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 [...]
31 July 2008
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 [...]
31 July 2008
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 [...]
31 July 2008
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 [...]
