Deepak Chopra Releases a Video Apology to Richard Dawkins
Deepak Chopra apologizes to Richard Dawkins for badmouthing him to Bill O’Reilly. Chopra states that he is closer to Dawkin’s line of thinking than O’Reilly. A commenter on YouTube, dummychaos, puts it this way, “Bill O’Reilly brings out the worst from people. He’s pretty good at that.” Here’s the original video from The O’Reilly Factor: SHARE...
Read MoreAn 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 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 MoreIs Rick Perry Trying to tell Us Something by Using the Scarlet Letter A?
Rick Perry released a new presidential ad today. Something surely stands out! See if you can spot it in the screen captures below. I know what it is! It’s the “A”, a prominent symbol for atheism. I put it next to a white one to compare to the images from the ad. It looks like it was just slapped on, especially in the third one. Was this just an accident? Is he being trolled by his graphics department? Or is he trying to say something to the libertarian atheists who are...
Read MoreA Recent Study Finds a Correlation Between Atheism and Autism
This study does not assert that a majority of atheists are high function autistic, rather that high functioning autistic people are more likely to be atheist. It’s also important to note that this is a correlation which, as we all know, does not imply causation. People with ‘mild’ forms of autism are more likely to be atheists, according to a controversial new study – and more likely to shun organised religion in general. The study, which looked at posts on autism...
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