Long story short, The Humanist Ethical Society of Chicago invited Sunsara Taylor to speak at a conference. Later they learned she was a communist, and dis-invited her. Taylor showed up anyway and made a statement before the program about how she didn’t think she was treated very ethically. What happened was crazy:
On Sunday, November 1st, [...]
Dan Barker and some fundie pastor squared off over whether atheists can be good without God. It’s such a ridiculous thing to argue against, but don’t underestimate the lure of bigotry:
Students and community members filled the Woodburn Hall auditorium Monday for a debate about the controversial Bloomington Transit bus advertisement, which says “You can be [...]
The Nihilist has an interesting post on open and closed mindedness. He argues both scientific and unscientific-minded folks run the risk of being close-minded: “I can be scientific and not open up enough to new ideas. Or I could be unscientific and not open up enough to new ideas.”
A few years ago I had the [...]
Australian atheists sites are being attacked:
Australian atheists are under attack, with the websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention knocked offline in a major cyber attack yesterday afternoon.
The “distributed denial of service” attacks flooded the websites with traffic, forcing them offline about 5.20pm yesterday.
As of this morning, the foundation [...]
There’s a new documentary coming out called “God in the Boxed” that looks interesting. The synopsis:
A film which doesn’t tell you what to believe, but asks you what you believe. A little more than three-years ago, a journalist named, Nathan Lang, our storyteller, along with a few buddies, also journalists, set out on an expedition [...]
It started to bother me greatly that God’s institutions—ones He was supposed to be guiding—were often more corrupt than their secular counterparts. If these churches were infused and guided by the Holy Spirit, shouldn’t it follow that they would function in a morally superior fashion than a corporation or government entity?
In general, I was finding [...]
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