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 [...]
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 [...]
Lately men have been getting a dose of what women have been getting for a lot longer. Though, equality is still way off in the distance. Most of the beauty products marketed to women (and, more recently, men) seem to be full of empty promises. I can’t speak about every beauty product out there in [...]
She is the reason this blew up in the first place. I’m tired of seeing that it’s just a few men who don’t like Rebecca Watson personally. This is much deeper than that. I really want to move on from this but I keep reading the exact same perspective from big bloggers, completely ignoring Stef [...]
First, we have this: Dear Muslima Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and . . . yawn . . . don’t tell me yet again, I know you aren’t allowed to drive a car, and you can’t leave the house without a male relative, [...]
“Well, that’s rude,” many Christians would say. But isn’t that what the conservative Christians do regarding Islam? It inspired me to make this image: Seen this? “Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11” Well, then, I could just as easily say: Everything I need to know about Christianity I learned from [...]
Lately, there’s been some hubbub going on in the skeptic/atheist community. I’d be remiss to not mention anything about it, though I am already late. I don’t want to dwell on the details and specifics but talk about a greater picture. That said, I want to say that no one should be told how to [...]
