Archive for May, 2012
Tensions Are High
In a new article titled “Why I Don’t Do Atheist Conventions,” Staks Rosch cites swollen convention expenses and family priorities as two valid issues for choosing not to attend conventions, and then bemoans the supposed “drama” of atheist conventions. It’s true, attending conventions can cost a lot, but Staks takes his argument past issues of [...]
Contribution to Martin S. Pribble
Earlier this month, I signed a petition and emailed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about the inclusion of an abstinence only program in their “List of Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs,” called Heritage Keepers®. … continue
Playing Into Their Hands
I recently helped coordinate a protest against 6 ton, black granite, Ten Commandments display placed in front of a Florida County Courthouse. The $20,000 monument was built through private funding and was dedicated during a National Day of Prayer ceremony. The problem, of course, is that the Judeo-Christian monument sits on government owned land, therefore [...]
The Pro-Life False Premise
“Republicans, get out of my vagina.” This a great slogan for the recent zeitgeist against the medically invasive bills targeting women’s rights that have been flooding in, the past few years. The mere idea of an abortion debate is a dangerous and pervasive platform. Discussing the beginning of life in tandem with abortion is equivalent [...]
Conscience Efforts
Pharmacists In Kansas Can Now Deny Women Access To Birth Control Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill that will allow pharmacists in the state to refuse to fill a prescription they think could be used to induce abortion. … the law’s opponents say it could allow a pharmacist to interfere with a woman’s [...]
Dear ‘Maeyer’
Early morning, this past Wednesday, the Houston Police Department (HPD) and Clergy Alliance hosted A Day of Prayer at HPD Headquarters. An offical announcement for the event read: The HPD Police and Clergy Alliance will host A Day of Prayer at 10 a.m., Wednesday, May 16, at HPD Headquarters, 1200 Travis. Houston area clergy members [...]
Secular Women on Twitter
This post is in honour of all the great women attending and watching the Center For Inquiry‘s Women in Secularism Conference from afar. (#WISCFI). If the following women aren’t on your twitter feed, put them there now: @schemaly @MaryamNamazie @SecularlyYours @AnaKasparian @JuliaSweeney @HugAnAtheist @mandy0904 @JentheHumanist @IDoubtIt @ErickaMJohnson @donovanable @MelodyHensley @BridgetGaudette @healthyaddict @SunsaraTaylor @SurlyAmy @jennifurret @Shannon10Marie [...]
Moving Towards Post-Atheism
I was inspired by a recent article by George Dvorsky, the Chair of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. The article was titled, “Why Humanists Need to Make the Shift to Post-Atheism”. First, let’s examine what he could mean by “post-atheism”. I posit two possibilities: 1. describes humanity when all religious belief has disappeared. [...]
Dismantling Dissonance
In an article in Toronto’s The Star titled ‘Zealous atheists resemble religious fanatics,’ rabbi Dow Marmur yields bias and piety to produce a piece full of sweeping generalizations and trite “observations” about atheism. With blatant disregard for definitions, Marmur claims that atheism is “on the way to becoming a religion” and that “contemporary atheists are [...]
“Silly Circularism”
In a short exchange with TheBlaze blogger, Billy Hallowell, I find Christianity’s soft spot …and poke at it:
