Dan Barker and Jesus
Last night, I attended another talk with Dan Barker, at Saddleback College; this time about the historical person of Jesus Christ, hosted by the free thinkers club. Again, this is a brief transcription covering all the major points of his…
Dan Barker, Godless
Tonight I attended a nice speech, Q+A, and Booksigning given by the President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Dan Barker. His talk was basically the same as one that can be found elsewhere online, but I took notes anyway….
Victory!
Last week, Tuesday, I noticed that my club, AAR, was counter-postering some heinous christian fundies. You see, every once in a while there are these christian fellas with obnoxious signs like “Repent Sinners, You’re going to HELL!”, you know the…
Stump the Professor
The Campus Crusade for Christ at UCI is has invited a certain Jon Rittenhouse to stand in front of an audience and defend his faith. They kindly offer a prize of $100 to anyone if they ask a question to…
Neologisms
Yesterday at the pub I was involved in a very extended (civil and remarkable productive) dialog about morality and society. We touch on many topics in the course of discussion, one of them being the difference between reason and faith….
Mawwiage…
It’s been 4 days since Californians voted to deny rights to a certain minority of its population. Let’s look at a few of the arguments against gay marriage: It protects our children from being taught in public schools that “same-sex…
An interesting series of questions.
I caught this scribbled on a piece of paper, as I was cleaning my desk today. Is there anything more valuable than human life? If No: Then when reason have we to live? If Yes: Then do such things justify…
Children’s Books of Science
Today I decided to send the following email. Usually, when I do such things it doesn’t make any difference. But it still never hurts to try. We’ll see what becomes of my efforts this time. Dear PZ Myers and richarddawkins.net,…
Atheists can pray too
Two weeks ago, a good friend of mine asked me a hypothetical question: I have a daughter with leukemia; The doctors say she might not pull through. Will you pray for her? Well, as an atheist this puts me in…
Intelligence Expelled
Today I read about one of the most ironic events of which I’ve ever heard. You can’t make this kind of thing up. The atheistic PZ Meyers (a biologist and associate professor University of Minnesota, Morris), was kicked out of…