Monthly Archives: March 2010

Violence continues in Nigeria

Agnostics continue to slaughter atheists in Nigeria. Ah, who am I kidding?  It’s Muslims slaughtering Christians (and vice versa).  Nigeria’s Acting President–the ironically named Goodluck Jonathan–has promised to quell the violence, but I suspect he’ll do no more than tamp … Continue reading

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Podcast #83 – Secular Coalition at the White House

American Atheists president Ed Buckner reports on the recent meeting between representatives of the Secular Coalition for America with White House officials. Plus: We meet the Hitch!  Allison joins us to talk about “The Only Subject Is Love,” a seminar … Continue reading

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Homeschooled = Evangelical?

I’m not opposed to homeschooling on general principle.  I think it’s possible for reasonably intelligent parents to provide their children a decent education at home.  Unfortunately, in the United States the word “homeschooler” has an incredibly strong correlation with “evangelical … Continue reading

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The Reason Project is now Project Reason

From Sam Harris: Same foundation, same people, (almost) the same name: In order to avoid ongoing confusion between The Reason Project and The Reason Foundation (with which we are not affiliated), we are changing our name to Project Reason. Please … Continue reading

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Hitchens rewrites the 10C

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