What it’s like to be a (liberal) Christian
I grew up in a liberal Congregationalist church. Officially, the church was part of two denominations, evidently denominations that didn’t care about the sort of thing. I like to tell people it was one step away from Unitarianism, which is funny, but basically true. I also like to tell people that it meant becoming an [...]
Continue Reading »Why not be a dick?
July 21, 2010
Filed under religion, social and literary criticism
I’ve been hearing something about a Phil Plait talk that became a meme under the heading “don’t be a dick,” but didn’t feel informed enough to comment until I found a partial transcript of the talk. (HT: Jason Rosenau). I got thinking about this, and concluded that for such a commonsensical-sounding thesis, it’s amazing how [...]
Continue Reading »Carnivalia
July 21, 2010
Filed under carnivalia
New Carnival of the Godless, Humanist Symposium, and Philosophy Carnival.
Continue Reading »Santa Claus, Thor, and God
July 15, 2010
Filed under religion
I think most people, once they hear it, intuitively understand the thought “I stopped believing in God once I asked myself the question ‘if I don’t believe in Thor, why do I believe in the Christian God?’” I also think most people’s reasons for disbelieving in Thor aren’t fundamentally different than their reasons for disbelieving [...]
Continue Reading »Wow the Colgate Twins are dumb
Recently, Ophelia Benson has been giving the Colgate Twins a bit of a hard time about the fact that they had banned her from commenting on their blog, while they let another commenter call her a liar for months and only banned him once they realized he had been engaging in sock puppetry to boot. [...]
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