Sam Harris seems to catch a special kind of flak among atheists. Unlike Dawkins, he doesn’t just have people of the Chris Mooney variety complaining that he shouldn’t criticize religion, ever. And unlike Christopher Hitchens, it isn’t really about specific political positions Harris has taken, because Harris hasn’t actually said very much about specific political [...]
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Review: Re-reading Sam Harris’ The End of Faith
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 21, 2011
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So this is why atheists are evil
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 14, 2011
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I’m a big fan of sex and relationship advice guru Dan Savage. When he had atheist blogger Jen McCreight, on his podcast, mainly to discuss the G-spot and female ejaculation, I thought it was kind of cool, but it didn’t really register as major. Later, though, I saw a post on Jen’s blog where she [...]
Defending Crackergate
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 8, 2011
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On Facebook, I asked: “To anyone who’s ever complained about atheists being angry/militant/strident/whatever: can you explain exactly what you thought the problem was?” One of the responses I got was from a friend of mine from grad school, who complained about “invective, insults and rhetoric” from PZ Myers, and later followed up by specifically citing [...]
Angry atheists and the fundamental attribution error
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 7, 2011
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: We tend to see far too direct a correspondence between others’ actions and personalities. When we see someone else kick a vending machine for no visible reason, we assume they are “an angry person”. But when you yourself kick the vending machine, it’s because the bus was late, the train was early, your [...]