You may be familiar with the time-honored cocktail party query wherein each participant fantasizes for a moment about any historical figure they would enjoy spending an afternoon of tea and conversation, if they could. My own selection in this whimsical daydream has for quite some time … (aside from any afternoon with my wife), remained [...]
5. May 2010
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Dinesh D’souza, the New Atheism, and Constantinian Christianity
Last week at the Innovative Evangelism Conference I got a chance to hear Dinesh D’Souza speak to a standing room only crowd. Many in the crowd were fellow evangelists, but there were a few seekers and skeptics present as well. Dinesh D’Souza is a renowned Christian apologist known for taking on the proponents of the [...]
3. May 2010
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Creationism and the Atheist
The current issue of controversy affecting science teachers, as I’m sure you’ll be aware, is that of the best way to explain the mechanics of biology in a politically correct manner; how should we accommodate the beliefs of others while necessarily educating our students. Granted, the issue is not as debatable anywhere to the extent it is in [...]
16. April 2010
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Antony Flew 1923-2010
Earlier this month we lost a great man. Antony Flew was a brilliant British philosopher and famed atheist. His decades of masterful argument began as far back as the first years following WWII at Oxford where he presented “Theology and Falsification” at C.S. Lewis’ weekly Socratic Club gatherings.
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15. April 2010
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Deepak Apolgizes for Baja Eathquake
4-15-10
I don’t know how to even pretend to comment. According to Katie Drummomd at AOL News, Deepak Chopra aoplogized via Twitter for causing the earthquake recently in Baja California. It seems he was having a “powerful meditation” … “Sorry about that”. There’s more, but fingers just can’t type [...]
19. March 2010
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Random Rant
3-19-10 It occurred to me today that Baudelaire was wrong, when in 1864 he suggested that “the Devil’s greatest trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist”. (Needless to say that Baudelaire’s name and the date of 1864 didn’t occur to me at all until I looked it up …).
That was the Devil’s [...]
12. March 2010
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Am I really an Atheist ?
I can’t think of another word in our language that evokes as much distaste in the public domain as the word “atheist”. With it comes the sudden urge to whisper. You can’t just go around casually proclaiming your atheism without arousing the ire of those around you. We live in a largely Christian nation. Something [...]
12. March 2010
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So you want to be an atheist ………
So what does that really even mean to you? How did you get to this point? Are you huddled with a flashlight reading freethinking books and magazines under the covers? And so now what do you do? And does it really matter what you do? Who can you talk to? Can you even tell anyone?
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6. August 2010
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