Haven’t done a “From the archives” post yet this week, and I realized I needed to link this post while writing a separate post I’m working on, which will appear shortly.
From the archives: Bart Ehrman’s misleading piece on the history of Christian Fundamentalism
April 13, 2012 By 5 Comments
Taslima Nasreen on the 72 virgins thing
April 13, 2012 By 8 Comments
Okay this is old news, but I just discovered, and retweeted, a tweet by Taslima on the “Muslim men get 72 virgins in heaven” thing: “Muslim women deserve to have sex with 72 virgin men on the earth as they won’t get these things in heaven. #compensation” That is awesome. Makes me feel so much [...]
Review: Bart Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist?
April 12, 2012 By 60 Comments
I’ve decided to write two posts on agnostic Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman’s new book. This is the main review, which discusses Ehrman’s main theses and arguments. The other post will be about issues of interest to people involved in atheist-Christian debates, but which are secondary issues within the book itself.
Taslima Nasrin’s baffling posts on prostitution
April 11, 2012 By 29 Comments
So I’m really, sincerely not sure how to react to two recent posts by Taslima Nasrin, the latest addition to the Freethought Blogs team. The first one equated prostitution with slavery. After criticism by Greta and Natalie (as well as a relevant guest post at Crommunist’s blog), Taslima then posted this response. And I have [...]
Advice on setting up Facebook timeline?
April 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve decided I finally have to set mine up. Any advice? I’m going to go post an ad on ELance, looking for someone who can design a cover for me, and redesign my blog banner while I’m at it. What else?
I’m a citizen of a state sponsor of terrorism
April 10, 2012 By 7 Comments
You know… I’ve stopped reading Glenn Greenwald as much these days. He’s still in my Google Reader, but most of the time I glance at the title, maybe the first paragraph, file it under “not news” and move on. I’ve been reading him for that long, and gotten that cynical. In spite of that, this [...]
Introducing: Bible verse of the day, on Twitter
April 9, 2012 By 15 Comments
I’ve finally come up with a reason for people to follow me on Twitter: now through the foreseeable future, I’ll be tweeting one Bible verse per day. I’ll be using the Skeptics Annotated Bible for ideas on things to tweet. Major props to Steve Wells, creator of the Skeptics Annotated Bible, for creating that site. [...]
I am reminded that I art mortal
April 9, 2012 By 5 Comments
I called in sick to work today. Couldn’t sleep because of a terrible cough, and woke up barely able to speak (before calling in, I spent some time practicing saying several sentences in a row without swearing uncontrollably at how difficult it was). But that’s not the worst part.
“People Make Poor Monitors for Computers”
April 9, 2012 By 4 Comments
That’s the title of a new book that I intend to try to read, time permitting. There’s sort of an encouraging thought in there: we’ve gotten so good at designing computers, that giving humans too much control over them may no longer be a good idea.
From the archives: Ignorance: Comparing Dawkins and Plantinga
April 5, 2012 By 17 Comments
Here’s a post from back in December 2010, just after I had left graduate school. It’s another one that I’m likely to refer back to in the future, and will satisfy people who’ve been hoping to see me talk more about Plantinga. A good chunk of my blogging over the next few weeks will be [...]
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