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October 2010

October 21, 2010
Sam Harris is everywhere these days promoting his new book,The Moral Landscape.  He was interviewed...
October 20, 2010
One of the most hysterical claims of Delaware Senate Republican candidate Christine O’Donnell is that...
October 20, 2010
With over half of Americans holding a belief in young earth creationism, I guess it...
October 19, 2010
Years and years after Barry Goldwater warned the Republican Party about entangling with religious fundamentalists,...
October 18, 2010
Frans de Waal is a primatologist who has written about the moral instincts in our...
October 17, 2010
If you were only to judge Secular Humanistic Judaism by my blog entries, you would...
October 17, 2010
Here is a horrifying story of Orthodox homophobia as told in the New York Jewish...
October 15, 2010
I hoped against hope that if I kept checking the religion page at HuffPost I...
October 14, 2010
Much like the post I wrote about Rabbi Yoffie, the debate between Sam Harris and...
October 14, 2010
In case you’ve missed it, Sam Harris and Mark Oppenheimer are engaged in an online moderated...
October 14, 2010
Rabbi Eric Yoffie is president of the Union for Reform Judaism.  Today he chimed in...
October 13, 2010
With the rash of gay teen suicides, there have been many nice religious people writing...
October 12, 2010
One of the weirdest conversations I’ve ever heard was at a family event where the...
October 11, 2010
There is a fantastic new resource available online to help people understand the non-theistic community...
October 11, 2010
If you’re not in the mood for anger, then you probably shouldn’t read this. The...
October 09, 2010
Yesterday, over a chocolate break with co-worker friends, I talked a little about my blog. ...
October 07, 2010
Daniel Dennett is my favorite philosopher.  He wrote a piece for the New York Daily...
October 06, 2010
UPDATE:  Jewish Daily Report is reporting that the pressure placed on the New Jersey Jewish...
October 06, 2010
When the New Jersey Jewish Standard ran a same-sex wedding announcement, its editors were unprepared...
October 06, 2010
When the New Jersey Jewish Standard ran a same-sex wedding announcement, its editors were unprepared...
October 06, 2010
Last night, Gleek that I am, I watched the “God” episode of Glee.  There is...
October 05, 2010
Marilynne Robinson has written a somewhat critical review of Sam Harris’ new book, The Moral...
October 03, 2010
Across the pond, Matthew Reisz has written a long, rambling piece for Times Higher Education about...
October 02, 2010
Rabbi Shmully Hecht is the advisor to the Chabad-sponsored Yale Eliezer Society.  He is also...
October 02, 2010
Today I celebrated Simchat Torah by putting the finishing touches on a journal article surveying...
October 01, 2010
This is a very short post just to pass on this wonderful link.  Rabbi Adam...

September 2010

September 30, 2010
I don’t know why I keep reading the religion page of HuffPo.  Maybe because I’m...
September 29, 2010
The talk of freethinking sites on the internet today is the Pew Study that showed...
September 28, 2010
The beginning of the end of my efforts to remain in the theistic fold came...
September 27, 2010
aEven before the release of a new book and movie about him, there is so...
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