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Go ahead and organize your life around atheism

Michael De Dora has written in a recent controversial piece that, in essence, questions the wisdom of "organizing [one's life] around atheism,...
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The New Atheism and the Great Divide - My talk to the Northern Virginia Ethical Society (audio)

On October 18, I gave an address to the Northern Virginia Ethical Society on the subject of the New Atheism and the divides within the atheist...
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Brights co-founder on atheists and the 'non-religion religion ballgame' (video)

I spoke with Mynga Futrell, co-founder and director of the Brights movement, at the Atheist Alliance International 2009 convention, and she talked...
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Secular Examiner heads to the Atheist Alliance International Convention

Picture it. Los Angeles. A swanky hotel positively overflowing with blasphemous infidels, turning their filthy noses up at the Almighty and...
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Distortions of the New Atheists prevent substantive debate about their impact

Every couple of days now, it seems some columnist or public thinker decides to cast their lot with the anti-New Atheist crowd. It's sadly quite...
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Why I'm All Sub-Zero on Mr. Non-Zero

I want to clarify why I'm harping on Robert Wright and his attitude toward the New Atheists. I think I made it pretty clear in my first post on the...
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On religion, viruses, and the New Atheists

I want to reassert: I am a fan of Robert Wright's. I really am! Which makes me all the more queasy when I read his latest weird attack on the New...
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Prominent conservatives treating religion as a natural phenomenon

I am getting the sneaking suspicion that there are folks on the right who are looking for something of an out when it comes to their party's...
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When claiming the New Atheists are destructive, it helps to read the books first

Julian Baggini, author of Atheism - A very short introduction, has many in the nonbelief world in something of a tizzy for an article he has...
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