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Pinker gets flak for tweeting about the “malignant delusion of the afterlife”, deletes tweet but defends himself here

I don’t really follow Twitter, but sometimes it makes news when a prominent person deletes a tweet, as when Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times’s 1619 project deleted several tweets, including one drawing a distinction between being “politically black” and “racially black.” That made news, as did the tweet below issued about two weeks … Continue reading Pinker gets flak for tweeting about the “malignant delusion of the afterlife”, deletes tweet but defends himself here

Gary Gutting discovers the obvious: religion can cause violence

“We may find it hard to believe that religious beliefs could motivate murders and insist that extreme violence is always due to mental instability or political fanaticism. But the logic (and the history) of religions tells against this view.”  –Gary Gutting, having an epiphany The Stone, the New York Times‘s philosophy column, is remarkably undistinguished, … Continue reading Gary Gutting discovers the obvious: religion can cause violence

Christian runner drops out of race rather than wear Satan’s number

Codie Thacker, a high-school athlete in Kentucky, dropped out of a regional championship race because she was assigned The Number of the Beast.  When she opened her race envelope, this is what she got (screenshot from the video mentioned below): According to Yahoo News (where you should watch the video about this), Thacker wouldn’t accept … Continue reading Christian runner drops out of race rather than wear Satan’s number

An increasingly common argument of religionists and faitheists

As science advances at the expense of religion, the faithful evolve new strategies to keep to the trenches and avoid a retreat. One of these runs something like this (not a literal quote; I’m confecting the argument): “The New Atheist accusation that religion rests on literal beliefs is bunk. Dawkins and all you miltant atheists … Continue reading An increasingly common argument of religionists and faitheists

Islam apparently behind Boston bombing

Virtually all godless bloggers held their tongues after the Boston bombing, despite the fact that all the accommodationists and criers of “Islamophobia” wanted us to blame Islam from the get-go.  But that was simply not rational given the attacks of people like Timothy McVeigh, the Unaibomber, and Eric Rudolph, the guy who set off the … Continue reading Islam apparently behind Boston bombing

Andrew Brown defends Papal indulgences involving Twitter

UPDATE: Reader Pliny the In Between called my attention to yet another cartoon making fun of the Twitter Indulgences, this one from Pictorial Theology. It’s called “Face-the-Music Book”: __________________ Correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as I know Andrew Brown is an atheist. Or rather, “faitheist,” since, for someone who doesn’t believe in … Continue reading Andrew Brown defends Papal indulgences involving Twitter

In which I once again play Grayling’s Bulldog, biting Peter Hitchens

As I noted yesterday, philosopher Anthony Grayling has published a new humanist and anti-religious book, The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism.  This book (indeed, even its title) is guaranteed to raise the ire of those British faitheists and goddycoddlers, who, even in a largely secular nation such as England, come out … Continue reading In which I once again play Grayling’s Bulldog, biting Peter Hitchens

Douglas Murray, atheist, extols religion in The Spectator

This Spectator piece by Douglas Murray, “Atheists vs. Dawkins” (with the subtitle, “My fellow atheists, it’s time we admitted that religion has some points in its favour”), is now six days old, but deserves a brief comment. The word “Dawkins” in a title always makes me wary, for he, though perhaps the world’s most prominent … Continue reading Douglas Murray, atheist, extols religion in The Spectator

Gertrude Himmelfarb analyzes New Atheism—badly

The conservative historian Getrude Himmelfarb has a rather lame essay in The Wall Street Journal: “The once-born and the twice-born: the militant quest for certitude among the New Atheists has a peculiarly old-fashioned feel about it.” It’s a rather rambling piece, most of it devoted to simply recounting William James’s famous book, The Varieties of Religious … Continue reading Gertrude Himmelfarb analyzes New Atheism—badly

Why is quantum mechanics like the Trinity?

Talk about Francis Collins and his frozen waterfalls—we have an equally good example of misguided Trinitarian faith from the world of physics.  I’m reading the new 644-page The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity (2012, eds. A. G. Padgett and J. B. Stump), which my library bought for me because it costs $200 retail (!!).  … Continue reading Why is quantum mechanics like the Trinity?