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Wrong Idea: The “Militant” in “Militant Atheist.”

Atheists March on Washington? I was recently given a copy of Hitch-22: A Memoir, by New Atheist Christopher Hitchens. I haven’t had the chance to start reading it but put it in my pile for the summer. But I thought … Continue reading

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The Culture Wars Between Atheists and Theists

Image via Wikipedia Lately, I’ve been working on a project that I might turn into a book on atheism that takes a different tack than man of the books already in print by other New Atheists. I say “tack” in … Continue reading

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Why do atheists worry theists so much?

Image by Colin Purrington via Flickr There are loads of direct responses by theistic authors to atheist writers like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Victor Stenger, Sam Harris, et al. Books with titles like The Atheist Delusions, The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 … Continue reading

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Atheist Culture on Twitter

Image by topicagnostic via Flickr If you’re an atheist and not on Twitter, where have you been!? The atheosphere is alive and well there, thriving in a see of @Tweets, RTs, and #tags (like #atheist, #atheism) which are handy ways … Continue reading

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A few minor updates

I’ve added a couple of links to the menu bar at the top: Godless Resources and Godless Bibliography. The first is still a work in progress right now, but it links to a page of links to many of the … Continue reading

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Hitchens in Nantucket

Here’s short video of Christopher Hitchens being interviewed for the Morning, Noon, and Night Show. In the video he discusses the much-cited opinion polls that put atheists as the most distrusted group in the nation. I think I tend to … Continue reading

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