Examiner's atheist and skeptic voices recap - week ending 4-18-2009

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This is a recap of the atheist and skeptic voices which have rung out on Examiner.com over the past week. And, be on the look out for several more Atheism Examiners to be coming on board over the next week or so.

John Snider - Atlanta Atheism Examiner

Why are we religious?
Monday, April 13th, 2009
At the American Atheists National Convention here in Atlanta last weekend, I heard Dr. J. Anderson Thomson deliver...

Creflo Dollar: liar or dupe?
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Creflo Dollar, pastor of College Park-based World Changers Church International, has really stepped in it this time...

Paul Fidalgo - DC Secularism Examiner

Atheists and abortion rights: How to form a rational policy?
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Ed West, of the Telegraph's Culture Wars blog, concludes his latest post on his opposition to the public funding of abortions with an extremely poorly...

Barbara L Bell - Manchester Atheism Examiner

The age of reason
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
No, I’m not talking about Thomas Paine’s famous treatise, but rather the change that seems to be gaining...

Religiosity and death
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
A recent study by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and five other...

Micki Schmalfeldt - Milwaukee Atheism Examiner

Whipping the Easter Bunny?
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Well, this is more than a little disturbing...GLASSPORT, Pa. -- First, the Passion of the Christ. Now, the torment...

Wyatt Shev - National Apocalypse Examiner

1500 souls lost in India
Friday, April 17th, 2009
The rapidly disintegrating world economy continues to claim victims by the millions. America has been hit particularly hard, suffering under record levels...

Dylan Otto Krider - National Skepticism Examiner

Popular Mechanis tackles UFOs
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Popular Mechanics, one of the largest circulation science magazines, has an issue looking into UFOs. But Skeptics need not leap up in anger, yet. What...

Steve Mufson latest Post employee to distance self from Hiatt/Will
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Yet another Washington Post writer has tried to put as much distance between themselves and Fred Hiatt's accountability-free Op-Ed pages. This time, it's...

Who was responsible for the pulled New Scientist story?
Monday, April 13th, 2009
We managed to create a bit of a stir when we pointed people to a pulled story by one of the magazine's editors, Amanda Gefter, on "How to Spot a...

Former Area 51 employees speak
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Former Area 51 employees have finally come forward to explain what people had been seeing that has spawned so much speculation and many terrible documentaries....

Facts aren't for everyone: tips for arguing with anti-empiricists
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Perhaps the hardest thing I've had to come to terms with as a Skeptic, is how little facts matter. I used to take a somewhat relativistic view, that all...

Star Tribune editor too busy to fact check, "uncomfortable' with corrections
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
In a column published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Michele Bachmann cited a study so badly, one of the study's own authors called her characterization...

I'm skeptical: Russian surgeons claim fir tree grows in man's lungs
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Let's just say, I'm Skeptical. It's my job to be so, but still, I believe I can safely say I am more skeptical than usual. To her credit, Kyra Phillips...

Apocalypse Examiner not near paranoid enough
Friday, April 17th, 2009
I'll admit, when I read fellow Apocalypse Examiner Wyatt Shev's post on how the Tea Party movement might take the "United" out of "United...

Charles Greenia - Chicago Skepticism Examiner

My religious education: the intended and unintended lessons
Monday, April 13th, 2009
I herewith offer a few snapshots from my formative years as a Catholic grade school student. There were many valuable...

Saying goodbye to our local crack house: urban renewal is a relative term
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
If you’re traveling through a really bad neighborhood, you may occasionally see the burned-out shell of a house...

Michael Stone - Portland Progressive Examiner

Alt. Easter cartoons
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Happy Easter!In keeping with the holiday the following cartoons are offered as food for thought. Thinking is a good thing. Everyone should do it once...

RIP Religious Right
Monday, April 13th, 2009
After 30 years it looks like the Culture War may be coming to an end. Apparently the religious right concedes that the election of President Obama signals...

Tea Bagging the Tea Party
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
With protests across America meant to evoke the Boston Tea Party, Conservative Republicans, sponsored by FOX News, are trying to regain their political...

Tea Bagging and the Tea Party redux
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
The Tea Parties are over. The Tea Baggers went nuts, with close to 750 Tea Parties across the nation. Republican desperation spiced with a little libertarian...

Say 'No' to the NRA
Friday, April 17th, 2009
President Obama is asking the US Senate to ratify an international gun traficking treaty.  He will face opposition from the NRA and the gun...

Gay marriage can save GOP
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Steve Schmidt, former McCain Campaign Manager and Republican strategist, worries that religion could kill the GOP. In response to the danger, Schmidt...

Other articles from other columns by me

White House science adviser laments Texas science ed standards
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
The new head of the White House Office of Science and Technology, John Holdren, was recently interviewed by Scienceinsider....

Should I stay or should I go - Texas secession?
Friday, April 17th, 2009
It has been about 15 years since I moved from Houston, Texas. I had lived there for nearly 17 years. I loved Houston...

And, in case you missed them, I wrote articles this week about meeting Richard Dawkins, the new YouTube alternative - NoGodTube, the coming atheist Christmas book, the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign, the pope, the American Atheists 2009 convention, and more.