Philosophy, Ethics, Atheism, Nietzsche
Join JT Eberhard and others all day today (Saturday, December 7) as they do a gamethon to fight cancer. Live stream his gaming and donate to the Foundation Beyond Belief’s support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He will be playing with other people all throughout the day. And tonight he rematches Ed Brayton in poker [Read More...]
The Humanist Community at Harvard announces a proclamation acknowledging the humanist community “as one among the many ethical communities of conscience, striving together toward the common good” will be coming Sunday in Massachusetts, from Governor Deval Patrick. Here’s the text: Whereas December 8, 2013 marks the first-ever public event at the Humanist Hub, a center [Read More...]
Below is a guest post by Clergy Guy. It is a full repost, with permission, of “There’s No End” from his blog Clergy Guy. Not long ago, I was with a new widow in the emergency room of a hospital. Together we looked at the body of her husband who had taken his own life. [Read More...]
Didn’t see that coming! Glen Beck thinks Sam Harris is a wise man. Here’s Harris’s Glen Beck approved book, Lying. Your Thoughts? [Read more...]
In the video below, Megyn Kelly is extremely obnoxious and hostile to American Humanist Association President Roy Speckhardt for having the audacity to stop a school from violating the Constitution. It’s clear from the video she knows he’s right on the law and yet the anger and contempt for him in her voice is striking. [Read More...]
This is astonishing. In the last few minutes of the video below, Amazon demonstrates their prototype autonomous drones that founder Jeff Bezos speculates could be approved to deliver packages by themselves in as soon as 4-5 years: This week I began shipping all my stuff to my soon to be new home in a different [Read More...]
Christian homophobia combined with sadistic Christian authoritarian fetishism of “discipline” leads to this: The Kickstarter to help finish this documentary is here. From the Kickstarter, Kidnapped for Christ follows the stories of several American teenagers who were taken from their homes and sent to an Evangelical Christian reform school known as Escuela Caribe located in the [Read More...]
While I personally identify more with the stories of gut wrenching adult deconversions, I love and am completely charmed by people’s stories of being precocious kids who reason their way out by making for themselves logical connections or sudden realizations that a worrisome number of adults will simply never manage. Telling the story of her [Read More...]
The stories of recent deconverts and closeted atheists always have a way of reinvigorating me. It’s supporting them that is the most important facet of atheist blogging for me. Listen to some of their stories as relayed by Seth Andrews. [Read more...]
Follow Patheos on
Copyright 2008-2013, Patheos. All rights reserved. Terms of Service | Patheos Privacy Policy | Site developed by Avalon Consulting, LLC
Follow
Patheos on: