By Michael J. Altman As I’ve mentioned before, I’m spending the summer working through that wonderful mid-Ph.D-program rite of passage: studying for qualifying exams. I’ve also just finished another rite of passage for students of American religious history.
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Meditations on a Classic, or, American Religious History in the 21st Century
I’m not trying to perpetuate a conspiracy theory, but it does seem clear that atheist and related “freethought” groups around the country are borrowing from each other’s playbooks. The local chapter of Atheists of Florida had a forum last night, titled “Meet the Patriots,” that was intended to promote their position that atheists are just as loyal as other Americans.
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Atheist Billboards Strikingly Similar in N.C. and Here
The group is intended to be a coalition of non-believers comprised of atheists , secular humanists, skeptics, agnostics, rationalists, etc, predicated on support and community. The group gathers monthly to discuss any pertinent issues …
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Reflections on Atheism, Theism, and Everything Else: NEPA …
Amateur (or should I say “immature) and defenders of certain Christian cults have a peculiar way of confronting the issues posted by atheists . Instead of proving atheism as an irrational position, they cater more on emotions and rely …
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Pinoy Atheist: My journey as an atheist in Manila.: Ignorance + …
Christians’ objections to defining atheism as simply the absence of belief in gods can extend to blatant misrepresentation of what should be a simple concept in order to divert attention from what atheism really is. …
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Myth: Atheists Cannot 'Lack Belief in God' After Learning About God
I am foregrounding, then, two major problems: the adequacy of antihumanism and atheism as objects, and the frame and limits of a historical shift internal to them. As Surkis notes, in a question that articulates my main interest and …
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Atheism and antihumanism as intellectual-historical objects « The …
In doing this, though, the accommodationists will have to ignore the second question above: the 40% of people who admit to biblical literalism don’t need atheists in order to reject evolution. Biblical literalists think that they have …
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Christian Lies Lead to Widespread Ignorance About Evolution, Science
It’s important for the atheist movement to get more mainstream coverage. More Americans need opportunities to see their atheist neighbors, to understand where they come from, and that they are not monsters. It can’t always be about …
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Bloc Raisonneur: Nightline's Atrociously Bad Report on Atheism
It’s common for conservative Christians to complain about atheist “insults,” but take a close look at what’s going on here: atheists are doing nothing more than quoting the original words of the original Pledge of Allegiance. …
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Chrissy Satterfield: Crime is OK when Atheists are the Victims
I’m pleased today to guest post another contribution from Benjamin Park , a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh who normally blogs at Juvenile Instructor. Ben’s post concerns material he had researched for his master’s thesis, about reactions/responses to Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason to Christopher Hitchens to the Tea Party Movement
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The Strange Career of Thomas Paine