Last week, a gunman opened fire during a school board meeting in Florida. Luckily no one was hurt, but, naturally, the story got a lot of press coverage. Although the crime had no religious component or motive, as far as anyone could tell, some news outlets reported on his religious views according to facebook: humanism. Hermant Mehta, of Friendly Atheist, took umbrage: Clay Duke was obviously not a Humanist — Humanists are not violent people. The Humanist Manifesto III … [Read more...]
Can There be an Atheist Agenda?
November 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
After I got into a disagreement about tactics with John Loftus of Debunking Christianity, I ended up in a discussion of what, if anything, an atheist agenda should consist of and whether atheists had anything at all in common beside their disbelief in God. First, the posts dealing directly with my dispute with Loftus Want to help write a book? -- Loftus solicits possible questions for a Christian apologist and I offer a few thoughts Why do atheists ask the boring questions? -- … [Read more...]
Why I Treat Atheism as a Team
November 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
There have been a number of interesting comments on my "Are Atheists a Side?" post from earlier this week, and, when I started to reply, I realized I'd need a new post to flesh out my response. Since there have been a number of interesting discussions sparked over the past two weeks over how atheists should frame arguments, I've collected those posts into a series here. As always, you can browse all post series under the Featured Series tab. March Hare wrote: Many (vocal) … [Read more...]
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