Christina here… Kendra Holliday is a good friend of mine who blogs about kinky things, polyamory and sex over at www.thebeautifulkind.com She interviewed my husband Christopher and I a few months ago about our relationship, polyamory, and the crazy things we do for fun. You’ll probably want to check it out. We talk about a [...]
How religions die
February 14, 2012 By 110 Comments
A commenter by the name of Zinc Avenger, in response to shrieks of “Stalin!”, produced some absolute gold yesterday. Because there was no possible reason anyone could have wanted them overthrown apart from atheism, right? Or maybe their regimes self destructed because they were murderous lunatics. That happens to murderous theocratic regimes too. Atheism isn’t [...]
Reluctant warriors 2
February 13, 2012 By 49 Comments
This weekend I debated Dr. Michael Murray, a professor of physics at the University of Kansas, over whether or not science and Christianity can coexist. Dr. Murray is a soft-spoken British man, the kind that is nearly too timid to make eye contact. When we first met he produced a deck of cards from his [...]
Jealousy is lame
February 13, 2012 By 18 Comments
As I have become more of a public figure I’ve come to realize that it’s impossible to please everyone (not that I ever tried), and that some people are just going to try and get a rise out of you because you’ve made them mad in some way. I got one of those yesterday. She [...]
How you make a difference
February 13, 2012 By 4 Comments
I am often asked by those around me why, with the volume of speaking requests I get, I don’t charge money to speak. The answer’s simple: I’d feel dirty. I love this cause and I’m still flattered to no end just to be asked to contribute in that way. So I always enjoy bumping into [...]
Why you don't make impulse decisions
February 11, 2012 By 20 Comments
Ok…so my lovely girlfriend Michaelyn pledged to get a mohawk if $1,000 was donated over 2 weeks last month. You guys responded! Well, she’s a woman of her word.
He says "abomination" I hear "absolute success"
February 11, 2012 By 13 Comments
Muahahahahahahahahahahaha! A guy in a Jesus hat and waving a bible just interrupted Greg Epstein’s talk by shouting that this is an abomination and that Jesus loves us. I’m jealous! Skepticon has never had anything like that. The rest of his yelling was lost beneath a harmony of applause, laughter, and snickering. Everybody bound together. [...]
Live-blogging Reasonfest: Greg Epstein
February 11, 2012 By 5 Comments
The contents of this post represent the opinions of JT Eberhard, not the Secular Student Alliance. And we’re off with Greg Epstein. Starts off talking about how groups now are more defined by what they do and what they don’t believe than what they don’t. But we’ve always been defined by that. We support reason, [...]
Live-blogging Reasonfest: Interfaith Panel
February 11, 2012 By 7 Comments
The contents of this post represent the opinions of JT Eberhard, not the Secular Student Alliance. The SSA supports groups that work with interfaith and I will work to support those groups and those projects no matter my personal feelings on interfaith. Mark Blumberg rocked faces. This was my first time experiencing his work and [...]
Live-blogging Reasonfest: Mark Blumberg
February 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For those of you who couldn’t make the jaunt to Lawrence, KS for Reasonfest this weekend, I’ll be live-blogging as I’m able. I’ll also be tweeting the event on the #Reasonfest hashtag. First up is Mark Blumberg: Freaks of Nature & Intelligent Design. He immediately goes after a time magazine article on the existence of [...]
Fear
February 11, 2012 By 5 Comments
For some odd reason yesterday a song popped into my head that I used to listen to in high school, back when I had that whole believing in Jesus thing going. It’s a song by DC Talk (yes, I used to love them) called “What if I Stumble“. They chorus runs… What if I stumble, [...]
One "Million" Moms: you lose.
February 11, 2012 By 8 Comments
Christina here… Oh look, One “Million” mom’s sent out an email! If you haven’t already heard, Ellen DeGeneres mentioned One Million Moms on her television show yesterday with a few hand-picked Facebook comments that supported her of course. A few days ago, someone created a facebook page: 1 million people who support Ellen for JCPenney which, [...]
Why we come out
February 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
Maureen Walsh, state rep in Washington, talking about her support for gay marriage. http://youtu.be/CbmbdWK6338 (you’ll have to click the link since WordPress suddenly doesn’t like embedding videos. God hates me)
I may get to make some new friends
February 10, 2012 By 7 Comments
I’m at my gate waiting to fly off to Reasonfest. There is an elderly man and a young woman across from me talking about working at their respective churches. I hope I sit next to one of them. I’m wearing my Friendly Neighborhood Atheist hoodie and reading The End of Christianity. It’ll be a great [...]
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