Nicholas Kristof has an ambivalent review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book. Kristof got immediately trashed by PZ for it, but the review is even more clueless than PZ makes it out to be, when you remember that Hirsi Ali is a survivor of female genital mutilation, and initially left the Muslim world because she [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Being nice about religion: genital mutilation edition
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 31, 2010
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Martin Gardner’s fideism, and related epistemological ponderings
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 29, 2010
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Martin Gardner died last Saturday, provoking a round of reminiscences from the skeptical community. There’s been a fair amount of talk about Gardner’s status as the odd theist out within the skeptic movement. In a comment at Phil Plait’s blog, James Randi gave a nice, succinct explanation of Gardner’s stance (HT Massimo Pigliucci): Martin was [...]
Happy Draw Muhammad Day!
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 21, 2010
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I decided to go for a crappy MS Paint version of a famous painting. I’m not in the mood to write a manifesto about this, but Greta Christina’s is here. The Facebook page is here.
My first tweet
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 19, 2010
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Andrew Sullivan doesn’t know the word “webcomic” and thinks we need to be told xkcd is wonderful. http://tinyurl.com/2d4wd8w I’m now the UncredibleHallq on Twitter. This is going to be so much fun, why the hell didn’t I think of this before?
Religious Wishes are Childish
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 17, 2010
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I used to read Andrew Sullivan for coverage of Bush’s abuses of power, but nowadays, he’s mainly good for really superficial thoughts on religion. His latest is a series of posts on how tragic atheism supposedly is. His readers gave him some nice responses, though I don’t think they get to the heart of the [...]