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The Armoured Skeptic: The Best Youtube Channel? Yes.
I’m taking this opportunity to turn you all on to my favorite Youtuber, the Armoured Skeptic, North America’s funniest and greatest contribution to online videographers’ take on religious claims. If you’re not familiar with him, please, please take a half … Continue reading
Morality and Ethics Are So Simple, I Don’t Need to Write a Damned Thing
I think most atheists and otherwise non-religious people would agree; one of the most common questions we’re asked is “Where do you get your morals from?” Often the question is an honest inquiry, a question open to discussion and open … Continue reading
Bible Contradictions #55: How Old Was Benjamin When He Came to Egypt?
In this episode of the Bible Contradictions, I’m going to expose a contradiction that often — by most efforts to understand the bible — goes unnoticed. The question we will ask the bible is how old was Benjamin when he came … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, Bible Contradictions, Christianity, God, Judaism, Religion, the bible
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Teaching Evolution and Moral Panic (SS#5)
In today’s episode of Science Sunday, I will be discussing a rather dated article from Sociological Viewpoints, Fall 2005, titled “The Quasi-Theory of Godlessness in America: Implications of Opposition to Evolution for Sociological Theory.” As a general rule for SS I … Continue reading
Posted in Science Sundays
Tagged Atheism, Christianity, Evolution, God, Religion, Science, Sociology
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Taking on the Burden of Proof
I’m going to make this very short. Today I had a conversation with a non-religious man who believed in some vague, nondescript god. At some point in the conversation, the issue of the burden of proof came up. I accepted the … Continue reading
ISIS Shows Christians What True Persecution Is
ISIS is great at making terrible and extremely graphic and overproduced propaganda films. In the latest piece to cross my desk, an ISIS branch in Libya parades 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian men onto a beach in Northern Libya. The orange … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, Christianity, God, ISIL, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Religion, terrorism
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Trusting Atheists: Remember Kids, the Police Exist (SS#4)
There’s a general consensus that atheists are to be distrusted. Without belief of an all powerful being who ultimately serves as a judge, jury, and executioner for all of our earthly transgressions, who’s to say atheists aren’t breaking any and … Continue reading
Why Objective Morality Can Be Bad
Previously I’ve tackled the objective morality question, arguing, in part, that we can all agree that certain acts are immoral. These include things like murder, rape, and torture. If we all agree these things are wrong, then we have a … Continue reading
Science Sunday #2: Atheism and Anger
In the upcoming May 2015 issue of The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied (Vol. 149 Issue 3, p219) researchers from Gettysburg College, North Dakota State University, and Lebanon Valley College ask whether or not people view atheists as angry individuals and … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged Atheism, Christianity, God, Psychology, Religion, Research, Science
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Why Secularism Is Important (a video on international politics)
It’s been a while since I’ve made a video. It might be dry for some, but isn’t politics always dry? In this video I make an academic argument, with illustrations, why secularism is important. The examples I use come from … Continue reading
Posted in Political Science
Tagged Atheism, God, political science, Religion, Secularism
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The Atheist Papers 