Previously: Part 1, what DJ said Par 2, screen cap dump One thing Greta Christina did in criticizing DJ Grothe was refer back to a previous post she had written, Why “Yes, But” Is the Wrong Response to Misogyny. When I saw this post, I thought it was pretty obviously problematic, for reasons that don’t [...]
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DJ Grothe is right, part 3: “Yes, but sometimes it’s appropriate to say, ‘yes but’”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 13, 2012
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DJ Grothe is right, part 2: screen cap dump
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 11, 2012
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Previously: Part 1, what DJ said Part of the problem with the DJ/Greta dustup is that it was spawned by something that happened on Greta’s Facebook page. Facebook does not make it easy to permalink to old threads, so basically nobody has the context for this unless you’re both (1) friends with Greta on Facebook [...]
DJ Grothe is right, part 1: what DJ said
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 9, 2012
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I’ve got some stuff to get off my chest. It’s related to things I’ve written here and here, but includes a lot of other stuff as well. It’s stuff I’ve avoided writing about because I feel like I have better things to do, but now it’s escalated to Greta Christina accusing DJ Grothe of sexism [...]
Biblical scholarship is an enterprise for believers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 2, 2011
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A remarkable quotation form an article by Biblical scholar Jacques Berlinerblau: “Show of hands: Who here’s an atheist?” If a keynote speaker were to pose that unlikely query to an audience of 1,000 scholars gathered at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature my guess is only about a couple of dozen or [...]
Skepticism is about the process
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 29, 2011
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Since writing this post, I’ve avoided writing anything about alleged sexism in the atheist movement, in part because a lot of the debate centers around things allegedly said in blog comment threads (which I mostly don’t read) and other people’s hate mail (which I obviously don’t read at all.) But now there’s been another very [...]