Hemant interviews an LGBT Christian activist

Okay, let me just come out and say it: I have a blogcrush on Hemant Mehta of Friendly Atheist fame. He’s charting a good path in the atheist blogosphere, and doing some damn important work. I love how he engages with Christians and other religious folk. He is, frankly, one of the best voices in [...]

My Practice: the Night Sky

Part of my “practice,” as it were, is related to something in the last post — I try to be aware of the cycles of nature, of the world around me. It makes me feel grounded, and in touch with the world.
One that I lurv lurv lurv is simple — the sky. The stars, and [...]

My grandfather’s funeral (addendum to Atheism and death)

A story: my grandfather was not a particularly religious man. I don’t know, for sure, what he believed. But he definitely wasn’t much for church. That was my grandmother’s area.
He was technically Greek Catholic, and when he died, there was some ceremony or another with a Greek Catholic priest at the viewing. My grandmother wanted [...]

Carl Sagan is What’s Good for Ya

Culturally Pagan

In The God Who Wasn’t There, if I remember rightly, Robert Price made a comment about being “culturally Christian.” He meant it in much the same way that secular Jews call themselves Jews — it’s a cultural thing, not indicative of belief, but of a culture, a tradition. Price, as I recall, talked happily about [...]

Why I care about the word “atheist”

Well, actually, I don’t. But I do.
Yes, it’s going to be one of those posts.
For me, I decided it was important to come right out with it, embrace the fact and say, hey, I’m an atheist. It’s a matter of being true to myself, of trying to make my public face be as true as [...]

Now, ya know, if I was prone to magical thinking

…I’d be mighty freaked out by the fact that this video got posted today:

That silly, silly Edward Current…
Edit: Dammit, Scribefire doesn’t actually embed the frickin’ video for WordPress.com Dammit! Hopefully fixed…

And still more follow up on atheists and death

I’m thinking aloud on this whole issue right now, so I hope you all will bear with me. It’s one of those really simple things that nonetheless seems like it’s actually very important, and while simple, is not noticed by most of us (myself included, most of the time).
We’re all the same in our reactions [...]

He tattooed me with SCIENCE!

Science Tats are cool and sexy. See them at:
The Loom | Discover Magazine

A follow up on atheists and death

When I was watching some other Penn videos last night on Crackle — alternately amused, enlightened and infuriated — I stumbled across two videos explaining his thoughts on agnosticism and atheism. In one of them, he made an odd, but interesting comment — he has a test question for theists that basically hits them [...]