Hitch-22 As Read By Hitchens Himself

December 17, 2011 By 5 Comments

On YouTube you can listen to Christopher Hitchens read his entire memoir Hitch-22 to you. Got an afternoon? Your Thoughts?

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Hitchens on Mother Theresa, Hitler, and Immortality

December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Few of those left on the planet can say this much this true this well, in just 7 minutes: His documentary take down of Mother Theresa can be seen here.

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In Memory of Christopher Hitchens, A Nietzschean Lion

December 16, 2011 By 15 Comments

Christopher Hitchens was not fond of Nietzsche. When I picked up his Portable Atheist I flipped to the table of contents to see what Nietzsche selections he’d included. And saw none. None?? Possibly the most famous, unabashed, and irreverent atheist of all time was not worthy of inclusion in Hitchens’s compendium? A brief remark found [...]

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On Atheistic Religion

December 10, 2011 By 25 Comments

by Eric Steinhart We’re rational animals.  Which means that we’re rational.  And that we’re animals.  Many biological and neurological necessities are satisfied by religion.  Your neocortex has to live with your limbic system.  And as long as we humans have limbic systems in our brains, we’re going to be religious (more on that later). Atheists [...]

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An Atheist's Reply To Rick Perry

December 8, 2011 By 8 Comments

James Kotecki responds to this. Friendly Atheist has a reply of their own up too. Your Thoughts?

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Dan Barker Makes Sense of the Gospel Message

December 3, 2011 By 3 Comments

I know Dan Barker claims to be only a former Christian minister but he still has a gift for bringing the Gospel message alive in a fresh, new way that makes powerful sense of it. It’s weird it would take an atheist’s description to make me see angles in the story of salvation which I [...]

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Greta Deftly and Thoroughly Explains Atheist Anger To The Bewildered

November 30, 2011 By 3 Comments

Greta’s talk at Skepticon IV hits the nail on the head about the nature and justification of atheist anger: Her blog post on atheists and anger from 2007 is a definitive go-to piece for me when I am asked about atheist anger. Your Thoughts?

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Fellow Atheists, What Do You Like Or Dislike In Holiday Cards?

November 29, 2011 By 27 Comments

Marta is one of my Christian friends who comments a lot around here and always seems to sympathize with my secular values quite a bit. She raises a good question that I’d love to see you readers address: I wonder about your thoughts on atheism/secularism and holiday cards? Recently I tried to find some cards [...]

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Learning About Love From The Bible

November 24, 2011 By 3 Comments

Using the “New Comprehensive Self-Referencing, Taking The Words on the Page To Mean What They Actually Say Version” of the Bible (that’s the NCSRTTWOTPTMWTASV), NonStampCollector shows us how the biblical God of love (the God who is love) models and illuminates for us all the virtues of love described in 1 Corinthians 13: Your Thoughts?

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On Not-Pologies, Forgiveness, and Gelato

November 23, 2011 By 39 Comments

Kinds of Forgiveness Let’s start with the theoretical. How should we characterize forgiveness, and when and why should we forgive people? Full forgiveness involves three things: 1. Waiving all just moral and/or legal penalties, including all forms of restitution and compensation, that we would normally demand for wrongdoing. 2. Restoring amicable emotional, social, and/or professional [...]

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