AUTHORITARIANISM: Atheist Experience #477 / “Understanding Right Wing Authoritarianism”
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SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: Andrea Stone / “R. Martin Umbarger, [Indiana] National Guard General, Accused of Ethics Violation for Endorsing Christian Group”
The head of the Indiana National Guard recorded a fundraising video for an evangelical Christian organization — an act that violates the constitutional separation of church and state, a watchdog group argues, and that is grounds for dismissal, one of the nation’s leading military law experts says.
In the video, Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger, adjutant general of the Indiana National Guard, endorses Centurion’s Watch, an Indianapolis-based sectarian Christian nonprofit that offers marriage counseling to military families. The video was first noted by freethoughtblogs.com.
ATHEISM: QualiaSoup / “Lack of Belief in gods”
h/t: Dead-Logic
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SCIENCE – EVOLUTION / COSMOLOGY: Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss / “Something From Nothing?” / 02.04.2012
CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “So You Still Think Homosexuality is Sinful?”
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ATHEISM: Mano Singham / “Casual Mentions of Atheism”
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Once people start mentioning being an atheist casually, as merely one facet of their lives and not their defining characteristic, you know that it has become mainstream.
In fact, it has reached a stage that I get surprised only when I hear writers and artists and other intellectuals mention that they are religious, even mildly so. I do not explicitly seek out atheist writers, so the fact that I encounter so few religious ones must mean something. At the very least, it may signify that the intellectual class as a whole is abandoning religion.
EXPOSITORY ESSAY: John Kelly / “Robert Ingersoll, the ‘Great Agnostic’”
Photo credit: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Robert G. Ingersoll, shown between 1865 and 1880.
What was Robert Ingersoll’s address? Answer Man is confident many readers are wondering, “Who the heck was Robert Ingersoll?”
Well, he is the most famous American you never heard of.
Col. Ingersoll — he fought for the Union in the Civil War after raising a cavalry regiment from Illinois — was a lawyer who counted the wealthy and powerful among his clients. He was a committed Republican who stumped for GOP candidates. He was a silver-tongued orator whose lectures drew thousands — and earned him thousands of dollars a pop. He was also, by all accounts, a really nice guy.
And Ingersoll accomplished all of this without believing in God.
Ingersoll’s disbelief was the quality that most fascinated the 19th-century audiences that packed theaters to hear him speak. He was known as the Great Agnostic. Some called him blasphemer or infidel.
RELIGIOUS PARODY, ART AND SCIENCE: DarkMatter2525 / “The Lambaste Supper (and Sagan)”
WHITE PRIVILEGE: ExplodedView MEF / “Hey White Guys Intro”
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: PZ Myers
RELIGIOSITY: Dusty Smith / “Have You Heard The Good News?”
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