CRITICAL THINKING: “Something ‘Bigger’ Than You”
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Tribute to Christopher Hitchens – 2012 Global Atheist Convention
Words You Don’t See in the Media: ‘A Self-Proclaimed Christian’
[There is an] obvious double standard in how the news media talks about atheists versus religion people. For example, atheists tend to be described with adjectives… “self-proclaimed,” “self-identified,” “avowed,” etc.
Can you imagine what would happen if some of these qualifiers were applied to Christians? . . . There would [be] considerable outrage, and for good reason. But that isn’t going to happen because we do not see these qualifiers applied to Christians. . .[T]his is an example of Christian privilege at work.
Book Review: Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790
The great names one learns at school — Voltaire and Rousseau, Newton and Locke, Leibniz and Kant — turn out never to have been willing or able to think themselves through to the new. Israel’s real heroes were hard-nosed atheists, materialists and revolutionaries who brooked no compromise with the status quo.
Israel traces the lineage of this Radical Enlightenment to Baruch Spinoza, the 17th-century philosopher who serves here as the father of all atheists and “one substance” materialists who rejected the suspiciously spiritualist dualism of mind and body. Spinoza was certainly a radical critic of Scripture, who denied miracles and seemed to equate “God” with nature.
Touched by an Atheist (VIDEO)
A wandering philosopher helps a young boy land the girl of his dreams. As everyone knows — chicks dig atheists!
Faith no more
Earlier this year, Andrew Zak Williams asked public figures why they believe in God. Now it’s the turn of the atheists – from A C Grayling to P Z Myers – to explain why they don’t.
Always Question Authority 