An Israeli novelist gets a legal writ of divorce between Jewish ethnicity and religion, others wish to follow in those footsteps
Yoram Kaniuk, a prominent Israeli novelist, is now officially a Jew of no religion. This historic case has inspired hundreds of other Israelis to get divorced from the Jewish religion. Israel is 15-37% atheist, so this comes as no surprise. The less religious people are in the middle east, the greater the chances are for an end the violence. If only more people of “Muslim” countries came out as atheists (or nonreligious), we could be closer that goal. Kaniuk’s case has been...
Read MoreJewish atheists are good without god
More and more atheist Jews seem to be atheists who still join in some traditions. From reform to observant Jews, the concept of god is sometimes superfluous. For an atheist, Maxim Schrogin talks about God a lot. Over lunch at a Jewish deli, he ponders the impulse to believe — does it come from within or without? Why does God permit suffering? Finally, he pulls out a flowchart he made showing degrees of belief, which ranges from unquestioning faith to absolute atheism. He stabs the paper with...
Read MoreObama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare…
I posted this on Tumblr earlier but thought of sharing it here as well. Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare… You’re thinking of...
Read MoreTwilight of Violence: An Interview with Steven Pinker by Sam Harris
Sam Harris has a great interview with Steven Pinker on his latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Harris sits down with Pinker for a discussion about the history of violence. Sam Harris asks, “Need I remind you that the ‘atheist regimes’ of the 20th century killed tens of millions of people?” Steven Pinker has a great response. This is a popular argument among theoconservatives and critics of the new atheism, but for many reasons it is...
Read MoreGnostic/Agnostic ↔ Theist/Atheist Graph
There have been other versions around but I made this one. Initially, I made it to go with an Examiner piece. From gnostic to agnostic, theist to atheist; there are many positions having to do with belief or possible knowledge of a belief. Gnostic and agnostic have to do with knowledge, while theist and atheist have to do with belief. Agnostic is not a mid point between atheism and...
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