My take on the arch nemesis of antitheist atheists like me–the pro-religious atheist.
Pro-Religious Atheists
May 3, 2013 By 46 Comments
The Apostates vs. The Never-Believers
May 2, 2013 By 41 Comments
Do you notice any significant differences between atheists who deconverted from once being devout believers in a god or gods, those who only nominally were part of a religion that believed in a god or gods without that belief really ever becoming important to them or accepted by them as true (at least after early childhood), and those who were never theistic at all and were raised either with no religiosity at all or with an atheistic kind of religiosity?
After I Deconverted: I Was Deeply Ambivalent; What Was I to Make of Sex, Love, Alcohol, Bisexuality, Abortion, 9/11, Religious Violence, Marxism, or the Yankees?
April 29, 2013 By 6 Comments
This is a long installment of my ongoing series covering my journey before, during, and after my deconversion from Christianity. Since I think it is interesting how all the ambivalences, contradictions, anxieties, and displacements that I was experiencing parallel and inform each other, I am deciding to post it all as one episode in the series, rather than break each easily isolatable vignette into its own post. For the busy or the short attention spanned, I have made it easier to read in multiple sittings or to skim by breaking it into subsections according to themes.
Dan Fincke Scheduled to be on the Drew Marshall Show Saturday 4/27/13 at 2pm
April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
If all goes according to plan, 2pm tomorrow I will be talking with Drew Marshall whose show, billed as “Canada’s Most Listened to Spiritual Talk Show”, airs out of Toronto (home of my beloved Blue Jays!). He’s a radio host for a show about people’s views on religion, primarily, and his personal journey is fascinating. [...]
Why Atheists Resent Being Told We Are Going To Hell
April 17, 2013 By 146 Comments
Yesterday I was rather surprised that one of my very most politically progressive, most liberally theist, and most pro-atheist friends asked me why atheists sometimes get upset (even apoplectic) about being told we’re going to hell. This friend asked why this should bother us if we thought the idea that we were going to hell [...]
Forward Thinking: What Are Our Ethical Responsibilities When Shocking Public Violence Occurs?
April 16, 2013 By
Yesterday in America we experienced yet another shocking indiscriminate attack on innocent people in a public place. These tend to have a distinctly traumatizing effect on the national consciousness. There are many reasons why. There are many instinctual reactions people have to such events. These are socially, politically, and morally precarious times, as people are [...]
Common Conscientiousness as Common Ground
April 15, 2013 By
As a conscientiously and philosophically serious atheist, I rather commonly have a deeper (or at least a special kind of) affinity with people with whom I talk intimately or argue extensively who are conscientiously and philosophically serious about their religious beliefs and practices than I do with nominal believers and even with some apatheists (atheists [...]
Real Nihilism
April 15, 2013 By
This. Thanks to Adam Freese for the find. My posts against nihilism are below. You don’t need to read all of them to understand any of them. Of Nihilists Mourning Their Christian Soul Mates Is Emotivistic Moral Nihilism Rationally Consistent? The Universe Does Not Care About Our Morality. But So What? A Philosophical Polemic Against [...]
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