiar stuff at the personal level: I sit at Ask An Atheist tables, i write letters to the editor, i regularly post religious commentary on Facebook. I cross out "In God We Trust" on dollar bills and write in "E pluribus unum". These things … [Read more...]
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