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How It Happened: My Deconversion Part 1

Nate

Lately I've been reading The Bittersweet End, and I've been quite engrossed in the way his story is unfolding. He began the blog as a place to gather his thoughts about a few doubts he was dealing with. Over the last year, he has moved further and further away from belief, until he now pretty… Continue reading How It Happened: My Deconversion Part 1

Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Faith, God, Religion, Society, Truth

The Bible’s Morality

Nate

In the last post, I talked about why I still believe in some moral absolutes even though I'm no longer a Christian. In this post, I'd like to dig a little deeper into what kind of morality we find in the Bible. Most of us view things like the Holocaust or the Tiananmen Square Crackdown… Continue reading The Bible’s Morality

Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Culture, Faith, God, Religion, Society, Truth

Absolute Morality

Nate

There are certain things that we all know are wrong -- child molestation, for instance, or murder. But how do we know those things are wrong? Many religious people (and I'm mostly gearing this toward Christians, since they're the group I'm most familiar with) believe that we must appeal to a higher authority in order… Continue reading Absolute Morality

Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Education, Faith, God, Politics, Religion, Science, Society

School’s out for… Creationism?

Nate

A bill has been introduced in the Alabama legislature that would allow school boards to approve off-campus classes on creationism that would count as an elective credit for any participating students. Republican Representative Bill Galliher proposed the legislation after being approached by Joseph Kennedy, 84, who was fired from an elementary school in 1980 for… Continue reading School’s out for… Creationism?

Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Culture, Education, Faith, God, Religion, Science, Society, Truth

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Intelligent Design

Nate

Thanks to Jerry Coyne's blog, I ran across an article today by Neil deGrasse Tyson called "The Perimeter of Ignorance." In case you don't know who he is, Dr Tyson runs the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. And if you watch the PBS show NOVA, you've probably seen him… Continue reading Neil deGrasse Tyson on Intelligent Design

Community, Culture, Education, Respect, Responsibility, Sexuality, Society, Truth

Great Article on Sex Education

Nate

The New York Times posted a really interesting article on 11/16 about the way sexuality is taught in schools (Teaching Good Sex, by Laurie Abraham). Primarily, the article dealt with the way the subject is handled by a private school in Philadelphia. This particular program doesn't shy away from the tough questions that can accompany… Continue reading Great Article on Sex Education

Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Culture, Faith, God, Religion, Society, Truth

Book Review: Letter to a Christian Nation — Sam Harris

Nate

I just finished reading Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris, and I really enjoyed it. It's an extremely short book at only 91 pages (and they're small pages, at that), but he plows through a lot of ground in it. True to the title, Harris writes this book as a letter. It's actually… Continue reading Book Review: Letter to a Christian Nation — Sam Harris